Bailey’s Writing Tips podcast ‘short stories’ episode number thirty-sixth went live today and contained three flash fictions and a batch of 6-worders, that have appeared on my blog as Flash Fiction Fridays. Do email me should you like to submit your own.
This episode contained the fifth batch of 6-word stories, The Unspoken Middle by Diane Corriette, Revenge by Jane Risdon, and D’Santa by Annie Ireson.
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See the links above to read the stories… or hear my dulcet tones on the podcast.
The podcast is available via Google’s Feedburner (there immediately), iTunes (within an hour or so of launch), 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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Biographies of the authors of the three longer flash fictions:
Diane Corriette writes flash fiction and poetry over at her blog Pen and I. Although she has been writing for years and currently writes and sells non-fiction eBooks on self-confidence she has only recently (November 2012) decided to start writing fiction (her hidden passion for many years) and published “The Last Hut and 29 other flash fiction stories” in October 2013. Diane lives in Bedfordshire, England, with her youngest son – two of her three children have now left home – and her cat Mollie. You can find her on all the usual social media hangouts and over at her blog, http://penandi.com. You can purchase her book (also available on Kindle) at http://thelasthut.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 those and her short 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:
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Annie Ireson lives in Kettering, Northamptonshire and works full-time at the local council offices. For many years she harboured what her husband and three children always referred to as a dirty little secret. In her spare time she was as likely to be found tapping away on a keyboard as she was with her head buried deep within the pages of a book, but even some members of her family never knew she was a secret writer.
In 2008, after writing a 200k word family saga, she poked her head out of the writing closet. With what can only be described as pure terror, she submitted her manuscript to agents. After being advised to split the saga into a trilogy, Annie almost secured a publishing deal in 2009. A literary agent advised her to “go and write another book”. Annie is still seeking a traditional route to publication for the trilogy.
Since writing ‘The White Cuckoo’, her fourth novel, Annie has completed the first draft of a fifth and started writing her sixth – a political drama entitled ‘The Fourteenth Traitor’.
Annie has also written a number of short stories, one of which won a gold award in a national competition in 2008, and another that was included in a charity anthology in 2012. She has also had a short story accepted for publication by a women’s magazine. Annie’s website is https://annieye.wordpress.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 four weeks’ 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.
The podcast is available via Google’s Feedburner (there immediately), iTunes (within an hour or so of launch), 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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Welcome to Flash Fiction Friday and the one hundred and twenty-second piece in this series. This week’s is the seventh bunch of 6-word stories by a variety of authors (up to three per author), together with their 6-word biographies! These stories will be podcasted in episode 38 (with three <500-word stories) on Sunday 22nd March.
Morgen 'with an E' Bailey 