Read a free ebook this week!
Would you like to some Australian/Italian coming-of-age fiction set in Victoria in the 1970s? My novel, “Floating Upstream”, has been enrolled in the 2017 Smashwords “Read an Ebook” promotion, which…
Sometimes you want to disappear into your made up world
Sometimes you want to disappear into your made up worlds. You want to have all of their lack of give-a-shits. You want to much more than this thing you have…
Fucking Mercury Retrograde!
So I don’t usually believe in astrology. I know that certain signs conform to certain traits, but I certainly don’t read my daily astrology because, who cares? But I DO…
A poem that inspired a book
This, poem, written by Rimbaud when he was 16, inspired by Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, will inspire my next novel. Not so much the poem itself,…
READ IT OUT LOUD
Holy Shitballs! Tonnes of writing advice tells us that we should read our writing out loud to see how it feels and reads. Let me tell you what’s better than…
When will I be a real writer?
At what point do you become a real writer? Is it when when it’s available on Amazon and you get your first real-life printed copy? Or, if you’re in Australia,…
Why couldn’t I write science fiction or fantasy or mystery?
Sometimes I bemoan the fact that I don’t write “popular fiction”, while at other times I’m completely smug about it. Mostly, I feel smug, and then I check out the…
The Outsider
When I was a kid, I discovered the work of SE Hinton and absolutely devoured her books and watched the movie adaptations. Her books have informed what I write about. You should…
One of the saddest paintings
Masaccio’s Expulsion from Eden is one of the saddest images I’ve ever seen. It appears on the walls of Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. The painting is mentioned,…
Music and Writing, Write?
Music plays a massive role in my life, and especially when I write. There are times when I can’t have a single sound, nothing at all, but at other times,…