Today was a pretty special day for my family. My dad just celebrated his 80th birthday.  It was quite a big deal. Just about all of his friends were there as well as a bunch of family. It was amazing to see all of these people in the one room. These were people I had

Last weekend was the Australian Football League Grand Final. It’s a bit like the Australian Football equivalent of the Superbowl or the F.A. Cup. But what made it especially exciting/nerve-wracking for me was that my team, Collingwood (the mighty Magpies) was playing – and going for back-to-back premierships. For those not in the know, Collingwood

I spent a brief spell high up in the atmosphere this week. No, I don’t mean that I was literally up in the sky. What happened was I had the most amazing run of sales for my ebook novella Doodling. For a while I was absolutely stunned, figuring the sales numbers Amazon was throwing at

I spent a large part of last week working on what I hope to be my next release. It’s called Magnus Opum and it’s a kind of epic fantasy, but definitely as seen through a dag-lit filter. I like to refer to it as Tolkein meets Dr Seuss. While I was working on basically cleaning

It’s time to pay tribute to one of the greatest influences on my writing. And it’s not another writer. It’s not even something that sits within the general genre of books. It’s the Muppet Show.In my opinion, the Muppet Show is one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th Century. It’s clever. It’s wonderfully