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The February 2010 issue of ABCtales Magazine is now available as a free download from:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/abctales-magazine/files

(Click on ABC18.pdf)

March 4th is the date for release of the 100 stories for Haiti.

It's selling for £11.99 plus p and p and all monies made are going to the Red Cross for work in Haiti.

Order your copy now:

Flash 500 Competition is a new quarterly, open-themed, flash fiction competition. Judged by Simon Whaley, it has a closing date of 31st March 2010. Entries of up to 500 words.

Details are here:

They're all here:

http://www.abctales.com/node/587614

These are Tony Cook's picks and he hopes that you have enjoyed them as much as him.

Story:

Sikander's 'Stargazing': http://www.abctales.com/story/sikander/stargazing

Many thanks to Lorraine Mace for pointing up Words With Jam to me. It's a free online publication stuffed full of interesting stuff for writers and readers.

ABCtales Editor is tcookabctales on Twitter and he will be posting a recommendation for a story or poem each day on there.

Do join him!

You can join us on Facebook too, right there:

Felicity Shakespeare reads her latest story, The Contingency, on ABCtalesRadio: http://www.abctalesradio.com/stories/the_contingency/play.htm

ABCtales Editor Tony Cook casts his eye over Tim Clare's first major book:

ABCtales Editor Tony Cook reviews Mcmanaman's first major book:

The August 2009 issue of ABCtales Magazine is now available free to download from:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/abctales-magazine

The winning entries in our Red Dress/Park Bench writing competition have now been recorded and can be heard on ABCtales Radio here:

http://www.abctalesradio.com/short_story_writers_and_poets.htm

Title: Beyond Big Willow

Author: Valerie McKinley

ISBN: 9780955896316

Cost (UK): £7.50

Publishers description:

We Can't All Be Astronauts by Tim Clare (our very own rokkitnite) has just been published by Ebury Press. There is a link to the Amazon sales page at the end of this article.

One of our very long standing ABCtales contributers, macmanaman, has got his first book out this week. It's called 'Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio' by John Osborne.

FTSE100's Gorblimey Trousers is the latest prose offering on ABCtalesRadio. Find it here:

http://www.abctalesradio.com/stories/gore-blimey/play.htm

Great News! Richard Aronowitz-Mercer has had his novel 'It's Just The Beating Of My Heart' accepted by Flambard Press for publication in early 2010.

ABCtales Editor Tony Cook reviews the new children's book by Corinne Davies with illustrations by ABCtaler El Ashfield:

We've had a bit of a spate of multiple postings of late so I'd just like to re-iterate that the rule is: no more than three postings a day.

'Me and Mickie James' by our very own Drew Gummerson is now out and available for purchase.

ABCtales Editor, Tony Cook, reviews it here: