Trent Jamieson is an Australian Fantasy writer, and winner of two Aurealis Awards, whose Death Most Definite series is being published by Orbit and is already attracting rave notices. He works as a teacher, a bookseller and a writer and has taught at Clarion South where he was described as the nicest guy in Australian Spec Fic shattering the reputation he was trying to build as the Hard Man of the Australian Writing Community . Trent s latest creation takes us to a dying land of decaying clockwork technology that is being devoured by a great rift in reality, the Roil.