#19 Agents and Publishers oh my!
Some good news for me on the writing front. My editor at Doubleday Canada, Melanie Tutino, responded with great and cheering enthusiasm to my new novel, The...
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#17 Dying of Exposure: Horrible Things Famous Literary Men Have Said About Me
This article was first published last year in Status Anxiety, issue 85 of Griffith Review, a wonderful print and online journal that comes out of Griffith...
#16 Too Human
It’s 2025 which definitely sounds like a year in the future where it rains all the time and you’ve begun to suspect that your boyfriend is a robot. Today in...
#15 Autumn autumnal
I spent a month on Sifnos, a Greek island reading, writing, walking, swimming, and cooking. It was restorative. One of the many highlights was learning how...
#14 Twenty-three years later...
In 2001 I read an article in the Guardian about a man who fell to earth. The body of an airplane stowaway, Muhammad Ayaz, was discovered in a supermarket...
#13 Is Status Always Accompanied by Anxiety?
I wrote a piece about status anxiety for the wonderful Australian publication Griffith Review. The quarterly review comes out in both print and digital...
#12 Rainy days and A.I. Anne
Rainy Days and A.I. Anne I went to a conference in Manchester, Storytelling + Machines, last week. It was so cold that all the Europeans were wearing their...
#11 Archive!
For the past couple of years I’ve been assisting the construction of an archive of my digital work. Led by the Bekker scholar Dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska from...
#10 Deathbed Visions and other cheerful things
In my valiant attempt to keep up with what is happening in the broad field of tech giants, AI and LLMs, I read two very interesting posts recently. Thad...
#9 Writing is a Waiting Game
#9 Writing is a Waiting Game Did Amy Winehouse write a song called 'Writing is a Waiting Game'? Maybe not, but it's stuck in my head all the same....
#8 Time Travel as a writing technique?
#8 Time Travel as a writing technique I'm back in a phase of waiting to hear what people think about the latest draft of my novel-in-progress, and I've been...
#7 THE HYPERTRANCE FICTION MATRIX
#7 The HyperTrance Fiction Matrix and other internet things I've been working with Dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska, a scholar from Lodz, Poland, on an archive of...
#6 New news and old news
a newsletter about writing, reading, publishing, and technology #6. Old News and New News I've moved my newsletter from Substack to Buttondown after...
#5. Hallucinating and Memorising
and other tricks of the generative AI trade
#4. New Year, new...
lays head on desk sighing. Really? Again?
#3 Pandemic novels, in my opinion
and the writing pause
#2: I made a promise I'm not going to keep
and other rationalisations
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