Author and Editor of Dark Fantasy & Horror
Fire. For me, it always comes back to fire. I talked about fire in my last post about “The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After”, from the collection of the same name, and tonight, I’m revisiting a story that is not just touched by fire, it is the quintessential story about loss through fire. I consider […]
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been talking about the stories in my collection The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, and now I want to discuss the eponymous story, and what lies after grace has been abandoned … There are certain tragedies that define you as a person. They affect everyone around you, and ultimately, change […]
Australia Day has come early, with two Aussies – myself and the vastly underrated but super awesome David Conyers – representing on the Amazon horror bestselling author list. David pips me at #43. I’m at #44 (which is cool – 4 is my favourite number). #straya! #aussieaussieaussie #oioioi
Thanks everyone for your support with the RAGE AGAINST THE NIGHT giveaway. Thanks to you, Rage Against the Night is the NUMBER 1 Bestseller (free ebooks) in horror, and is NUMBER 4 on the overall bestseller list. Nothing is more awesome than excellent authors writing about the battle (and occasional triumph) against the forces of evil. This is […]
To coincide with tomorrow’s BookBub promotion, my mega-anthology, Rage Against the Night, is free for the next FIVE days! That’s right, FIVE days! (and that’s the ebook edition, normally $4.99, not the print edition). In case you’ve forgotten what Rage Against the Night is, it’s an anthology about giving the finger to supernatural evil. The […]
I was having a pretty turrable (as Cleveland Brown would say) day when I opened my email this evening and a mate (g’day Aaron!) let me know that The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After had made it onto the Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a Collection. Super exciting! This is […]
It has begun! I’m giving away two very sexy looking hardcover copies of my collection, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, on Goodreads. Click the link below to enter the draw (you need a Goodreads account to enter). The draw ends on February 7. I hope you win! Goodreads Book Giveaway The Abandonment of […]
The next story I want to talk about from my collection The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After is one of the originals: “Razor Blade Anthropology (Guerdon for the Beautiful People”. Like “The Garden Shed Pact”, it was one of my Clarion South stories (written at the workshop in 2005). Compared to that story, “Razor Blade Anthropology” […]
I used to joke, after a run of French short story publications, that I was big in France. Well, I’m soon to be published in Japan for a third time, so I’d like to think I’m getting big in Japan, too! My friends at Night Land – now Night Land Quarterly – will be publishing my story […]
Hi! If you’ve been brought to my website by today’s KBoards promotion – or for any other reason – welcome! I hope you enjoy reading my new book, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After. It’s a heartfelt, personal project for me, with stories that cover a decade of my writing career, so settle in […]
Continuing my series on discussing the stories in The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, today I talk about the story behind “The Garden Shed Pact” – and specifically, why there is a Funnel-web Spider on my writing desk. Who doesn’t hate spiders? Okay, don’t answer that … maybe I’m the freak, but spiders are […]
Another great song from the Black Box audio CD, “Everlasting” by The Eternal. Have a rockin’ day!
My collection, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, features my most notable non-flash dark fiction. It spans a decade of my work, so there are plenty of notable tales in it. In the collection, I explain the history behind, and motivation for, my stories, so to give you a glimpse, I wanted to blog […]