I am the author of Whisky Charlie Foxtrot and A New Map of the Universe, which was shortlisted for the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards. I have had short fiction and commentary published in Westerly and Southerly, been a writer-in-residence at Katherine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre and hold a PhD in Writing from Edith Cowan University.

My third novel, The Ark, will be released as an interactive digital app in 2013. I am currently writing a steampunk-inspired adventure starring a mad scientist, an evil priestess and the mother of all tsunamis, tentatively titled Ciudad.

Like most writers, I’m an avid reader. These are some of the books that really rock my world:

    

If you’re mostly interested in reading, I’ve got lots of book recommendations on my Top Ten Tuesday and Friday Faves pages.

If you’re interested in writing process, you might want to know how my novel Whisky Charlie Foxtrot came to be written and published, or you may enjoy these interviews with other writers.

If you want to pick and choose whatever grabs you, head to the archives.

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If you like my blog, or have enjoyed my books, please let me know. I’d love to hear what reading and writing means to you, too. Contact me, or leave me a comment; this is how happy you’ll make me: