Here's a link......

http://www.authonomy.com/Profile.aspx


To my page on the Harper Collins 'Authonomy' site, where aspiring writers can post their unpublished work. My novel, The Practical Woman's Guide to Living with the Undead, is there in its entirety----I describe the book as 'Divorce Lit with vampires'--it's a romantic fantasy for the reader ready to venture into the dark territory beyond the Aga!

To begin on a positive note......

I've had a short story accepted and it will be appearing in the anthology 'Loves Me, Loves Me Not' which is being published by Mira books in the Autumn of this year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Romantic Novelists Association---this is very exciting as, although I have had a few short stories accepted in the past by several small press publications, this will be my first appearance in a fully professional anthology, and I will be alongside such well known names as Katie Fforde and Joanna Trollope. My story is called 'Holiday Snaps' and was inspired by a rather dreadful trip to Leningrad that I went on in 1974, when I was still married to my first husband. All characters and incidents are, of course, fictitious and, unusually for me, the story doesn't include any ghosts or vampires......

Groans from My Garret

Saturday 7th March 2009

This blog will describe the tragedies and triumphs of an ageing, aspirant writer. If anyone doesn't like the sound of that, then maybe this blog isn't for you.... If, on the other hand, you like to read about literary endeavours, books and the slings and arrows of outrageous rejection letters, then read on....