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I’ve got plenty of Guilty Pleasures.  TV shows that I watch which I know are mostly rubbish, like StarGate Atlantis (please don’t throw rocks at me StarGate fans) or violent / slasher horror movies which don’t have a single redeeming feature. And then there’s book.  Now I already read plenty of TV tie-in stuff.  And …

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So I’ve been reading Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer (Book One of the Long Price Quartet) and find it to be very unengaging.  This is one of those series that’s had plenty of buzz in the last twelve to eighteen months or so, and so I came to the book with reasonably high expectations.  …

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It’s one thing when a bushfire is an act of nature.  It’s shocking and it’s tragic, but it’s been happening forever. But when the fires are deliberately lit.  Fuck.  This is slaughter and destruction on a mass scale.  And there’s no reason for it, other than the joy of seeing the fire blaze. As Kirstyn …

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As some you (or most of you) will know, Victoria experienced it’s hottest day since records were kept – a whopping 46.4 degress (over 110F).  Yesterday, Jules and I stayed inside trying to keep cool.  But as we were doing, fire was raging in country victory, literally wiping whole towns off the map, I vaguely …

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Pod of Horror, which can be downloaded here or on iTunes is one of my favourite Podcasts at the moment.  Mark Justice, the compere isn’t just a fun sort of bloke but he interviews some interesting and often entertaining US indie horror writers like John Skipp, Brian Keene, Cory Goodfellow, Scott Sigler and a bunch of …

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After a hiatus of about 8 years, I’ve started writing again. Now, I should say that in that 8 years I’ve had 10 short stories published.  And while I would never, ever discount my Doctor Who and Benny work, the fact is I wrote those stories to contract and deadline.  In all the cases I was …

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