Words are like oxygen
Today’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 […]
» Read moreThe latest Improbable Press prompt had me thinking in rhyming couplets. It might be a little pat at the ending, but I enjoyed the challenge. Don’t forget to take a look at the IP Blog and try some of their writing prompts yourself! A Box for Wishes I have a box for wishesAnd every day it fillsI wish for better […]
» Read moreToday I ask Jenny Blackford five questions about her new book! 1. What’s the name of your latest book – and how hard was it to pick a title? It’s called The Girl in the Mirror, because it all started with a story of two girls seeing each other through an oval mirror on the wall of the bedroom that they both […]
» Read moreIt’s 1922 and Perveen Mistry, a lawyer from Bombay, has been called to the kingdom of Satapur to help resolve a conflict about an underage maharajah’s education. Jiva Rao’s mother and grandmother disagree bitterly on the best choice and as they’re observing purdah, Perveen, a woman, is the only lawyer who can visit them. Along with trying to understand everyone’s […]
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