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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    Happy Halloween! It’s time for your weekly five-word challenge! For this week’s challenge, can you tell a story in five words, using the word VILLAIN in it somewhere? Last week, your story needed to contain the word SQUASH. You sent in some fantastic stories. Here they are: Trent’s World: Pumpkin puree or squashed squash? Previously…

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  • Book Review: The Family

    My partner knows psychological thriller writer, Louise Jensen, and he was invited to the launch party of her latest book, The Family. He could take a guest so I jumped at the chance when he asked me if I’d like to go along. I had met Louise at the Harrogate Crime Festival earlier in the…

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  • I met the lovely, chatty Margaret at an author and blogger meet-up recently in Stoke. She talked to me about her book and I was keen to know a little bit more about it and about what inspires her to write. Q. Your book, Footsteps in the Past, was published last year. Can you tell…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    It’s time for your weekly five-word challenge! For this week’s challenge, can you tell a story in five words, using the word SQUASH in it somewhere? Last week, your story needed to contain the word KINDLE. You sent in some fantastic stories. Here they are: K Morris: The story blew the Kindle. Christine Mallaband-Brown: Re-kindle…

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  • I’d wanted to read The Handmaid’s Tale for some time. Friends raved about it and when the TV series came out, there was a lot of talk about it and the concept. But, as many of you bookworms out there will appreciate, there just aren’t enough hours in the day to read all the books…

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  • Many of you will have come across Geoff before. I first met him at the Annual Bloggers Bash in 2015. He’s extremely talented and a very versatile author as you’ll find out from my interview with him. Q. Your latest book of short stories, Life in a Conversation was released earlier this year. Can you…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    It’s time for your weekly five-word challenge! For this week’s challenge, can you tell a story in five words, using the word KINDLE in it somewhere? Last week, your story needed to contain the word REWARD. You sent in some brilliant stories. Here they are: Christine Mallaband-Brown: My reward is your love… Dead or alive?…

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  • Bite Size Writing Tips

    Got For It! Not sure about pitching an idea to an editor? Written a story, but scared to enter it into a competition? Want to send a reader’s letter out but uncertain the magazine will use it? We all have doubts and we all receive rejections. It’s part and parcel of a writer’s life. But…

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  • I met the lovely Ann Biggins at the Indie Literary Festival in Bradford earlier this year. I was very interested to hear about Ann’s debut novel, especially so as it’s set in the 1970s, which was when I was growing up. Here she gives us more of an insight: Q. Your book is called Losing…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    Here we go – it’s time for your weekly five-word challenge! For this week’s challenge, can you tell a story in five words, using the word Reward in it somewhere? Last week, your story needed to contain the word Camera. You sent in some witty and entertaining stories. Here they are: Christine Mallaband-Brown: The camera…

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