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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 11 Mar
Chapter 11: Week commencing Friday 11 March Friday Well, would you look at that! Chapter 11 starts on 11 March. (It’s the little things…) Friday dawned bright and sunny and…
Take one idea…
Date work is a big part of my short fiction work, and sometimes it features in my longer works too. I’ve also been known to write the occasional feature as…
Writing Prompts: 16 March 2022
Wednesday Writing Prompts are back, but renamed simply Writing Prompts. This is so I don’t feel obliged to do one every week, especially when I’m snowed under doing other, paying…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 4 Mar
Chapter 10: Week commencing Friday 4 March Friday On Friday morning I added a few more books to the publication schedule, so I could identify what work I need to…
Smashwords Sale
This week, from 6 March to 12 March, I’m taking part in the site-wide Smashwords sale. I have 6 books on for half-price, and 3 stories for free. I got…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 25 Feb
Chapter 9: Week commencing Friday 25 February Friday First job on Friday was a scheduled post on behalf of a group of friends who are running a writing competition. I…
World Book Day
Happy World Book Day! All of my books can be found on books2read.com.
The Rosemary Goodacre Memorial Short Story Competition
The Rosemary Goodacre Memorial Short Story Competition To commemorate the life of saga author Rosemary Goodacre, her friends have organised a short story competition, with all profits going to her favourite…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 18 Feb
Chapter 8: Week commencing Friday 18 February Friday I struggled to do my ghostwriting for GW2 on Thursday evening. The poet had gone to band practice and that gave me…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 11 Feb
Chapter 7: Week commencing Friday 11 February Friday The plan on Friday was to spend the morning completing the final few chapters for GW1 Book 8 before going to a…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 4 Feb
Chapter 6: Week commencing Friday 4 February Friday February already, and not even the 1st of February but the 4th. Already this year is flying by. I had a lot…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 28 Jan
Chapter 5: Week commencing Friday 28 January Friday Friday last week was another ghostwriting day. I did the revisions for GW2 and I had a look at GW1. I didn’t…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 21 Jan
Chapter 4: Week commencing Friday 21 January Friday On Friday I had wall to wall ghostwriting booked in. I was busy doing other stuff as well, though, such as making…
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…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 14 Jan
Chapter 3: Week commencing Friday 14 January Friday After a bit of hit and miss, I was back on track again by Friday. I did my typing practice first, and…
Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 7 Jan
Chapter 2: Week commencing Friday 7 January Friday Yes, we start this week’s diary on Friday. This is because I post it on a Friday and in a lot of…
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…
Diary of a Tiger
Welcome to the new instalment in the Diary of… series. The Diary of… series is a set of three books, each one set against a year in the life of…
Writers’ ideas: where to find them
Wednesdays will be regular weekly writing prompts again soon, but as I haven’t had chance yet to search any dates, here’s a connected post I made earlier… Ideas are all…
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…
Happy New Year!
I didn’t bother sharing a publication day post for Careful What You Wish For because I think one a week is getting a bit old. However, it was published on 20…
The bit in the middle
It’s that bit in the middle, in between Christmas and New Year. I hope you had a great Christmas. We’re still eating leftovers and even food that wasn’t even opened….
Merry Christmas!
I’ve been a bit busy these past few days, but wanted to nip on to say thank you for being here, and have a wonderful Christmas!
