My short story collection, Over The Garden Fence, is on special offer at 99p/99c until 9th March.
Author: patsy
Special offer
My short story collection, Over The Garden Fence, is on special offer at 99p/99c until 9th March.
It’s all in the prep …
I have a story in both Take a Break’s Fiction Feast and Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special this month (April issues). Coincidentally both stories were written as homework for my writing group. A different prompt is supplied each month and we each try to write a ‘prep’ for this.
For Shadow Dancer in TABFF the prompt was ‘the shadow on the wall’. The story features
It’s all in the prep …
I have a story in both Take a Break’s Fiction Feast and Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special this month (April issues). Coincidentally both stories were written as homework for my writing group. A different prompt is supplied each month and we each try to write a ‘prep’ for this.
For Shadow Dancer in TABFF the prompt was ‘the shadow on the wall’. The story features
Phew!
My next book, Through The Garden Gate, has just been sent to my proofreader, Helen Baggott. It always feels a bit of a relief to get to this stage. I’ll have been fiddling around for ages taking commas out and
Longlist announced for the 2016 OWT Short Fiction Prize
Camellia
It seem
s a very long time ago now, but I once lived in a house which had a gorgeous white camellia bush outside the back door. One day I discovered one on the doormat. Every petal had been shredded.
If I’d been muscling in on the Gosport Mafia’s dodgy
Camellia
It seems a very long time ago now, but I once lived in a house which had a gorgeous white camellia bush outside the back door. One day I discovered one on the doormat. Every petal had been shredded.
If I’d been muscling in on the Gosport Mafia’s dodgy
Who’s the daddy?
My story in the current (March) issue of Take a Break’s Fiction Feast was inspired by a prompt from a writing buddy in an online group I belong to. Thanks Niddy Reece!
I Want My Real Dad features Mary, a
Uncle Mick
A while back I entered a competition for which the prize was a reading and recording of the winning story. You can listen to