Healthy career as author; no idea how broadly fortune smiled when first book was published. ST best seller two weeks and it wasn’t even my idea. More here on: Randomness of publishing tinyurl.com/4rp78amt #WritingCommmunity #Readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

Publication day has arrived for Alan Bennett's new story, Killing Time - a joint release with Faber Books. As a special treat, enjoy a snippet of Alan reading the audiobook, and get your copy from all good bookshops today.

Healthy career as author; no idea how broadly fortune smiled when first book was published. ST best seller for two weeks and it wasn’t even my idea. More here on: The randomness of book publishing tinyurl.com/4rp78amt #WritingCommmunity #Readers #scattyweeklycolumn

Authors en route to publication will be familiar with the structural edit. I was not when The Draftsman was being sorted out. Here’s what happens. A Structural Edit: Thankyou Helen Francis wp.me/pbzlXw-md #WritingCommmunity#Readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

Hysteria is a short story about how abusers can work their horrors. wp.me/pbzlXw-ID #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday was on the 16th October. Here is how the Oscar Wilde Society celebrated him. Enjoy! wp.me/pbzlXw-IA #WritingCommmunity #Readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

Part two of The Bees in the Chimney, written for the High Weald Beekeepers Association newsletter. Part one is on laurellindstrom.org and is called Living. Makes sense to read it first. Enjoy! wp.me/pbzlXw-It #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

What do the onset of winter and the awfulness of the news have in common? How they affect us. More here in this scatty weekly column. wp.me/pbzlXw-Ig #writingcommunity #readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

Hysteria is a short story about how abusers can work their horrors. wp.me/pbzlXw-ID #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

Part two of The Bees in the Chimney, written for the High Weald Beekeepers Association newsletter. Part one is on laurellindstrom.org and is called Living. Makes sense to read it first. Enjoy! wp.me/pbzlXw-It #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

What do the onset of winter and the awfulness of the news have in common? How they affect us. More here in this scatty weekly column. wp.me/pbzlXw-Ig #writingcommunity #readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

A short story about what the sea can hear and some of the stories it might tell. wp.me/pbzlXw-I5 #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

Hysteria is a short story about how abusers can work their horrors. wp.me/pbzlXw-ID #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday was on the 16th October. Here is how the Oscar Wilde Society celebrated him. Enjoy! wp.me/pbzlXw-IA #WritingCommmunity #Readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

This short story, Cheers!, was written for Mia Botha’s Deadlinesforwriters.com website. It’s about how parents make the wrong assumptions about their children. The vanity of it. wp.me/pbzlXw-GB #WritingCommmunity #Readers #shortstories #booktwitter

I am leaving Twitter and moving to BlueSky: Thanks for all the goodwill and support. bsky.app

Loss is as real now as it was when it happened. That’s a joy of some sort. wp.me/pbzlXw-Gr #writingcommunity #readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter #colinbowden

The I-405 not an obvious topic for a blog, but this piece might entertain you or at least give pause for thought. wp.me/pbzlXw-FI #writingcommunity #readers #scattyweeklycolumn #booktwitter

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