Another year is creeping up on us, and 2014 is coming to a close. It’s been a good year, compared with recent ones. Most importantly, my neck/back problems basically resolved, though they took a toll on my the first draft of The Stars Askew, which I finished at the end of 2013. I pity my […]
Read more +The cover for the US version of The Stars Askew seems to have gone out. And here it is, for those interested. And the PR has gone out too. I there are a couple of inaccuracies, and a couple of small spoilers, but if you really want to know what the book is about, here […]
Read more +Keith Stevenson is on of the most dynamic people in Australian science fiction, even though he is, in fact, an alien. That is, he’s from Scotland and speaks with as fine a brogue as could ever be imagined. But for many years, Keith has called Australia home, and he is the driving force behind Coeur […]
Read more +After six weeks of intense work on The Stars Askew, I’m back to work on The Red Earth, my 1890s alternate history, Australian megafauna novel. As part of the research, I’ve been reading selections of the early feminist paper run by Louisa Lawson from Sydney called The Dawn. Here’s a selection I might just to […]
Read more +Here’s another little unedited snippet, to whet your appetite: Later, when he looked back on it, Armand couldn’t be sure exactly when he knew someone was following him. The knowledge had rattled around in his unconscious mind well before he arrived at the roadhouse at the edge of the small town of Scaptia, a week […]
Read more +The opening of The Stars Askew is currently a bit like this: A revolution, it is said, is a festival of the oppressed. In those early days, Caeli-Amur seemed at times to be one long public meeting. Between the whitewashed walls, the squares and plazas filled with citizens. In the criss-crossing alleyways, hardy washer-women and […]
Read more +There’s a new, nice and fair review of Unwrapped Sky over at Portland Book Review. Reviewer Whitney Smyth writes: The story itself is complicated, and deeply rooted in the politics, history, and mythology of the world. Many of the ideas introduced in the book were not resolved at the end, and judging from the book’s […]
Read more +I’ve written an article for Overland journal about writer’s block. It’s fairly comprehensive, I think, and I hope it helps some writers out there at least a little bit. Here’s how it starts: There was a time in my early twenties when I found it excruciating to sit in front of the computer. As a […]
Read more +Date Saturday 6 September Time 2.00pm -5.00pm Session Topic Masterclass – Short Story Critique Artists Rjurik Davidson Date Sunday 7 September Time 1.00pm – 2.00pm Session Topic Laws of Magic: A panel discussing building mythologies, legends, and magic systems in genre fiction. Artists Rjurik Davidson, Trudi Canavan, Laini Taylor, Kirilee Barker Date Sunday 7 September […]
Read more +At the Tor party at Loncon, I met and chatted briefly with George R. R. Martin. The conversation went a bit like this: “Do you like cons, George?” “I used to. I sound like an asshole saying it, but I’m too famous now. The worst invention in history is the mobile phone. Now I get […]
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