Waiting For A Friend

I have a story in the May issue of Take a Break’s Fiction Feast. It should be in the shops soon.

TAB_9005Solent House, the location where most of Waiting For A Friend is set, is based on a real place in Lee-on-the-Solent (see there’s some kind of logic going on!). It’s recently been done up and sold as flats with ‘many original features’. Thing is, we saw

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Waiting For A Friend

I have a story in the May issue of Take a Break’s Fiction Feast. It should be in the shops soon.

TAB_9005Solent House, the location where most of Waiting For A Friend is set, is based on a real place in Lee-on-the-Solent (see there’s some kind of logic going on!). It’s recently been done up and sold as flats with ‘many original features’. Thing is, we saw

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Waiting With A Hook

My Weekly_8809I have a story in the current (8-14 March) issue of My Weekly. The editor has changed the title to ‘A Lifetime Of Memories’ which suits it just as well as my original one of ‘Waiting With A Hook’. I only mention that one because
I think it, plus the illustrations, might give you a clue about theMy Weekly_8810 subject.

 

 

My Weekly_8811My Weekly like to publish the ‘inspiration’ for the stories they print. You’ll see they’ve also, very kindly, given me a plug for my latest novel, Firestarter

Waiting With A Hook

My Weekly_8809I have a story in the current (8-14 March) issue of My Weekly. The editor has changed the title to ‘A Lifetime Of Memories’ which suits it just as well as my original one of ‘Waiting With A Hook’. I only mention that one because
I think it, plus the illustrations, might give you a clue about theMy Weekly_8810 subject.

 

 

My Weekly_8811My Weekly like to publish the ‘inspiration’ for the stories they print. You’ll see they’ve also, very kindly, given me a plug for my latest novel, Firestarter

It’s all in the prep …

Woman's Weekly_8754I 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

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It’s all in the prep …

Woman's Weekly_8754I 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

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Camellia

It seemCamellias 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

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