Nice article about self in Brisbane's major weekend newspaper, The Sunday Mail.  The photo was taken with me staring into a reflector board and feeling like I'd been hit with capsicum spray – instead of looking like I'd just been kicked in the nethers, I know look either slightly knowledgeable or as if I'm about to sell you contraband (depending on which way you tilt your head).  Seriously, thanks to the lovely Elissa Lawrence and Darren England.

Delighted to be participating in the Gold Coast Libraries Literati festival event, and sharing a chat with my extremely talented friend, crime writer Katherine Howell, on 25th May.  Check out the details here.

Nice news this week: 'The Dead Path' will soon be sold into Russia.  Details will be posted as soon as we know more.

The Broken Ones continues to get great reviews in Australia while the clock ticks down to the US hardcover release.

The DoubleDay hardcover of 'The Broken Ones' is now available for pre-order through Amazon.  It's a pretty and evocative cover, non?

I was invited by the enormously talented Ian Irvine, author of 27 novels including the new Tainted Realm series due out this year, to contribute to his guest blog.  You can read my contribution here.

The audio book of The Broken Ones will be released by Bolinda Publishing at the end of October 2011.

The book is read by the talented Grant Cartwright, who has performed with the Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Companies.

The Broken Ones is named fiction 'Pick of the Week' by Kerryn Goldwsorthy in the Sydney Morning Herald, September 3-4 2011.

"Some of the best work being produced across all the art forms in this century derives its quality and its energy from the mixing up of forms and genres... This ambitious novel combines not just two genres, but three, mixing up the conventions of supernatural mystery, police procedural and speculative fiction to produce a futuristic dystopian society that has broken down after an invasion of ghosts, with a hero straight from the hard-boiled school of crime... The writing is at once witty, gritty and grim. The horrors are genuinely horrible and the imagined scenario is satisfyingly rich and suggestive."