What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #2: Book Launches

Fabulous launch parties for which publishers foot the bill seem to be less and less common nowadays. When faced with covering the cost themselves,…

The Architecture of The Ark

My novel The Ark is set twenty years from now, during a post-peak oil crisis. The polar ice caps have melted. Crops are…

This month I’m delighted to welcome another West Australian writer to the Writers Ask Writers fold. Yvette Walker is the author of Letters…

For me, the least enticing part of writing a book is re-writing. But I also know that it is a hugely important part,…

I planned to do a monthly update on my work-in-progress The Ark but time seems to have got away from me and it’s almost 9…

Inspiration I began writing my third novel, The Ark, almost four years ago, in September 2009. I couldn’t stop thinking about Adrian Atkinson’s…

As most of you who read this blog regularly will know, I’m in the process of developing an app to accompany my current…

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

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