ABCtales. Time to support Lavadis on Unbound.

Submitted by tcook on

Hi folks,

The third and final of our authors has now gone up on Unbound as we strive to gain funding for their books. Laurie Avadis has been a great supporter of ABCtales and his novel, 'Ex', was written on the site. It's a splendid tale of a 32 stone policeman who is determined to murder his son!

See the video, read and extract and support him if you wish here: http://unbound.co.uk/books/ex

the project.

Posted by celticman on Tue, 05 Aug 2014

I was out at the pub watching a Champions League match. (I won’t be saying that for a while.) Punters were crowding round the bar and the barmaid was looking through me as if I was made of glass. I bumped into Tam-who-will-remain nameless. ‘You’ll never believe it,’ he said. ‘Somebody’s put a video of somebody that looks like you up selling something?’ ‘What is it?’ I said. ‘Dunno,’ he said. ‘But it’s really funny.’ Neither of us laughed. ‘You...

Saturday Night Fever

Posted by celticman on Sun, 03 Aug 2014

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Finding the writer within

Posted by celticman on Sat, 02 Aug 2014

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Support Ewan Now!

Posted by tcook on Fri, 01 Aug 2014

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ABCtales Newsletter. Time to support Ewan, as well as Celticman!

Submitted by tcook on

Hi folks,

The second of our books on Unbound is now available to support. Ewan's Gibbous House is described as 'Victorian Psycho'. It owes a lot to Edgar Allen Poe, Dickens and a host of other great writers - but Ewan's knowledge and skill takes the genre on to new places.

Story and Poem of the Week - and an Inspiration Point!

Posted by tcook on Fri, 01 Aug 2014

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Unbound-ed Opportunity Knocking: Gibbous House

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Catholic church, primary-school kids and black baby scandal

Posted by celticman on Wed, 30 Jul 2014

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