There are likeable and unlikeable characters in fiction and Ben Stephens is one of the latter, although it wasn’t always that way for me. At the beginning of Dark Fragments we meet a family man who dotes on his children and loves his wife. Quite rightly Ben is still grieving the death of his first wife, Alice, […]
Christmas means different things to different people. This is shown to great effect in The Twelve Days, a terrific anthology of short stories and poetry from the students of Central College Nottingham’s Intermediate Creative Writing course. Just Good Friends by N G Walters – right from the start of this story the descriptions are vivid, […]
Once upon a time there was a woman who wrote a trilogy and then thought she’d turn her hand to a standalone. Attempting a first draft in three months, deadlines (although self imposed, I know!) flashed past as she failed to meet them. Three months eventually became five and then one day, one day folks […]
There are many reasons why someone writes a book and for this author it was the death of his father that was the trigger for him to start telling his story in A Minger’s Tale which is in the form of a memoir, and this, as the subtitle promises, covers the early days of his […]
The voices in my head all have different accents… I’m assuming this is the same for everyone? Right? Coming from the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire area of England my natural voice doesn’t have any accent to it – anyone who knows me can correct me on this but it just sounds flat and dull to me. Despite being […]
I was attracted to Pigeon-Blood Red by reading another review for it, which shows that reviews do exactly what they should, and I was then asked to read and review the book by the Whispering Stories Review Blog. The main man in this story is Rico, the no nonsense enforcer of gangster, Frank Litvac. Due […]
Some of my most creative thoughts happen when on a dog walk, as do my best conversations with my dog-walking buddy. So I thought I’d invite some of my author friends along to join me and my girls and see if I can find out a little more about them and the book they’ve just […]
This review for Face Value has been delayed as I have made myself put off writing anything else until a certain word count was reached in my work in progress. I’m writing slowly, it seems each word is having to be dragged from the depths of my soul but the numbers are gradually edging upwards […]
As you may know I’m writing at the moment and being incredibly strict I told myself I couldn’t post my scheduled got-to-be-out-on-the-1st-of-the-month blog post until a certain word count had been reached. I am dreadfully behind my own self-imposed deadline *sigh* so this is why it is the 13th before my supposedly ‘regular’ post is […]
What Tim Knows features six short stories which all have links with this author’s novel, What Jennifer Knows, but you do not have to have read that (as I haven’t, yet!) to enjoy this, as each of these stories is complete in itself. The stories cover five decades, all are very well written and each […]
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