Why should you read this blog? Well, with any luck, it’ll have a mix of magazine-style feature articles and topical links with commentary. The focus will be writing, publishing, and books: which makes sense, since I’m a writer.
I live in Sydney,The one with the Opera House and Kangaroos, not the one in Nova Scottia and I mostly write short stories of the literary variety. What does that really mean? Well, a simple (but fairly useless) definition of a literary short story is: a story that appears in a literary magazine. Going deeper could take an entire blog post, but it’s probably easiest to just read ‘literary’ as ‘some kind of realism’. But I still have a fondness for genre, so expect to see writing about books of all sorts on this blog. From time to time, there may also be other miscellanea, from the arts in general, but also from technology. My other field of interest: I have a background in computer science. For instance, I designed the theme for this blog myself.If you’re curious, it’s hosted on Amazon S3 via Cloudfront, from a set of static files generated by Pelican. I’m very interested to hear any feedback on the design.
Of course, whenever you put new words out into the world, there’s always the danger that they’ll simply disappear, unheard. So, if you’ve enjoyed something on here, or if you’ve got something to add, let me know. The easiest way to reach me is on Twitter: @domwrites.
So, welcome. Let’s see where this goes.