2014 in Words

It’s been a momentous twelve months. 2014 was the year I hit book/age parity and sold my 100th short story. It was the year I seriously messed around with flash fiction, and saw my first academic publication. As well as the bits and bobs below (which contain links to anything shorter than a novel – you know where you like to buy those) there were guest posts and opinion pieces that I haven’t listed here, plus appearances at various festivals and conferences in Australia and the US.

Busy busy.

Sincere thanks to all the people who enjoyed reading and encouraged others to give it a go. Much as I love toiling away in my cave, I want the words to propagate much further than that. It means a lot when people help out by rating or even reviewing, or just by sending encouraging notes.

If you’re interested in what I’ve been reading in turn, here’s my year in books.

All the best for 2015. I hope it’s a ripper!

Novels

• Crashland (aka Twinmaker: Crash)
• Spirit Animals: Blood Ties with Garth Nix
• Troubletwisters: The Missing (aka Missing, Presumed Evil) with Garth Nix

Short stories

• “The Cuckoo” (Clarkesworld)
• “Deconstructing Decompression” (Twinmaker)
• “I, Q” (Allen & Unwin)
• “Incomplete No.7” (Reviews of Australian Fiction)
• “The Legend Trap” (Kaleidoscope)
• “The Mashup” (Solaris Rising 3)
• “Murdering Miss Deboo” (Cosmos)
• “The Tyranny of Distance” (SQ Mag)
• “The View from the End of the World” (Crash)

Flash fiction

• “The Beholders” (Breaking Beauty)
• “The Empire’s Son” (Perilous Adventures)
• “Tailgate Fume” (Seizure)

Bonus Twinmaker stories

• “Behind You”
• “The Child”
• “Die with a T”
• “The Ghost of What Might Have Been”
• “The Hole”
• “A New Christmas”
• “Wolf’s Clothing”

Poetry

• “No Solace Among Others” (Open Changes)

Essays

• “To Sleep No More, Perchance to Write” (The Noobz: New Adventures in Literature)

Academic publications

• “MT Promises: Science Fiction Travel Technologies and the Making and Unmaking of Corporeal Identity” (Travel & Imagination)