Tag: Allen&Unwin

Ghost Town Ghost Walk!

For the spooky Halloween season, I’m holding a Ghost Town Ghost Walk, where I’ll take participants to some of the locations featured in Gap Year in Ghost Town and the sequel, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town. It will be an amiable night time amble over an hour or so...

Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town Cutting Room Floor 3

Yes, good stuff gets left out of any final version of a novel – and for many good reasons. Still, that’s no reason they can’t see the light of day, right? But do you know how hard it is to ignore ghosts, when you’re supposed to be a dedicated...

Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town Cutting Room Floor 2

While revising and editing, some good stuff gets cut and ends up on the cutting room floor. This is another example, where Anton does some musing. Because life wasn’t all about hunting ghosts and dealing with murderous cults, I hoped Dad was going to have a bumper bookselling day...

Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town Teaser 1

With Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town (the sequel to the Aurealis Award Shortlisted Gap Year in Ghost Town) to be released in July, I’m deep in the last stages of editing. Thanks to the good people at Allen and Unwin, the story is getting tighter and pacier, coming together...

Gap Year in Ghost Town – The Sequel

Hey, everyone! We now have a title for Gap Year 2 – ‘Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town’! More spooky, fun adventures, more Anton, Rani and Bec, more ghosts, more everything! Coming, July 2019 from Allen and Unwin.  ...

Words and Nerds Podcast

Dani Vee from the excellent Words and Nerds podcast interviewed me recently. If you’d like to listen to my mellifluous and authoritative voice while I talk about inspiration, characterisation and motivation – with a particular focus on Gap Year in Ghost Town – then go here.  After that, have...

More Good News!

Hot on the heels of last week’s Aurealis Award ‘Best Fantasy Novel’ shortlisting, ‘Gap Year in Ghost Town’ has bobbed up again, included on the CBCA’s 2018 Notable Books List. Yay!...

Gap Year in Ghost Town Teaser

Here’s a teaser for my newest book, ‘Gap Year in Ghost Town’, coming in August 2017 from Allen & Unwin.  ...