Ooh! Don't miss out! It's not too late to head on over to Literary Mix Tapes for Volume Two - Nothing But Flowers. While there, check out my story, 'Grey, Like Stone'.

If you missed the window to read it for free, don't despair - you'll be able to pick up an eBook or paperback AND support the Queensland flood relief effort in the process.

What are you waiting for? Scat!

Short fiction eBook available

How remiss of me! I forgot to post a link to the Deck the Halls antho, which was published on Christmas Eve.

In it you can find 20 tales that may or may not be suitable Christmas reading! There are more genres than you could imagine, with each story having been inspired by a line from the carol 'Deck the Halls'. So go on and fa la la la la la la la la your way over to the eBook and read some fab free stories. You can even check out mine, 'Not a Whisper', a tale of fiddles, bushrangers and eggnog.

Chinese Whisperings: The Yin and Yang Books

The Yin and Yang Book eBook(s) have been published. Go and buy them now!

22 fabulous stories from 22 writers from around the world, including yours truly - my story 'Double Talk' appears in The Yin Book, but I would recommend you buy the combined anthology for the full effect.

More details about Chinese Whisperings and the anthologies over at my website.

Best of Friday Flash Vol 1 - out now!

It's a big day for flash fiction! Today marks the release of volume one of Best of Friday Flash - a collection of the best flash fiction on the internet in the first year of #fridayflash. I am thrilled to have one of my stories, 'Dental Check', included in such fine company.

Do yourself a favour and pick up a copy - the ebook is only $2.99. The paperback will follow soon.

#fridayflash: 'Last Man Standing'

Head on over to AntipodeanSF for this week's #fridayflash story, 'Last Man Standing'. Cheers!

In good company

I'm thrilled to have one of my stories published in a real-live, used-to-be-a-tree, crisp-when-you-turn-em-pages book! Not only is that very exciting (it's my first), but some of my writing friends are also in Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing #1, as well as some great Australian writers (fiction and non-fiction), including James Bradley, Alan Baxter, A S Patric and Angela Meyer. My lovely friend Amanda also has a poem in there. It's good to be included in such company, I must say.

Also a big shout-out to writer and publisher Karen Andrews of Miscellaneous Press - she conceived the idea for this project last year, when debate was raging among the intelligentsia over whether anything published on a blog was any good. Karen seemed to think it was and, voila, the idea for a book was born. She put a call out for Australian bloggers to send in their best work and I was fortunate to have 'No Sanctuary' selected for the anthology.

The press launch will be held at Readings in Carlton, Melbourne on 14 April.

You can order the book here. Postage (within Australia) is free on purchases before 1 April. While you're visiting Miscellaneous Press, check out Karen's book for kids - Surprise - my little ones love it.

Published: Positive Words

I'm very happy to report that one of my early pieces of flash fiction, The Waiting Game, has been published in the February 2010 edition of Positive Words (ISSN 1447 3720), a little writing magazine out of regional Victoria. It's nice to see my name in print!

Ka-POW! The Prisoner is up at Pow

There's a fab new flash fiction zine called Pow! Fast Flash Fiction and I'm honoured that they've accepted a slightly reworked (and better) version of 'The Prisoner'. Go and check it out and make sure you read the other fab flash while you're there, including from fellow #fridayflashers!

Microfiction up at FLASHSHOT

I'm thrilled that my little piece 'The Curse of the Common Name' is up as today's FLASHSHOT. If you miss it, it'll be up for ten days, after which I'll post it on this blog.

Infamous at Short Humour

The funny folk at Short Humour accepted one of my flash pieces, 'Infamous', for their zine. They obviously have an excellent sense of taste as well as humour :)

('Infamous' is a slightly reworked version of my #fridayflash piece 'Infamy', which I posted on 8 January)

Forthcoming in FLASHSHOT

I'm totally stoked with the news that one of my micro-fiction pieces will be published by FLASHSHOT on 28 Jan. If you don't already subscribe, you can do so for free via this website.

Short story published!

If you fancy some Christmas-themed reading, why not grab yourself a copy of Soft Whispers Mag's Christmas special? At USD$6.25 for a print edition, it's the perfect stocking filler. Or you can grab a PDF for only $2.25. In it you'll find my short story, 'An Elementary Christmas'.

Submission accepted!

I'm so excited that one of my flash fiction pieces, 'Book Club', is going to be published in the Soft Whispers Magazine Halloween special. The magazine is a free PDF-only edition that will be released at 12:00am on 31 October. Don't forget to grab a copy for some spoooooooooky reading!