As I’ve been writing the Australian Steampunk novel, a surprising issue has arisen: how does one deal technically with the boundaries between the real history and fantastical additions? It’s trickier than I thought it would be, partly because it’s a historical novel, so there’s going to be a gap in the reader’s knowledge anyway. I […]
Read more +On the piece I wrote for Tor called Finding Unwrapped Sky I wrote this: “None of the characters is particularly likeable and each does questionable things. In fact, I’m surprised when readers express a desire to ‘like’ a character, as if they’re considering them as friends. I’d much prefer to find them to be interesting […]
Read more +I’ve written about the process of writing (and inspiration behind) Unwrapped Sky. You can read it over on Tor UK’s site.
Read more +There are quite a number of new interviews with me online, for those interested: Interview with the Book Plank. Interview with the Qwillery. Interview with Nathan Burrage over here. Interview with Jon Page at Boomerang Books.
Read more +I’m not sure what I’m calling my new novel, but here is a little selection of it, for you. From the Journal of Samuel Atterby, who is on an expedition into the centre of Australia to find the inland sea: Being an Account of the Expedition of Discovery into Central Australia, By Samuel Atteberry, 1839 […]
Read more +Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl by David Barnett My rating: 4 of 5 stars From the first, this is a rambunctious adventure which plays on almost every single steampunk trope: Jack the Ripper, dirigibles, Dracula, automatons, Egyptology, and so on. It’s a kind of para-literature and reads like one of the penny-dreadfuls it has […]
Read more +My novel Unwrapped Sky finally hit the stores yesterday, but reviews have been coming out for six weeks or so. There have been very good ones, and very bad ones. There have has been at least one in between, I think. For the good ones, the Scifinow one by Jack Parsons is pretty nice. For […]
Read more +I can’t help it. I’m obsessed with these old photographs. Actually, I’m kinda obsessed with Melbourne’s 19th century history (and my own steampunk recreation of it, in the novel I’m working on) She here we have the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda, right beside where I used to live. I love it’s former glory: the […]
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