There I was, at the alarmingly young age of 19, holding my first acceptance letter from a Conde Nast publication: the editor of BRIDES magazine had accepted my very first piece of writing submitted in the hopes of being published, a humorous article entitled SISTER OF THE BRIDE, and was paying me £15 for the...
Author: Jude Hayland (Jude Hayland)
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Flash 500
I have just heard that a piece of flash fiction I wrote for Flash 500 -in fact, my first entry to a flash fiction competition – has reached the long list and is now going through to the next stage of this particular competition. An encouraging and welcome piece of news to receive on a...
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Cretan Escape
Nine days or so in Crete back at our house, Blue Heaven, in Gavalohori, and there’s time to return to my new novel and actually make some progress. Writing whilst looking out at the White Mountains in one direction, over the village and across to the coast in the other, somehow makes it far easier...
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UK SOUTHERN BOOK SHOW
Sunday October 28th – UK Southern Book Show at Field Place Barns, Worthing, looks as if it is going to be a dynamic and inspirational day for readers and writers alike – what better way, after all, to start the first of the long dark days of winter (clocks go back in the early hours...
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FLASH FICTION
Flash Fiction is a type of writing that I have only recently begun to try. I am not sure how long it has been around, but there certainly seems to be an epidemic of it – competitions, flash fiction websites, festivals, articles about how to write the best, what it truly involves etc etc –...
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WORK IN PROGRESS …
My third novel, my ?work-in-progress,? does not yet have a name. There are several working titles, but nothing yet that feels quite right although hopefully, inspiration will strike before I finish ? But it does have a very definite setting ? London. London features constantly in the novel as most of the characters live there...
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UK Southern Book Fair
I will be taking part in the UK Southern Book Fair in Worthing on Sunday October 28th.? It’s a wonderful opportunity for readers and writers to get together, browse and buy books and talk books and writing!? What better way to spend a Sunday in late Autumn ?..!
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WRITERS AS THIEVES
Writers are magpies and petty thieves. We steal. We borrow with no intention of return. We pick over, separate flesh from bone, discard, dissect and reshape. No-one is safe from our alert antennae. The stranger behind us in the bus queue. That fellow patient in the dentist waiting room. The customer at the neighbouring table...
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Gavalochori kitten
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ANNE TYLER’S CLOCK DANCE
Holiday reading means the chance to read several books in as many days instead of consuming only one or two over at least a fortnight.? And the excitement of seeing Anne Tyler?s latest novel, CLOCK DANCE, at Gatwick airport in a special pre-release airport edition knows no bounds! No spoilers here, I promise, but just...