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?
I don’t have a sister, so had to use my imagination for parts of this story about sisterly relationships, which is in the current issue of Take A Break’s Fiction Feast. There’s quite a lot about cake too, so I was writing what I know there!
To rootle is to dig with a snout, to poke about or search. Whilst you’re doing it you’re rootling and afterwards you’ll have rootled.
Somewhere I have a photo of pigs rootling, but when I rootled through my hard drive I got distracted, so here are some steps instead. Do you know where they are? Have you climbed them?
What were you looking for last time you rootled – and did you find it?
All of my collections of slightly spooky stories are currently on sale for 99p (or 99c on the US).
Estimation is the process or result of making an estimate, an opinion or judgement of worth, or an old term for esteem.
By my estimation it’s time for another plug for my books. You’d all go up in my estimation if you bought one 😉 (perhaps one of these which are currently reduced to 99p / 99c) Same applies if you read it on Kindle Unlimited, or borrow it from the library …
