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New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing

March 25, 2011 | fairy tales, On Writing: General | 2 Comments

Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl

(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch.)

‘Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for
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November 26, 2010 | fairy tales, News, On Publishing, On Writing: Short Stories | 2 Comments

Okay, so my first experiment in digital publishing is up at Smashwords.

T’is Black-Winged Angels, the short story collection of reloaded fairytales I wrote for my MA. We’ll see how this goes – i.e. how well I’ve managed to follow the technical’ish requirements (thanks to Alan Baxter for tips!) – and then Sourdough & Other Stories will be next.

My Significant Other did the
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