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If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive. My guest this week is the lovely Kay Castaneda. I’ll
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This week’s guest writer is someone you may know. I’m delighted to feature Linda Bethea whose blog is nutsrok. Her guest post is so entertaining and she makes her relatives come bursting to life: Southern Fried Crazy We do love our crazy folks down South. Oh, we may not want them right up in the
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Welcome to my regular guest writer slot. This week it’s the turn of another Swannicker (name for a writer who has attended Swanwick Writing Summer School) to take the spotlight. Graham Clift has a natural ability to draw us in and to entertain us with his non-fiction writing. I’m currently reading Graham’s first memoir, North Facing
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It’s Friday and time for my guest writer slot. This week I’m welcoming back Jean Harris. She first appeared in this slot a few weeks ago with her super piece, A Safe Place, and then more recently with another gem, Green Fingers. Here’s another of her gems to enjoy: Stitched Up! By Jean Harris Oh, how I
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I’ve been meaning to share some exciting book news on my blog, but things have been a bit busy recently. Anyway, the wonderful SpellBound Books Ltd have given me a four-book publication deal for my how-to guides on writing. They’re republishing Short Story Focus and Publication Guaranteed (well, almost!), and my new book Novel Know-how
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Happy Friday! It’s time for my guest writer slot. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Cee Tee Jackson for the first time. He has a very interesting story to tell. Here’s the blurb to tempt you: AN UPBEAT AND POSITIVE TALE OF SURVIVAL! Only around 8% people survive an out of hospital cardiac arrest. It’s
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Here’s days three and four in the next instalment of my building work diary, telling the tale of when I had a loft conversion a few years ago. If you missed the story so far, here are days one and two: Day One Day Two Day Three No one turned up. I wasn’t in the
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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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