Malaysia has just suffered some awful floods down in the south of the Malay Peninsula, caused by a massive rainfall combined with storm surge up the rivers. The funny thing is that Singapore doesn’t seemed to have suffered. (For you … Continue reading
Memories of being a child on the farm in Western Australia. Waking up very early Christmas morning to find Santa had been and inevitably left a book, among other things – my mother’s way of making darn sure she didn’t … Continue reading
Christmas Eve, and I am shouting at the ceiling. Literally. Here I am, in my study, desperately trying to finish a project paper on avitourism potential in Malaysia so that I can return to my final(?) rewrite of The Song … Continue reading
A fellow writer once asked me, what would you prefer? To be acclaimed by your peers or by the reading public? By peers, he meant fellow writers, editors, reviewers, people somehow involved in the industry or the critiquing of it. … Continue reading
My third shortlisting for the Aurealis Award: Best Australian Fantasy Novel of the Year. This year it is for Heart of the Mirage. [See? Told you all, you should read it….] Ok, I had better shut up before my head … Continue reading
So what do you do when you go to see the Petronas /Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur for the first time? Do you ooo and aaah over how high they are? Go shop for brand names that sell so much … Continue reading
The Shadow of Tyr hit the bestseller list of Galaxy, the specialist bookstore in Sydney, in its first week out in the big world. Big smile from me. Don’t forget – give books as Xmas pressies, everyone! Preferably novels. … Continue reading
Me: (as I drive the car out of our driveway) Got your passports? Tickets?Him: Yes. (to wife, referring to their son) Have you got Dylan’s passport? Her: (checking) Yes. All here.Me: (to him, because he is an American and they … Continue reading
One of those lovely readers who are kind enough to comment on Amazon.com said some nice things about The Aware, and then added: “There is not the depth like in some fantasy tales but you’ll enjoy it nonetheless.” Another reader … Continue reading
I won’t even begin to describe the stress levels we hit today. Let’s just say that it concerned a passport, belonging to someone booked on an overseas trip on the 17th December, which was suddenly discovered to be unusable even … Continue reading
