The new Magali Rousseau mystery is out. Cash in Carry, number 2 in the series. Now some of you might be thinking, ‘What? Doesn’t he mean number 3?’ Nope. Cash in Carry is the…
This year’s Book a Break short story competition was the third. And the last. The competition won’t be held again. As a competition, it was quite unique as regards the prize to be won…
We don’t have a lot on our walls. The older I get, the more I appreciate whiteness, emptiness, the serenity of a blank surface where my mind strolls at leisure, without fear of tripping over…
On the whole, compared to novels, short stories don’t sell well. That’s because we like to get absorbed in a story, and the shorter it is, the harder it gets to achieve that. It takes…
Is Sephora overrated? Can a tagine be sad? What’s at the bottom of the well? To these and other questions, you’ll find the answer in Second Taste, the 2018 Book a Break Anthology. 27 stories…
It’s generally admitted that if you live in a glass house, it’s not a great idea to throw stones. By the same token, if you live in a Muslim country, it’s not very wise to…
writingandwelness.com Among the many writing ideas I have is one about death, specifically my own. Ideally, I’d write it after the actual event, which would not only allow me to give you the whole picture…
There’s a scene in the film The Eyes of War where Colin Farrell’s character says something to the effect that anywhere that’s fucked up in the world today, you can bet that either the French…
I read Jo Nesbo’s Police not long ago. It wasn’t a barrel of laughs. Of course, you wouldn’t pick up a Jo Nesbo as you would a Bill Bryson, but it left me wondering (as…
The results are in! Below is the judge’s report from Sherry Morris, last year’s winner, who kindly took it upon herself to handle the final stages of the decision – always the most difficult. So…