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Writing Again (and I'm done with themed anthologies)

Following a minor bout of cancer (featuring surgeries and 6 months of chemotherapy), I'm writing again! Having spent some time reviewing my writing career to date, I note with a degree of dismay that while I've had some material published, I'm not super happy with all of it. In the past I've pandered to the whims of the industry in order to get stories out. Well, I'm done with that. Now I'm writing what I want to write. No more < 5,000 word stories about "blue aliens on exoplanets", simply because a publisher somewhere decided that's what they wanted for their next anthology. I know it may seem a little hypocritical, given that I helped come up with the theme of A Hand of Knaves (and I stand by it), but I'm allowed to be hypocritical if the mood takes me. And the mood does take me.  From now on I'm writing whatever the hell I want. It might not get published, but it'll be mine and I think I'll be a lot happier with that.  Let...

Award Win! - SciFi Film Festival

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Some of my short horror and YA sci-fi has received honourable mentions in various year's best anthologies, but so far as I'm aware I haven't ever received an award. UNTIL NOW - Drum roll please:  badabadbadabadabadbadabadaba Ta-Ching! Earlier this month my story Future Me, Future Her , a young adult time-travel tale was highly recommended by the SciFi Film Festival in NSW and I was awarded a cash prize. Okay, so it didn't win. It looks like it came second or third (Robert N Stephenson also got a highly recommended gong) but I received an award and that's important to me. Thanks to Keith Stevenson for judging and Coeur de Lion/Dimension6 for funding the award, and thanks to the SciFi Film Festival for just generally being awesome! Click here for the full list of award winners for film and writing. And Click here to read my story.