I interrupt my NaNoWriMo updates to bring you the post I’ve been promising for weeks. But first… Publication Day! It’s Publication Day today for Poppy Day, a VERY SHORT flash fiction short story. This is one of my own personal
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Publishing Challenge! Mid-term update
Back in October 2021, I set myself a challenge to publish a book a week for a year. This could be a short story, a collection of short stories, a novella, a novel, a non-fiction book, a whatever. It just
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 14
Chapter 14 It’s been 3 weeks since my last publication challenge post. This is because I was really busy over that period, apart from the last week when I finally got to work on my own stuff for a week.
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Collection. Flash Fiction 2: Another Five Very Short Stories is exactly what it says it is. The book consists of 5 very short stories that are too short to
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Around the Maypole is a story I wrote but didn’t send anywhere. I published it myself in Twee Tales Too and it’s since been published in Twee Tales More. You
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 11
See Chapter 10 here Chapter 11 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. The Phoenix Lights is a brand-new short story especially written for this challenge. Read more about how this story came about below. You can
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 10
See Chapter 9 here Chapter 10 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. I wrote Going, Going, Gone a long time ago and then couldn’t place it in a British magazine. A friend told me about Women’s Era magazine
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 9
See Chapter 8 here Chapter 9 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Collection. Ten Short Stories: Wordsworth Shorts 1 – 10 is the first of the new look anthologies of short stories. I had to rush this
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 8
See Chapter 7 here Chapter 8 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Pancake Race is a short story I wrote a LONG time ago. I have two main characters, Paula and Sophie, and when I moved
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 7
See Chapter 6 here Chapter 7 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Collection. Twee Tales More is all three of the original Twee Tales short story collections in one omnibus edition, plus an extra four stories bringing
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 6
See Chapter 5 here Chapter 6 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Alexandra’s Ragtag Band is a fun story I really enjoyed writing. I started with the title and took it from there. The first magazine
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 5
See Chapter 4 here Chapter 5 Publication Day! Today sees the publication of another Wordsworth Short. Martha’s Favourite Doll is a short story that one fiction editor asked me to rewrite and then rejected anyway. So I published it myself
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Publishing Challenge! Chapter 4
See Chapter 3 here Chapter 4 I missed blogging about the publishing challenge last week because last Monday was a very busy day. I worked solidly on client work and didn’t finish until 10pm. Apologies for that. This doesn’t mean
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Publishing Challenge!
See Chapter 2 here Chapter 3 Today is publication day for Flash Fiction: five very short stories. This is a collection of short stories that all run to under 1,200 words each, including two very, very short stories. The reason I
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Publishing Challenge!
Welcome to 2022! And welcome to my challenge for the coming year. The publishing challenge blog post is supposed to be on a Monday, to coincide with my own publishing schedule. However, as yesterday was a bank holiday, I wasn’t
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