For the past couple of months, I have put my third novel aside and returned to my first novel that I finished some years ago, but only ever published as an eBook – with minimal publicity so that, no doubt, approximately 11 people read it….! Partly, my cautious approach to releasing this novel was sheer...
Flash Fiction is something I have been meaning to get around to for a long time. In late August, I entered my first competition – FLASH 500 runs 4 a year with an open theme and I sent off a rather random entry sparked by an idea vaguely prompted while sitting idly at a café...
Worthing was the setting for the UK Southern Book Show on Sunday October 28th – and it was a good day for making contacts with a lot of other writers and readers. For me, the highlight was delivering a talk on aspects of writing. I managed to cover: sources of creativity, exploiting memory for writing,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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 ?..!
