Just a quick note to say that I have just released one of my stories as a free e-book. It is formatted to be suitable for reading in iBooks or any other e-reader which can access the ePub format. PDF and mobi (Kindle) versions are also available.
Titled Paradise Lost, the story deals with Ellie, who in fleeing the collapse of civilization has found herself facing a terrible choice.
The story is just one of 30 included in my new book A Torrent of Story., which also includes extensive commentary on the creative writing process and is suitable as a text for any creative writing class, or simply as a really useful guide for any aspiring writer.
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I’m very pleased to announce that my new book, A Torrent of Story, subtitled How I wrote an original short story every day for a month and how you can too, is now available for sale both from my own web site in ePub, PDF and mobi formats, or from the Amazon Kindle Store.
The book contains 30 original pieces of fiction all written by myself in a single month, together with extensive commentary about the creative development and writing process. It’s an extremely useful text for any creative writing course, or for any aspiring writer.
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UPDATE! All of these stories are now available in a new e-book which also includes detailed commentary on each story, covering how I came up with the idea and how I then structured the story. It’s a great guide for aspiring writers.
The book is called A Torrent of Story, or How I wrote an original short story every day for a month, and how you can too. It’s available at a very modest price either from my website or from the Amazon Kindle Store .
Read more…
UPDATE! All of these stories are now available in a new e-book which also includes detailed commentary on each story, covering how I came up with the idea and how I then structured the story. It’s a great guide for aspiring writers.
The book is called A Torrent of Story, or How I wrote an original short story every day for a month, and how you can too. It’s available at a very modest price either from my website or from the Amazon Kindle Store .
This is my contribution for Day 30 – the final day! – of the G+ Flash Fiction Project event organized by Becky Raymond which challenged writers to write a short piece of fiction each day during November 2011, based on a stimulus photograph or image.
Today’s image was provided by Dave Beckerman.

This is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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