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• Content Advisory for The Fool
  My novel, The Fool, is pretty lighthearted for the most part and could be described as non-explicit in terms of both romance and violence. I think it’d earn the M for mature rating in the Australian movie/TV classification system because heavier things are more hinted at than described in detail. However, that doesn’t mean that… Read more: Content Advisory for The Fool
• Typing “The End”
  After three and a half years of writing, I have finally finished the first draft of my novel The Fool. If you’re keen to get updates on this, please sign up to my mailing list in the right sidebar. To call it a first draft feels misleading, because I had breaks between writing periods and… Read more: Typing “The End”
• On Being Published
  A few months ago, I submitted one of my short stories to a journal that was looking for Australian speculative fiction. To my exteme delight, it was accepted. Last weekend, issue 5 of the Cicerone Journal was published and I hit a pretty awesome milestone. I’ve self-published a couple of picture books and a short… Read more: On Being Published
• Gideon the Ninth review
  In her debut novel, Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir vivifies a galaxy full of characters whose lives revolve around death. The eponymous Gideon Nav slouches through a rotting castle where necromancers scheme for unlimited power, skeletons wait on her and her peers, and where automatic doors and firearms are antiquated weapons compared to her bitchin’… Read more: Gideon the Ninth review
• So, You’re Thinking About Buying Another Dictionary
  The keyword in this title is another. Most people who have kept the books they used in high school probably own a dictionary. All writers should, especially if they live outside of America—Australian spelling is different and Google doesn’t put applicable sites higher in their search.  So maybe you have a dictionary. Maybe you have… Read more: So, You’re Thinking About Buying Another Dictionary