Little story over on Aunty.

Publishing a novel is a ride.

So heart max warmed by some very lovely reviews in this weekend’s papers.

🍷

Ha, thank you. The writing's not lucklustre, with any luck, just the view from the other end of the pen.

There's loads of 'ejaculating' in the Sherlock Holmes stories. It will never not be amusing.

Working/writing for Time Off was my writing school, which led, eventually, to a lacklustre career as a novelist. Wouldn't trade those Time Off years for the world.

This sounds like they’ve launched an “independent review” into why Sabsabi was selected in the first place.
Ummm, that’s not the problem here.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Should you have any thoughts about the Creative Australia board's recent decision: feedback@creative.gov.au

If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level

Publication day for this little slimeball.

x

Book launch this Thursday, Melbourne!

(I’ll stop soon, promise)

Got home to box o’ books, fresh from the printer.

❤️

I’d read another million words of this; Such Ironic Timber.

Grass, willow, skin – by Ben Walter | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND The wind is blowing off the dead of the river and every gust is hollowing out my body. Even though it's summer and the evenings are spending all the light they've been saving up through the year, it's...

Here's my experimental nature essay on cricket, just published in Island Magazine.

(I'm not really a 24/7 news cycle kind of guy).

islandmag.com/read/grass-w...

The acquisition of Text Publishing by Penguin Random House is part of a worrying trend in Australian publishing Mergers within the Australian publishing industry have significant implications for the literary culture.

Alice Grundy on the implications of the Text / PRH merger

theconversation.com/the-acquisit...

Interview #225—Michelle de Kretser — LIMINAL “I don’t have the nerve to go back through the novel to examine its sentences; it would feel too close to being confronted with past crimes.”

For interview #225, Michelle de Kretser speaks with
Roanna Gonsalves about hyperrealism, necessary sentences and Virginia Woolf.

www.liminalmag.com/interviews/m...

Book Launch: Somebody Down There Likes Me Join us to celebrate the launch of Robert Lukin's Somebody Down There Likes Me. The Gulch family have led a charmed existence in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Belle Haven, Connecticut. Now, the empire...

Hello there.

I'll be launching my new novel in Melbourne on Thurs Feb 6, 2025.

A whiles away but would love to see some lovely humans there.

Details below:

www.readings.com.au/events/book-...

Etch
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.

Etch
"Sly and sexy" - Vogue
on my headstone.

Holidays for many but not for this bookshop! Just finished the new excellent novel Somebody Down There Likes Me by @robertlukins.bsky.social - a kind of tragi-comedy about a family wallowing in wealth, and what is exposed when the tide of their fortune abruptly recedes.

Oh thank you!!

The book popped up in the paper.

Then I ate a delicious scone.

First finished copy of the new book arrived today.

With kind words from the legends Jock Serong and Kate Mildenhall.

It’s out on Feb 4.

I am happy. I am grateful. I am going for a swim.

The feel of the plastic case reluctantly prying open is in my DNA.

Marketplace delivering the stocking stuffers.

What a legacy, to be remembered for this kind of writing and as this kind of person.

heat panic

Viva la petite libre, (to ruin several languages at once).

The future of Australian small press With the pausing of the Small Press Network earlier this year, many saw it as a death knell for Australian small press. But with a new board, SPN looks set to again champion small press in 2025.

This is a fascinating article on Australian small publishing with an update on the fate of the Small Press Network. I am very pleased to have rejoined the board of the organisation and look forward to doing whatever I can to help small publishers.

I've only read Buried Giant and Circe of your recomendations, both of which I loved. Thanks James, so many great leads there, I shall investigate!

Perfect, thank you!