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What a week… What I’ve discovered this week is that Facebook is just another corporation, that doesn’t know the meaning of the words common sense. What Rocky, Lisa and I went through (censorship at its nastiest) is going to leave a bad taste in our mouths for years to come. Witch Hunts was in theContinue reading “The week that was…”

As of this writing Facebook has (dare I say it) done a complete “about-face” and re-instated the official Witch Hunts page. https://www.facebook.com/settings?ref=mb#!/pages/Witch-Hunts-A-Graphic-History-of-the-Burning-Times/142351579230386 We can only put this down to the support of our colleagues in the horror community who fought on our behalf to have this censorship lifted. We thank those who supported us. PowerContinue reading “Vindication for Witch Hunts!”

Facebook. We all use it to share with friends, to promote our books or just chat about writing, but what happens when it goes bad? I discovered what happens today when Facebook, in all its omnipotent wisdom decided to shut down the official Facebook page for the graphic novel I illustrated, Witch Hunts: A GraphicContinue reading “Face-less-book”

For almost 15 years I’ve been a professional writer, but not in a fictional capacity. My writing background comes from being a newspaper journalist on three newspapers in Central Queensland. I was a reporter for about eight years and in that time I wrote countless news articles and news features; stories on fatal traffic accidents,Continue reading “Real-life horror”

For years I’ve illustrated in the traditional way: pen and ink on paper, paintbrushes etcetera. I was trained to use my hands when I create a piece of art. I’ve always had an aversion to using digital media to create art, because in a way, it felt like I was cheating myself. I saw digitally-produced artContinue reading “Breaking tradition”

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Brian G Ross has just had his novella “Replay” released through Australian publisher Dark Prints Press, who also published my book Vaudeville last year. I managed to track Brian down and quiz him about his latest tale, his favourite authors and what he’s got planned down the track: Give us a bit of an ideaContinue reading “Author Interview: Brian G Ross”

At 9pm Eastern Australian time Friday April 12 (in other words, tomorrow!) the winners of the Australian Shadows Awards will be announced and I’m proud to say that I played a big part as a judge this year! I was very fortunate to be selected as a judge in the Short Story, Collected and EditedContinue reading “Shadows Awards put Australian writers in the spotlight”