Another year done and dusted. I have a week left of work and then I’m on holiday until after the New Year. This one has been exhausting. I founded a new team at work and we published the first version of my new machine learning product in August, in an around a five week trip to Japan. I went back to University–again–and found myself an on-campus student for the first time in a couple of decades. This year I’ve been absolutely hammered by colds and flu. I have been sick every month since July and during that time have lost...

My friend Ed’s dying wish was that his friends finish his graphic memoir about the year he turned forty–the worst year of his life. 150 of us pulled together to complete the book from his script. Artists like Jill Thompson, KT Hollywood, Darick Maasen, Hillary Barta, Gene Ha, Hugo Giraud, Joel Carroll, Jonathan Hickman, Mike Norton, Skye Ogden, Tim Seeley, and a legion of others teamed all chipped in a page each. Ed drew many pages for me before he fell ill and I was determined to reciprocate here. My page was inked by the indomitable Greg Vondruska, who found...

ey there! Well, here it is. As an author, this is the most exciting part of the job. More exciting than signing a new contract or opening a royalty statement, or even receiving an award nomination. Here it is. The best thing in my life since… the release of my previous book, nearly two years ago: My new book is out! Shadowmancy is a book about a boy named Quay who goes to a secret, magical academy where his now-disgraced father was a leading professor. Quay’s father was a bad seed, and the legacy he has left his son–both in...

Hey there! It’s with great pride that I can tell you that my long delayed third novel, Shadowmancy, is about to drop! (Yes, long time readers may recall that this was going to be my second novel…) Anyway. Here’s the blurb: On a mountain that does not exist, there is a school where they teach the impossible.From his first day at the Academy, things are difficult for Quay. Though he has surrendered his name, like every other acolyte at the magical school, Quay is the son of a disgraced professor, and he finds that his father’s old enemies are already...

I have a new short story in War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia, a brand new anthology from Clandestine Press that looks at what might have happened, or might still happen, if HG Wells martians had landed in Australia. The book is filled with stories by some of Australia’s biggest name SF authors, including Kerry Greenwood, Jack Dann, Carmel Bird, Jenny Valentish, Janeen Webb, Sean Williams, Kaaron Warren and Angela Meyer. And there’s an introduction by Alex Proyas! My piece, A Fair Go to Mars, follows two Environmental Protection Agency workers as they investigate an outbreak of the red weed,...