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My new book is now available on Amazon. It's a collection of 25 short stories. Some have been on here and some haven't. Some I've brought back to life and given them a bit of a twist. I was always worried of losing them somewhere, I recently moved house and couldn't find my external hardrive( where I keep all my writing), for weeks. Once I found it I thought, why don't I publish them and then they'll always be out there! Hope you like them! Here...

It’s less than twenty-four hours since I watched one of the best Heavyweight contests in a long time. The Bronze Bomber v The Gypsy King, come on, it sounds like it’s straight out of a feature film! The Bronze Bomber is a black American from Alabama whose real name is Deontay Wilder. He won the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur. He’s now 6ft 7inches, unbeaten in 40 fights and won most of them by knocking his opponents senseless. He...

Five years ago today I wrote about a fight. Mayweather v Alvarez. https://www.abctales.com/blog/jolono/mayweather-v-alvarez Alvarez was just 23 back then and very much “the new kid on the block”. The young Mexican was unbeaten, talented, quick hands and was fast becoming a superstar. Mayweather was already a superstar. At 36 he was the biggest thing in Boxing. That fight saw Mayweather give young Canelo Alvarez a lesson in Boxing. How to hit and...

I set myself a challenge for November. Write a story a day. 30 Stories in 30 days. Minimum 500 words. I failed! Miserably. I wrote 20. I hadn't taken into account there might be a few problems along the way. Like having Gout twice during November, oh and four days of man flu. But it has got me writing again and that's a good thing. I kind of dried up a bit and found myself being too busy to sit down and tap away at the keyboard. Now I'm tapping...

The Competition was inspired by a good friend of mine, The Gentle Author. He has a daily blog called Spitalfields Life. He also produces the most wonderful books, all with London as their main theme. I managed to get hold of a couple of copies of his best- selling book “The London Album” and thought they would make great prizes for a London based competition. The entries were, as expected, of the highest quality. We had the hustle and bustle of...

Just a quick reminder. the London Competition ends at midnight tonight. No entries will be accepted after that time. All details are on this link. http://www.abctales.com/blog/tcook/new-abctales-competition Go on! Great prizes to be won. Just £2 per entry. Good luck!

The entries so far have been coming in thick and fast. There is just one week to go ( deadline is midnight 13th August). All details can be found on this link. http://www.abctales.com/blog/tcook/new-abctales-competition Just £2 per entry and there will be a winner for best Poetry and best Prose. The prize is a copy of The Gentle Author's "London Album" and a copy of my own book "The East End Butcher Boy". That's £30 worth of books in total. As...

The London Competition! 2 Books to be won. The Gentle Authors London Album and my own not quite so great East End Butcher Boy! Just £2 an entry ( See home page). Anything about London is welcome. Prose or Poetry it makes no difference. I want to know what you think about London, How you feel about London ( Celticman, I already know what you think, but have a go anyway!). I want to hear stories and poems about London. Sights, smells, sounds.....

What a week for poems and prose. But there always has to be a winner ( or winners) in this case. Story Of The Week goes to The Other Terrence Oblong for THE STOAT PROBLEM. It's clever, witty and with the great style that TOTO has in bucketfulls! I loved it. http://www.abctales.com/story/other-terrence-oblong/stoat-problem As for Poem Of The Week, there was a stand out piece from Philip Sydney. SHALL I BE MOTHER is a triumph of delicate memories...

Wow, what a week for Poems and Prose. But Story of the week has to go to Storygirl95. I loved this http://www.abctales.com/story/storygirl95/light-shines-even-darkness And the Poem of the week has to be by Slaughter. http://www.abctales.com/story/fidud/slaughter Now then. Inspiration Point is going to be about Horses! Tomorrow is the Grand National.. Love it or hate it I want to know what you feel about HORSES! So Anyhing about these great...