Recent happenings.
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Six Cold Feet episode #0
Our special preview episode of Six Cold Feet is now live! This is a preview episode where I talk with producer/actor/editor Jessica McGaw about music, myth, and murder. Big thanks to everyone who’s already supporting us on Patreon!
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Gimme Empathy podcast interview
Scott Mercer was kind enough to have me on his new podcast Gimme Empathy. We talked about grief, death, batman, goldeneye, calcified amygdalae, Nick Cave, insomnia etc. He also has a very useful tip for how to not poison yourself. http://gimmeempathy.libsyn.com/6-let-your-sh-t-fall-apart-with-jm-donellan
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Six Cold Feet
Very excited to finally share the teaser trailer for my podcast series Six Cold Feet! Episodes coming soon, follow the facebook group here. Can’t wait to hear what you think!
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Navigating Centrelink: A Modern Tragedy in Endless Parts
I make the call with the rejection letter in my hand. The phone rings for a moment, then the line goes dead. I really never thought I’d long for the days when being on hold to Centrelink for hours was the best possible option. Now the phones don’t work at all. I drive to…
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A special message for Trump’s inauguration
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Killing Adonis reviews, Youtube views and some new news.
Great news everybody! The first reviews for the US release of Killing Adonis have come in and they are the literary equivalent of a proud teacher sticking millions of gold stars over a student’s face. Extremely excited to announce I have even managed to score a coveted Kirkus Star, which makes you temporarily invincible (like…
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2017.
JANUARY 1st You rise from your bed, shaking the embers of a hangover from your addled brain, look in the mirror and say “Well, this is it. This is going to be MY YEAR.” “Fucking excuse me?” You turn around, 2017 looks very unimpressed. “Oh! Hey there, I didn’t mean—“ “You don’t own me.” “No,…
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100 books a year part 2: the bad and the weird
THE BAD THE WATER KNIFE First off, I have to say the concept here was admittedly great. A criminal underclass emerging to illegally distribute water is sadly a very believable near future and this aspect was well executed. There’s a scene where the pricing gauge on a commercial water pump breaks and the characters…
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100 books a year 2016 part one: The Good
2016 has been an uncommonly awful year, luckily it’s in its final death throes. As we listen to its final hideous gasps and groans, perhaps it’s time to think about how we got to this terrible, stupid place. I would argue that the two underlying concepts that brought us here are lack of education and lack…