About a month ago Brian Laul called me up and wanted to know if I was interested in being part of his inaugural “Book Trail”. “I’m an author, Brian. I don’t want to hike anywhere.” Turns out, the Book Trail, organised by A-B Street Library, Rainbow Crossing and half a dozen coffee shops around Campbelltown, …
Digging through some old posts on older versions of this site (on different platforms) I came across this, reprinted in its entirety, unedited (other than formatting). Originally published on July 30th, 2009 Ladies and genuflects, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Eamonn Shute. An entirely fictional creation, living in Miami for the past eighteen months, …
Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — Australia’s first and only EV manufacturer — hires him to root out the fraud costing what is …
I bang on this a lot, and if the truth be told, this is only a minor component of a good story, but one most often missing. Stories have a structure. Generally, three acts. There are other structures, but they all resolve, in one way or another, to three acts. There are certain things a …
Apparently there’s a WordPress Plug-in exploit that allows nefarious bastards to gain access to my site and change shit. Posts prior to a couple of posts ago have been disappeared. With prejudice. Fortunately, the way-back machine has archives of some of those posts, so over the next few weeks, or months, I’ll reinstate them. Stay …
Just leaving this here for now… Coming in September. Sometime… Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in the Financial Crimes Division of the Australian Federal Police. The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars — the first and only manufacturer …