Short Stories: I Love Writing Them
I love writing short stories. It's a challenge to get a complete and satisfying tale over to a reader within a limited number of words.
Season’s Greetings and Many Thanks to You All
Wishing each and every one who has visited and followed me here during the ups and down of 2015, a very happy festive season and a wonderful 2016. Thank you so much for your friendship and for making this blog so enjoyable for me and, I do hope, enjoyable for you too. I’ve had so much fun reading your comments […]
Sarcoidosis Research Benefit: Author Kim Scott is a sufferer and is fund-raising, which I am happy to support
Author Kim Scott suffers from Sarcoidosis: there isn’t a Cure. I hope you will read her story and consider contributing towards this very urgent and deserving cause. A message from Kim Scott. My name is Kim Scott & I’m an author from Maine. I have Stage 4 a-typical Pulmonary Sarcoidosis attacking my lungs. There is no cure and the treatment plans are primarily experimental. I’ve done chemo, IV therapy, injections, and massive doses of steroids. I just started the last treatment option available for me. More research is desperately needed! Proceeds from this fundraiser go to the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research. PLEASE join the Event at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1437745826532172/ 20th JUNE 2015 ALL DAY but you can visit the page now, today! Consultants from Avon, Celadon Road, in a Pikle, Jamberry Nails, Lilla Rose, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Jamberry Nails, Scentsy, Thirty-One & Tupperware are all participating. Shop their parties thru this event and up to 50% of every sale goes to the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research. Details for parties at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fundraiser-for-Sarcoidosis-Research/703542919773758 The online auction is on June 20th. Donations are still being accepted! Books, gift cards, products, services… Message me or email: KimScottForYou@gmail.com PLEASE invite friends & family. Research is desperately needed and time is running out for so many. For more info about Sarcoidosis go to: Sarcoidosis? You Need to Know Thanks Kim, good luck. I am donating eBook copies of three anthologies of short stories I have […]
That was the Year, that was…..
That was the year, that was….it’s over so let it go. What a year! January arrived with an appointment with the surgeon’s knife, only to be postponed at the operating room door; phew! A 60’s Icon, Samantha Juste passed away in February and I was pleasantly surprised by the number of those who read and commented on my piece about her, and who remembered her with the same affection as I. Her passing reminded me of those wonderful, care-free days in my teens filled with music, fashion, and the changing world around me. I know many scientists, and others who have changed the world and who have done so much more for human-kind died this year, but Samantha was a link to my teens. I was also fortunate enough to have some of my short stories and flash fiction published and Pod-cast during February as well as being interviewed by other authors on their blogs. Links for all these are on my blog roll. February also saw the paper-back publication of In A Word: Murder – a crime anthology – which had been published in November 2013 as an e-Book. I was thrilled to be asked to contribute two stories for this very worthy cause – The Princess Alice Hospice, Surrey – in memory of Maxine Clarke, writer, blogger and editor. Both my stories received really positive and uplifting reviews which has been encouraging. March found me spending a week with my sister and her husband. My week with […]
Thrills, chills and giggles: Shiver on All Hallows Eve.
Something to snuggle up with on a cold, dark, windy night. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00O9VKGJG/ http://www.amazon.com/Shiver-collection-halloween-stories-best-selling-ebook/dp/B00O9VKGJG/ http://youtu.be/NUofhdwu8JE http://t.co/CvmkHTX2Vn Perfect for Halloween. Thrills, chills and giggles too. Hide-under-the-bed stories, laugh-out-loud stories and food-for-thought stories – something for everyone. Christina Jones: Laying The Ghost Cara Cooper: Your Number’s Up Caroline Dunford: The Dark Night of Dawn Jane Risdon: The Haunting of Anne Chambers Tricia Maw: Uncle Henry Marie Laval: Cemetery for Two Princesses Andrea Frazer: All Hallows David Rogers: Curtains Helena Fairfax: The Pumpkin Hacker Bill Kitson: Dead Ringer http://youtu.be/NUofhdwu8JE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUofhdwu8JE I hope you Shiver right down to your timbers. Let me know, let Amazon know, and let Accent Press Ltd know what you think I know I’d appreciate your feed-back. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00O9VKGJG/
The Haunting of Anne Chambers – Cornwall and a tidy desk
I’ve just had a good tidy up and cleared my writing desk ready for a full on session this week. It’s amazing just how cluttered it manages to get when I have my head down and I’m in over-drive – I have been writing a great deal this summer. Hence the need to have a good tidy. Inspired by the publication […]
Shiver is published today – 9th October 2014. I’m so excited.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00O9VKGJG Thrilled to be published today in this FAB collection alongside so many successful authors including my life-long friend, Christina Jones, who has been so inspirational and supportive of me and my aspirations to become a writer. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christina-Jones/187064786222 Thanks Chrissie without your encouragement and advice my fingers would never have seriously connected with the keyboard. Even though we write in different genres she has often read my work when, other than my husband, no-one had ever read anything I’d written. To find we both have stories in the same collection is such fun. We’ve shared an anthology once before but this was a complete surprise. My contribution to Shiver is The Haunting of Anne Chambers. If you’ve read and enjoyed my two short stories The Secret of Willow Cottage: The Tale of the Reluctant Bride and The Secret of Willow Cottage: The Tale of the Jilted Lover I hope you might enjoy The Haunting of Anne Chambers: It’s a Ghost story set in Cornwall – a tale of Privateers, Pirates and ….well, I’ll let you find out. My fellow contributors are: Andrea Frazer, Bill Kitson, Caroline Dunford, Christina Jones, and Helena Fairfax, Tricia Maw, Marie Laval, Cara Cooper and David Rogers. I know there will be something for everyone in SHIVER Available from Accent Press Ltd. ISBN: 9781783752195 http://www.accentpress.co.uk http://youtu.be/NUofhdwu8JE There are many who have encouraged me and supported my writing, too numerous to mention – family and friends especially, who deserve my thanks. Thank you each and every one […]
A little jolly back in the summer: Audley End House. Looking back on a fab Jolly.
Audley End House Last Night of the Prom 2014 by Jane Risdon
I’m getting Shivers sharing my good news
Those of you kind enough to pop in here from time to time will know I’ve been submitting to Publishers during the summer, more in hope than expectation. Well, I am very happy to share my good news with you. I’ve been included in SHIVER, a collection of horror stories with contributions by so many authors I admire such as: Andrea Frazer, Bill Kitson, […]
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