I was pleased to see two short stories in the UK That's Life Summer special. Don't get too excited though as I contacted them and was told by smeone in reader's services that they've had a change of policy and won't be continuing with the fiction. Sigh.
Who makes these decisions and why - and is there anything we can do to convince them that readers do want fiction in their magazines?
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Monday, 23 May 2016
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
The tears of an editor
This comment appears with my story 'Letting Go' in the 31st May issue of Woman's Weekly. The feedback I got from Clare (assistant fiction editor) was that it nearly made her and Gaynor Davies cry. Very shortly before I'd had a different story rejected for being too sad. It's hard to get the balance right, isn't it?
Do you like writing or reading tear-jerkers?
Got any thoughts on what makes a story a tear-jerker in a good way, rather than being depressing?
Do you like writing or reading tear-jerkers?
Got any thoughts on what makes a story a tear-jerker in a good way, rather than being depressing?
Monday, 2 May 2016
Shhhh
OK, this isn't strictly (or at all) womag, but I'm hoping that if I type really quietly, I'll get away with it ... My novel Paint Me A Picture is on sale this week for 99p / 99c.
It's one of those hard to describe, not really in any genre books. It's not historical, romance, erotica, fantasy or action. I could almost call it 'coming of age' except the lead character is 53. There are deaths, a police presence and inquest, but it's not exactly a crime story. I wish 'books with lots of food in' was a genre, because that'd fit all my novels.
Just to bring a hint of womag to this post, here's a link to another of my books which does contain a couple of womag stories and which is FREE.
It's one of those hard to describe, not really in any genre books. It's not historical, romance, erotica, fantasy or action. I could almost call it 'coming of age' except the lead character is 53. There are deaths, a police presence and inquest, but it's not exactly a crime story. I wish 'books with lots of food in' was a genre, because that'd fit all my novels.
Just to bring a hint of womag to this post, here's a link to another of my books which does contain a couple of womag stories and which is FREE.