Archive for January, 2009
Sober in a Sea of Writers: Aurealis Awards #2
Unbelievable. I took the camera but didn’t even think to get it out. And I was damn sober the whole time. No excuse really, unless the bright flashy lights and the spectacle of the show dashed my brains against my skull. And there was nothing terribly incriminating - at least while I was still upright […]
Posted: January 25th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 3
Why I’d like the Ice Age: Aurealis Awards #1
37 degrees on the tarmac while taking off from Sydney this morning, which I gratefully exchanged for the blessed relief of 32 degrees at Brisbane. Like jumping out of one sweaty post-football sock and into another one. Chuck in two days and nights spent wrapped around the great white bowl, courtesy of some dodgy chicken […]
Posted: January 24th, 2009 under Events.
Comments: 1
“You’re moving to Middle Earth!?!?!”
That’s what most of my friends have said when I’ve told them that we are moving to New Zealand. Middle Earth wouldn’t be too bad, if you had a thing for pipeweed and hairy feet (which I do) and didn’t have a thing against orcs and dwarves (which I don’t) but we settled on Dunedin […]
Posted: January 21st, 2009 under Events.
Comments: 4
Trashing a Continent In 4 Simple Steps
Click here to see the full map.
How to trash a continent:
1) Find a good map.
2) Raise the sea level til the map looks cool.
3) Drop a few nuclear explosions on key urban centres.
4) Rename what’s left with puns if possible.
and voila! instant post-holocaust australia!
Had a lot of fun doing this… it was inspired by an ancient RPG called After […]
Posted: January 20th, 2009 under Illustration.
Comments: 6

Jeremy is an emerging speculative fiction writer and professional illustrator from Sydney, Australia, now living in Dunedin, New Zealand. His first novel manuscript GRIMSHAW: The Binding Passage is part One of a flintlock fantasy trilogy and was recently selected for the inaugural QWC/Orbit Manuscript Development Program in 2008.