Tag: Wordsworth shorts

31 October 2022

Publication Day! Last one!

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the final book in my publishing challenge! Wahey! I made it. 😁 And I’m going out on a BANG! 🎊 🎉 I wrote The Bonfire Party a long time ago and sold it to Take a Break’s Fiction Feast. Since then it’s been published in Twee Tales, Twee Tales More and Five Short Stories for Autumn. It’s...

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24 October 2022

Publication Day! 1… (And Book 53!)

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. This one is Book 53! (Of 54.) And that means there’s only one more to go before the challenge ends. Trick or Treat is a short story I wrote for one of the weekly markets, and it’s a follow-up to the very successful The Easter Egg...

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10 October 2022

Publication Day! 4…

Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. This one is Book 51! (Of 54.) Ten Short Stories 21 – 30 is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains Wordsworth Shorts 21 – 30, and #30 is a brand-new story that hasn’t even been published as a standalone yet. (Watch this space...

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15 August 2022

Publication Day!

Blind Date, a Wordsworth Short, is published today! This is one of the complete stories I discovered recently. It’s one I wrote a long time ago when this kind of twist ending story was all the rage. I’m sure I did send it out, and I mostly got form reject letters, but I remember one editor saying it was a...

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8 August 2022

Publication Day!

Shaking the Tree, a Wordsworth Short, is published today! A long time ago I wrote a short story that I called The Spirit of the Wind, which was published in My Weekly. It was also published in Twee Tales and back at the start of this publishing challenge, it was Book 1 (although I released it after Book 2).  Twee Tales was...

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20 June 2022

Publication Day!

No publishing challenge post again today as I’ve been stupidly busy – again! The short story That’s What Friends Are For is out today! This is a brand-new story that’s never previously been published. It’s one I wrote for a course assignment, but I didn’t like the original title (Dedicated Follower of Fashion), I had to change the name of...

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13 June 2022

Publication Day!

No publishing challenge post again today as I’ve been stupidly busy. One day – one day – I *will* manage my time and my workload a lot better. In the meantime… The short story Burn is out today! This story features Marcie Craig. All of the Marcie Craig full-length novels are named for albums or tracks released by Birmingham rock...

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30 May 2022

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. I wasn’t idle, though. I still maintained my book a week challenge. Publication Days! Week 1, or 16 May, saw...

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23 May 2022

Publications last week and this week

The week before last, I was stupidly busy trying to finish a ghostwriting instalment. I did it, but it meant much of my other work was neglected. So I was stupidly busy last week as well, catching up on all of that. However, the publishing challenge was still underway – such is the beauty of being able to upload several...

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20 May 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 13 May

Chapter 19: Week commencing Friday 13 May Friday I was so busy on Friday I didn’t even realise it was Friday the 13th. The first job I got out of the way was the daily competitions. Next up was Monkey Dust and gig list admin. Monkey Dust had a gig on Saturday, but at band practice on Thursday night, the...

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9 May 2022

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 publish as standalone Wordsworth Shorts. They’re all also available in Twee Tales More, but this is specifically 5 stories under 1,200...

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6 May 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 29 April

Chapter 17: Week commencing Friday 29 April Friday I’m writing much of this week’s diary in retrospect and I can’t for the life of me remember what kept me so busy on Friday. It was supposed to be ghostwriting, yet there is nothing ticked on my project planner. I’m having a few teething issues with the project planner, most or...

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3 May 2022

Publication Day Yesterday!

Due to another long weekend, and another one taken off, yesterday’s publishing challenge post has been postponed. However, the short story Wedding of the Year was published yesterday. This is a story I wrote for an assignment on a writing course. The tutor liked it, but I didn’t send it anywhere. It’s the latest Wordsworth Short and is available from...

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29 April 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 22 April

Chapter 16: Week commencing Friday 22 April Friday Another 3 books came in overnight from NetGalley, so I added those to the project. As of this morning, that’s 218… I finished re-reading Two For The Dough by Janet Evanovich (for pleasure), started the next one, The Stories of my Life by James Patterson (for NetGalley), and updated the reading log spreadsheet...

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25 April 2022

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 can find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can go to...

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19 April 2022

Publication Day Yesterday! (Again!)

Due to the long weekend, and due to me actually being able to take the long weekend off, yesterday’s publishing challenge post has been postponed. However, the short story A Stranger at Eight was published yesterday. This is a story I wrote a very long time ago and it was accepted by Chat magazine – that’s how long ago it was. It’s...

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11 April 2022

Two publication days!

Due to last week’s hospital stay, I didn’t get around to writing up the latest publishing challenge post. That doesn’t mean I missed the challenge. Thanks to technology and being able to load several books in one go. I still managed to publish a book last week and this week. Last Monday, It Wasn’t Me – a Wordsworth Short was published...

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1 April 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 25 Mar

Chapter 13: Week commencing Friday 25 March Friday For all of Friday I was editing. Hard-copy editing for the Yorkshire editing/proofreading/writing client. There was nothing else on my planner. Just editing. I did actually do some other work, but it was gig list and band admin for Diane’s Gig List and for Monkey Dust. I also pitched 3 story ideas to...

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29 March 2022

Publication Day Yesterday!

I’ve been a bit busy with one thing or another (see Friday’s diary of a tiger post), so haven’t spent much time on the publishing challenge. However, the short story Arrivederci Roma was published yesterday. It’s the latest Wordsworth Short and is available from books2read.com/DianeWordsworth. Alternatively, you can go straight here.

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25 March 2022

Diary of a Tiger: w/c Fri 18 Mar

Chapter 12: Week commencing Friday 18 March Friday I spent far too long (3 hours) on Thursday after work arguing with Amazon, but from a paying customer’s point of view this time rather than a self-published writer’s point of view. Honestly, they are equally as bad on both sides of the desk. Friday morning I did finally get a sensible...

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21 March 2022

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 find all of my books on the BUY MY BOOKS tab on the blog, or you can go to www.books2read.com/DianeWordsworth....

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18 March 2022

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 the first job of my day was more date work. I have a lot of time to catch up with and in March, I should be ‘thinking’ September, ‘writing’ August...

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14 March 2022

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 in India, and I sent it to them. They ‘bought’ it and published it, but I apparently needed an Indian...

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7 March 2022

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 one through as I thought I was going to be doing jury service on publication day. It took longer than...

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28 February 2022

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 house about a year after I wrote it, two of the new neighbours were Paula and her daughter Sophie. So...

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21 February 2022

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 it to 40 short stories altogether. At the moment, this is the last of my Twee Tales collections as I’m...

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