Author and Editor of Dark Fantasy & Horror
Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Publication. Pretty damn awesome! I feel a bit like Saitama, the Caped Baldy: Special mention goes to Mark Smith-Briggs, former AHWA President and my unofficial co-editor. Without your hard work, Dead of Night would have never risen. Thanks, mate!
That feeling you get when you’ve been out of action for a good long while and then one of your books becomes an awards finalist: Last year’s major editing achievement, Dead of Night: The Best of Midnight Echo, is a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards. It’s a fine anthology, and it’s definitely worth your […]
I’m stoked to discover my collection, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, is a finalist for the Australian Shadows Award (Australia’s top honour for horror fiction). The full list of finalists is on the AHWA site. Congratulations to all! The book has been going great guns: it was recently a finalist for Australia’s major […]
The finalists for the Bram Stoker Awards were announced the other day, and my collection, The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, missed the cut. I’m disappointed, of course, but I’m proud to have been listed on the preliminary ballot (and for my book to have been included on that ballot by the jury). However, […]
Exciting news of the day: The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After is a finalist for the Aurealis Award (Best Collection). It’s heartening to receive recognition like this for a book that is my most heartfelt – especially on top of being on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards. Of the other finalists, […]
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 […]
I was thrilled to learn last week that my novella Dreams of Destruction was shortlisted for an Australian Shadows Award (the Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction). Last night, the winners were announced, I was even more thrilled and surprised to discover that I was among them! It was also my birthday yesterday, so I […]
I was thrilled to learn the other day that Dreams of Destruction, the latest Lovecraftian action/horror thriller novella in my Ravenous Gods cycle, featuring Captain Max Calder, has been shortlisted for this year’s Australian Shadows Awards. Congratulations to all the other nominees, too! I’ve been out of the writing scene for a while, as I’ve […]
When it rains, it pours. I’m bloody busy with the Grand Conversation right now, but I’ve learned that nominations for this year’s Ditmar Awards have now opened. I’ll do my annual subjective guide to the Ditmars over the coming week. Nominations close March 14, so if you’re vaguely interested in what I have to say/recommend, […]
One thing that we concluded at our annual ‘Australia Day by the Pool’ BBQ with various mates of the writerly and editorly persuasion is that writers are massively self-centred. Come to think of it … maybe that was something just I was asserting … but no one disagreed! With that in mind, it’s that delightful […]