50 words are not enough for a full story – or are they? I nearly changed the post title to ‘dementia in 50 words’ today, because I realised what I wanted to write about as I started to write. Let’s
#Fi50 | Fiction in 50 words – Make a Note
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Kings Council
The Kings Council provides the forum for all the heads of castles in the Princelings Realms to rule harmoniously. Today’s 250 word flash fiction demonstrates how. It’s for the Bloggers Bash Blog Post Competition. You can enter too! The Kings
Pre-Order TICK TOCK #IWSG Anthology
Tick Tock: A Stitch in Crime is coming to bookstores near you! I’m delighted to inform you, in case you haven’t seen the news already, that Tick Tock: A Stitch in Time, the #IWSG Anthology for 2018 is nearly out
Friday Excerpt: Dylan and Kevin take a trip
Dylan and Kevin are two of the protagonists of my new book The Princelings of the North (book 8 of the Princelings of the East series). I thought today I’d take you a little further into the book, helping you
Book Review | 2018 Young Explorers Adventure Guide
Young Explorers Adventure Guide is an annual collection of science fiction stories for children. I asked for the ARC from NetGalley because science fiction for middle grade readers seems to be in short supply. Judging from the number of authors
#Fi50 | Oops! A Fiction in fifty words story
Oops! is a little early for the Fiction in Fifty Words #Fi50 meme this month, but I wanted to have it ready to link to Rebecca Douglass’s new page for the Challenge. Rebecca has relieved the inventor, Bruce Gargoyle, of
Book Review | Equus – anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish
Equus was a book I received from LibraryThing, as part of their first reads initiative. It is nothing to do with Equus the play. But it is Latin for ‘horse’. Equus Ed. by Rhonda Parrish There’s always something magical about
#Fi50 | Blessing in Disguise – 50 word short story
Blessing in Disguise is the prompt for #Fi50, Fiction in fifty words, this month. Once I got the idea of a missed bus, the rest of it wrote itself. I’m back to doing my story the week before Bruce sends
Book Review | Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time-Travel
Thirteen stories containing time travel that are all so different from one another and yet not a dud among them. Even the one that slid towards horror gripped me with its mystery. Some travel to the past deliberately, some to
#Fi50 – Mixed Messages
It’s that time again, when I locate the Bookshelf Gargoyle’s prompt for the Fiction in 50 Challenge and set to work on the somewhat difficult task of a good (and complete) story in fifty words. You can join in any time
Book Review | Tails of the Apocalypse by Chris Pourteau et al
I think I got an ARC via Jennifer Ellis, who is one of the wonderful authors in this anthology of dystopia, or rather apocalypse, short stories. The twist is that they all feature a ‘companion animal’ or a would-be one
BookElves Anthology Volume 2 – Pre-order and Guess the line!
The BookElves Anthology Volume 2 will launch on November 12th – but pre-orders are now open for early birds wishing to catch the worm! The second BookElves Anthology, features stories by Cheryl Carpinello, Rebecca Douglass, Wendy Leighton-Porter, SW Lothian, Annaliese Matheron,
#IWSG – Versatile writing
It’s time for the Insecure Writers’ Support Group again, and I’m a day early because I had to post tomorrow’s post a day early, because Thursday is National Poetry Day. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. I’d like
A Viridian System Sampler – pre-order now!
With The Perihelix coming out in January, I’ve been working on a little teaser for you – a set of eight short stories (all previously published on this blog) which map the development of the Viridian System and the characters
Book Blast & Giveaway | Martian Goods and Other Stories by Noelle Campbell
I’ve been fascinated by tales of Martian settlement ever since I started reading Ray Bradbury and Robert Silverberg. Did Silverberg do any Mars stuff? Why did I think of him? (Must check!) I even did a short story of my