: About Me

I'm a sort of inner city gargoyle by nature. I knocked around for years being thematically broke, then finally got a stable job and began painting and playing music.

Finally got a chance to write, took a redundancy package, and have been writing solidly for nearly a decade. Soon found out how tough and irritating writing for a living can be, with an internet publisher vanishing on me, and playing paperchase around the world with publishers, collecting form letter rejections.

Having got heartily sick of that pretty quickly, I went looking for forums and paid writing sites and eventually got the taste of that experience out of my soul. Nobody deserves what the publishers are putting on writers these days. What crime have writers committed, to be inflicted with all this overpriced, commercially impotent, bureaucracy?

I have 12 books on www.lulu.com, and a lot of culture jam stuff, music, and book excerpts on the Sydney Media Jam site. These are some of my favorites, The Threat Hamster Papers, Mimbly Tales, and Wanderlaugh, three of a series about Celtic immortals roaming infinity, Ads, my take on the advertising industry and my first effort to write a "normal" novel, and Gardening Is A State Of Mind, which reflects if nothing else what gardening does the the psyche. I've also written some books for writers, Beating Writer's Block, and Freelance Writing, Understanding The Toughest Trade In Writing, as a result of my own experiences.

Someone bought the first copy of Freelance Writing, and, typical writer, I went and checked the text... and found a typo. I'm allergic to typos, and this one, naturally, was right in the middle of a piece emphasizing the importance of quality. It's the only time I've ever written a blog piece to apologize for anything I've ever written. No doubt about it, writing is an endless learning experience.

My passion is ...

Writing, music, graphics, ideas

I know too much about ...

Writing, music, graphics, ideas

My parents always told me ...

Try it, see what happens

My childhood ambition ...

Writing, playing music

My favorite memory ...

Too many to count

Why I write ...

Sheer love of it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything, as far as I can tell.

My first job ...

Packing in a glass company

My best moment ...

Still waiting for it.

My inspiration ...

Voltaire, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov

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