Thank you! One hell of a show!

I think I managed to sneak @themountaingoats.bsky.social a copy of NOCK LOOSE tonight

it’s hard not to look at the majority of the books that get published in Australia and not want to blow your brains out

I’ll start reading Ben Lerner when he stops looking like that

since the media is banging the drums of “unsustainable growth” again in the hopes that the government guts the ndis, this piece in crikey by @cormacmccafe.bsky.social from back in august is the only thing worth reading on the matter www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/29/n...

maybe my fav episode of The Battler yet: we talk to my literary idol @micwink.bsky.social about writing, life, and his new (brilliant) novel, Griefdogg. Get it in ya!

I wrote this

NOCK LOOSE for shortlisted for an ABIA

If you're in Canberra or know someone else who is, love to say gidday on Friday.

to understand Ben Robert-Smith you have to understand Hale School, a high school seemingly designed to churn out malignant psychopaths. He's what happens when you put a gun in a born to rule's hands.

the best Australian novel since, well, Grimmish. Geddonit!!!

there should be a video game set in the tim winton extended universe where you get to drive a car along a endless coastal road and shoot a gun at the ocean

Andy Weir saying he would hate it if anyone found meaning from his novels is so funny. The epic bacon middle manger writer of our times.

it's really wild living through Hitler 2.0 within a country that is on Hitler 2.0's side

going to buy Switch 2 with my NOCK LOOSE royalties before Albo shanghais me into the Pedo Wars on the side of Team Pedo

this was really fun/informative! check it out!

Lindsey Graham sucking on the tip of Pinocchio‘s nose through the Gloryhole in the Disneyland men’s room

I am the littlest fella at the gym but I believe the big fellas would protect me or stand up for me if we got into ‘a situation’

NOCK LOOSE residuals arrived today. First purchase was @micwink.bsky.social new book, which I have been craving for years now

i imagine so

have you guys played the Dezi Freeman isometric RPG yet?

I can not imagine how terrible the band ‘Peking Duck’ sound. God willing, I never find out.

I have one goal in this life: to get Magda Szubanski a copy of NOCK LOOSE

asking again: can anyone recommend a literary agent they think would be best at selling the US/UK rights to NOCK LOOSE?

lmk!

Is there like…a go to literary profiler in Australia these days? I’d love to be profiled by someone who’s…switched on

Thoughts with all ABC staff who took the difficult, necessary decision to go on strike, only to see senior ABC personalities such as Sabra Lane and Leigh Sales not just cross the picket, but enthusiastically strike-break. Speaking from experience, it's miserable to see senior colleagues do this.

James Ashby’s wiki rocks

I have written on that topic a few times already

The Mismanagement of the ABC is a National Tragedy a strike to keep the ABC 'ours'

I wrote about the ABC

open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...

I wonder how BBC staff feel about being used as unknowing scabs by ABC management