Goodreads Ask The Author - Allison Symes saying hello!

I've just finished creating my author profile on Goodreads and had a lot of fun answering the six questions posed on the Ask The Author page.

I do enjoy Author Q&As and would welcome questions about flash fiction and/or From Light to Dark and Back Again, my first collection of very short tales.

When not writing flash fiction, I blog for online magazine, Chandler's Ford Today (often on writing related matters). I also blog regularly for More Than Writers, the Association of Christian Writers' blog.

I've recently interviewed other writers on CFT talking about the joys and woes of writing historical fiction and children's writing amongst others. I am fascinated by why writers write as they do. I hope to interview a writer of ghost stories and crime fiction before too long.

I fell into flash fiction as a kind of happy accident. I had submitted short stories to online magazine Cafelit when I came across their 100-word challenge.

I discovered I loved writing these stories and quickly became addicted. So when Chapeltown Books were looking for single author collections of flash fiction, I knew I had to submit what I had written. Much to my delight, they published me (and I hope of course they will do so again!). I am working on my follow-up flash fiction collection and am loving writing it.

I have recently become part of a local writers' group which goes to events/holds their own so we can promote each other's work. This has been good fun so far and I'm looking forward to our Book Fair at the end of October 2017.