Even though I’ve been stuck inside a lot over the last few months, much has been achieved! It’s not seemed like it at times, but looking back there’s a bit to write about.
After my book officially released in June, we went back into lockdown and the July book launch was postponed. Disheartening, yes, but these are the times we live in. So, I still kept writing, revising and submitting and it paid off. In August I had a few short story acceptances.
– My horror drabble ‘Bloody Hell’ was accepted for publication in the Black Hare Press dark and disturbing anthology 666.
– Pendulum Papers featured ‘Fragments’ in its August edition – a story about family ties and growing old. It’s available to read online here.
– ‘The Forgotten Sea’ is a story based on a real experience I had as a real estate writer, where one vacant house I visited wasn’t really vacant. It’s published in Stories of Survival , a charity anthology published by Australian Speculative Fiction dedicated to the memory of Aiki Flinthart.
And in August and September I had a few chats about my book.
– Australian cricket pioneers given voice in Bowl the Maidens Over, Siren A Women in Sport Collective. Kirby Fenwick interviews me about my book and how I came to write it.
– The Difference Magazine, Cornish College. Andrew Goodman interviewed me for an article in the school magazine, about what inspired me to write this story.
– It’s just not cricket – a woman’s right to choose, Pamela Hart’s Blog. I talked about inequality in sport and the problems facing some female cricketers today.
