The Public Notebook

Have you got space for a few spooky books in your life? My upcoming release leans towards crime, but my heart will forever belong to the darker parts of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.  I’m always on the lookout for new-to-me authors and taking a chance on things that look interesting. Sometimes that pays off for me (I’m looking at you, Zombie Bake-off by Stephen Graham Jones). ​Sometimes…

I typically expect to write between 1200 and 2400 words a day during my daily commute. As shown in the drafting heat map I posted a few weeks ago, those words are typically split between four or five different writing sprints, which largely correlate to the transit time in my two-bus commute to work and my lunch break. I’ve been thinking about this because someone recently asked how writer with…

One of my favourite podcasts of late has been Past Due by Open Mike Eagle and Ama Marie Cox. There’s no central website hosting it, but you can find past eposodes on YouTube, Patreon, or your favourite podcast app. The podcasts focuses on how people survive in a creative economy in a time of profound technological change, and frequently starts each interview with a really telling question: when…

I recently passed the halfway point in a new book, working title Dead Man’s Tale. Around 17,000 words down, with 16,000 to go. My target is getting the draft done by May 18, but I’ll be okay with anything up to the 25th of May as I’m getting my feet under me now that public transport is going back to “normal” here in Brisbane and there’s room to type on a laptop during my morning commute. To…

A few weeks back, I finished my fourth short-story draft for the year and submitted it to an open call before startingstory number five. Writing’s an uphill battle at the moment because the world–once again–is trending towards chaos and laying disruptions in my path. After spending the first six months of my new job training myself to write on buses, we’ve now got a global fuel crisis looming and…

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