Vampires in the Sunburnt Country

Novellas

Salvage,
coming in 2012
from Twelfth Planet Press
 

Short stories

• The Mornington Ride, in Epilogue (due 2012)
• Last Boat to Eden, in Surviving the End (due April 2012)
• The Kiss, in Tales from the Bell Club
• Breaking the Wire, Aurealis #47
• An Incident at Portsea, 1967, in After the World: Corpus Christi, Issue 4
• Messiah on the Rock, in Anywhere but Earth
• Wraiths, in Winds of Change
• Resurrection in Red, in More Scary Kisses
• Children of the Cane, in Dead Red Heart
• Wet Work, After the Rain
• Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn, in Dreaming Again — listen to it at TISF
• The Refugee, Fantastic Journeys
• Kadimakara and Curlew, Daikaiju 2 — listen to a reading of it at The Writing Show
• Pain Threshold, Agog! Ripping Reads, reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007
• Time to Write, The Devil in Brisbane
• Triage, Sf-envision
• Night Watch, Elsewhere
• Spare Parts, Glimpses, reprinted in Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror
• Prime Cuts, antipodean SF (read it here)
• Summer Haze, Visions

Non-fiction

• Gary Numan, Fiend magazine
• Vampires in the Sunburnt Country: Australian Explorations of the Vampire Gothic Landscape, Studies in Australian Weird Fiction #2
• Keri Arthur, Fiend magazine
• How to run your own writing retreat, Writing Queensland April 2006 (reproduced here)
• Numerous articles for The Courier-Mail newspaper including:
  >A night as an extra on the film Queen of the Damned in 2000

  >This 2004 article on the state of Australian horror publishing, which won the Atheling award

  > This 2007 feature on the new space opera

  >This 2007 feature on the rise of paranormal romance

  > This 2009 article on Brisbane’s Goth scene

The Life of Konrad Nahrung

In 2011, I finished annotating and indexing the memoir of my great-great-grandfather, Konrad Nahrung. He emigrated from Germany to Queensland in the 1850s and travelled widely throughout the state, working as a bullocky, a shepherd, bootmaker, gold miner (briefly) and publican before finally settling down to farm at Miva. The memoir is available at cost or as a free download from Lulu.com.