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HISTORICAL: Euphoria – Lily King
From My Bookshelf by Lynn Willoughby: Euphoria ~ Lily King This one deals with a love triangle for three anthropologists in the jungles of New Guinea. Having read about Margaret Mead for years, there is no doubt that Nell in this book is based heavily on this wonderful woman. It is the 1930s and Andrew…
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…Authors… you are your WURK… your WURK is you…
…here’s a wee reflective piece, targeted mainly for my Author pals, but many of our dear and invaluable readerships will no doubt understand it, too… one of the weirdest things to grasp as a new scribbler is the sum’time-elusive ‘Author’s Voice’… that quality which seeps into and exudes from yer writing… identifying the Writer by…
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POLITICAL: Us Conductors – Sean Michaels
From My Bookshelf by Lynn Willoughby: Us Conductors ~ Sean Michaels This novel by Canadian Sean Michaels won the 2014 Giller Prize. However, this doesn’t always mean it is a great read for me. Often the prose is excellent but the story is very esoteric. This one is a living history of the jazz age…
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Author Interview with J. New on her Latest Book – ‘Sophia – Stone Magic Book One’
First, tell me a little about your book and why you wanted to write this particular story…. I’ve always been a lover of magic and fantasy, in both the written word and on the big and small screens. I grew up with the likes of Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Witch Mountain. Now…
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Christmas baubles are jolly, festive – aren’t they?
Here is a seasonal tale taken from my collection of short stories and poems entitled JUST A MOMENT. Christmas baubles, the symbol of joy, peace, goodwill – or are they? The Sinister Bauble By Sherrie Lowe I am ambivalent towards Christmas. It is stereotypically the time of love, joy, peace and goodwill, the time of…
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General Fiction: Protest – Janet Gogerty
It started with a bumble bee and ended with the saving of a whale; thousands of signatures on the petition protesting to Sea Worlds in U.S.A. for keeping Killer Whales in captivity. Saving the World from my computer was simple and addictive, till the day the door bell rang. I thought they were Mormons, two…
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This Christmas present is payback!
This is the title story from my collection of the same name. The Journey By Sherrie Lowe The December sunshine slants straight in through my windscreen as I turn the key in the ignition. I’ll be heading west so I suppose it will sear into my eyes until it sinks below the horizon, then the resulting sunset…
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HISTORICAL: War Baby – Robert James Bridge
Contributed by: Robert James Bridge 1 To put into 800 words a lifetime’s experiences would, I am afraid, be almost impossible and at the age of seventy seven it becomes even harder, but I will of course try to install into the world today how, as a war baby and at seven years old, how…
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HISTORICAL: The Baker’s Daughter – Sarah McCoy
From My Bookshelf by Lynn Willoughby: The Baker’s Daughter ~ Sarah McCoy[break] A World War II novel from a different perspective. The location is in Garmish Germany, the protagonist is Elsie, a baker’s daughter who is seventeen and waiting for her life to begin. Her friendship with Josef Hub, a rising star in the army…
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No Time Like the Present
There’s no time like the present, especially for authors. How long does the present last; a year, a week, a day, a second? My novel ‘Brief Encounters of the Third Kind’ was set in the present; that was where I intended it to remain. I did not want to name a year; the characters lived in London and…
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HUMOUR: An Underling Love – Riley J. Froud
Foreword: This story is about the world and some of the characters from the book John Sharpe: No. 1,348 but it in no away affects or is affected by reading said book and is set many years before the book. A long time ago, in a land far away, there was an almost handsome young…
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Interview with Jo Rodrigues (writing as Jo Roderick)
Interview with Jo Rodrigues (also writing as Jo Roderick) Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing? Grow up? Don’t be ridiculous! What a preposterous idea. What’s the story behind your latest book? I decided that I should immediately stop writing books that people didn’t want to read, and opt…
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