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Ink Dreams is coming!

The long-awaited release of the new anthology from Authors Tale – Ink Dreams – is nearly here. I am so excited for my two latest stories to be published. The historical fiction I am having published in Ink Dreams is ‘Where Dreams Die’. I’m really proud of this one, and it was […]

How long is a short story?

Trying to work out some process for my (now) anthology of my historical fiction works based on the immigration journeys, and very early life in Australia, of my ancestors, I needed to work out just how long I could get away with for a short story. The way I put […]

Heart of a child

Busy, busy, busy with NaNoWriMo but had to take the time out for the big announcement: I will have two stories in the upcoming anthology from Authors’ Tale! The two stories are Tell Us a Story, Pa and Goodnight – and God Be With You All. Very proud to have been selected […]

So how long is a book?

When I was trying to decide if I could, in fact, write 50,000 words in stories for the medieval period, I went Google searching to see just what that looked like. In the process, I came across a great article outlining some reasons why you might be best to keep […]

Ya gotta have a good plot!

In the writers group I am in, Authors’ Tale, we are in our first week of workshopping short stories for our up-and-coming anthology. I am having a ball reading the work of fellow authors! This week we are looking at plot: does it flow, does it make sense, is it plausible, […]