This weekend, I’m heading up to Brisbane for the Aurealis Awards. Slights is shortlisted for best horror novel. I’ll be dressing to win, so here’s hoping! I’ll be appearing at Pulp Fiction Bookshop in Brisbane with Trudi Canavan at 10.30 on the Saturday. Here’s the full schedule of fab authors appearing: Trudi Canavan and Kaaron [...]
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Maths
Posted in Inspiration, Walking the Tree on January 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Bi Bim Bap
Posted in Inspiration on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I love this Korean meal, served in a hot stone dish. The heat of the bowl remains long after you’ve finished eating and are sipping your green tea. The beef is tender, the vegies sweet. For company I had my Japanese friend, just returned from Tokyo. She brought me another book. This friend introduced me [...]
Reading
Posted in Inspiration on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I shouldn’t read The Guardian Weekly while eating my lunch. I shouldn’t read William Vollman’s “Poor People” at night, when I’m trying to get sleepy. Both are so full of ideas, stories and inspirations that I have to rouse myself to note them down. If I’m eating lunch the food goes cold as I scribble [...]
Slights Location
Posted in Inspiration, Slights on October 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In “Slights”, one of the people who inhabit Stevie’s dark room is a shop keeper. This is how I describe their interaction: I liked to dig for hours on end, sleep, eat, buy my needs from Mrs Beattie at the corner shop. I really enjoyed entering that place. It was dark, cool, small, the goodies [...]
Redwoods
Posted in Inspiration, Walking the Tree on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was eight, already a voracious reader, I borrowed a book from the local library about the California Redwood Tree. Reading it filled me with a visceral sense of BIG. I came back time and time again to read this book because I loved the idea of something so ancient and so huge existing [...]
Inspiration
Posted in Inspiration on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things which influenced the beginnings of me as a writer of speculative fiction was the disintegration of Skylab and its consequent descent to the Earth. I still have the articles I clipped out during my pivotal 15th year. There was so much that fascinated me and sparked ideas; what if the metal [...]
