Always interesting to see how the National Library of Australia categorize your work for cataloging purposes. 'Rosemary and Julia: unblock me' received: Subjects: Friendship--Fiction, Missing persons--Fiction, Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction, Identity (Psychology) in youth--Fiction. Dewey Number: A823.4 The 'Assimilation (Sociology)' call is particularly interesting and, in a strange way, appropriate.

Just signed with Satalyte Publishing, a new Australian publisher, for print and digital rights to 'Missing, Presumed Undead'. Will now be working further on putting book#2 of Casablantasy together, currently titled 'Khaos Theory (or The Fifth Elemental)'. With great thanks to my Literary Agent at Book Harvest: Ineke.

an author's cat

Maximilian is an author’s cat.
When he rolls on the carpet, he does it like Proust,
and he curls himself up like a fistful of foreign furry
grammatical marks:
black and white pools.

He has a mind for French-Americana,
frank and short and stubby, tightly whiskered
like his pink-tipped face;
but so full of sens.

Nearby the Russians; none-too-proud,
he resists the urge to scratch
and purrs instead. Harsh, but happy.
Stern, but with fresh dribble in the corner of his teeth.

And there, the English,
with the sun page-yellow of a second hand book,
his paws pressed beneath the stand of the old summer fan
and twirl and ruffle and ‘meow’—just a tweet—
where the sound itself is enough
to write a novel.