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An easily accessible guide to writing fiction.
Whether brushing up your writing skills or starting out, this book will take you through the whole process from inspiration to conclusion. Are you looking to submit your work for publication, enter a competition, or do you want to self-publish? This practical guide will help you every step of the way. Between them, Patsy Collins and Rosemary Kind have sold hundreds of short stories, written sixteen published books and produced numerous articles for Writing Magazine and similar publications. They've both judged writing competitions and run workshops, and Rosemary has read and edited thousands of short stories and published dozens of books for other writers. With the information, help and encouragement in this book, you too could see your work in print. Buy it now and give your writing life a boostPraise for From Story Idea to Reader
An Absolute Mine of Information Given in an Informal and Easy Style - B. I cannot recommend this book highly enough - A.P. You can read this book from cover to cover or you can dip in and use it as a reference source. - K.H.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 30, 2016
- File size5031 KB
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Are We Nearly Famous?This collection of short stories is about journeys; literal, metaphorical and literary. Those both of the characters and the authors. Patsy, Rosemary, Sheila and Lynne are four friends who, although successful in specific writing fields, aren’t yet well known to the general reading public. Together we’re raising awareness of our work, and hope you’ll help us do the same by reading this free collection, telling others about it and leaving us a review. We’re not really asking ‘Are We Nearly Famous?’ as we know the answer! |
Came as Me, Left as We‘Came as ‘Me’, Left as ‘We’’ are holiday reads from Alfie Dog Fiction. The collections bring together some of the best short stories from authors across the globe. ‘Came as ‘Me’, Left as ‘We’’ contains a mixture of women’s fiction, feel good stories and romance. Alfie Dog Fiction’s managing director, Rosemary Kind, says “We know from our readers that they like to stock up on reading matter for their holidays and these collections offer the perfect way to do just that.” The collection has a truly international feel, not only through the spread of the writers but the fascinating backdrops to the stories. |
Embers of the Day - Rosemary J. KindFrom the movingly beautiful, to the laugh-out-loud funny. This collection of short stories covers the breadth of Rosemary J. Kind’s fiction writing in her usual accessible style. Be inspired by The Old Oak Tree, consider what can go wrong when murdering your husband in The Perfect Crime. Be careful what you wish for in Princess Isabella and the Tale of the Three Wishes, be moved by the life-changing events of Music Saved My Soul. You’ll even learn the truth behind the real story of Snow White, at least as far as her step-mother sees things! You can laugh with Sandra at her excessive purchases of chocolate. Be inspired by Alison in finding a new use for junk mail, or follow PC Dave Jones as he gets on a bicycle for the first time in years. This collection has it all. |
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About the Author
Patsy's short stories (500+ published to date) have appeared in a range of UK, Irish, South African, Canadian, Swedish and Australian publications. Some of her stories are available to download from Alfie Dog Fiction.
When she's not writing, Patsy travels with her husband in their campervan acting as his photographic assistant, and eats cakes. She sometimes gives talks to writing groups.
To find out more, visit her website - http: //patsycollins.uk
Rosemary Kind turned to writing full-time after a 20 year business career, although she had written as a hobby for many years. Initially focusing on non-fiction with a wide range of magazine articles and a book on negotiation skills to her credit, she then allowed her love of fiction to take over and now has seven titles to her credit, ranging from novels to humour and poetry. She still writes non-fiction and her 'Entlebucher breed notes' appear regularly in the dog press.
She has written her dog's daily diary as a blog for over 10 years and the following has steadily increased over that time. (www.alfiedog.me.uk). She has won a number of prizes and short listings for her poetry, short stories and blog.
She set up the international short story publisher Alfie Dog Fiction in 2012 and has built it to become one of the largest publishers of downloadable short stories in the world.
Rosemary grew up in Leicestershire but now lives with her family in North Yorkshire. Her main hobby is developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog breed within the UK.
For more details about the author please visit her website at www.rjkind.co.uk --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product details
- ASIN : B01N919UV0
- Publisher : Alfie Dog Fiction; 2nd edition (November 30, 2016)
- Publication date : November 30, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 5031 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 290 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,010,694 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #488 in Fiction Writing Reference (Kindle Store)
- #2,683 in Authorship
- #4,370 in Writing Skill Reference (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Rosemary J Kind writes because she has to. You could take almost anything away from her except her pen and paper. Failing to stop after the book that everyone has in them, she has gone on to publish books in both non-fiction and fiction, the latter including novels, humour, short stories and poetry. She also regularly produces magazine articles in a number of areas and writes regularly for the dog press.
As a child she was desolate when at the age of 10 her then teacher would not believe that her poem based on ‘Stig in the Dump’ was her own work and she stopped writing poetry for several years as a result. She was persuaded to continue by the invitation to earn a little extra pocket money by ‘assisting’ others to produce the required poems for English homework!
Always one to spot an opportunity, she started school newspapers and went on to begin providing paid copy to her local newspaper at the age of 16.
For twenty years she followed a traditional business career, before seeing the error of her ways and leaving it all behind to pursue her writing full-time.
She spends her life discussing her plots with the characters in her head and her faithful dogs, who always put the opposing arguments when there are choices to be made.
Always willing to take on challenges that sensible people regard as impossible, she set up the short story download site Alfie Dog Fiction in 2012. During the six years the site ran, she built it to be one of the largest such sites in the world.
Her hobby is developing the Entlebucher Mountain Dog in the UK and when she brought her beloved Alfie back from Belgium he was only the tenth in the country.
She started writing Alfie’s Diary as an internet blog the day Alfie arrived to live with her, intending to continue for a year or two. It has now run for over fifteen years and is repeatedly named as one of the top ten pet blogs in the UK.
She now lives in Warwickshire with her husband and dogs Shadow, Wilma and Aristotle, the latter being Shadow’s wayward son.
She hopes you will enjoy reading her work.
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Patsy Collins spends her time making things up and writing them down from her home in Lee-on-the-Solent or whilst traveling in a campervan. She shares both with her photographer husband, and sometimes acts as his assistant. When away she also enjoys scrambling round ruined castles, visiting friends and eating cake. At home she gardens, bakes (and then eats) cakes. She's the author of over 30 books.
To find out more, visit her website - patsycollins.uk
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