Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
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This latest update is quite an exciting one. The DI Crow series is currently going through a revision, and Her Last Chance, The Killing Ground and A Fatal Pact will be back on Amazon over the coming weeks, in collaboration with a fantastic Bristol-based publisher, Malago Press. It’s great to see my favourite detective published…
Thanks to all the wonderful people who have talked, tweeted or written about us (not to mention all those who sent something in) we are delighted to announce our line-up for Sunday 21st which looks like being as spinetingling (in a slightly different way) as our November event. Our readers will be (not necessarily in this…
For anyone who doesn’t know Bristol, Clifton is a village in the way that Greenwich (NYC) is a village. I mean depsite proximity to the wide open spaces of the Downs, it’s part of the city, but a part with a very specific and closely guarded identity: elegant buildings, boutique shops, arty vibes. Perched close…
Nina Milton continues with her short story advice. There is only one rule that can never be broken, and that is length. A short story has to be short. But how short? Are there minimum or maximum word counts that short fiction must sit between?: The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms says that a short…
Last month Sally Hare was anticipating having another bash at Nanowrimo. We’re glad to see she lived to tell the tale. Well done Sally! It’s been two weeks since the end of National Novel Writing Month; the aches in my arms have just about been Zumba-ed away and my eyes no longer look like…
Nina continues her exploration of the short story craft. In my last blog, I looked at how the short story works today and wondered at its level of popularity. I do sometimes worry that the only people who read the short story are people write, or want to write short stories. Even worse, some people…