In the vein of giving my photos a better and more searchable home than Instagram, I’m republishing these photos I took at the Grand Canyon walking track out of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains in June. This is a well-developed and well-maintained track that’s very popular with tourists and locals…
The robots are coming for us! I swear at some point I will stop using clicheed (AI-generated) images for posts about AI, but I love making robot armies so here we are. You will probably know by now that I’m not hostile to AI, but I’m not terribly hawkish about…
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In the nearby suburb of Killara, there is a gem of a park called Swain Gardens that not many people know about. In fact, I was reminded of its existence because I saw it on TikTok. If you think TikTok is only for rubbish dance videos, I urge you to…
The Whale Mail Kickstarter is now funded so it’s definitely happening. I’ve finished recording the audio and am now doing the illustrations. There will be a map and six illustrations in the book as well as chapter headings. You can see some of these on the Kickstarter page. The ebook…
A while ago, we took a guided tour inside the old Sydney GPO. Back in the 1800s, before the phone and the internet, the post office was the central focus point of communication. This is one of the oldest buildings in Sydney. The clock played a vital function because people…
Apologies to all non-Australians reading this. Since we now have a date for the Voice referendum, let me tell you a story. It’s something I had, frankly, half-forgotten. When I worked in research, I once helped organise a conference for about 150 people. I was the admin/organisational contact for the…
The other day, I realised something weird: my books don’t often have an antagonist. They rarely have an archetypical bad guy who does evil things all the time. My books will have bad situations. They will have bad situations made worse by incompetent or uncaring people. They will have groups…
Here is a PSA: If someone contacts you about something they offer that you have to pay for, it’s almost never anything that’s worth your money (if not worse). OMG, the spammers on Kickstarter have gotten so bad. Within five minutes of launching the Kickstarter, I’d received eight spam requests…
Dragon Soup goes live on retailers today and I’ve just started the kickstarter campaign for Whale Mail, a follow-up novel in the same world of the Bureau of Magic Abuse. This is cozy fantasy. I’m probably showing my age now, but there used to be this very British show Heartbeat….
I’ve spent the past few days trying to sort a weird and nettly issue with my website for people who order print. Hint #1: very very few people buy in print anymore, so it’s rare, inconsistent and hard to diagnose. It seems to apply primarily to US addresses so it’s…
