Melbourne next week, Onna Bugeisha, Magpie, Bullet Gal, the Little Nobody Machine gig, art, & interviews

This Monday, I’m heading home to Melbourne for a couple of weeks, mostly to see family and mates. But I’ll also be there to launch the novel Black Sails, Disco […]

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Li’l Big Dipper, Black Sails, Disco Inferno, Magpie, Bullet Gal, etc.

I’m currently fortunate enough to be working with Australian artist Stu Campbell on a one-off comic short for national zine Oi Oi Oi!, and here’s a tease/process glimpse of the lovely W.I.P. […]

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Mini Update

As you can probably tell from my use here of the great Jack Kirby‘s work (nicked from a panel in The Eternals #14 (Aug. 1977), inked by Mike Royer, I’ve had my […]

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Magpie #1 & Crash Soirée

I guess it’s kind of appropriate that she’ll be here in time for Valentine’s Day. I’m talking up Magpie, the character created by artist Frantz Kantor and myself to grace […]

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Novel #6 finished, plus Magpie’s in full flight

It snowed properly in Tokyo yesterday for the first time in 2 years, and the mercury dropped to -1°C (I’ll let you figure that out in Fahrenheit), albeit for a […]

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2016 — et voilà

HAPPY NEW YEAR, one and all. Best way to rise and shine to a new calendar? …Not the editing I’m doing now (for the next novel — necessary but yawn-inspiring). […]

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2015: A very good year. Fingers crossed for more of the same in 2016!

Yep, it’s that moment. You know… the one when you kick back on the loo, magazine, tabloid, smartphone, print-out or tablet in hand, a fresh roll of toilet paper nearby, […]

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‘Small Change’ has been published!

As of yesterday (today in America), my fifth novel Small Change is out on the streets (preferably in book shops rather than gutters!). A mix-up of hardboiled noir, pulp, soft […]

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99¢ novels + magpie comic

OK, so for all of December I’ve organized with my publishers to cut the price of Kindle versions of my back-catalogue novels to £0.79  (Amazon UK) and 99¢ (Amazon USA), […]

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Little Nobody, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat [redux], Small Change, Comics, Vinyl, and Trista & Holt

Hey, I just did an interview — this time mostly about muzak stuff — for Say What? magazine, to correspond with the upcoming double-vinyl Little Nobody records through My Own […]

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