Leap of Faith

My first two novels have been traditionally published. My third, a speculative fiction called The Ark, I have been planning to self-publish as…

2012: A Year in Writing

After a long fallow period following the publication of my first novel, A New Map of the Universe, 2012 has been an exciting…

Last week, Sara Foster tagged me in a book meme called the Next Big Thing, which asks authors to answer ten questions about…

Time-lapse video of theNovember 2012 Australian launch of my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (published in the US as Whiskey & Charlie) at one of…

The story so far… I wrote a book. Some smart people told me how to make it better, and I did. Four years…

At a certain point in the writing of a novel, the time comes to show the work to someone else. It’s a frightening…

What a crazy little thing a book is. It begins as an idea in one person’s mind, and eventually ends up on a…

Welcome to… (drum roll)…Friday Faves – in which, each week, someone bookish will share one of their all-time favourite books. And to get…

Reading the first draft of my new novel The Ark, my friend Robyn brought my attention to my frequent use of idiom. In…

Last week in The Guardian, Rick Gekoski published an article on the importance of editing, in response to the revelation that esteemed publisher…