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Read my new short story, "In The Past", at The Write Launch!
Some of you will already know that I have a series of new short stories being featured on the online literary magazine The Write Launch. It's a fabulous site that features poetry, articles, and short stories from a variety of writers from around the world. There are always great things to read there.
This month you can read my latest short story, "In The Past". It's taken from my as yet unpublished collection of short stories, "Out Of Time".
Read it at the following link: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/08/in...
While you're there, check out the other stories, poems, and features.
If you missed the first three stories in my series, you can catch up here:
The Ring: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/th...
Gunshot: http://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/31/...
Change of Heart: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/07/ch...
If you enjoy the stories, please help promote them by sharing them on your Facebook/Twitter etc.
Thank you!
This month you can read my latest short story, "In The Past". It's taken from my as yet unpublished collection of short stories, "Out Of Time".
Read it at the following link: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/08/in...
While you're there, check out the other stories, poems, and features.
If you missed the first three stories in my series, you can catch up here:
The Ring: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/th...
Gunshot: http://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/31/...
Change of Heart: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/07/ch...
If you enjoy the stories, please help promote them by sharing them on your Facebook/Twitter etc.
Thank you!
Read six of my new short stories FREE at The Write Launch!
I've been working on a new short story collection this year. Each month, a new story from the collection has been featured at The Write Launch.
The Write Launch is a new literary fiction magazine that was launched in May 2017. It features lots of great short stories, poetry, articles, and novella/novel excerpts, from up-and-coming writers. If you haven't discovered it yet, follow this link to read the November issue: https://thewritelaunch.com/
This month's issue features my latest short story, "The Games People Play"
Here are a couple of brief excerpts from the story:
"At forty-five, and feeling slightly old, it boosted his ego to know that this young girl wanted to date him. She’d already said that she loved him: so innocent; yet to discover that love was an elusive fallacy, a playground for fools—a path leading only to disappointment or infinite loneliness, and that’s if you’re one of the lucky ones."
"He tried to focus on other things but his thoughts wandered to Olivia—they invariably did when anything in his life went wrong, as if an eternal circular pathway perpetually led back to her. Did she marry the man, the man with the face that frequently appeared in wishy-washy black and white flashbacks in Lucas’s mind? Were they still living together, happily, while his own life fell to pieces?"
Read more: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/10/ga...
There are five more of my new stories, which you can read online at The Write Launch.
"The Ring": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/th...
"Gunshot": http://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/31/...
"Change of Heart": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/07/ch...
"In The Past": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/08/in...
"Family Ties": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/09/fa...
My plan is to publish all the stories next year as a collection, titled "Out Of Time".
There are two more stories to come - one of which I am currently editing.
If you're a writer, you can also submit stories, poems, novel/novella excerpts, and articles. The site is very popular, so make sure you submit early in the month as the deadline each month is the 15th, due to the large amount of submissions that are received. The team at The Write Launch are very supportive of new writers and there are lots of great features to read there.
The Write Launch is a new literary fiction magazine that was launched in May 2017. It features lots of great short stories, poetry, articles, and novella/novel excerpts, from up-and-coming writers. If you haven't discovered it yet, follow this link to read the November issue: https://thewritelaunch.com/
This month's issue features my latest short story, "The Games People Play"
Here are a couple of brief excerpts from the story:
"At forty-five, and feeling slightly old, it boosted his ego to know that this young girl wanted to date him. She’d already said that she loved him: so innocent; yet to discover that love was an elusive fallacy, a playground for fools—a path leading only to disappointment or infinite loneliness, and that’s if you’re one of the lucky ones."
"He tried to focus on other things but his thoughts wandered to Olivia—they invariably did when anything in his life went wrong, as if an eternal circular pathway perpetually led back to her. Did she marry the man, the man with the face that frequently appeared in wishy-washy black and white flashbacks in Lucas’s mind? Were they still living together, happily, while his own life fell to pieces?"
Read more: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/10/ga...
There are five more of my new stories, which you can read online at The Write Launch.
"The Ring": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/th...
"Gunshot": http://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/31/...
"Change of Heart": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/07/ch...
"In The Past": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/08/in...
"Family Ties": https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/09/fa...
My plan is to publish all the stories next year as a collection, titled "Out Of Time".
There are two more stories to come - one of which I am currently editing.
If you're a writer, you can also submit stories, poems, novel/novella excerpts, and articles. The site is very popular, so make sure you submit early in the month as the deadline each month is the 15th, due to the large amount of submissions that are received. The team at The Write Launch are very supportive of new writers and there are lots of great features to read there.
My new short story, "Where Do We Go?" is featured in the December issue of The Write Launch!
The December issue of the online literary magazine The Write Launch has just been published. It features lots of great poetry, short stories, novel and novella excepts, and essays from up-and-coming writers.
My latest short story, "Where Do We Go?" is featured in the magazine this month. It's a story about unrequited love and it has a paranormal theme.
You can read the story by following this link: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/11/wh...
"Where Do We Go?" will be featured in my upcoming collection of short stories, "Out Of Time", to be published next year.
My latest short story, "Where Do We Go?" is featured in the magazine this month. It's a story about unrequited love and it has a paranormal theme.
You can read the story by following this link: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/11/wh...
"Where Do We Go?" will be featured in my upcoming collection of short stories, "Out Of Time", to be published next year.
Read my new short story "One Chance" in The Write Launch January edition!
My new short story, "One Chance", is featured in this month's The Write Launch.
The Write Launch is a fantastic online literary magazine that publishes new stories, poems, articles, and novel excerpts each month from up-and-coming writers.
"One Chance" is the final story from my collection "Out Of Time", which I hope to publish in paperback later this year.
You can read all the stories from "Out Of Time" free at The Write Launch!
Here's a link to "One Chance", which has a sci-fi theme: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/12/on...
The title of the story was inspired by The Slow Readers Club's song of the same name (Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3fE1dK...).
I've often used some of my favourite songs' titles as short story titles over the years. (I've made a playlist of the songs on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1152427...)
Read the other stories from "Out Of Time" at the following links:
The Ring: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/th...
Gunshot: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/gu...
Change Of Heart: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/07/ch...
In The Past: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/08/in...
Family Ties: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/09/fa...
The Games People Play: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/10/ga...
Where Do We Go?: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/11/wh...
The Write Launch is a fantastic online literary magazine that publishes new stories, poems, articles, and novel excerpts each month from up-and-coming writers.
"One Chance" is the final story from my collection "Out Of Time", which I hope to publish in paperback later this year.
You can read all the stories from "Out Of Time" free at The Write Launch!
Here's a link to "One Chance", which has a sci-fi theme: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/12/on...
The title of the story was inspired by The Slow Readers Club's song of the same name (Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3fE1dK...).
I've often used some of my favourite songs' titles as short story titles over the years. (I've made a playlist of the songs on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1152427...)
Read the other stories from "Out Of Time" at the following links:
The Ring: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/th...
Gunshot: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/05/gu...
Change Of Heart: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/07/ch...
In The Past: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/08/in...
Family Ties: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/09/fa...
The Games People Play: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/10/ga...
Where Do We Go?: https://thewritelaunch.com/2017/11/wh...
Writing Update
As many of you know, I've been working on a sequel to my novel The Spider for the past few years.
The book is now finished and is titled "Evil Never Dies". It has been edited and I'm getting some reader feedback before I publish it.
Here's a draft blurb that I've come up with that will give you a bit of an idea of what the book is about:
After finding the poisonous spider for Rex, George believes his problems are over. But tragedy strikes and George finds himself back inside The Spider’s web; his life is at risk and his freedom is at stake.
“Evil Never Dies” follows George as he fights to reclaim his life and take back control.
This dark, tangled mystery explores the known and the unknown, the real and the illusory.
Touching on a wealth of relatable subjects including divorce, death, the afterlife, homelessness, crime, and addiction, “Evil Never Dies” takes the reader on an intense and emotional journey.
Catch up with the other characters from book 1, “The Spider”, including Roisin, Glen, Hugh, and Abigail, as they face more life-changing challenges.
You can get book 1 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
I have a great cover design for "Evil Never Dies", which was designed by Kat at Aeternum Designs (https://www.eveningskypublishingservi...)
Kat also designed the covers for The Spider, Lost and Found, and A Time to Tell). I will reveal the cover nearer to the release date.
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I'm also working on another collection of short stories. The book "Out of Time" is a collection of ten stories, eight of which were originally featured on the online literary magazine The Write Launch in 2017 (https://thewritelaunch.com/)
Two of the stories are brand new, written this year. I'm putting the finishing touches to "Out of Time" and hope to announce the release date soon.
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I've also started work on a new story, which might become my next novel. The idea came to me recently and so far I've been writing it in the traditional way, pen and paper. I'll reveal more about that in due course.
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Finally, I wanted to let you know about an interview I recently did for Helle Gade's website.
You can read it here: https://hellegade.com/2019/05/04/auth...
The book is now finished and is titled "Evil Never Dies". It has been edited and I'm getting some reader feedback before I publish it.
Here's a draft blurb that I've come up with that will give you a bit of an idea of what the book is about:
After finding the poisonous spider for Rex, George believes his problems are over. But tragedy strikes and George finds himself back inside The Spider’s web; his life is at risk and his freedom is at stake.
“Evil Never Dies” follows George as he fights to reclaim his life and take back control.
This dark, tangled mystery explores the known and the unknown, the real and the illusory.
Touching on a wealth of relatable subjects including divorce, death, the afterlife, homelessness, crime, and addiction, “Evil Never Dies” takes the reader on an intense and emotional journey.
Catch up with the other characters from book 1, “The Spider”, including Roisin, Glen, Hugh, and Abigail, as they face more life-changing challenges.
You can get book 1 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
I have a great cover design for "Evil Never Dies", which was designed by Kat at Aeternum Designs (https://www.eveningskypublishingservi...)
Kat also designed the covers for The Spider, Lost and Found, and A Time to Tell). I will reveal the cover nearer to the release date.
*************************
I'm also working on another collection of short stories. The book "Out of Time" is a collection of ten stories, eight of which were originally featured on the online literary magazine The Write Launch in 2017 (https://thewritelaunch.com/)
Two of the stories are brand new, written this year. I'm putting the finishing touches to "Out of Time" and hope to announce the release date soon.
*************************
I've also started work on a new story, which might become my next novel. The idea came to me recently and so far I've been writing it in the traditional way, pen and paper. I'll reveal more about that in due course.
*************************
Finally, I wanted to let you know about an interview I recently did for Helle Gade's website.
You can read it here: https://hellegade.com/2019/05/04/auth...
New release: Out Of Time
My new collection of short stories, "Out Of Time" has just been released in paperback.
You can find it on Amazon worldwide, and other online retailers.
This collection contains previously unreleased short stories, some of which were featured on The Write Launch in 2017. There are also some brand new stories, and I've included a bonus section with stories taken from the Mind's Eye Series of books.
About the book:
A varied collection containing previously unpublished short stories.
Paige has kept a secret for over 30 years; Pearl worries about a vulnerable neighbour; Gina learns a lesson about patience; Roger meets an old enemy; a group of strangers are brought together in unusual circumstances; Lucas has been leading a double life; a Halloween party makes Judy wonder about the afterlife; a pretty pendant hides a secret; a man who has everything he has ever wanted is left feeling empty; a local crime shocks Susan; Ross will do anything for love...
Ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
Buy links:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Time-Maria...
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Time-Mar...
You can find it on Amazon worldwide, and other online retailers.
This collection contains previously unreleased short stories, some of which were featured on The Write Launch in 2017. There are also some brand new stories, and I've included a bonus section with stories taken from the Mind's Eye Series of books.
About the book:
A varied collection containing previously unpublished short stories.
Paige has kept a secret for over 30 years; Pearl worries about a vulnerable neighbour; Gina learns a lesson about patience; Roger meets an old enemy; a group of strangers are brought together in unusual circumstances; Lucas has been leading a double life; a Halloween party makes Judy wonder about the afterlife; a pretty pendant hides a secret; a man who has everything he has ever wanted is left feeling empty; a local crime shocks Susan; Ross will do anything for love...
Ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
Buy links:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Time-Maria...
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Time-Mar...
Out Of Time available for pre-order on Kindle
My latest collection of short stories, "Out Of Time", is now available to pre-order on Kindle.
There are a total of 27 stories in the collection and it's currently available at the special promotional price of 99p/99c.
Some of the stories were originally featured on the online literary website The Write Launch, a few years ago. I have fully re-edited each of the stories for this new collection.
You can pre-order the book on Amazon worldwide: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B095N431VL/
It's also available in paperback.
Stories:
The Ring
Gunshot
Change of Heart
In the Past
Family Ties
The Games People Play
Where Do We Go?
One Chance
lex talionis
Think Twice
Ain’t That Peculiar?
Bonus stories - previously published in the Mind's Eye Series:
Love and War
Blowin’ in the Wind
Oblivion
Repercussions
On the Rocks
Secrets of the Forest
Shadows
Escape
The Great Flood
Glimmer Siluridae
Lost in You
The Memory Remains
The Chocolate Fiend
The Great Painter
Somewhere In Time
Sand and Water
About the book:
A varied collection containing previously unpublished short stories.
Paige has kept a secret for over 30 years; Pearl worries about a vulnerable neighbour; Gina learns a lesson about patience; Roger meets an old enemy; a group of strangers are brought together in unusual circumstances; Lucas has been leading a double life; a Halloween party makes Judy wonder about the afterlife; a pretty pendant hides a secret; a man who has everything he has ever wanted is left feeling empty; a local crime shocks Susan; Ross will do anything for love...
Ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
There are a total of 27 stories in the collection and it's currently available at the special promotional price of 99p/99c.
Some of the stories were originally featured on the online literary website The Write Launch, a few years ago. I have fully re-edited each of the stories for this new collection.
You can pre-order the book on Amazon worldwide: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B095N431VL/
It's also available in paperback.
Stories:
The Ring
Gunshot
Change of Heart
In the Past
Family Ties
The Games People Play
Where Do We Go?
One Chance
lex talionis
Think Twice
Ain’t That Peculiar?
Bonus stories - previously published in the Mind's Eye Series:
Love and War
Blowin’ in the Wind
Oblivion
Repercussions
On the Rocks
Secrets of the Forest
Shadows
Escape
The Great Flood
Glimmer Siluridae
Lost in You
The Memory Remains
The Chocolate Fiend
The Great Painter
Somewhere In Time
Sand and Water
About the book:
A varied collection containing previously unpublished short stories.
Paige has kept a secret for over 30 years; Pearl worries about a vulnerable neighbour; Gina learns a lesson about patience; Roger meets an old enemy; a group of strangers are brought together in unusual circumstances; Lucas has been leading a double life; a Halloween party makes Judy wonder about the afterlife; a pretty pendant hides a secret; a man who has everything he has ever wanted is left feeling empty; a local crime shocks Susan; Ross will do anything for love...
Ordinary people with extraordinary stories.
