Firstly, my apologies for not blogging for a while. We had a bereavement in the family, followed by not knowing if we were going to be able to take our holiday to Romania pending the date of the funeral. Luckily, funeral ended up being two days before departure date and we did make it to Romania and Transylvania (more to come later and there are some piccies on my FB page).
I did start a blog intended for Halloween publication, but not only did a close family friend pass away suddenly, but my iPad decided to lose the draft blog, so I took it as a sign and left it alone for a while, as I knew everyone would be inundated with Halloween stuff. You would think that I’d had enough of death for a while, but…
You know they always say write what you know… Sirens Call e-zine have just published their latest issue and the theme is “The Bitter End”, and following my recent experiences, I managed to create a piece of flash fiction they liked, entitled “Haunting” on page 82 – check it out: http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_December2018.pdf
My writer friend, Kay Ellis, also prompted me to start writing a M/M gay supernatural story as she said her publisher was looking for new talent (check her out on Amazon – contemporary and fantasy M/M). I’ve written about 10,000 words of a werewolf tale (sorry, that always makes me chuckle!), and am trying to write this one organically, in that I’m just seeing where it goes for a while before plotting the rest of it. It seems to be working out OK so far and I’m waffling away quite happily, with a quite a lot of backstory and character development as I write.
So many ideas – so little time…
Hope you all had a merry Festival of Excess and I wish you all a happy New Year.
Laters!
Shel
