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Hello! I am an old crone who very much enjoys reading SF, urban fantasy and horror. I write all sorts, some of it SF, urban fantasy and horror, a lot of it not. Sometimes I can even be funny, so I'm told. My short stories have appeared in the anthologies 'Cold Iron: Ghost Stories from the 21st Century' (Iron Press) and 'Science Fiction For Survival: An Archive For Mars' (Valley Press), as well as in magazines ranging from the literary magazine 'Dreamcatcher' to 'Writing Magazine' and 'The People's Friend' (the latter definitely not SF, urban fantasy or horror). I do regular local spoken word events, and needless to say there is a novel on the go. My new website is currently under construction, and you are cordially invited to come and have a peep at the blogs and free stories there. You can even go mad and sign up for my newsletter! Plus the usual social media stuff. All details below. Thanks for dropping in! (Oh, the picture is of my highly critical personal editor.)
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This beautiful piece of
Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 2021
This beautiful piece of enchantment is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
Read full commentPosted in Timely Leisure Spent With You
I hope he does! I sympathise
Posted on Fri, 26 Feb 2021
I hope he does! I sympathise with the distraction problem - I'm blaming lockdown, but I think it's really just my butterfly mind.
Read full commentPosted in Mr Alfred N.Muggins : Time Travel to the Time of Good Old King Henry
What a wonderful image -
Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 2021
What a wonderful image - capturing the day in a bottle to open when the magic is needed again. This is beautiful, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Timely Leisure Spent With You
Our priorities do change as
Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 2021
Our priorities do change as we get older, and this last year has made us re-evaluate what's important more than ever. There's a lovely feeling of peace in this poem, much appreciated at this time.
Read full commentPosted in An Older Age
I was in one of our local
Posted on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
I was in one of our local parks yesterday, thinking how glorious the birdsong sounded, so it's lovely to read this and find it so well captured in words. I love the fact that it's also for the young people in Myanmar. Beautiful poem.
Read full commentPosted in Getting Ready
Welcome to ABC Tales
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2021
I'm intrigued by this - I assume, from the intro on your page, that this is part of something longer? If you are open to feedback on the structure of the piece, I'd say maybe start with a bit more action or dialogue, rather than such a long...
Read full commentPosted in Lore
Marvellous poem, and I
Posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2021
Marvellous poem, and I absolutely love that video. I have a dim memory of seeing it before at some time. (I don't think there's any video with David Attenborough in that I haven't seen at some time!)
Read full commentPosted in Lyrebird
I think competitions are a
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
I think competitions are a good way of sharpening your focus and keeping to a word limit. I find it difficult to stop waffling in my stories, so it's a helpful discipline for me. And then when I get nowhere, I can reassure myself I'm only doing...
Read full commentPosted in The Banquet (Competition entry max 1,000 words)
I have no idea how you keep
Posted on Sun, 14 Feb 2021
I have no idea how you keep coming up with these marvellous pieces, each one enriching and heartbreaking. Wonderful image of the dwarf planets. A beautiful thing.
Read full commentPosted in The Opposite of Love
Very beautiful and, as others
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
Very beautiful and, as others have said, complex and rewarding many repeated reads. Such a worthy POD and POW! Your poems are always so enriching.
Read full commentPosted in After the Blizzard
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