Reasons I love writing in Spring: These photos were taken in the Hunter Valley and the Hunter Valley Gardens last week. I was inspired by Yumi and Taka at Dear Plastic, who often post photos of the flowers they see on their travels around the world. A Guide To The Trees While we’re on the subject […]

I think eBooks are great but nothing will ever really beat beautiful hardcovers. A few years ago, I was browsing the tables at the University of Sydney Bookfest, looking for good secondhand books. Thinking that I might find some Sylvia Plath, I ended up in the Poetry section. Sylvia wasn’t there but I picked up […]

I have a new eBook out called The Fantastic Breasts. The cover was designed by the brilliant Sydney-based artist, Gee Hale, who was a real pleasure to work with. Gee’s portfolio is available here. Editorial thanks go to my mentor, Dr Stephen Carver of The Book Surgery. The Fantastic Breasts is one of my less mainstream short stories: a […]

The Spark Exhibition opened on Saturday 27 August at Sun Studios.  It features the work of Eronnie Samuels, a Polynesian artist, who has a studio in the warehouse where I write.  We’ve been comparing notes on the creative process over the past few months and it’s been fascinating for me to watch how this exhibition has […]

The moment I decided to acquire a typewriter arrived as I stood in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, looking at this Olivetti Lettera 22.  It was on display as one of the key design achievements of the 20th century. Back in Sydney, I picked up this Lettera 32, a later model designed in […]

Anna Zhu has kindly shared with me some happy snaps from Monday night’s cast and crew screening of Colin the Dog’s Fabulous Midnight Adventure and Another Story. These photos are taken from Anna’s blog post about her work on Colin the Dog.  Check out the full post here.  It includes some new official stills and behind-the-scene photos from […]

I take courses and workshops in other artistic disciplines.  Some might identify this as writer’s procrastination – the sort of thing that goes down as “Research” alongside Spending Three Straight Days Watching Dr Who. Courses really do help, though. By forcing me to keep learning and creating, they keep the momentum going in my creative […]

In recent years, I’ve taken a shine to the work of Haruki Murakami and particularly to his novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.  In fact, I’ve taken so much of a shine to Murakami’s work that I decided last year to see his home country for myself.  So, in September, a couple of days after the Colin the Dog shoot […]

As promised, a gallery of stills from the Colin the Dog shoot by the photographer, Anna Zhu.  You can find out more about her stunning work at www.annazhu.com.

Fingers crossed, a lovely little short film will be visiting your local film festival soon.  Colin the Dog’s Fabulous Midnight Adventure and Another Story is an adaptation of a short story I wrote at the age of 17 about a man who sets out in the middle of the night to find his lost chihuahua.  The story […]