spdbooks.org?fbclid=IwAR1... oh dear, sad sad news

awp24 BABY.

Have you had the chance to read and review Mick Bennett's TAKE THE LIVELY AIR? If not, buy a copy: bookshop.org/a/101069/978... Then leave a review. Thanks! You're super!

Delighted to be on the Strands long-list. It's been such a long break.

Read the early reviews for this novelette releasing today: www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p459/p... My grateful thanks to all at Unsolicited Press for being so very super and having yet another of my books in their stable.

www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p459/p... releasing on Tuesday 16th.

www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p459/p... Out in 3 days @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

Releasing as an e-novella on January 16th 2024 - are you in the acknowledgements?

Great news: Gooseberry Pie Lit Mag will publish my 6-sentence story, Mealtimes in the Queendom of Deliciousness, on March 21st '24. Hot on the heels will be @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social re-releasing The Sequence Dance (short fic) plus launching Passport to Perdita, (e-novella) - always grateful.

I love front matter. All of it. Dedications. Prologues et al. And back matter - wowee - wonderful acknowledgements and bibliographies. They wrap stories up in reasons. Specially for you, intimately, the reader. With red bows sometimes too. Miss them when they're not there.

Delighted to receive my copy of Family #54 from Blink-Ink with my story, 'One Too Many'. Honoured to be in such fine company @megpokrass.bsky.social

Same here - I seek poetry loving friends (exTwitter) and yesterday posted that my published collection of poems was 2-years old - but no reaction/rresponse whatsoever. Share your poetry info and I'lll certainly repost.

Of Daisies and Dead Violins, collected poems written over 20 years. 2 years old today. Published by the fabulous @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

Did you know @margaretatwood.bsky.social donated an unpublished manuscript to the Future Library in Norway? In a hundred years they'll publish it! www.futurelibrary.no#/

Back on the horse. 2 pieces subbed.

I have a sticky return key, that's fun

Turned a huge shingles corner and snagged a new pair of shoes in the 'day-after-cyber-Monday' sale at Ecco. Exhausted! But ya gotta love new shoes.

Yup— it's addictive—finished my 17th @nanowrimo.bsky.social on the 18th, carrying on to the 30th with @megpokrass.bsky.social's fab 300 words or less microwrimo prompts & having a blast while all the time fighting deep nerve pain from my 10 week+ shingles. Nov = 1 draft novella & 30 microfictions

Yay! An acceptance today from @mrbullbull.bsky.social, a magazine I love! Such an extraordinarily nice letter from EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social. Really, it bowled me over. Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🦃

10.5 weeks into PHN from Shingles. It is no joke. @nanowrimo.bsky.social distracted my brain thereby reducing meds that changed my writing to off-the-wall weirdness which I have actually come to like. Weird.

Thrilled to have my prose poem up @beavermag.bsky.social selected by the wonderful @laurabesley.bsky.social !!

🎉🎉🎉

When you finish your 17th Nano draft and get yet another quality t-shirt to add to the collection. @nanowrimo.bsky.social

@nanowrimo.bsky.social - tipped over 44K on day 16 should wind things up tomorrow. Will wear THE winners' T-shirt for the 17th year

Shingles update - it has been 64 days - still I soldier on. @nanowrimo.bsky.social update - 36076 words - 72% of the way there - bashing on regardless

@nanowrimo.bsky.social taking a couple of characters to Stavrovouni Monastery was a good call - just kicked over 28k words

@nanowrimo.bsky.social running over 19k words on day 7 - it was the Greek meze that did it

Beautiful fractured storytelling from @laurabesley.bsky.social I love how this piece plays around with time, each fragment rooted so clearly, and chiming in intriguing ways against what comes after and what comes before. #FlashFiction

It will never not be amazing when the exact right word appears in a story draft and thus rearranges your understanding of the material by its presence. One of the moments of surprise and awe I’m always writing toward, but also almost impossible to force.

Day 6 @nanowrimo.bsky.social 18k + words. MC booking a tattoo was a surprise but the orchid expo was dynamite. ty Tylenol/morphine for keeping shingles from disrupting over- much. ty @megpokrass.bsky.social for such inspiring prompts you are sunshine in my darkness.

"12,070 words @nanowrimo.bsky.social on day 4. After 17 years you'd think I'd give this year a miss - but the temptation is hard to resist." She writes, looking forward to yet another winner's t-shirt.

@nanowrimo.bsky.social flashing by the 12k post on day 4.

@nanowrimo.bsky.social chuffed with day 1 with over 3k off the wall words.

17th @nanowrimo.bsky.social for me - inspite of agonising shingles deep nerve pain - I am lured once more. Brain fog from shingles meds = something a little different from me this year. Dystopian maybe - but so delighted I can remember some of my schoolgirl Greek. Who's in?

THE best!

Issue 54 is at the Printers!

Signed up for my 17th Nano in spite of the spiteful 7th week of shingles. Draft cover to kick things off.

Apologies one and all for my absence. I'm currently at the debilitating Shingles week 6. Still trying to brave this out. And by the way - had a 50-word story accepted by Blink Ink. Huge boost to recovery.

I will and I shall

Have you sent us anything yet? It’s October… so just 15 days until subs close. www.blink-ink.org/submissions/

When you hear that your micro collection was enjoyed by a 104-yr-old, you begin to understand just how wide your readership market is

To all those who asked, & to those who didn't know, shingles is not to be taken lightly. It's not the rash, the blisters, it is the deep inner core pain that prevents sleep. Meds that take you to a place you do not wish to go & an irritable characteristic you didn't know you possessed.

My thanks to @scooterwriter.bsky.social for the invite

Hi everyone, pretty delighted to be here. I’ve missed you all.