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Everything is an Update!
A couple of things worth noting. Firstly, have a sneaky peek at the cover of the next issue of Dimension6 magazine: This hits the wilds on the 3/10, and amongst other things it contains a reprint of my novella "Everything is a Graveyard" from the collection of the...
Reviews roll in for Defy the Grey Kings
Now, if there's anything an author likes, it's reviews. We hunt them down like bloodhounds, scoffing down each morsel as we howl "they love me, they really love me!" Ahem. So some reviews are rolling in for my latest epistle "Defy the Grey Kings" (now available over...
An update fit for an elephant!
Today, my fantasy story "Defy the Grey Kings" went live over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is a new short story in the same setting as my infamous serialised novel Tusk, the world where iron-age elephants have enslaved humanity... (Picture courtesy of Rhys James,...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Tamsyn?
So, Google came up with a weird algorithm that allegedly mimics what an AI would dream about, or some such. You might have seen a bunch of pictures doing the rounds, where the original image has been rendered psychedelic by the new Deep Dream code. It took a few days,...
I Finished My Damn Novel
Well, I just put the finishing touches to THIS EMPTY EARTH, a science fiction thriller. So I started this in November 2013, while being distracted by life, earning the very tricksy certification to do clinical coding, and every now and then sneaking off to work on a...
The Long Slog
Writing can be such a long slog, but like all things worthwhile it doesn't always come easy. Fellow ink-scribe Steve Savile once described it to me thus: "A writing career should not be a sprint, but a marathon," or words to that effect. I would paraphrase this even...
Just writing, move along, nothing to see.
MUST FINISH NOVEL. [types madly]
WINNER – “Name that Cat” Contest
Had some great entries for the "Name That Cat" contest for my novel-in-progress "This Empty Earth". Some real imaginative efforts here, as well as many people taking the piss. I salute you all! There can be only one winner, so the cat in my novel will hereby be known...
COMPETITION – Name That Cat!
Okay folks, it's competition time. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the first draft of "This Empty Earth", a thriller novel where every living creature on the surface of the Earth mysteriously vanishes. The only ones to be spared from this event are those up in...
Worlds Within You – Worldbuilding Workshop with Jason Fischer, 16th April
I'm running a world-building workshop during National Youth Week for any budding creatives. The workshop is at the Woodcroft Library on 16th April, from 6:30-8pm. I'm told there will be pizza, and we're going to go berserk with the butcher's paper, lego and...
2014 Aurealis Awards Finalists Announced
Last night, the conveners released their shortlist for the 2014 Aurealis Awards. Seems it's time to crack open the Tia Maria and put on some footy franks, because one of my stories is up for a gong! Up for Best Science Fiction Short Story is my pulpy SF piece "The...
Stuff and Nonsense, the February Edition
Here's some stuff that's been going on in the House of Fisch: Logan and I have started going to his lego group again - an amazing activity for kids on the spectrum. To see such a big group of these kids sit together and play happily is wonderful. Have wrapped up study...