… the next book (you are eagerly awaiting it, aren’t you?) may be interested to hear that I have a new short story available FREE (for the Scots among you) at the Writers’ Hub, to keep you happy while you wait*.
Meanwhile, those of you with writerly ambitions of your own – and, after all, who wouldn’t want a career that leaves you impoverished, cold, sedentary, solitary and ever so slightly deranged – might want to check out the Hub itself, which is still finding its feet but shaping up to be a useful source of reviews, resources, poetry, fiction and the rest.
And for those of you hoping for another installment of this thrilling tale of country life: watch this space (‘you haven’t posted yet,’ complained the other half just now. ‘How could I, nothing happened today?’ I replied. ‘That’s never stopped you in the past…’)
*not, ahem, that it’s important at all, but I couldn’t help noticing that the other short story had a few more page views than mine…
It always good to read your short stories, and yes I’m looking forward to the next book!
I’ll give the Writer’s Hub a mention in a forthcoming post. xx
I’ll say the same thing to you I said to Peter F Hamilton (well, OK, I said it out loud as I have no was of hassling him, but if I did I would have said it to him): Stop faffing with short stories and write the new book
Had I known in advance I would have also told him not to get backed into a corner with his trilogy, fail to come up with a proper ending and end up with a naff final book and a disappointed me (something that Authur C Clarke is also guilty off) but I’m not sure that applied to you
Moaning out of the way I will say I love the price point. Will check it out on my next day off.
Flighty – thanks. It’s set up by Birkbeck, where I did my MA, so it’s nice to give them a bit of link love back
Dom – to be fair, the short stories and the books don’t generally come from the same well.
Just read your story, I found that it drew me into the outback immediately. Do you think you might develop it further ? I often take note of improbable and sometimes terrible news stories and think “that would make a great hook for a novel”, I was reminded of this whilst reading as I suddenly remembered the Peter Falconio case, I think that was his name, the chap who was murdered in Oz and his girlfriend escaped.
Anyway I enjoyed reading your story and wanted more.
Ooh, good stuff. I’ve just upped your page views by one, at least. Poor old roo. It’s horrible having to deal with something like that. My brother once hit a deer and then had to dispatch the poor bugger. Horrid, but kinder than leaving it.
Paul – thanks. I hadn’t thought about taking it any further, but who knows what may suggest itself
Katja – cheers (actually I think I get one hit per page, so assuming you didn’t give up half way, that should be at least 5). ‘Twas based on a real kangaroo, sadly.
Yup! You get one hit per page.
Your competi…, erm, colleague has three more pages and will therefore achieve some thirty-blah-de-blah percent more hits than you per complete read.
This, in my humble opinion, is savagely unfair and simply rewards the kind of tortuously languid prose that I’m perfectly capable of producing myself.
It is also so badly coded that it doesn’t distinguish unique page hits. So…I made a point of “reading” your first page an extra three times.
R::B – cheers! A true IT person’s response…
Eeek, a very well described account of an incident i was hoping to forget (though can’t and probably never will). Will your next story be about the camping trip that followed?
yeah, sorry about that!