Author Archives: Jason

Success!

I have exciting news… I can finally tell the world at large, after considerable effort across the last twelve months, that I have a book contract. Flight will be published by Satalyte Publishing as an e-book and in hardcopy. Satalyte … Continue reading

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DreamState

Balance, Impatience, The Healing Truth, The Curing, Flight and now DreamState. Book 6 is done! It may at present be a rough draft however getting the last word down is always such a great feeling. This is the novel I … Continue reading

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An Evening with Ray Feist

It’s not every day you get to meet the person who started it all. For me many, oh so many years ago, I borrowed a copy of Magician on the advice of a friend. This weathered tome sat thick and … Continue reading

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Conflux9

Last week I attended Conflux 9, the 52nd Australian National Science Fiction convention in Canberra. It’s fair to say like Worldcon in 2010, this convention exceeded my expectations. I attended a number of workshops, each one engaging and highly worthwhile. … Continue reading

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OMG…

…Warning this blog post contains moments of fandom. You have been warned… Monday night I, along with a bunch of friends, had the pleasure of meeting one of my all time writing idols, Matthew Reilly. He gave a free 1 … Continue reading

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November… December… 2013…

What a month November was. NaNoWriMo is done… phew… No fanfare this time, no balloons. I made it, just. Scraped through with 50,594 words. 2 years ago I wrote a smidge over 70,000. So why the difference? Firstly I’m 40 … Continue reading

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Edits, edits and more edits plus a Dymocks-a-thon

I’ve been busy lately. Really busy. Here goes… Over the last six weeks I’ve edited ‘Impatience’ as it presently hovers around the 120,000 mark. Specifically I’ve performed a complete pass of line edits, that’s reading every sentence and adjusting the … Continue reading

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something different…

I was delving through my writing archives today and came across a review I wrote for the free cruise we won earlier this year: Having never sailed Celebrity before, my wife and I were very excited to not only win … Continue reading

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Done, for now…

I’m happy to report I’ve pushed through to the end of my current book. It’s done, finally, last word down about a week ago. Phew. The title is ‘Flight’. It’s a sci-fi story from the year 2035 based in Australia. … Continue reading

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Update…

My how time flies when you’re having fun! Over the last 6 weeks I’ve written considerably more of my current novel’s first draft having worked through some tricky bits and pieces. I estimate I’m around 80% through and I can … Continue reading

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