Archive for February, 2017
Cruel and Unusual Punnishments
This book of groans (and unwilling laughs) is now available as a paperback from the monster Amazon. They’re charging £6.99 for the print version and £2.99 for the electronic version; it’s only a slim volume, but David Moss’s cartoon illustrations…
ContinueA “how-to” book that really works: “Creating Stories” by Hank Quense
In April 2014 I posted a blog reviewing Lorena Goldsmith’s Self-Editing Fiction that Sells, declaring it the most useful “how-to” book I’d ever seen addressed to fiction writers. Lorena’s book is about editing, polishing and refining a completed manuscript and…
ContinuePublications in The Australia Times
One of the magazines in the TAT stable, Unearthed Fiction, has kindly published my short story Afterlife in the February 2017 issue – among with three other stories beside which I’m proud to appear, and a no-nonsense piece of advice…
ContinueA word game for our time
On the 29th of March 1879, Lewis Carroll introduced a “new” type of puzzle in the magazine Vanity Fair. He wrote: “The rules of the Puzzle are simple enough. Two words are proposed, of equal length: and the Puzzle consists…
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