Simon Haynes

During a long and varied writing career spanning more than two decades, I've been indie published, traditionally published, indie published, traditionally published ... you get the idea.

By day I'm an author. By night I'm also an author. In between, I'm the programmer responsible for yWriter, which is used by thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of authors around the world.

I love dry humour, and most of my stories and novels were written to make people laugh. Some of them move people to tears, but if they don't like the occasional terrible pun they're reading the wrong author.

Four of my works were finalists for Australia's most prestigious speculative fiction prize, the Aurealis Awards, winning once.

I do NOT use AI my books or for my covers. Every word is written by ME, and the covers are created by a human. (Also me, as it happens.)

I love plotting and writing my books, and I absolutely refuse to take any shortcuts or publish AI slop.