Category: News

I’ve spent the week working concertedly on the Angel Arias – book two the Burn Bright series or The Night Creatures trilogy as I think it is going to be called. The larger part of this novel takes the main character back to her home in Grave. What I hadn’t thought about was the fact that she’d be spending some time at the beginning of the book on a pirate’s island. It never fails to fascinate me how the things you set up in stories take on their own life – and from there grow their own catastrophes and triumphs. The pirate’s island, which until now I’d hadn’t thought about in much detail, has suddenly become a world of wonderful test and turmoil.

Meanwhile, my Peacemaker sample is nearly ready to go back to my agent and hopefully on to my publisher. I’m already very close to this story, which is a nice feeling. It’s like a friendship almost…

Following on from the recent discussions about there not being enough women writing SF in the world, I’m delighted to see that Jason Fischer is looking for SF/Horror for the next edition of Midnight Echo. You can find all the details here, but thought you might be interested read this part of Jason’s blog:

“I guess one of the things that might be putting some people off is the fact that this issue is actively seeking science fiction, and is headed up by three white male writers.  But I for one would be just as happy to see the next Marianne de Pierres as much as the next Greg Egan.  There are some very talented folks out toiling under the Aussie SF umbrella, and just about every genre writing thing I’ve ever been to has been split roughly down the middle gender-wise.  There’s no reason why TOCs can’t turn out similarly, without any special effort expended, simply because a large initial pool of fiction would allow this to happen naturally (and probably unconsciously).”

Janette Dalgleish and a bunch of others who I won’t name, time to get cracking.

Just wanted to update you on my November/December signings, as there have been a couple of changes. Basically Kippa Ring has been postponed until January/Feb and Chersmide has moved to the 18th December.

20/11/10 Redbank Plaza 11.30am – 1pm

25/11/10 Post Office Square 12.00am -2pm

27/11/10 Stafford 12.30 – 2pm

4/12/10 Carindale 12 – 2pm

11/12/10 Burleigh Heads 11am – 1pm

18/12/10 North Lakes 11am-12.30pm, Chermside 1pm – 2.30pm

Hope to see some of you there.

MDP and Trent Jamieson at A&R Victoria Point