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Tag: fiction
From the sublime…
The deadline was midnight.
Thank YOU, World Book Day — for making us cry
World Book Day just made my children cry. Great.
One man’s meat: Which writing competitions should you enter?
The gist was, "I'm only entering small competitions because I'm not good enough to enter the big ones."
What’s a typical debut novel advance?
A one-book deal might produce about £5,000. Maybe. Or nothing. Or a million.
Reading: The Night Rainbow by Claire King
Review.
Reading: Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Mother America by Nuala Ní Chonchúir.
The Next Big Thing
Unpublishable.
Conversations with S. Teri O’Type by Christopher Allen
“And where’s your dog?” Teri asks.
“I don’t have one? Where’s yours?”
“Cary Grant’s getting his nails done.”
The books we read (versus the books we expect to read)
Hands up, who’s failed to read a literary “must”? You know the one, the book with the gold-plated reviews, the one with its own stand in the bookshop window, the one that won the thingy. I’m reading WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver. The story: via a series of letters to her ex, a …
Are you about to peak — or are you past your writing prime?
In terms of writing, I don't believe that age limits... anything at all.
Housewife with a Half-Life — Author interview with A. B. Wells
Author interview with AB Wells.
FIRST PERSON and WRAPPED in JAWBREAKERS — NFFD anthology
THE COWARD’S TALE and author interview with Vanessa Gebbie
A. N. Wilson voted it his book of the year, it’s been compared to work by Dylan Thomas and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and on 28 February 2012, THE COWARD’S TALE was released in paperback.
Highly commended in 2012
A big thank you to Writers’ Forum Magazine for shortlisting/highly commending my stories in Issue #122 (January 2012), Issue #126 (May 2012) and Issue #135 (Jan 2013). ISSN 1467-2529