I am happy to announce that my fictional memoir The Item I Became is now published on Amazon. It’s the story of Gita Paterson, a female Sydney journalist who enters her profession with the best of intentions but soon discovers that, as Boris Pasternak says, life is not a walk across an open field. Gita was always …
It’s widely recommended that fiction writers best start their work with an action scene, not only to catch the attention of the reader but also, perhaps more importantly for them, to catch the attention of a publisher. Though I have generally learned to comply with this practice, I still struggle with the its universality. In …
In this post, I share some reflections on my high school English teacher, Douglas Webster St Aubyn Berneville-Claye. This includes revisiting a creative response of mine to revelations about him which appeared many years after his death in 1975. I left high school in 1976 and for decades, like many of my school colleagues, I …
This novel is part of my journey, as a resident of Sydney and as a novelist of contemporary Australia. My first memory of any interest in writing about the Georges River was a set of five 500 word short stories I wrote as part of my involvement in a writers group at the South Coast …
Thrillers are about characters who are in ‘terrible trouble,’ writes Dean Koontz. Peter Gray does appear to have cracked the thriller formula with Rough Cut, for on the very first page his character is indeed in ‘terrible trouble’. We are immediately drawn into the story of how Charlie Robertson came to be in that trouble …
I am happy to see my recently completed novel Jade is my Stone was accepted into the premium catalogue of smashwords. See https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/492332
