David Whish-Wilson

OCTOBER 2025 READING: NEW BOOKS BY VAL McDERMID, VASEEM KHAN and DAVID WHISH-WILSON Three very different crime novels for your late October reading: a good cold case mystery, an interesting James Bond spin-off and a tough, gritty noir thriller by one of Australia’s best crim…

October brings 3 very good and very different crime novels, from cold case mystery to James Bond spin-off to gritty Aussie noir. All well worth reading. Short reviews @valmcdermid.bsky.social @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social @davidwhish-wilson.bsky.social murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/october-2025...

Captives Going in Circles - Patagonia Australia Part 2: An ancient fish meets modern politics. Story by Jock Serong. Photographs by Nick Green

www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/roarin... Part 2 of my series for Patagonia on the salmon cartels is up today - a stark example of how voting for either major party won’t change policy outcomes

My story is up at Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social and to @kathyfish.bsky.social - the story was seeded in a 2023 workshop. Thanks also to my WA crew @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social, Meg and Lissy for their steady eyes, and @erinvachon.bsky.social for their excellent feedback.

Steal away. I’m sure we all feel it.

I’ve never been able to write The End when I finish a first draft (knowing the editing ahead) so this will have to do. #leesouthern#3 #ineedatitle

In one place for your convenience:

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Aus writers, publishers et al. combined into a list (ongoing)
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Absolutely thrilled! Thank you @smokelong.bsky.social - huge congratulations to the other fellows: Ani King, Kyle Weik, @kplumhoff.bsky.social !

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."

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My last newsletter for the year has gone to subscribers.

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Omg!! Congratulations everyone but especially my writing buddy @belindarowe.bsky.social on her first BSF nomination, bursting with pride & happiness! 🎉🎉🎉

The book cover for Cutler by David Whish-Wilson includes the quotes 'Sharp and insightful' Sara Foster and 'A ripping page-turner' Tim Winton. The image is of a fishing net dragging through the ocean, some of visible above a rough sea. The sky above is grey and cloudy, and filled with gulls hovering over the net. The sea is dark grey and choppy.

My #review of Cutler by David Whish-Wilson has been posted at:

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"We need more Paul Cutler's and writers like David Whish-Wilson that are willing to turn the wrongs that they see into illustrations for the rest of us."

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#BookSky 💙📚

Hi Enola,
Big cri-fi fan from Australia here. If you want to keep up with Aussie crime writing, give @kcfromaustcrime.bsky.social a follow.
Some authors you might like to check out.

Garry Disher
Peter Temple (RIP)
David Whish-Wilson
John Birmingham

There are plenty more if Oz crime interests you

Had a good chat with Sheds, the Men's Shed mag, about making things with my hands (chef knives, whisky, jewellery, food) as a respite from the fiction writing/teaching/worried parent headspace, and how good it is for mental health. #mensshed

I'm honoured, truly

Thank you

Thanks to Oz crime fiction stalwart @kcfromaustcrime.bsky.social for this review. Karen's been reviewing Oz Crime for decades and long supported the genre and its writers. Any time I want to read about an Australian crime title I go to her website first. www.austcrimefiction.org/review/cutle...

A great bookmail day - Iain Ryan’s much anticipated follow-up to The Strip and Andrew Nette and Samm Deighan’s collaboration on Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse 1960-1990 (Iain and Andrew are two of my favourite Oz crime writers.)

PODCAST: David Whish-Wilson on His Journey from a Nomadic Childhood to a Successful Crime Novelist | Better Reading David Whish-Wilson talks to Cheryl about his unconventional path to writing, his motivations for writing crime fiction and the significant themes he explores in his work. His latest novel Culter is ou...

A podcast recorded recently with Cheryl Akle of Better Reading that canvassed my family's mobile early years and subsequent travels and its influence on my reading and writing, as well as a discussion of Cutler, the latest novel. www.betterreading.com.au/podcast/podc...

Thanks for reading Sharon. I can think of one good thing at the very least - the writer Adrian Bedford and his novel Time Machines While U Wait :-)

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So pleased to see this reminder about THE STRIP as well - have really loved all of Iain's work.

Beaut

Cutler - Fremantle Press Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When Cutler is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an Australian marine scientist on a...

Interests crime fiction, noir, hard boiled, psychological, historical fiction, ok, all fiction, as well as creative nonfiction, history, philosophy, environmental matters. Latest novel Cutler is crime fiction that looks at industrial fishing and maritime slavery - fremantlepress.com.au/books/cutler/

I'm on hols at the moment in Sri Lanka so it'd have to be in December/Jan. It sounds intriguing.

My favourite Oz short fiction writer.

For yr weekend listening pleasure, I join the folks at THE LONG SEVENTIES podcast to discuss my latest book, REVOLUTION IN 35MM. Great podcast that dives deep into its subjects. We talked about how the book came together, Patty Hearst, mondo film, & a lot else
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2024 - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

Drag yourself away from social media for a few minutes and send SmokeLong a micro or four. The deadline for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest is Nov 15, midnight NYC! That's sooooon. Please share!
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I love her stories

This is also true in Australia - around 40% of the year's sales are in December. Please support your local indie!