I have a story in the September issue of Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special (which should still be in the shops for a few more days). Unusually I’ve included a real event in Barbara’s Legacy. When I
was about seven, my Mum discovered a horse had cut it’s leg – hard to miss really as the blood was spurting out in a great arc. Clearly help was needed quickly, so I
Woman’s Weekly
I (nearly) made an editor cry.
The feedback for my story ‘Letting Go’ was that it almost made the fiction editor and her assistant cry.
That must have been in a good way as
Looking Back
Although I’m very interested in history, and it was my job for five years, I’ve so far only attempted one historical story.
Portrait Of A Wife
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
Embracing Beige
Do you like my new office chair? My previous one was ten years old and falling apart, but was comfortable and I’d received most of my writing acceptances whilst sitting in it – so I got a new one exactly the same. Not that writers are superstitious or anything!
Don’t worry about all the books about ships you can see in the background, I share an office with my husband.
Perhaps you’re thinking the chair is more cream than beige and really if there’s any embracing going on the chair is the thing doing it. You have a point, but
Embracing Beige
Do you like my new office chair? My previous one was ten years old and falling apart, but was comfortable and I’d received most of my writing acceptances whilst sitting in it – so I got a new one exactly the same. Not that writers are superstitious or anything!
Don’t worry about all the books about ships you can see in the background, I share an office with my husband.
Perhaps you’re thinking the chair is more cream than beige and really if there’s any embracing going on the chair is the thing doing it. You have a point, but
The Passing Year
I have two stories in the January issue of Women’s Weekly Fiction Special. It seems odd to me that
The Passing Year
I have two stories in the January issue of Women’s Weekly Fiction Special. It seems odd to me that
Stepping on the Cracks
I have a story in the current (October!) issue of Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special. I’d like to tell you what prompted me to write this story about a doctor and her heartless father. I’m not going to though because