Last year I decided to make an author page on Facebook, and it’s taken me until today to finally publish it!
It would be delightful if you could give me a like and a share, and if you have your own author page, I’ll like you in return! (I like you anyway, obviously, but you know what I mean!)
There’s not much on it right now, but as I am currently working on things, I hope to update it more often!
I was walking though Liverpool Central train station yesterday and spotted a Books for Free centre, and it really does what it says on the tin!
They are centres in which people can donate pre-loved books for others to enjoy, sort of like a library but you don’t have to give the books back!
You are permitted to go in and choose three books that you can then take away and keep, which I think you’ll agree is a great idea!
Not only does it provide free books for people, thus encouraging reading for those who may have been put off by retail prices, but it’s also a great way of recycling, as, I know it’s shocking, but some people do throw old books away! Oh the horror!
The link below will take you to a map which shows all the centres in Britain, though I did have to zoom out because for some reason it opened up on Iceland (the country, not the frozen food supermarket).
https://beta.healthyplanet.org/what-we-do/sustainable-community/books-for-free/centre-map
So give it a look and if there is one near you, pop in and browse or donate!
Feel free to share this post as well, get word around about this great scheme!
Today I received the result from my second-year Creative Writing module with the OU, and was thrilled that it was a Grade 2! This is basically the equivalent to a 2:1, so obviously I was pleased! Having received the same grade for my other second-year module, I’m on track for a good degree classification!
Now, although I am starting my ‘third year’ of education in October, I am splitting it over two years, so I will graduate in 2017. This is good because it means I can concentrate on each one and work as hard as possible!
The module I am starting this year is Advanced Creative Writing, which incorporates script-writing techniques, so now I can turn my stories into film and plays! Oh the joy!
With my free time until then I hope to write as much as possible and finish my short story collection which is tentatively titled We Are the Blood, and is loosely tied together with a ‘families’ theme… With any luck and a lot of annoying self-promotion, it will be released by spring of next year, so any comments, reposts and recommendations would be really appreciated!
As a student of creative writing with the Open University, it’s pretty nice to have a short story published, so I am chuffed that a story I wrote for an assignment has been published in an anthology on Kindle. There are some great pieces of writing from plenty of talented aspiring writers, and the best thing is that the book is FREE until the 17th of July, so if you want a nice read and fancy supporting some students, download it and get your fill!
Remember that eZine that was publishing my work? Well it’s now available to download for FREE!! just click this link: http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_August2014.pdf and it will take you to the ‘zine. My story starts on page 7
As well as being excited, I have to say I am kind of nervous as well. People I will never meet may be reading a story I wrote, and that is a strange thought! Is that a normal reaction to have? Oh well, it’s too late now!
Feel free to share the link with anyone you think may like it, and I would love you forever if you could leave a comment here as to what you thought of my little story! Thank you 😀
Ok, the title of this post was awful, but it’s very difficult to think of witticisms to use in that little box up there! Maybe I should just try to be succinct instead of amusing when naming these posts…
The reason for posting today is to shout from the cyber-rooftop: Yay! I just finished editing a story that I started writing a while back and put in the bottom of an electronic drawer on my hard-drive. Now that i have removed the superfluous, supernumerary and supermispelt words and fixed a little continuity error that glared at me as I re-read the story, I am ready to start looking for markets to submit it to for publication!
As the story is nearly 4,700 words long, I think it is more befitting for an anthology than a ‘zine, so I will hit Dark Markets and look for any houses that are looking for horror with a streak of sci-fi.
Hopefully my previous submission is the start of a streak, but I am not going to get complacent and think that I will end up with more acceptances than rejections, because that is just the wrong attitude to have, in my opinion!
After the story is submitted, it’s back to Microsoft word to finish the first draft of a ghost story I have already found a market to submit to, which is also an anthology!
This writing lark is draining and fun!
Toodles!
I haven’t written here for a while, and for that I am very sorry! I am going to try to post here more regularly now, and use it to shamelessly plug my writing, so please be patient! That’s all for now, but more to come over the next few weeks!
I’m away this weekend, well, I am a male lady of leisure now, with no job and all! Oh well, more time to study and write my planned novel, which now has a plot and a prologue! It’s a psychological thriller, and I plan on self-publishing through Amazon Kindle. Even if it doesn’t sell, at least I can say I have published a novel!
I was rather annoyed on the train; I was carrying two very heavy pieces of luggage, and I stepped off the platform up onto the train, when I heard some lady behind me remark to her friend that “chivalry obviously doesn’t exist anymore”… Erm, no dear, you gave up that when you were granted equality… Chivalry existed when women were second class citizens but a real gentleman decided to let you go first. Equal rights exist now, you just have to be the first to grab them.
Just a short post today, but I will be back in force next week.
Today I have been replied to by two, that’s right, TWO people that I admire on the Twitter! Mark Edwards, or http://www.twitter.com/mredwards on the site responded to my earlier review of his wonderful book, The Magpies, and the beautifully voiced Voice, Leanne Mitchell, or http://www.twitter.com/leannemitch who won the first UK series of The Voice on BBC1 last year replied to my comment about her being the British Christina Aguilera!
I am no celebrity stalker, but it is nice to see that there are people in the public eye who actually take note of their public and respond!
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