ABCtales Critiquing Service - good reports!

Posted by tcook on Mon, 26 Mar 2012

Over the years many of you have asked for a critiquing service and it has taken a long time to find (a) someone good enough to do it well and (b) someone who will charge what we regard as a reasonable fee. Finally, we've done it! Lorraine Mace is a freelance writer, columnist and tutor for the Writers Bureau. Winner of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition (comic verse category), Lorraine's fiction, features and humour have appeared...

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Chris Hammer (2024 [2023]) Cover the Bones.

Posted by celticman on Wed, 28 May 2025

Cover the Bones was brought out as The Seven in Chris Hammer’s native Australia. The Seven refers to the founding fathers and elite of Yuwonderie. By founding fathers I don’t mean black folk. I mean the elite that committed genocide or paid a pittance for land belonging to the natives. I learned a new word. Squattocracy. When the seven founding fathers had been there long enough, the land they stole was legalised. Much like wealth or water...

Ex-ABC-er Doing Well

Posted by Ewan on Tue, 27 May 2025

Some of you will remember Joe Dunthorne, who used to write on here as (ahem, apologies, they were different days) "Spack": Joe's career took flight in 2008 with the publication of Submarine, (I have an image of a flying submarine in my head now ... sorry about that) which was made into a pretty good film, although Joe's book is/was better. Anyway, Joe has three novels published now and a poetry collection, but has taken a leap this year into non...

'Dead Reckoning' by Philip Whiteland. Out Today!

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Mon, 26 May 2025

For all Archibald and Josiah fans (and I know we have many on ABCTales), I'm very pleased to announce that Dead Reckoning by Philip Whiteland is available today in paperback and can be ordered with this link: https://mybook.to/DRPrint

Michiko Aoyama (2023) What are you looking for in the library, translated from Japanese to English by Alison Watts.

Posted by celticman on Mon, 26 May 2025

Reading is what I do. So what are you looking for in the library sounds like my kind of book. If, like former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, you argue there is no such thing as society then this is not for you. Existential nihilism it is not. In Michiko Aoyam’s novel everything is connected and everyone has a purpose but they might just need that little nudge to find their destiny. The beating heart of the book is Sayuri Komachi. She is...

Does God Want Us All to Be Rich?

Posted by mallisle on Sun, 25 May 2025

Blessings for obedience to God were promised to Israel thousands of years ago, before the time of Jesus. It is dangerous to take promises from the Old Testament and apply them to ourselves. Israel was very much God's chosen nation. We are not God's chosen nation. The church might be the people of God but even then, it is unlikely that all the promises made to Israel would equally apply to us. Before the time of Christ also means that they are...

Imbolo Mbue (2022) How Beautiful We Were

Posted by celticman on Fri, 23 May 2025

Kosawa is a mythical village in Africa, a kind of utopia were people lived free and easy before oil was discovered. It brings immense wealth. None of it trickles down to the villagers Instead their rivers are polluted and they can no longer fish. Their land is similarly poisoned. Young children, in particular, die. But the villagers were told by the oil company representatives, Pexton, that everything was being done that could be done. Any...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 23 May 2025

Posted by onemorething: Another fine week of tales and poems. This week's Story of the Week is jolono's excellent Life Lessons Number 3 with Butch which was evocative and sad and layered. https://www.abctales.com/story/jolono/10-life-lessons-number-3 Thus week's Poem of the Week is Jessiibear's lovely Sea-Salt. https://www.abctales.com/story/jessiibear/sea-salt Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have...

Rhubarb, Rhubarb

Posted by Ewan on Fri, 23 May 2025

This may be of interest particularly to those of us "Up North" Bradford 2025 Rhubarb Poetry Comp Closes July '25.

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