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This week’s #FlashFictionFriday prompts come from EspineuxAlpha, who wanted a story in the Ravenfall universe, Atlin Merrick who prompted with the booty-shorted cowhop image and KIzzia30 with the ruined cottage and ‘incandescent’. Follow me on Twitter if you want to join in with prompts for next Friday’s story! Booty Call Gabriel’s easel was out in the light which meant Gabriel […]
» Read moreI am so thrilled to be able to share with you the cover for the upcoming anthology, The Only One in the World – full of stories of what Sherlock and/or John might have been like if one or both came from a cultural background different to the Victorian-era gentlemen of the Conan Doyle books. Clan Destine Press were fantastic, […]
» Read moreToday’s #FlashFictionFriday tale was prompted by Twitter regular @Alexxphoenix42 (with “nail polish”) and new prompter @annb99 (Hamilton). I’ve set this story in the universe of The She Wolf of Baker Street – my contemporary queer, paranormal take on the famous folks of Baker Street, currently being serialised for my supporters on Patreon. (Chapter 12 went up on 26 March, so […]
» Read moreToday’s #FlashFictionFriday story comes from a Twitter prompt by @Alexxphoenix42. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter if you want to suggest prompts for these Friday stories! Crush That boy you had a crush on when you were thirteen is here in the bookshop. He was two years older than you then. He still is, technically. His golden skin then […]
» Read moreThis #FlashFictionFriday story came from prompts on Twitter by @EspineuxAlpha, @Alexxphoenix42 and a photo of some bloodied sheets from @AlanBaxter Ceasefire The splash of scarlet on pale linen didn’t seem enough to suggest murder, but it was a very small murder, after all. The blood had fallen in patches and smears. Reading the shape of it, Tinker understood that the […]
» Read moreEach week I’ll ask my Twitter followers for a word, phrase, image or character as prompts for flash fiction. I’ll select a few and write a quick short fic! If you want to take part, follow me on Twitter and look out for the hashtag #FlashFictionFriday. This week’s prompts are from Twitter users @azriona1912, @avawtsn (who prompted a Sherlockian story) […]
» Read moreI’ve missed writing short fic to prompts (as I did for this lockdown fiction series) so I asked my Twitter followers to provide some prompts and I’d write a story! That was so much fun I think I’ll make it a weekly even. If you want to play, follow me on Twitter and look out for the prompt requests! Prompts […]
» Read moreAlready I have several stories and some more music planned for this year. Here’s a little look at some upcoming projects! Who Sleuthed It? (pre-order for March release) The She-Wolf of Baker Street (currently on Patreon) The Only One in the World (coming soon) Root and Branch (coming soon) More songs from the Duo Ex Machina song project Who Sleuthed It? Due for […]
» Read moreKatherine Kovacic has proven herself an excellent crime writer, beginning with her debut, The Portrait of Molly Dean (a fictionalised take on the real 1930 Melbourne murder of 25-year-old Dean) and its sequel, the wholly fictional Painting in the Shadows (featuring the same art historian dealer/sleuth Alex Clayton). With The Schoolgirl Strangler, Kovacic takes on true crime, detailing the Melbourne […]
» Read moreInheritance of Secrets opens with its narrator, Juliet, in the Adelaide morgue to identify the bodies of her viciously murdered grandparents, Karl and Grete Weiss. It’s the great and terrible blow that cracks her life wide and fills it with doubt, grief, fear and danger. As she and her estranged sister Lily try to understand what’s happened, and to disprove […]
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