My most recent completed project is a 88,000 word spiritual fantasy. Crystal Mountain, Turtle Pond was shortlisted for the 2004 Varuna Awards for manuscript Development, and was awarded a mentorship. The manuscript is now under consideration for the Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.

Since the completion of Crystal Mountain, I have written a 50,000 word draft of a contemporary spiritual journey set in a fictional wilderness area south of Sydney. The rough draft of The Gate was completed as part of the 2006 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I have since been working on the complex narrative structure and subtle character transformations.

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Sample chapters for both projects are available on this website.

Ar-Shen, a naïve and idealistic monk, seeks the ultimate Teacher and Master. Inspired by the speculative treatise of an illustrious scholar, he treks into the wilderness on a misguided quest for the fabled Crystal Mountain, and two eternal wise beings. With his mismatched group of companions – Kiana, a warrior priestess; the elite swordsman Tyvor as a guide; and the former brigand Sahnee – he battles across the lawless Wildlands and into the untracked wilderness of the Deep Country. At the foot of the White Mountain, he must choose whether or not to embark on the treacherous path to the summit.

Obsessed with unravelling the mystery of his brother’s death, JASON WILSON, a successful Derivatives Trader, is stuck in the middle of an eerie wilderness with his brother’s widow, FIONA, and their reticent guide, ELLEN. He wants to know what happened to his brother, why dependable SAM quit his job, left his wife, shacked up with a hippy girl he met on the bus, and died three months later. Three months after he passed through the Gate.