Latest post on @garbage.com albums that have given me inspo, scenes and ideas for DESTROYING ANGELS. 2016’s Strange Little Birds, has dark undertones of doubt and doom and gloom. But also joy and rage, and some pumpin’ tracks that will get you up on your feet. Like So We Can Stay Alive (see video).

Another @garbage.com album that’s given me inspo and ideas when I was ✍️ DESTROYING ANGELS. It’s#notyourkindofpeople, their brilliant 2012 “comeback” album. 

This album’s Big Bright World put a key scene into my head. Also, it’s perfect for when you want to #blowshitup

Still with the @garbage.com albums that have given me so much inspo and so many ideas, before, during and (kind of) after I wrote DESTROYING ANGELS. This time it’s 2005’s #BleedLikeMe; later that year they went into a seven-year hiatus (from which they emerged as brilliant as ever). ✍️

Another comp for #destroyingangels, this time it’s the brilliant, terrifying THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS by @charlottewood.bsky.social

The latest in my series on comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS.

This is the wonderful BEFORE YOU KNEW MY NAME by @writerock11.bsky.social which turns on its head the ‘dead girl’ trope, giving her a voice throughout the story. It’s set in New York, with an Australian protag.

More in my series on comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS. This time it’s beautifulgarbage by @garbageofficial.bsky.social their wonderful third album. So many brilliant songs. I’ve highlighted So Like A Rose, which introduces two characters dealing with almost unbearable loss

Finally getting back to my series on comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS.

This one’s @matthewspencers #blackriver, a police procedural set along Sydney’s Parramatta River, which feeds Sydney Harbour from west of the Bridge.

Latest in my series on comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS.
This time, it’s VERSION 2.0 by Garbage, their amazing second album (yes, I'm doing them all!). And I’m highlighting YOU LOOK SO FINE, this gorgeous lush song that closes the album.

My latest post on comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS. This time I want to highlight Jess Hill and her groundbreaking SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO, about power, control and domestic abuse.

Another in my series about comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS. This time GARBAGE, the debut album by #garbageband
The song I’m highlighting is the amazing SUPERVIXEN, which got a mention in one of my favourite books, A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by @egangoonsquad.bsky.social

Starting a series about comps, inspos and influences for DESTROYING ANGELS

First up, Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s DARK MODE, a disturbing and at-times terrifying thriller set around Sydney’s Inner West

#crimefiction #crimethrillers #australiancrimewriters #australiancrimefiction #sydneycrimefiction

A huge shoutout to Abigail Nathan at @bothersomewords.bsky.social, who recently did a Manuscript Assessment on Destroying Angels for me. Her kind (and enthusiastic and encouraging and supportive) feedback has given me the courage to think I should finally start pitching and promoting it properly.

Here’s how to turn off/disable CoPilot (powered by ChatGPT) in MS Word if you decide you don’t want it.

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Well, it is Nirvana-adjacent. That ok?
#GarbageBand
#version2.0

"Graffiti art" pitch for DESTROYING ANGELS.

(Made w MidJourney AI, cos I don't know any actual comic book artists. Any artists (esp in Sydney) who'd like to collab, just ask)

#australiancrimefiction #ozcrimefiction #crimefiction #sincity #crimenoir #sydneycrimefiction #crimenoir #crimethriller

If you’re obsessed with Greek mythology, updated, this is perfect viewing.

Astonishing movie (those two one-shot scenes). Also use of Court of The Crimson King in a key scene about a corrupt authoritarian government (and RIP Pete Sinfield, great lyricist).

Heard this in the old Fish Records in Newtown and HAD to buy it! Still on high rotation.

This book showed me how a can’t put it down thriller could at the same time be a polemic against the patriarchy