This weekend is a big news weekend!! The first major announcement to make is that the Flidderbugs have just hatched. Flidderbugs is my new ebook release. It’s a story about a strange race of insects who live on a very distinctive tree – the Krephiloff tree. And like the Flidderbugs themselves, the story is a

I went with my family to the circus the other day. Not one of those big Cirque de Soleil type spectaculars. This was a small-scale one, the kind that’s been wandering through the cities and towns of Australia for something like forty years. Although I have to say that even an old-school type of circus

Last week I put up a post about books and merchandising. I thought this week I might post a story I wrote a few years ago which pretty much summed up my feelings on the whole idea of books as multi-media merchandising phenomenons. No prizes for guessing who the main subject of this story is…

One of our local papers has been running a big Harry Potter promo over the last few weeks, obviously in line with the new movie. I was watching the kids as they were sorting through all the various merchandising guff (mainly collector’s cards but also other stuff like wands) and thinking about the relationship between

For all of the week starting August 1 will be participating in the I am a Reader, Not a Writer Summer Giveaway Hop. I will be giving away copies of my ebook Novella, Doodling. Doodling is an absurd comic fantasy about a man who falls off the world (because it’s moving too fast) and the