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Hey, it's been a while between posts here — sorry 'bout that. Like a zillion other people, their flying monkeys and the odd enterp...

My next novel, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? , is a crossover homage to things comic book, pulp, sci-fi and noir—pretty much ...

Recently, I've been doing my best to mimic a literary ostrich since I've had my head buried deep inside assembly of the next nove...

Other news — namely re: writing. I just signed the contract with Perfect Edge Books for my anthology The Condimental Op , and it’s now...

This week my new novel surfaced on Amazon USA, and will be out shortly via Amazon UK and Amazon Japan. After the big earthquake and tsuna...

Hey, mates, Yep, it's now confirmed – my second novel One Hundred Years of Vicissitude has just been published and is available as ...

Bloody brilliant news for me – since I’m an Aussie, albeit currently an expat stuck in Tokyo – is that the fellow Melburnians @ Crime Fact...

OK, been a bit el slacko on the updates department here, prob'ly due to an array of factors: (a) I just had a quick vacation and gig...

Wunderbar early feedback to the upcoming novel, from the great, super-cool reviewer Elizabeth A. White (ta, mate!!): "When Andrez ...

Last weekend — after nearly driving myself to madness — I finished off my second novel (as I crowed about in undignified fashion below!) and...

OK, I'm relatively over the moon, and a few kilometres beyond that. Last Sunday morning, at 7:09am precisely (I'm going by the time-...

I usually try to keep this blog at an arm's length from my ulterior activities with writing and muzak - usually , but occasionally I fai...

As I mentioned in the first part of this article back in December , Japanese food isn’t just about the sushi. Or the fugu. There’s a whole l...

Just got a GREAT review from Marcus Baumgart @ The Flawed Mind . Here's a taste: "Andrez offers us one imagined future for Melbourn...

Licca-chan (リカちゃん) was born on May 3, 1967 to Orie Kayama, a Japanese fashion designer, and Pierre Miramonde, a French musician. Her papa Pi...

So I'm now back in Tokyo, after a two week sojourn in Melbourne - the more prominent Melbourne in Australia rather than its silly nam...

Well, the novel is now out - in fact it has been for a month now - and slowly starting to garner the occasional review like the one at Force...

One hefty element of happiness is... getting the printed, bound and published version of your novel for the very first time in your mitts!!!...

These are strange times here, for all too obvious reasons - and sometimes it feels like we’re collectively treading water awaiting the next ...

Mad. Unless you’ve had your head buried deep inside some sandbox in a place a million miles from the nearest social network or wireless conn...