FridayFlash Excerpt | Willoughby’s first Narrathon
Willoughby is the hero of book 7 in the Princelings series. He is stranded in the Realms, and has to work out how to make a living. After meeting up with some like-minded young people over the...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | We Never Heard Them Coming
We Never Heard Them Coming is a type of Random Title or Must Include flash fiction offering. Chuck Wendig has been collecting titles, first sentences and last sentences from his readers, ten of each....
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Battle of Good versus Evil
Good versus Evil. That’s what Chuck wants today, and that’s what he gets. I stopped at 800 words; it was what I wanted to do, and I don’t think it needed more. Any genre, he said. I have no idea what...
View Article#Fi50 | Oops! A Fiction in fifty words story
Oops! is a little early for the Fiction in Fifty Words #Fi50 meme this month, but I wanted to have it ready to link to Rebecca Douglass’s new page for the Challenge. Rebecca has relieved the inventor,...
View Article#FridayFlash excerpt | Kevin escapes
I thought you’d like an excerpt from The Princelings of the North this week, since I used the first sentence of the 21st page in my Challenge example on Monday. I was hoping to work on an idea for...
View Article#FlashbackFriday | Much Ado About Nutting
The last Friday of the month is FlashbackFriday, started by Michael D’Agostino and recently fallen by the wayside. I’m trying to keep it going, so if you want to join in, add the link to your...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Cassini Conundrum
The Cassini Conundrum emerged on the day the Cassini mission ended with the probe plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere. Chuck Wendig’s prompt that weekend was “You have to break something before it can...
View Article#fridayflash fiction | Sounds of Silence #horrorweek
Sounds of Silence is my contribution to Goodreads Horror Week this week 16th-22nd October. There were a dozen prompts, and I felt one of them was more up my street than the others. You know I don’t...
View Article#Fi50 | A piece of cake; fifty word story
This month’s fifty word story for #Fi50 uses the prompt ‘a piece of cake’. As usual, I’ve taken the prompt as my title. I enjoy this monthly challenge to do a piece of flash fiction in 50 words or...
View ArticleHalloween Flashback | Out of the Frying Pan #flashbackfriday
It’s Halloween Flashback Friday, a meme for author-bloggers to republish a work of yesteryear. For the full details (and the badge) click here. The idea is to post something that didn’t get enough...
View ArticleFridayFlash Excerpt | Dylan and the Lights of Ulva
Dylan and the Lights of Ulva is the working title of another novella featuring Dylan and Dougall, those Princelings of the North. I’m working hard on it so apologies for no proper flash fiction today....
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | I, Tawdrius
I, Tawdrius is an X meets Y sort of flash fiction for today. The idea came to be while I was waiting for a bus, and the story I wrote in my head on the bus was much better than The post Friday Flash...
View ArticleFridayFlash Fiction | Fred’s Dilemma
Fred’s Dilemma takes us forward in the Princelings saga, into the times of book 9. It’s a 1300-word capsule of life at Castle Marsh. I hope you enjoy it. It reminds me that I need to do some more...
View Article#Fi50 | The Worst That Could Happen
The Worst That Could Happen is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty words, the brainchild of Bruce Gargoyle and organised by Rebecca Douglass. Nip over here to the sign-up page if you’d like...
View ArticleFlashbackFriday | The Evil Locket
It’s the last Friday of the month, so FlashbackFriday time. I’m always tempted to do something for St Andrews Day, but since next year the last Friday will be St Andrews, I’m saving my favourite till...
View ArticleFridayFlash Fiction | Winter Sleep
The title ‘Winter sleep’ came from a promotional leaflet of some sort on my desk. I gave it to Rebecca as a prompt when she gave me ‘the Evil Locket‘ which I reprised last week. Inspired by memories...
View ArticleFridayFlash Fiction | Immaculata – a celebration
This weeks’ flash fiction is more of a memoir. Immaculata, and the hymn mentioned below, has for the last, well, half-century, emerged from my brain, indelibly linked to the date December the 8th. I...
View ArticleFridayFlash Fiction | Originality and the Insects
Originality and the Insects is the first flash fiction of 2018. It’s just under 1750 words. I was thinking of working with the title “The Wrong Glasses” but I went through the list of prompts I had...
View ArticleFriday Excerpt | Lord Colman names his drink
Lord Colman is one of the antagonists of the Princelings of the East series. He’s also Prince Kevin’s uncle. Colman is the reason why Kevin is not yet king of Castle Deeping. Since my new book The...
View ArticleFridayFlash Fiction | Master of Illusion
Illusion: It’s funny sometimes how story ideas come about. I saw one programme (Bargain Hunt) talking about George Cayley, aviation pioneer born in the 18th century, and then a news piece about the...
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