This Saturday at the SA Writers Centre in my home town of Adelaide, Fall (aka Hollowgirl) will be launched alongside Lisa L Hannett’s first novel Lament for the Afterlife. I’m also celebrating reaching book/age parity (48), 20 years since my first book launch in the same venue, 25 years since my first short story publication, […]
This story was originally a bonus in the YA Scavenger Hunt, which was kinda like the game “Guess” in Twinmaker but without the machines that could take us anywhere at a simple command. It’s a creepy conspiracy-style urban myth about boy bands and the birth of d-mat. Enjoy! “Encore” Pop stars are figures of […]
…and the entire series! The review goes live today. Here’s one of many excellent paragraphs: “…never stops dishing out the twists and turns that keep his great overarching plot moving at near breakneck pace. (The shockers in Hollow Girl are unreal!) The cast of characters is diverse and interesting and Clair is the right balance […]
My 100th story is now available from Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. It charts the evolution of the urban myth concerning what happened when the first person went through d-mat. It riffs on the mutation of stories as well as the mutation of the body, using a non-standard structure and even a joke or two. Enjoy! […]