Patchwork Children is a free, downloadable zine produced by me and featuring work by a variety of contributors. Raw, clever, profound, and strange, this collection stitches together disparate notions about the body, the self, art, revenge, magic, technology, analysis of nineteenth-century science fiction, viscera and dreams.
In 1999, Ella arrived at school with a cache of weapons and a plan to use them. Years later, she sifts through accounts of other violent young women, writing letters to the sister who grew up in the aftermath of that day.
In 1952, Sally was a runaway, hitch-hiking with a strange girl named Amy. The pair navigated a landscape scarred by old memories and tragedies, searching for a place that felt like safety and home.
And in 2011, Charlotte was a music journalist on tour with a band, listening to their stories of loss and hope as she tried to shape the world into a narrative that made sense.
Demons, heartbreaks and the redemptive power of art, all thrown together. The result could never be anything but the Devil's mixtape.
Punk is dead and it has fangs. The Wolf House is a series of five novels for teen and adult readers. They were described by Melbourne's Age newspaper as "rock'n'roll, sex, tattoos, feminism, bisexuality and a sense of what teens really are about", which isn't a bad overview but fails to mention the kitten named Bikini Kill or that the books are full of elegant and ridiculous vampires. Still, you can't fit everything in a pull-quote, I suppose.
New editions of the five Wolf House novels have been released, with new covers and bonus content by Mary Borsellino and assorted visual artists.
There are so many things people can be that are metaphors, tricks of speech, a word to mean a mood or talent. We can be dull, blunt, hard, soft, cool, cold, hot, warm, green, blue, bright, dim, tough, smooth, slick, thorny, broken, sharp. As far as things to be made from went, the sharpest things sounded good enough to me -- better sharpest than dullest, even if it meant never being softest.
A tour diary through concert crowds, international travel, the darkest hours before dawn, music journalism, love, depression, songs, grief, and the moment when the lights go down and the audience cheers.
Any revenue I make from Sharpest is donated to suicide prevention organisations.
"Explodes with new insights and information about Batman's oft-neglected and marginalized sidekick."
- Professor Henry Jenkins
This academia-zine examines the storytelling traditions which came together to create Robin, and those pop figures which appeared in the years following Robin's heyday. Through this exploration, the appeal Robin holds for disenfranchised audience groups becomes clear, as does the impact which these groups have had on the character's evolution.
Any revenue I make from Boy and Girl Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context is donated to charities which help children in crisis.
Written in 2000, when I was eighteen years old, my first novel was the story of Amy and Jordan, a pair of restless young lovers who set out on a road trip and soon found themselves caught in a world of uncertainty, murder, medical malpractice, and other souls as lost as they were.
