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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    Happy Thursday! Ready for a new story challenge? Here you go: Can you tell a story in 10 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 30 words using the following four words in it somewhere: Here are your excellent stories: Trent’s World:…

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  • Thank you to all of you who pre-ordered my new collection of short stories, The Storm. I hope you enjoy it. For those of you who haven’t pre-ordered, you can obtain a copy through Amazon: Amazon UK Amazon US Paperback news will follow soon. The blurb: There’s a clash of thunder and the brilliance of…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    Even ghosts do crosswords. Happy Halloween! 🎃

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  • Happy new week, everyone! Here’s to a good one. Your new limerick challenge is: SNAKE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word BELT in it somewhere. You produced some amusing limericks: Christine Mallaband-Brown: If you belt out that song! You can win a kareoke gong Don’t sing too loud Or…

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  • My first collection of short stories, The Siege, came out ten years ago. The cover, as you can see, is very different to my new collection of short stories, The Storm, and A Walk in the Woods. It’s also not in the name of Chilton, so I thought it was about time I released a…

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  • Can You Tell A Story In…

    Happy Thursday! Ready for a new story challenge? Here you go: Can you tell a story in 30 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 20 words using the following three words in it somewhere: Here are your super stories: Darlene: He…

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  • In the final part of this series, I bring you some more customs from around the globe:

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  • Funny Of The Week

    When I was away recently, I saw this sign outside a women’s clothes shop. I have to say I agree…

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  • Happy Monday, everyone! Here’s to a productive week. Your new limerick challenge is: BELT Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word DRAMA in it somewhere. You produced some highly entertaining limericks: Christine Mallaband-Brown: I’m in a drama soon to say The Mock Mayor part again to play Lord of misrule…

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  • Book News

    Earlier this year, my second how-to book, Short Story Focus, came out. It will also be released as an ebook, so I’ll be bringing you news of that soon. I’m now turning my attention to thoughts of the next book in the series. How about one on writing a novel? As an editor, I regularly…

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