This story is set in the Twinmaker universe. I say “story”, but it’s really intended as a reading, or some kind of spooky performance art, which you’ll hear below if you play the first audio clip. Below that is the text. I created it by breaking the text into nineteen fragments, each of which I […]
Kudos and congrats to Sophie Yorkston (Editor-in-Chief) and Gerry Huntsman (Publisher) of SQ Mag 14 for their win in the Best Edited Work category of the 2014 Australian Shadows Award, acknowledging excellence in dark fiction. I’m proud that my Twinmaker story “The Tyranny of Distance” was in this issue. Here’s the link, if you haven’t […]
I’m stoked that Astred Hicks’ design work for the Twinmaker series is up for an Australian Book Design Award. Greatly deserved! I love these covers, and also the abandoned “d-mat cat” version from her blog that I’ve posted before: Best of luck to Astred and everyone at Allen & Unwin. They’ve worked so hard on […]
A Twinmaker story about three kids pushing an urban myth to its ultimate conclusion, “The Legend Trap” was a submission to Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios’s excellent collection of diverse YA stories, Kaleidoscope, which made it onto the Tiptree honors list and was nominated for Tin Duck, Ditmar, and Aurealis Awards. It’s now taken gongs […]