Originally posted on: Thu 14th Mar 2013
There’s something very satisfying, and quite difficult, about achieving a whole story, complete with beginning, middle and end, in the barest minimum of words. Some writers, like Raymond Carver and Alice Munro, have chosen to spend their working lives mastering it, eschewing the architectural rigours of producing a novel in favour of the watchmaker-like craft of short fiction. So as…
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THE CLEARING - out today in the UK
It's publication day!! Well, at least it is in the UK, The Clearing has actually been out in North America for a couple of weeks but I've been head down finishing Laughton book 3 as I was DETERMINED to finish it before The Clearing (Laughton 2) came out in the UK. Happily, I finished the first draft of next year's book…
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Originally posted on: Thu 14th Mar 2013
A short short story
There’s something very satisfying, and quite difficult, about achieving a whole story, complete with beginning, middle and end, in the barest minimum of words. Some writers, like Raymond Carver and Alice Munro, have chosen to spend their working lives mastering it, eschewing the architectural rigours of producing a novel in favour of the watchmaker-like craft of short fiction. So as…
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