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The Fictional Fifties: welcome to my author website.
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The Leiston Riddle
‘Oh my GOD — why us!!!’ Shirley looked back towards the caff — only ten minutes ago they had been purchasing a take away drink as if they were care free holiday makers who had left the stresses and strains of working life well behind them. It was unmistakable though, the girl was staring straight…
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I go ‘viral’
about time too! Who sold over 1,000 copies of their debut self-published novel ‘Case Closed Monday’?! I did… 669 people saw fit to comment on this via ‘Threads’ – and they say the internet is ‘negative’. Other than that I have been applying to The Arts Council – I fancy a research trip to the…
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Go slow!
Sometimes life has a way of slowing us down even though we would rather it didn’t. In actual fact setting up my new computer is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. I journaled consistently through October but it was all horrifically personal – I don’t think I can look back at it.…
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Early on in the fictional fifties
It was my birthday at the end of September hence the radio silence, I found myself journaling a lot over this time – something about getting older that lends itself to self-reflection maybe?!
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Quilty as charged!
I write crime fiction and have thus far been able to publish my work on my own using Amazon and social media marketing. My next project will be ‘The Leiston Riddle’ – this is the story of Maggie and Jake two teens who become inadvertently involved with a murder investigation headed up by DCI Mike Doggett:- DCI Mike…
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I’ve been stealing myself
in that I know I’ve got to keep on writing…about what and whom is less clear… I studied film-making at University – well it was really a Polytechnic and I was the awkward girl who didn’t seem very awkward compared to the other students. In fact one of the technicians straight out asked me ‘What…
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Knife in the Water
I don’t tend to find current affairs very uplifting but I did find myself taking in that a super yacht has gone down off the coast of Sicily and that two bodies have been recovered. There followed a bland description of a rescue operation that couldn’t really have been less evocative (Radio 2 – I…
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Magical realism – Firefly
The divine heat haze of the day will soon ebb into the cool of a summer’s evening notwithstanding the bathroom towel rail still emitting a steady 45 degrees Celsius all the better to dry my new swim wear. Secondly these Sarfolk houses do maintain the damp rather too well and often need a good drying…
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Chairman Mao
Hello! Having moved it is time to orient my self to a different part of the same town. A new space to write in; a new hairdresser (maybe) and best of all my lovely new kitchen! And what is even better – a new url – the fictional fifties dot com. Since I started writing…
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Hello world!
This is my author website – ‘The Fictional Fifties’.
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