The volunteers had a Christmas tree and ginger bread house decorating competition at Oz Comic-Con, and my volunteers didn’t win. Robbed!

December Update

The last newsletter for the year and it’s been one of the best years ever.

Serpent Princess was so warmly welcomed by everyone, and I am hard at work on the sequel, ‘Queen of Hell’ – which the Patrons on my Patreon are already reading. Fan favourite return incoming!

The TAFE/University of Queensland projects were a massive success, and we’re in the process of bringing at least one of the game demos online into a web-playable version so everyone can have a try.

The volunteers had an absolute blast with them.

So: On to 2026! I have big plans.

  • The games were made as a part of a unit called ‘Professional Practice 1’. First semester next year is ‘Professional Practice 2’ and we’ll be taking these projects even further – and applying for a grant to make the games or animations that the students have started.
  • I’m in the process of regaining the rights to the original Dark Heavens series. I’m planning to re-edit them to something closer to my original version, have new covers made for them and re-release them in both paperback and special edition hardcovers.
  • If I do regain the rights, I’ll be able to do something about having the final three books of ‘Dark Heavens’ released as audiobooks here in Australia.
  • I’ll be presenting a workshop, engaging in two panels, and hosting a chatter session at Genrecon in Brisbane in February. More details on that in the January newsletter.
  • I’ll be at Oz Comic-Con for nearly very show next year, and hopefully I’ll have the new Dark Heavens editions ready to go! (The publishers are being slow to return the rights to me.)
  • My self-publishing business at https://www.essentialselfpub.com.au has been going so well that I’ll be redesigning the site and raising my rates over the Christmas break. Send me your books for self-publishing!

Thank you all for being so wonderful and supporting me throughout the year. Time to slow down and relax for a while, and I hope everybody’s holiday decorations are as awesome as those by the Oz Comic-Con volunteers, even though they didn’t win when they should have!