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News: I’m giving a worldbuilding for fantasy writers workshop at Avid Reader in Brisbane on 15 August! And it looks like I’ll be at World Fantasy (?!) And now here is a master list of the July 2026 blog posts (and … Continue reading →
HONEYEATER is on the Lord Mayor’s People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award shortlist! It’s an amazing list — please check it out and, if you’re in Australia, PLEASE consider voting! https://bwf.org.au/queensland-literary-awards/peoples-choice-award-voting Vote with your conscience, though, because it’s … Continue reading →
If you enjoy the calendar, please consider supporting it with a small monthly subscription on Patreon (supporters get the calendar early), or with a tip (PayPal or Ko-Fi), or by buying art printed on things. (Or you can also buy Honeyeater.) Every so often you just gotta … Continue reading →
I have a new map! It’s for a Collector’s Edition of Holly Black’s debut novel Tithe, which is available to preorder now: https://simonteen.com/book/tithe-collectors-edition/ — the non-map art is by phantomrin. I’ll post more about it when the book comes out…
This post is a roughly tidied version of my March and April 2026 posts (on Bluesky) about short stories. There’s a list of all the stories at the very end of this blog post (linking to where they are first mentioned). It’s short-ish … Continue reading →
On this page of the Observation Journal I was considering how much reality a story can bear. (Previously, I’d been playing with degrees of reality in stories-within-stories — see Stories and drawings vs realities — depictions of depictions of…). This has been … Continue reading →
I’m going to be at Readercon in Boston next week! In the meantime, here is a master list of May and June 2026 blog posts (and a summary of Patreon posts). Posts over on Patreon (you can join!) at various tiers included: early mermaids; comic … Continue reading →
If you enjoy the calendar, please consider supporting it on Patreon (supporters get the calendar early), or with a tip (PayPal or Ko-Fi, or by buying art printed on things. (Or you can also buy Honeyeater.) For July: Long cats! I’d been thinking about them for a … Continue reading →
Earlier this year, I designed a new background for Pulp Fiction Booksellers’ website. It was to be a repeating pattern with a selection of small motifs that could represent different genres and be used on other objects as well — … Continue reading →
Honeyeater won two Ditmar Awards! One for Best Novel, one for Best Artwork for the internal silhouettes:D Congratulations to all the winners and nominees: swancon50.sf.org.au/awards/ The best bit is that the awards light up in different colours, and each UFO … Continue reading →