Bailey’s Writing Tips podcast ‘short stories’ episode number 32 went live today and contained four flash fiction pieces that have appeared on my blog as Flash Fiction Fridays. Do email me should you like to submit your own.
This episode contained: Blackbird by Jade Kennedy, The Letter by Jane Risdon, Why Me by Angela Watt, and Triumph by Joy V Smith.
See the links above to read the stories… or hear my dulcet tones on the podcast…
The podcast is already available via Google’s Feedburner and will be in the next few hours on iTunes, then Podbean (when it catches up), Podcasters (which takes even longer) or Podcast Alley (which doesn’t list the episodes but will let you subscribe).
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Jade Kennedy is a writer of poetry, prose and micro fiction and lives in East Yorkshire, England.
She has had her poetry in Poet and Geek, Rain Dogs, Eclectic Eel issues 1,2&3, Ether Books, Brevity Poetry Review, and included in the poetry anthology, ‘The Universe Inside’.
She writes a blog – ‘Borrowed Expressions’ at www.jadekennedywriter.blogspot.co.uk.
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Jane Risdon began writing seriously three years ago after a life spent in the International Music Industry where she managed recording artists, record producers and songwriters from all over the world.
Putting her own wishes to write on hold throughout her Music career had unseen benefits in that she has garnered a wealth of material for her stories. She now has time to write crime and mysteries and has three novels on the go at the moment. Another is a co-written novel with an award winning author and which she hopes will be published in 2014.
Jane has also had short stories published in various anthologies in aid of charity and has another anthology due out in 2014 involving authors from across the globe. She also writes flash fiction and her short stories and flash fiction stories have been published and pod-cast on the internet frequently. These stories are often, but not always, crime related and she often writes humorous short stories based on her observations of characters she has met or knew in the past – heavily disguised of course.
Married to a musician and being involved in the Music Industry for many years, travelling and living in many countries including SE Asia, China, USA and Europe, Jane draws on all her experiences for her writing.
You can find out more about Jane and her writing from:
- Facebook Author page: http://www.facebook.com/JaneRisdon2
- Author Blog on WordPress: http://janerisdon.wordpress.com
- Various publications and podcasts: https://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/?s=Jane+Risdon
- I Am Woman Anthology vol 1 available: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Woman-Anthology-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B00817P8DI / http://www.amazon.com/The-Woman-Anthology-Anthologies-ebook/dp/B00817P8DI
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At 48, Angela comes late (her words!) to the joys of creative writing, but has always been an avid reader. She is self-employed with a background in corporate HR and coaching and more recently copywriting work.
At some point she’d love to give it all up and earn a vast sum of money writing best-selling novels, although this may be a little way away as her first novel is still in production.
She lives in Nantwich, Cheshire with her husband, a very demanding cat and a sulky chicken called Sukie. She set up and contributes to a writing group at her local library which is just about to celebrate its first anniversary.
If you’d like to read more of her work, you can find her under the alibi Girlkatski on www.burrst.com and also through the following links:
- www.secondstepcoaching.co.uk
- http://mybeautifulvoyage.blogspot.com
- http://sharing.coachingandcakes.co.uk
- http://littlewritespace.blogspot.com
If you’d like to connect with her you can find her on Twitter @secondstepcoach or you can email her at angela@secondstepcoaching.co.uk
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Joy was born on a farm in Wisconsin and still love barns and the smell of silage (“an acquired taste,” she says). She lived in Boston after graduating from college, and is now back in Florida (not retired) where she spent some of her childhood.
After selling wildlife habitat in the country, she bought a foreclosure earlier this year and had to replace the kitchen, among other things. They’d even taken the kitchen sink! Thanks to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), which takes place each November, Joy’s now written three novels. She has three blogs:
- Her writing blog: http://pagadan.wordpress.com
- Her media blog: http://pagadan.livejournal.com
- Her house blog: http://pagadan.blogspot.com
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Thank you for downloading / listening to this short story episode – I hope you enjoyed it. The next episode will be another short stories episode in a fortnight’s time.
All the details of these episodes are listed on this blog’s Podcast Short Stories page and my email address to submit your stories is morgen@morgenbailey.com.
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We look forward to reading your comments.
Thanks so much Morgen for hosting me again. Really appreciated. I enjoyed hearing my story but I also enjoyed hearing the others too. It is a great chance to enjoy new authors and I loved the stories by Jade, Angela and Joy ( with whom I’ve had contact with on here before) and having them read aloud is a completely different experience to reading them oneself. Well done ladies, loved them. Good luck with your careers and thanks Morgen, as ever. You are a star.
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You’re very welcome, Jane. I love reading, and therefore, reading out, these stories. Shorts will always be my first love no matter how many novels I write (due to start no.8 next month).
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Good luck I gather you are going to do NaNoWriMo again. I am thinking about it but not sure I can manage it this time. Good luck. Thanks again. 🙂
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I am, yes. I don’t really have the time but I need NaNo to get me writing more than a short story, so do think some more, Jane. 🙂
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Oh, how exciting! Thanks for doing this podcast!!
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You’re very welcome, Margot. Thank you for listening. There are another 31 episodes (and before that writing tips) so hours of (hopefully) listening pleasure.
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Sincerely I like this episode a lot. I read “The Letter” by Jane Risdon last August and truly appreciated it, such an introspective story. Fortunately I was given the opportunity to discover other three interesting ones. Personally I do enjoy podcast experience because as foreign person it is a real pleasure to listen to some spoken English ( and a beautiful voice too!) and a nice way to find out stories I couldn’t have the chance to be aware of, by any other way.
Forgive my English and thank to all of you for writing, reading and allow me to be here.
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:*) Thank you very much, elisabaldi81 (and no need to apologise for your English).
PS… you might like to read a couple of my interviews which have been translated into Italian… 🙂
and perhaps an interview with an Italian crime publisher:
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Margo, thanks so much for the support. I know you have read this before, but still appreciate the effort to take time to listen. I hope you enjoyed the other stories too. I did.
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Elisa, thanks so much for your continued support and for taking the time to listen and comment. Really appreciated and so glad that we are all aiding your English. I really do enjoy our exchanges and wish I could speak Italian!! 🙂
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Jane, thanks!
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Most welcome Joy, enjoyed it no end as I do all your work. Happy to share the cast with you. Good luck. 🙂
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And thank you, Morgen, for giving me the opportunity to have another of my flash fiction stories in a podcast!!
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You’re very welcome, Joy. I’m always delighted to have the content.
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