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All the workshops and conventions are done for the year and I have so many things I want to do - including finishing book 3 of Dragon Empire - and instead I am a Flat Panda. Pixie gets it.   December Update I had all these plans for the summer and I've kind of...

  Traci Harding interviewed me and Queenie at Oz Comic-Con Brisbane in September. Here it is on her channel - she has plenty of interesting writing tips and industry news! November Newsletter Better late than never! What a wild couple of months. Townsville...

I've written a quick summary of the Hong Kong protests and shared it on my website. You can check it out here: THE HONG KONG PROTESTS: A QUICK (AND BY NO MEANS COMPLETE) SUMMARY Feel free to share it if you like, I have no problem with being identified as...

Written: October 8th, 2019. Potted History, Mostly From Memory and Probably Wildly Inaccurate. I'm going to use a lot of Wikipedia article because Yay! This isn't a scholarly document and so I can. In 1842, the combined forces of the UK, France, and America fought a...

Me: (Turns on laptop with this photo as wallpaper)  Me: Isn't this beautiful? I took this photo. Schoolkids: WHOAAAA Schoolkids: Where is this!!!!???? Me: Kinosakionsen in Western Japan, hot water comes out of the ground. We stayed in an inn that's been run by the...

It's the middle of winter and I don't have another appearance booked for two weeks, so time to catch up on the website. I'm planning to post an explanatory page about book sizes. Top to bottom: US Mass market paperback Australian 'A' Format (First six books of Dark...

I've posted a bunch of photos of cosplay on my Instagram, and I won't repeat them here. The middle of winter is a special time at the Gold Coast, the sunsets become intense and the beaches are empty except for enthusiastic Russian tourists swimming in the surf. July...

I went out to dinner in Brisbane's Little Korea with my son a couple of weeks ago, and the cafe next door had Sakura tea. It's salted and pickled cherry blossoms, steeped in hot water, and the salty-sweet flavour took me straight back to Japan. We were served...

OooOOOoooHHHhhh This arrived yesterday. It's so pretty! May Update I'm back from Hong Kong and Japan and my feet still hurt. But I don't care - look at this beauty! The cover is (as usual) fabulous and I cannot wait to share this next stage in the journey with all of...

This is called the 'First Pages'. It's the final version of 'Guardian of Empire', in .PDF form, that will be plugged into the printing machine-type doohickey to make the books. And it is obviously Kitty Dinner Time for Madam Furry Butt.   April Update RESEARCH...