Between raising two kids and holding down a full-time job, it sometimes feels as though my writing career has stalled. But apparently I'm getting just enough done to keep the wheels turning – and sometimes there's the odd gift from above, as well.
An example of the former is my story 'Dead Men Can't Climax'. It is, without doubt, one of the weirdest things I've written (quite a feat considering my existing oeuvre). I guess you'd call it an erotic black comedy – a genre mash-up you won't often find on general submission calls – and I held grave concerns it would never find a home. Luckily for me it tickled the fancy of Infernal Ink editor Hydra M. Starr, and it is now scheduled to appear in the July 2017 issue of her magazine.
The gift from above arrived in the form of an email from the Australian Horror Writers' Association informing me that my story 'Old Secrets' had been chosen to appear in a Midnight Echo 'best of' anthology, Dead of Night. It's due out in late 2016. I'll be sharing a table of contents with the likes of Alan Baxter and Stephen Dedman, two luminaries of Australian horror.
