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Available now for pre-order - MALIGN INTENT 27-01-2024

Posted by Robert Craven on Mon, 01 Jan 2024

Wishing you all a very happy & peaceful new year. Now that the dishes & champagne flutes are washed & stowed away. Now that the fireworks finale is lying around the garden, I'd like to let you kind readers know that my 10th (yes, hard to believe TENTH) novel - MALIGN INTENT is available for pre order now... The back page blurb "Tag, bag and bury the bastard, Crowe…” An August bank holiday should be about relaxation, taking time out...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 29 Dec 2023

Posted by airyfairy. The festive season is nearly over, which will be a matter of regret for some and considerable relief for others! I've always enjoyed what I gather we now call Twixmas - the decorations are still up but the pressure is over. And as ever, ABC writers have considerably enhanced my week. Story of the Week is Simon Barget's complex, entertaining and thought-provoking 'Lenny'. I can't go better than one commenter who described it...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 29 Dec 2023

The festive season is nearly over, which will be a matter of regret for some and considerable relief for others! I've always enjoyed what I gather we now call Twixmas - the decorations are still up but the pressure is over. And as ever, ABC writers have considerably enhanced my week. Story of the Week is Simon Barget's complex, entertaining and thought-provoking 'Lenny'. I can't go better than one commenter who described it as 'remarkable...

Amsterdam (2022), Prime, Written and Directed by David O. Russell.

Posted by celticman on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(2022_film) Amsterdam screenplay claims to be based ‘mostly on true events’. What it means by that is there was a first world war and a second world war and there is a place called Amsterdam. Hokum stretched thinly over two-and-a-quarter hours. Anyone that watched Scooby Doo knows how this film will end with those industrialists plotting against American democracy unmasked. It had me thinking there may be...

Full Filled: Etherial Serial by ABCTales' Ice Rivers - Out Now!

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Tue, 26 Dec 2023

I'm very pleased to announce that yet another of our very talented ABCTales writers has published a new book! This time it's Ice Rivers' Full Filled: Etherial Serial. Here's what he says: Welcome to the thrilling culmination of a journey like no other. "Fullfilled (Ethereal Serial)," the third and final book of the gripping trilogy by the master storyteller Ice Rivers, is here to captivate your imagination. In this remarkable conclusion, you...

Jan Murphy (2023) The Psychic Fairy Queen.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 25 Dec 2023

I’m blessed enough to have a roof over my head. Blessed enough to have light and warmth on Christmas Eve. Blessed enough to be able to sit and read The Psychic Fairy Queen from start to finish without interruption, other than the necessary gallons of tea. I used to love books like this. I was brought up in a big Catholic family. There’s a joke in there about a small Catholic family not being Catholic enough. Not much call for Gwyneth Paltrow’s...

I am a Witch, Prime, produced by Frankie Guerra and directed by Andrew Castruita.

Posted by celticman on Sun, 24 Dec 2023

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0B8SRF16V/ref=atv_hm_mys_c_cm9Ytn_1_16 Blurb: Witchcraft is mainstream. The rise of Witchcraft has been steadily rising and for good reason. Hear from practicing Witches on how being a modern day Witch is not what your parents warned you about. For better or worse, Witchcraft is here to stay. Reading is what I do. I’m reading (and enjoying) Jan Murphy (2023) The Psychic Fairy Queen . I’d guess she would...

Never did write for money anyway, my books are free

Posted by Justin Tuijl on Fri, 22 Dec 2023

I never was that interested in using writing as an income. In these days of so many people writing and self-publishing, that is ever more an unlikely thing anyway. So, just to say, my books are free on Smashwords They are on Amazon as ebooks and print books but you can't do free on Amazon and I'm not in the Kindle Unlimited club as my books aren't exclusive to Amazon.

Story of the Week, Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point 22 December 2023

Posted by Ewan on Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Story of the Week As always there are difficult choices to make. I enjoyed Justin Tuijl’s The Others , it read like silver age sci-fi, and if the lone inhabitant of a planet is a trope, well there are reasons for that: it’s a good way to create suspense or to explore what it is to be human. This story does that. Others I enjoyed included: Celticman’s Hellish Heaven Pts 1 & 2 SeanMcNulty (ABC’s own worthy successor to Flann O’Brien )‘s...

It's Beginning to Look..

Posted by marandina on Thu, 21 Dec 2023

It’s Beginning to Look… The truth is, I just love Christmas. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but, for me, it’s one of the things my parents did well. I am the eldest of four boys and…man….we were a pain on Christmas Day. We would only make it to 5.30am and then barrel down the stairs. Our Christmas tree was always awash with presents and we would open them in a jumble of arms and legs, wrapping paper flying in all directions. Mum and dad...

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