(Un)seasonal greeting!

Womag news

Thanks to Babs Trevitt who spotted this on Twitter – I'm glad she did as I'm not on it and so wouldn't have known. In case you can't read the small print it says The People's Friend have now chosen all their Christmas stories, won't be keeping those they have on file, and you can resubmit them next year. Babs was told next years' Christmas submissions can be sent from 1st June.

I've heard through the grapevine that a new fiction editor has been appointed for My Weekly.
 

Free entry competition news

This competition is for playwrights from anywhere in the word, as long as they write in English and produce a minimum of 65 pages and the work hasn't been previously professionally produced. (I guess there's a standard definition of a page and I can't just write 'Nobody wanted him so he exited stage left, chased by midges and a Highland cow' in really big letters.) Prize is $10,000.

There's still time to have a go at my blue photo competition.

My news

I'm at the cathedral in Old Portsmouth 2- 5 today, helping to sell books on behalf of the Portsmouth Authors' Collective. Do come and say hello if you're in the area.

Two of my cosy crime novels are currently reduced to 99p / 99c. These are Acting Like A Killer and Disguised Murder and Community Spirit in Little Mallow. Offer ends 7th August.

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