If you’re not already subscribed to Kindle Unlimited, the next time you attempt to buy a book included in the scheme, such as this one, or any pictured in this post, there’s a very good chance you’ll be offered a three month trial at a very low fee. I’ve just paid a total of 99p for three months! For that, as well as being able to ‘borrow’ as many of the included books as you like, you can also subscribe to up to 50 magazines.
I’ve always thought of peril as being a mild sort of trouble – the kind of thing you’d face with your chums before going home for lashings of ginger beer. The variations of perilled and perilling appeared even more benign.
I thought wrong.
Peril actually mean serious and immediate danger.
Don’t know about you, but I’d rather avoid any and all forms of perilousness.
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To swish something (a rejection slip perhaps) is to move it through the air, so that it makes a sound. Helpfully my dictionary describes the noise produced as ‘a swishing sound’.
My little free short story collection, Not A Drop To Drink is currently an Amazon.uk ‘bestseller’ in the category for British and Irish anthologies!
Strictly speaking it isn’t an anthology, as I wrote all seven of the stories (anthologies are collections by various authors). I’m also not entirely sure you can describe something that’s not on sale as a bestseller – but don’t let those little pedantic details put you off downloading a copy.
Get it, for free, here.
To be magnanimous is to be nobly generous rather than petty in feelings or actions. Hmmm, I do try to behave with magnanimity, but sometimes I get annoyed and fail to react magnanimously.
Do you like this word? It’s a bit of a tongue mangler, isn’t it? Decidedly tricky to illustrate too.
Umm… Aha! If someone who’d annoyed me fell into the sea I’d probably be magnanimous enough to throw them a life bouy – if I didn’t have to go far to find one and I wasn’t busy or anything.
True Romance is the title of my short story in the current issue of Ireland’s Own. I got the idea for this one whilst sitting in my local library, waiting for the rest of my book group to arrive. It’s amazing how fast you can scribble down an idea when you know you’re going to have to stop writing and start talking about reading at any minute!
If you’d like to read some of my romantic short stories, you may like to take a look here. I have four collections of love stories, each with 24 stories in. As well as being on sale, these are available to borrow (as ebooks and paperbacks) from some libraries – as are all my other books. If you can’t find them in yours then do ask, as they may be able to get them in for you.
If you’re able to access Overdrive via your library membership, you can now read all my books for free. The ones with mauve bands at the top and bottom are single short stories – the others are novels or short story collections.
The complete books should also be available through over services, such as Borrow Box, Odilo and Cloud Library, but you may have to request them through those services.
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Here are a few random photos, just to let you know the kind of thing you’d be letting yourself in for.
A tribulation is a great affliction or oppression, or the cause of that. The occupants of many abbeys suffered tribulations during the reformation ordered by Henry VIII.
It’s a good thing I looked it up before using it anywhere as I’d always imagined it meant a minor source of annoyance. Perhaps I was associating it with trivial?
Did you know what the word meant?
