Salary Ninja, my short story about a salaryman ninja is now up at Port Iris.

Complete with cool cover.

http://www.portiris.com

As a monkey special – my story featuring a monkey-hunting puppet, Mr. Nine and the Gentleman Ghost has just been published at Weird Tales.

http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2010/08/30/mr-nine-and-the-gentleman-ghost/

My contributors’ copy of Worlds Next Door arrived recently.  It’s always a thrill to have a book with your name in it arrive in the mail.  My story Inksucker is one of the 25 stories for kids contained within.  I read the book and there are a lot of fun stories in there, along with some cool illustrations.

Another cool thing is that I’m sharing the table of contents with some very talented Australian writers, including a couple of my fellow Clarionites, Angie Rega and Angela Slatter plus others such as RJ Astruc.

Some stories take a long time between when I get the initial idea to finished result, but the ideas for Inksucker worked out quite quickly for me.  I still had to struggle to meet the deadline for contributions to the anthology.  The majority of the story was written on a 51-hour ferry ride from Osaka to Shanghai.

Ben Julien, one of my fellow Clarionites has interviewed Trent Jamieson, one of our Clarion South tutors.

The first of Trent’s novels is due out soon.

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/07/20/interview-with-trent-jamieson/