Writing flash-fiction by my reckoning, is the best means for any writer to learn the art of honing one's work and making every word count!  Even when a snippet is extracted from a novel for purposes of becoming an excerpt, impact is key. That excerpt is supposed to help sell your novel. It has to convey essence of the book's content. "But that's easy" you might say, "I'll select a thrilling or sexy bit."  OK, one or the other or both might capture a reader's attention, and just for that…

Mslexia is a quarterly magazine for women writers which publishes new fiction and poetry by women writers in every magazine. Our New Writing section encourages submissions on a particular theme, and our upcoming theme, with a deadline of 17 September, is 'The Affair' – send us your poems and stories on the bliss, buffetting or sheer banality of a love affair.

We accept up to two stories of up to 2,200 words and four poems of up to 40 lines from each contributor, all of which…

The Summer of Living Dangerously

Julie Cohen

Headline Review, Mar 2012

Alice Woodstock finds the present uncomfortable, so takes a…

Can you believe it, people have started tagging this novel as medieval when it states it is a 17th century setting. I couldn't believe readers are that ignorant of history. So I'm wondering if I need to replace the cover. Out of the two, the colourful one depicting fashions of the era, which is best? …

It's due release next month: July.

Blurb:

In the past Tania has masqueraded as Nina at parties, and likewise Nina has pretended to be Tania. As far as Tania is concerned one more act of deception isn’t going to hurt anybody. Despite Nina’s reluctance, she’s won over by Tania’s pleading ways and…

Never Coming Home

Evonne Wareham

Choc Lit, March 2012

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 Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues

Trisha Ashley

Avon, May 2012…

A thrilled Jenny Colgan collected the Melissa Nathan Award for Romantic Comedy on Tuesday evening from host Jo Brand at a gala bash in London for her novel Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe. The Melissa Nathan Award for Romantic Comedy is dedicated to the memory of novelist Melissa Nathan who died of cancer and is sponsored…

THE GLASS GUARDIAN

by Linda Gillard

New on Kindle (£1.90/$2.99)…

The Queen's Secret

Victoria Lamb…

Hold on to Hope

Jean Fullerton

Orion, Feb 2012

Hold on to Hope is Jean Fullerton’s fourth novel set in Victorian East London.…