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Review: Dying in the First Person by Nike Sulway

My brother was seven minutes older than me; seven minutes after he died, I passed into a future he had refused. Nobody in the world could speak with me now. Nobody knew those languages, those...

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Introducing Survival: a novella

I’m excited to be able to tell you that my speculative fiction novella Survival is set to be released in the first half of 2018! Survival Ignorance is cheap. Then it costs you everything. It is the...

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Review: From The Wreck by Jane Rawson

“Small creatures,” I tell them, because aren’t we all? “Small creatures, calm yourselves.” We taste each other’s breath and they know there’s none of their kind been through my mouth and they still...

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Survival: a cover and a sneaky early chapter!

It’s really happening! I have sent files to the printer and Survival will be released in March! It’s a strange feeling of excitement and relief and nervousness. And somehow there’s also a deflated...

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Survival and its inspiration: this is how the world ended

My upcoming release Survival (now in presale!) is set just after governments and cities started to fall apart, but before they were abandoned altogether. And so, it might not be surprising that I do a...

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What are you reading Wednesday!

Remember this?! What are you reading Wednesday is the blog series that makes me agonise about punctuation a great deal. But it’s super fun. Let’s take an opportunity to share what we’re reading and...

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Review: The Choke by Sofie Laguna

I never left Pop’s Three after Donna split. It was me that split her. I was breech, waiting inside her on my knees. I thought that was the right way to come out. Young Justine is raised by her Pop, a...

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Book review – Storyland by Catherine McKinnon

It is the enchanted hour, where blue water glows and the rocky shores and sandy beaches have a yellowish gleam. On the eastern side of the cove I spy the governor’s stone house. Near it, the farmed...

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Review: Stone Circle by Kate Murdoch

Savinus opened his book on hermetic alchemy. It was covered in a layer of dust. He blew it away, revealing gold lettering that decorated the deep blue cover. Opening it at random, his gaze fell on an...

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Survival now in store at Rabble Books & Games

I’m very excited to be able to tell you that yet another great independent retailer is able to sell you a copy of Survival! Rabble Books & Games is a wonderful indie in Maylands, Perth, and not...

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