Authors Electric

December is a time for looking back and although I’ve written a few Christmas letters in my time reminiscing about what we have been up to as a family I have never looked back at what I have achieved as a writer in the past 12 months. To be honest I tend to play down many of my writing exploits, but with my memoir about to be published in the New Year it’s time for a change, a time to be bold and update my writing CV. In January I discovered a new opportunity writing for Paddler Press magazine .  My piece based on Silence was accepted on January 6th and the magazine arrived all the way from Canada on the 28th.   According to my diary I was also very busy writing lots of 100-word stories for my memoir. At the beginning of February I wrote a 100 flash for the Retreat West monthly microfiction competition.   By the end of the month, I was crowned the winner and I took home the People’s Prize as voted for by the readers. March was a month where life took on a ne...

Last month I wrote about the Resolute Books collaboration and our fabulous book launch on a very sunny Saturday in May. I have finally finished the first two books published under the Resolute banner and what cracking reads they both are.  Local Killer is the fourth in the “Local…” series by Paul Trembling, each one is a stand alone novel with recurring characters but no central protagonist. The main character in Local Killer is CSI Alison Kepple and it is apparent early on that she has some anxiety issues. When she is admitted to hospital, after being a close witness to a fatal bomb blast, she finds it difficult being touched and the thought of staying overnight in a strange place gives her nightmares. She constantly reassures herself by checking she is OK. Each chapter starts with one of Alison’s checklists or some fact pertaining to her job as a Crime Scene Investigator, grounding us into her world. This doesn’t make her an unreliable narrator, far from it, she is very...

A group of writers came together with one vision: to build an independent consortium of experienced authors, professional editors and talented designers producing engaging and inspiring books of the highest quality for readers everywhere.  Ruth Leigh , who used to regularly write for Authors Electric, is the sort of friend who always leads me into some new adventure. First, she got me a slot here writing a monthly blog post and more recently she invited me to join Resolute Books. I’ve become a member of this consortium at just the right time, missing the zoom meetings about setting up a constitution and other more mundane stuff but arriving with perfect timing to attend a lavish book launch. Some of the Resolute authors - glasses of fizz in hand! To borrow Ruth’s words from the blog, Resolute Books was conceived at the end of 2022 when “two experienced and multi-published authors came together to talk about a collaboration. They wanted to create a group of like-minded people ...