Category: short stories

How to Avoid Gillian at Conflux in 2018

Filed under events, Illuminations, Langue[dot]doc 1305, Mountains of the Mind, short stories, teaching, The Middle Ages Unlocked, The Time of the Ghosts, The Wizardry of Jewish Women, writers, writing
18 September 2018

Saturday 29 September 1.30 pm Workshop, Writing the Other This builds on old research and new research and is going to be very handy for any writer who wants aliens, cultures other than their own, or non-derivative characters in their work. It’s also handy for non-writers who want to understand what writers do, but the …

Update

Filed under books, events, manuscripts, news, private life, publication, Secret Jewish Women's Business, short stories, The Time of the Ghosts
8 May 2018

Life has been quite interesting recently. Some of it has been gloriously interesting and some of it has been interesting in ways that take a fair amount of dealing with. That’s why I’ve not updated. I hadn’t even quite finished Women’s History Month. I plan to do that this week. The last posts, including the …

The Wizardry of Jewish Women – sequel

Filed under celebration, events, reading, short stories, The Wizardry of Jewish Women
20 December 2017

ASIM published Impractical Magic and it was listed as recommended reading in a Year’s Best before the novel it was sequel to ever reached print. Processes are so much slower for novels in my life that the novel was written first and everyone met Judith through her sequel. A few years ago, Bob Kuhn did …

The Wizardry of Jewish Women returns!

Filed under books, celebration, publication, Secret Jewish Women's Business, short stories, The Wizardry of Jewish Women, writers
1 August 2017

Today I’m welcoming the new edition of The Wizardry of Jewish Women. With this new edition, I’ve also been welcomed into Book View Café, which is full of some of my favourite authors. This means I’ve had the very real honour of learning how some of the best writers round think about novels, by seeing …

Book View Cafe, books

Lost Stories

Filed under celebration, publication, short stories
22 December 2016

Once upon a time, I wrote many short stories. Forty-one short stories, to be precise. Until I was twenty-five, in fact. Alas, I translated all those stories from Mac to PC and only four survived. Also alas, it was the four worst stories that survived. They’re very useful for teaching how not to write, but …

My fiction in Finnish

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12 February 2015

I’m taking a break in my regular proceedings to announce that I’m looking very happily (possibly even gloatingly) at Eero Sarkkinen’s Finnish translation of “Someone’s Daughter” (my story from the Next anthology, ed by Simon Petrie and Rob Porteous). Thank you Eero and thank you also to the people who produce Alienisti in the city …