this writing life
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2 poems appearing soon
Two poems appearing in the wild this month! Pink Disco magazine have kindly accepted my piece, The Love We Make, for their Spring issue. I’ve been looking for a home for this one for a very long time. It was written many years ago now and by its nature I always knew it would have…
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My first fanart!
So exciting! The amazing @Bloodwrit on Twitter has made my day/week/year by producing fanart for my novel BY THE CURRAWONG’S CALL. Their interpretation of Matthew and Jonah is so lovely. I am one very happy author. X-) Please click on the link to their Twitter handle and check out more of their work! Many thanks,…
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Best of 2018 nomination
BY THE CURRAWONG’S CALL has been nominated among the “Best of 2018” readers’ choice awards on the Goodreads M/M Romance Group (in the “Best Law Enforcement” category, in fact). Nice company to be in. Many thanks!
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Winner! Bisexual Book Awards
Very chuffed to report that BY THE CURRAWONG’S CALL won the Romance category at the 2018 Bisexual Book Awards in New York!
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Canberra – August 2016
We left Melbourne early on a Monday morning. Stealthily, we disguised ourselves as Northern Territorians for our visit to the nation’s capital. Toilet stop in Benalla, where I took a photo of Lake Benalla looking nice and full. Next piss-stop was Holbrook, NSW, a small country town in inland Australia where they have a submarine…
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Grief & Heroes: 2nd of February, 2016
The first time I saw Star Wars was in 1977. It was a day of Firsts – the first Star Wars, the first time my brother Alan took me to the movies. We lived in the country and it was a long journey into the city (Melbourne) to visit a cinema, involving two different modes…
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Nick Cave: I Wanna Tell You About A Boy
I wrote a feature article about Nick Cave around the time of the release of his “The Boatman’s Call” album in the late ’90s. It was published in an art’n’fashion mag called Sin under the title “Nick Cave – Songs of Love and Hate” (a title I didn’t compose and never liked). The original title…
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