I spend more time than I should looking at the search terms that lead people to this blog. It’s not like I’m trying to attract visitors ...

Okay, so tomorrow is National Poetry Day here in lil ol' Aotearoa. Here's a press release if you're the kind of person who need...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago , I've read two Jim Shepard collections in recent months. Love and Hydrogen: New and Selection ...

Okay, so I need to finish THE NOVEL some time next month. To do this I'm going to have to "crash" in the Kazuo Ishiguro sense...

Why I suck at Twitter It’s a combination of lack of nerve and a lack of anything interesting to say. To illustrate, here are some tw...

via toonpool.com I went to the funeral of a colleague last Tuesday. Bruce had battled cancer of the oesophagus since September but befor...

Generation A by Douglas Coupland  (novel, audiobook) I’ve written elsewhere about my Douglas Coupland appreciation phase as a younger ...

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo Yesterday I played host to a small group of fellow writers and got them to talk candidly about THE NOVEL (...