Publication News


I’ve been slack of late, so to make up for it, here’s a list of my recent publications. As a full-time publisher and also having other important roles in life, I’m pretty proud of being able to get some creative output going of late. I don’t plan to stop.

  • Guardian of the Sky Realms (IFWG Publishing International – reprint). This book has seen several publishers and has settled nicely with IFWG which has a track record with middle grade (and up) fiction. While not a teen writer specialist, this was a genuine pleasure to write, and I’m very glad to see it out there in the publishing world.
  • Champion of the Sky Realms (IFWG Publishing International). The sequel, and logically concluding an important thread that had begun in Guardian of the Sky Realms. Again, a pleasure to write.
  • ‘Finding Utopia’ in the anthology The Time Machine: Australia Bound (PS Publishing, eds Steve Proposch and Christopher Sequeira). One of my favourite short stories that flowed quickly and seamlessly. An historical science fiction, which, while obviously about time travel, is really about love.
  • ‘Hill-Runner and the Enemy From Behind the Curtain Of Stars’ in the anthology Into the Cthulhu-Universe: Lovecraftian Horrors in Other Literary Realities (IFWG Publishing International, eds Steven Paulsen and Christopher Sequeira). Another story easy to write, that explores the concept that a proto-North American tribe has existed for thousands of years in what we now call the Americas, whose task is to protect all people from Mythos-based enemies.

All of these books have been globally released over recent months and are available from all good bookstores, online and bricks and mortar, in print and ebook formats.

Short story, Finding Utopia, to be published in The Time Machine: Australia Bound


Very pleased to have my short story, ‘Finding Utopia’, be part of an excellent anthology, The Time Machine: Australia Bound, to be published by PS Publishing in coming months. Edited by the very capable Steve Proposch and Christopher Sequeira.

It was an easy write as it captured my imagination immediately, and the words just delightfully flowed out. All the other contributors are amazing writers, so I see this anthology will make very positive waves in the speculative fiction community.

The preorders page for trade paperback is here.

And the preorder for the signed limited edition.

I’m sure the ebook version will have preorders as well.

Author copies received: Bullet Points 2

Had the pleasure of receiving author copies of Bullet Points 2, a military sci fi anthology edited by Nathan W. Toronto. My story, ‘Fred Has a Productive Day’ is in it, a tiny piece exploring AI in a post-apocalyptic future (it was first published in Battlespace: A Military Science Fiction Anthology by The SciFi Show some years ago. This is a quality anthology, not glorifying war but using literature to bring veterans and non-veterans together. A worthy cause. It is also pretty cool to share my story in a volume with so many great authors, most notably Joe Haldeman.

New Release: The Body Parts Room

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Just came out of the virtual Launch Party for the Aussie Speculative Fiction group’s anthology, Journeys, where my horror piece, ‘The Body Parts Room’, is one among many stories included. All of them are excellent! The ASF did a great job – a very active group.

This story is about a journey, like all 15 in the anthology, but this one is about a man’s tragic story, intertwined with an event that occurred in the early 20th century, which is still journeying to this day. Say no more.

This is a good link to purchase this ebook. www.books2read.com/u/4AxBVe

New Story: Hime Gyaru

My Lovecraftian, very weird piece, titled Hime Gyaru, will be published in The Asylum Diaries by Oscillate Wildly Press, in a few weeks. This was a story I enjoyed writing, oddly mixing a set of Japanese protagonists and antagonists, with a setting in Sydney, and most pertinently Bondi Beach. You’ve got to read it to make sense of it.

There’s an interesting connection I fabricated with this very adult short story and my upcoming reprint middle grade fantasy novel, Guardian of the Sky Realms (Meerkat Press, January 2020): the art gallery in the Rocks features in both!

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Keep an eye out for it in coming days, buy it, and enjoy it – top writers and artists involved.

Market News: ‘Brown Eyes’ sold to Bards & Sages Magazine

Pleased to have my dark fantasy short story, ‘Brown Eyes’, sold to Bards and Sages. An unusual piece that starts in the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, and finishes on Queen’s Bridge over the Yarra in Melbourne. I believe it will be published in July 2018.

Market News: They Can Never Find Out

Double pleasure in this announcement. A story I published in an anthology a fair number of years ago has been picked up by Deadman’s Tome – their March to the Grave war-themed edition. Aside from seeing this story get a new lease on life, it is also great to share the TOC with Deborah Sheldon. This is a Texas publication, but it has two Aussies contributing to it.

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Red Roses, White Flags, by Pete Clark
No Man’s Land, by David Wing
A Light Just Out of Range, by Gary L. Robbe
They Can Never Find Out, by Gerry Huntman
The Blue Light, by Phoebe Reeves-Murray
Across the White Desert, by Deborah Sheldon
Aftermath, by Christopher Pulo

Available now on Kindle, and soon in all good online print book stores.

Market News: Short Story, The Girl Who Floated To Heaven, published in Disturbed Digest #16

Delighted to have my short story, The Girl Who Floated to Heaven, published in Disturbed Digest #16. This one was hard to sell as it was recent historical in setting, having strong science fiction undertones, and was highly disturbing, covering topics such as domestic violence and suicide. And yet, it was also about unrequited love, and the editor who accepted my piece, stated that he thought it was primarily just that – a romance piece with all the other trappings. First time anyone called any of my pieces ‘romance’.

Regardless, I am over the moon to see this in print – hope you read it.

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