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3 November 2026
Choppy Water is out TODAY! 🥳
After five long years, Choppy Water is finally here! My new action-packed thriller (for adults) is in bookshops TODAY across Australia and Aotearoa. It's also on your favourite e-book and audiobook apps, whatever they may be.
31 October 2026
RIP NaNoWriMo, hello Draftsgiving
And how I lost sleep over a bad review.
20 October 2026
Choppy Water comes out in two weeks!
I've bought my Captain's hat, I've warmed up my voice ("Betty Botter had some butter!") and I've practised explaining what the book is about ("Imagine Speed 2: Cruise Control but more gruesome.") Now all I need is an audience…
14 October 2026
When something is both overrated and terrific 💉
Bryan is a twenty-something loser who works as an organ courier. While driving through a snowstorm at night with no chains on his tires and also arguing with his girlfriend on the phone about an unplanned pregnancy, he runs over a pedestrian...
8 October 2026
The Truth App, in audio! 🎧
Just a quick one today, because I'm having heaps of fun writing You Have To Help Me (Zoe Gale #3) and I'm keen to get back to it...
30 September 2026
Hello from my dining table…
...where I'm theoretically supervising a sick child. Don't worry, it's just a cold—but it could progress to a mental illness, since I'm letting him binge-watch The Simpsons while I'm racing a deadline.
25 September 2026
I've been getting pretty paranoid while writing Zoe Gale #3.
Voice clones. Deep fakes. AI agents. We're all falling down the rabbit hole into a world where digital communication is less and less likely to be authentic, and where all communication is digital.
18 September 2026
I write purely for the love of it. ❤️
But some other authors (not me) are driven by laziness and ego.
10 September 2026
Minutes Of, now in audio! 🎧💥
I can't write non-fiction. Believe me, I've tried! But it just doesn't work. I type, frown, delete what I've written, type some more, frown again, delete it all again, and hours later the page is still blank.
6 September 2026
Are you the sort of person who signs petitions? 📝
I'm not, though maybe I should be. If I'm going to complain, all the time, I may as well do it in writing, to the people with the authority to change things.
28 August 2026
Bullet Train is out! 🚄
Page 1: Hello from the back of a taxi
18 August 2026
Hello from the business lounge! 💺
One of my quirks (okay, flaws) is how easily I'm thrilled by luxury...