About Post-Apocalyptic Publishing

Hello, my name is Emma, I drink too much tea, I have too many ideas and I write too much.

Only one of those is true.

Writing fiction is a strange compulsion. It makes life both lonely and crowded. Lonely because we have to do this alone; it’s just us and the page – no-one else can write these books for us. Crowded because we walk through our lives with all of these characters in our heads, jostling for attention.

I don’t want any of us to feel lonely any more. That’s why this blog is here. It’s a place for writers to come and talk about writing. It’s a place for creative people to come and talk about what it’s like to only feel really calm when we’re crafting something. How do we do this without going mad? How does it really feel to be creative?

It’s also a place for me to post flash fiction and yammer on about other things that occur to me, such as bits of psychology, and is the central hub of my short story club. You should join if you’d like to get a free short story written by me in your inbox every month. Oh there are podcasts of my soon-to-be-published novel Twenty Years Later too.

It’s also an account of my own heroic quest to get published. It sounds grand to call it that, but that’s what it is in the purest sense. One person against the odds, trials and demons to face along the way – it has all of the ingredients. I’m on the next stage of the journey now; my debut novel will be released in October, but as all authors know, that’s only the beginning…

I like to think that by writing about getting published, and what it’s like once you are, other people on their own quests can relate, learn and teach with me along the way. Whether the foul Swamps of Editing are the current challenge, or the Chasm of the Query Letter, I will relate my experience. In doing so, I hope I’ll learn more from people who have already battled through these inhospitable places, or give rough maps to writers at an earlier point in the journey. In this dark land of the unpublished, a warm fire and virtual tea can do a lot to restore flagging spirits.

So come, stay here a while with me. Let’s be together in this mad and scary place. Who knows, maybe we can help each other. And there’s always tea.