Welcome to the final part in my blog series on short story collections. I’ve been interviewing the following three authors of short story collections – one in the UK, one in the US and one in Australia – about what it’s like to publish a short story collection… US author:…
Winds of Change is an anthology of short stories published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and it’s awesome – and not just because it’s got one of my sci-fi stories in it!! For the first time since its publication in 2011, it’s now available online (in most formats from…
Welcome to the second part in my blog series on short story collections. I’ve been interviewing three authors of short story collections – one in the UK, one in the US and one in Australia – about what it’s like to publish a short story collection. US author: David D…
I have decided to ask three short story writers – one in the UK, one in the US and one in Australia – what it’s like to publish a short story collection. If you’re a short story writer, as I am, I’m sure you’d love to publish a collection of…
The lovely Jen Persson has interviewed me over on The View From Here literary magazine: http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/2013/01/interview-with-zena-shapter.html Jen read my website, my blog and my Facebook page before asking me these twenty considered questions, so some of them were very difficult to answer!! Thank you, Jen, you did a great job…
Okay, so I wasn’t expecting that result! This January, I asked a bunch of writers what their writing goals were for 2013. Was their focus going to be novels, short stories, non-fiction… what? I was interested to see what everyone was planning to achieve, so conducted a poll on my…
My Mum, Dad and brother visited me this festive season, all the way from England. I was overjoyed to see them and feel their realness again. Conversations on Skype can only relate so much. At times, old family grievances returned. Still, as usual, I cried at the airport as they…
