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Friday flash fiction and prize draw!

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Something a bit different this week: a flash of less than 200 words and a prize draw for the #fridayflash community. The Bean “How many weeks is it?” he asked, flicking through the book like an eager child. She fingered the leaves of the broad beans. “I don’t know, six or seven?” “Closer to six or to [...]

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Inside this noisy head…

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

I’ve wanted to write a blog post for a few days, but between getting ill (just in time for the four day weekend of course) and using the little energy I had left for writing fiction, it hasn’t happened. Or rather, the desire to write a post hasn’t coalesced into one topic. So I decided [...]

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Only the beginning…

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I don’t know how to tell you this… I have a publisher. I HAVE A PUBLISHER! There, well, that wasn’t so hard after all! I have just signed the contract. It’s right here on my desk in front of me. I have held it, prodded it, shaken it in the air and it is still [...]

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The journey back that took me forwards

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Last week, I went back to London. London… filthy metropolis, a chaotic madness of people, an urban tension that delights, repels, terrifies me. The place that inspired the story that went on to become Twenty Years Later. I went there for a business meeting, and ended up travelling out of the city on the same [...]

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One writer’s dream

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

I’m impatient. Once I make a decision, I want it all to have happened yesterday. Perhaps it’s because so much of my energy goes into the decision that it feels like there should be more in the world to show for it. But no, only a flimsy, invisible internal change has been made. Nothing solid, [...]

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