• NSW Speculative Fiction Festival is SOLD OUT!

    I'm so happy to be part of this speculative fiction festival on at the beautiful NSW Writers Centre tomorrow. I'll be talking all things AI and cyborgs with Sean Williams, Krissy Kneen and John…

  • Big Little Lies bursts the bubble

    'So, in a story like Big Little Lies, the atmosphere of beauty and wealth allows for greater focus on internal battles and flaws rather than on the struggle for survival in a hostile environment.' -…

  • 30th May - Love and Music: Varuna Blue Mountains Sydney Writers' Festival Event with Graeme Simsion and me

    Tuesday 30 May The Carrington Hotel 10:00am - 11:00am @ The Carrington SINS OF THE PAST Award-winning British writer Natalie Haynes’ book The Amber Fury explores a contemporary murder and its…

  • 6th May: Launch of Watch Over Me with Patti Miller at The Carrington Hotel

    Join us Saturday afternoon, May 6, 3-5pm by the fire in the cosy Library at the Carrington Hotel for the launch of WATCH OVER ME, described by Tom Keneally as 'this gem of a novel'. Launching the…

  • 3rd May: Launch of WATCH OVER ME with Tom Keneally

    We would love you to join us at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in Pitt St, Sydney on Wednesday, 3rd May, 12:30 - 1:30 for a stimulating in conversation with renowned author Tom Keneally as we…

  • The Trillion Pearl Choker

    My story The Trillion Pearl Choker has been published in the Elemental edition of Sydney University's Southerly Journal. "The Land of Parrots had had it coming for a long time, people said.... As…

  • Must Australia Always Be Imaginary?

    Must Australia Always Be Imaginary: Cartography as Creation in Peter Carey's 'Do You Love Me?' My first academic journal article, drawn from research for my exegesis, published in the June 2015…

  • Why We Need to Talk About Option J

    Japanese submarines and why we need to make sure we don't end up with the submarine equivalent of coal-fired power stations - on The Strategist, the blog of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

  • Australia's Direction on Defense

    My latest article and my first time writing for The Diplomat, a magazine I've long admired ever since the time, years ago, when it was still produced in hard copy in Australia.