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…
What a year. Fast. Quick. Over. It’s gone so fast in fact, that I’ve barely had time to thank all the people who have made my writing this year so darn fabulous! So I’m going to do that now.
So, the incredibly talented Ditmar award-winning Joanne Anderton just tagged me in this Next Big Thing thingy (thanks too Amanda Bridgeman and Amin Chehelnabi for also asking me), meaning I now have to answer ten questions about my current masterpiece in the making… Thanks Jo!! 1) What is the working…
2000 – the Y2K bug was supposed to bring an end to our world 1997/1999 – Nostradamus predicted Armageddon 2012 – now it’s the Mayans turn to predict our doomsday… According to an ancient Mayan inscription carved on a stone staircase in the ruins of Guatemala’s La Corona, 21 December…
