Launched my new website last week. stephendownes dot com dot au. For the moment I've posted several recent articles.

Thrilled to win the UK Fiction Factory's short-story comp. fiction-factory.biz Results announced Thursday.

Two of Australia's dodgiest and divisive pollies, Bishop and Abbott, get Aus Day awards. Proves they're joke gongs. And what does it say about those who decide gongees?

So Ezard is closing. I kickstarted his career, he says. He can tell you the Guernica review, the dishes I ate. Yet he barred me from Gingerboy. He and backers couldn't afford to let me review. Wouldn't take the risk. Gutless.

Fifteen years old. Smooth and exquisite #winelover #rutherglen #redwine #wine #durif #handsofpianists #stephendownes instagram.com/p/CK0_bhAHz17/…

A damaged man admits his guilt. How did he cause a suicide? He doesn't know. He aims to prove that pianos kill elite pianists. He travels the world to do it. My debut novel is out on 4 March. #uncanny #elitemusicians #BookReview #BookBoost #fiction

Eighty thousand words of high literary fiction, The Hands of Pianists is out on 4 March. Buy from #booktopia #Amazon #Literature #theuncanny #pianists #paperback

In my debut novel a damaged man deflects his guilt. He aims to prove pianos kill elite pianists. Out on 4 March. #bookworm #igreads #bookcommunity #bookish #bookster #bookstagram #bookaholic #bookdragon Stephen Downes instagram.com/p/CLBZpB3HuZI/…

For almost 70 years wreckage from the plane crash that killed great American pianist Willy Kapell has lain undisturbed in a Californian forest. Qantas a disgrace. Read all in my novel The Hands of Pianists out 4 March. #pianist #Freud #CrimeFiction #uncanny #igreads #bookworm

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In the front room of this house, the great Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood took his own life. Just turned 31, he drained a tumbler of prussic acid. The Hands of Pianists, my debut novel, out on 4 March. Stephen Downes stephendownes.com.au #pianists #kapell #suicide #uncanny

Noticed my debut novel The Hands of Pianists is already listed on booktopia, Barnes & Noble and amazon. Out 4 March. An uncanny tale about violent death, obsession and musicians. #bookworm #Goodreads #suicide #uncanny #pianists #Literature #OBSESSION

This is Annie Fischer's left hand, perfect for piano-playing. The photo was snapped decades ago by Jeno Szots for Josef Gat's book The Technique of Piano Playing. But elite playing is dangerous. Can kill. My debut novel The Hands of Pianists tells all. out 4 March.

My debut novel The Hands of Pianists is officially out tomorrow. Pic is interior of truly spooky Kafka Museum in Prague where my tale reaches a climax. Great pianist Leslie Howard calls HP rich and remarkable. #Literature #booktopia #uncanny #bookworms #piano

Overwhelmed by Peter Craven's review of my debut novel The Hands of Pianists in The Weekend Aus. He called it 'absolutely compelling'. It breaks all art's rules but 'gets away with it'. It's 'virtuosic' and 'grand'. #booklovers #pianists #Sebald #literature #reads

Hilary McPhee, who launched great writing careers at McPhee Gribble, has honoured my debut novel The Hands of Pianists. It's 'perfectly poised between silences and sounds ...'. She loved its 'utter lack of pretension'. #BookBoost #Literature #bookworms #uncanny #Sebald

I'm absolutely over the moon that my debut novel 'The Hands of Pianists' was among five shortlisted books in the fiction category of the PM's literary awards. Winner announced 13 December!

Hmmm. Haven't tweeted for yonks. Would anyone appreciate my bons mots? Especially about the uncanny in Sebald's fiction, which I'm PhD-ing on?