We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.