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Biography:

I was born October 1975 in the town of Ballarat, Victoria. Australia’s population gained a point, my mother lost 8 pounds and I was immediately shoved into a pair of flared nappies and platform booties.

Ballarat - from the Italian 'Beautiful Rodent' - was a miners’ town of days past, famous for its gold and infamous for an uprising in 1854 which resulted in the deaths of thirty diggers and six soldiers.

I grew up on a farm just south of Ballarat in a town named Pokeweed. There I learned the ways of the world and decided to become a commentator for the wretched. My career began with the preparatory, 'A Robot from Zaphubb', wherein my six year-old perversity had X-15, a friendly robot starving for oil and searching the nearest planet (Earth) for the black liquor that would quench his appetite. With his processors chirping, X-15 found an oil can beside a reticent lawn mower, drank his fill and returned to his home planet where he promptly exploded.

I have since written a quarter of a million words worth of weird fiction, sci-fi, horror, fantasy and comedy, mostly in short story and novella format.

* Short story ‘Pussy In Boots’ published in Picture Magazine, #634, 2000.
* Short story ‘
The Unspoken Puppet’ published in ‘Aurealis’ - Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine, #16, 1996.
* Short story ‘
Things That Go Bump in the Day’ published in Picture Magazine, #597, 2000.
* Short story ‘
Uncle Doug's Secret’ published in Picture Magazine, #617, 2000.
* Short story ‘
The Thief’ published in Utopia #1, QUT Press, 2000.
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Book review on Greg Bear’s ‘Legacy’ published in the Melbourne sci- fi club Newsletter, Ethel the Aardvark #68, 1996.

I play bass guitar for Melissiah, gothic/fantasy artist and I have inherited a love of cartooning and drawing from my parents. I completed first year of a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at QUT, but decided to defer to get some real writing done. My interests include English language and literature, Internet development, photography, astronomy, ancient civilizations, genre fiction, short stories, and music.

Click to see a list of writers who inspire me.

Click to see the covers of the publications of my immortalization.

Click to see what I look like.

 

 

 

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