Interviews
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.
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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 […]
Read more +So I’ve been discovering ‘Little Lon’, an inner city area in Melbourne between Lonsdale and Latrobe streets, and Exhibition and Spring. It was a ‘slum area’ filled with brothels, opium dens, and ‘larrikins’. You can be sure it’ll make it into the novel, somehow. Here is Bennett’s Lane, which is just out of little Lon, […]
Read more +Because I’m addicted, I can’t help but put up some more photos I’ve found in my research. Click in them if you want to see larger versions. Queens St, around the 1880s. Collins st, in 1865 (early, huh!) The Federal Coffee Building, which I just can’t get enough of. The Deaf and Dumb Asylum, in […]
Read more +So to give an idea of just how steampunk-y Melbourne really was in the 1880s/1890s, I offer up some of my recent discoveries, photo-wise. Here is Victoria’s Coffee Palace on Collins St, right next to the Town Hall. Look at those beautiful balconies. Here is a shot of Elizabeth St, looking north from Flinders St […]
Read more +So I’m neck-deep in researching and writing my Australian steampunk novel. Truth is, the research has been distracting me a bit from the writing, because it’s just so interesting. Also, I’ve become a little obsessional with getting the details right, which is odd considering the book is, by its very nature, alternate history. This does […]
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