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Well, I'd been away for a long while and now I'm debating which bit of news to post first.

Okay, good news... I have had a short story accepted, which I'm very excited about. I'd been pulled away from my novel for many short stories. This year I've sent about 6 stories to US e-zine Shimmer and each time they come back saying they really loved it but there was just X wrong with it, etc. It seems that I've been teetering on the edge of a good story, but not actually crossing the brilliant line.… Continue

I thought this article might be useful for people who were unsure about how to submit to agents and editors :)

http://resourcesforwriters.suite101.com/article.cfm/submitting_fiction_to_editors

Just cut and paste the link....

I thought some people might be interested in this - it's Wyvern's first short story competition and top prize is £100, followed by two £25 runner ups. As it is the first competition, I expect there will be fewer submissions and therefore a bigger chance of winning. Also, the standard of SCBWI members has far higher (certainly for the anthology submissions).


What is the Wyvern Short Story Competition?
Wyvern Publications now has a short story competition every year. The top story wins £100 and… Continue

I've been avoiding SCBWI ning pages and I'm soooo sorry. It's only because the SCBWI yahoo groups is so good at updates and I've also got the teen fiction ning pages to run. So there are a few updates since my last posting...

Amaline's Pirates got the attention of an agent who said he'd like to see something for an older audience. I showed him The Howling Moon, my werewolf story for 9-12 year olds. He liked it, suggested changes, then dropped it. Ouch!!!

I'll be working more on both stories af… Continue

I was talking to a friend last week who was amazed that I liked Twilight. ‘Really?’ he said. ‘And you’re a published author and all!’

It struck me then, how snobbish the book world could be. I’ve heard people slate the Twilight books before I read them – the characters are unreal, the language is too advanced for teens, she made up folklore, she broke rules….

The last whinge got my wind up and I read the books. What happened to me then, proved how easily it is to be rule-obsessed and miss the… Continue