Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water….

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system..

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse..

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more ….

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets..

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings..

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake a….

I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and….

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing r….

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general..

I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experim….

With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all t….

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the ….

I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an atti….