My favourite reply was... Well, it was impossible to pick just one, so joint first place goes to –
the third one down beginning "Against her better judgement," (and not just because that sums up quite a few of my life choices) the one giving me the great suggestion of "Dastardly Deeds and Delightful Decadence" for another book in my cosy mystery series and the one advising drinking a Tequila Sunrise as the safest option.
They were all really good though. If you've not read them, click here and scroll through the comments. You should always read the comments - they're definitely the best part of this blog.
The writers of the above mentioned gems win their choice of ebook download from my Slightly Spooky Stories series. Please email me at patsycollins53@yahoo.com to say which you'd like. Fee free to say which was yours in the comments, if you'd like to.
What really happened is that I had the phone in the pocket of my very blue trousers. Gary and I were walking, and talking about a variety of subjects including voice activated technology and panoramic photography. We discovered my phone had taken a panoramic photo of my pocket. I don't have anything voice activated on it, and the camera app wasn't open. Nothing was. To take the picture myself, I'd have had to enter my six digit password, select the camera app, chosen pano mode and press start. Weird, eh?
Womag news
The new fiction editor at My Weekly is Sian Dolan. There's no change to the 'closed list' situation, but there are other changes. If you're one of those who can submit to this market, read the latest guidelines carefully!
Free entry competition news
Here's an interesting travel writing competition. You're invited to recount a journey in the footsteps of a literary hero. I like visiting the locations of books I've enjoyed - does that count? The first prize is publication and $300. There's an option to pay rather a lot of money to have your entry assessed. That might be worthwhile to anyone interested in submitting work to the organisers, but it's not a requirement of entry.
I mentioned travel, which as you've probably realised by now, means you get a random selection of photos from my trips.
This one is for poems on the theme of togetherness. There's a £500 prize - and a (free) 32 page manual on the theme, which it might be advisable to read before you write.
I'm probably going to pass on those two, but I am working on entries for some competitions I've mentioned over the last month or so.
3 comments:
Thanks as always Patsy.
Love the true blue story and all the comments!
Feel free to delete this comment and just amend the post, but the poetry competition this year is actually on the theme of 'Decolonising Minds and Shared Identities'. I'm not even quite sure what that means this early in the morning! 🤪 https://www.togethernesspoetrychallenge.org/2025-poetry-challenge
Brilliant well done winners, you'd nearly think there were some creative writers there....oh wait! But as is often the case fact is stranger than fiction, how weird and scary, Patsy.
Many congratulations to the winners, well deserved! Strange and slightly frightening how the photograph managed to take itself. Having read Jenny's comment on the theme for one of the above comps, I have no idea what it means either without the intake of very strong coffee. So, it's a no from me!
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