Silver Crow Books, a collaborative self-publishing venture for Frome authors, was launched this month by the Frome Writers’ Collective.
Any local authors interested in exploring the self-publishing route should contact either Silver Crow Books directly, or enquire through the FWC.
The late William Trevor on short story writing: “I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art.”
(source: The Guardian)
First fire of the season. Now to sit down in the armchair and write an autumn werewolf story.
More news from the Nameless Writing Group although rather belated. Piotr Świetlik’s short story, Curiosity Is A First Step, has been published in the anthology, This Twisted Earth, by Six Minutes To Midnight, a division of Great British Horror. The anthology was launched this year at FantasyCon.
Nice one, Piotr!
Congratulations to B Anne Adriaens, poet, writer and member of the Nameless Writing Group who has made her first publication. The transatlantic webzine and online publisher of dystopian poetry, flash fiction and photography, The Bees Are Dead, has featured Miss B’s poem, CWM. Here’s what they said about it:
“This prosaic poem offers an unrelenting and vivid exposition of abandoned Welsh industry.
Adriaens takes us by the hand and pulls us through a rusting forest of steel; her descriptions confessing a strange base excitement amidst the unheimlich, intertwining context of the natural and mechanical.
From an objective point of view, the scenes within this poem could be that of a suburban love story, but via our narrator’s sensory stream of consciousness, we are treated to a speculative glimpse of the post-apocalyptic…”
And here’s the link to CWM.
Way to go, B!
“Three flies could consume a horse cadaver as rapidly as a lion.” – Carl Linnaeus (1767)
As a writer, it’s this kind of quote that really get me thinking.
(source: The Corpse Project)
Two authors have made goosebumps rise on my flesh. The first was King, while reading the hobbling scene in his novel Misery. Now Bradbury, after finishing The Emissary, a beautiful short story in his collection, The October Country.
Is there any fiction that has moved you in a similar way?
Twisting your character’s arm is twisting your reader’s arm.
Tributes flutter like Small Coppers;
Pulls my gaze like a Red Admiral.
And there like a ghost is the mother
Attending to the roadside grave.
(image:the Vampire Ghost, courtesy of Princess Adriana aka Sparkle)
Eric Nash 