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Bridge House Publishing was born in November 2008 with its first collection of short stories, 'Making Changes'. Some stories are by more established writers but we also pride ourselves on our new discoveries.

If you want to say hello to one of the authors, get a lively discussion going, find out where to buy our books or even submit to one of our future titles- this is the place! Become a follower!

By the end of 2009 Bridge House will have 8 anthologies- for adults and children and a lot more to come.

We produce good quality fiction, that puts the unusual in the usual...

About the winner of the Bridge House Shory Story Competition, 2009

What Sandra Morgan, the winner has to say:

Dancing to Lily Marlene was inspired by a family holiday, and impish Maisie is one of my youngest grandchildren. Late in the evenings, with light spilling from balconies, someone unseen played old war tunes on a harmonica. One night my husband whistled Lili Marlene and straightaway, back it came on the harmonica. It was a special moment and I knew a story would evolve from it.

I often write about things that move me. Few things do that more than the obscenity of the holocaust, and it was with some tears I completed this story.

Me and writing

A study claims that to attain excellence in any field, you have to put in 10,000 hours of practice. I don’t know how many hours I’ve written for, but all I can say is I’m still practicing!

I’ve had stories appear in women’s weeklies, inclusion in an erotic anthology and several competition wins. Rejections – they hurt and keep coming, but I love writing too much to allow them to knock me back. And they’re not all bad; acting on any criticism can often turn losers into winners. Never give up, the excellence is out there!

Extract of winning story: Dancing To Lili Marlene

Holidays. Memories for grey and rainy days when even the birds have forgotten how to sing. Well, good memories anyway, toss out the bad with the rest of the rubbish.

Then there’s a different kind, neither good nor bad, but rare and disquieting, bequeathed by a holiday not even the widest leap of imagination could conjure.

It began with the sort of heat that made blinking a challenge, let alone moving limbs. Thank God the hotel was air-conditioned. Not that it wearied Maisie. Three and a half, and finally released from the confines of aircraft and taxi, she jigged joyously to piped music in the cool foyer. Her comical dance was always the same, bobbing up and down and side to side like a marionette, then spinning in circles, one foot thumping the ground in a fair interpretation of a Red Indian war dance.

Little actress she is, she played to the crowd - a lively party of Japanese tourists who stood chuckling at her. Nobody would have guessed she’d been up since four thirty that morning.

Toby nudged me. “Check out the old guy, Dad.”

I followed his bemused gaze to a silver-haired man also watching our little star. The strangest sensation washed over me at the enchantment radiating from his lined face. Yet there was nothing to alarm, no perversion in that still, fierce gaze. He simply looked as if he’d never set eyes on anything so magical.

But it left me wondering, what was all that about? Maisie was cute as hell dancing there in her blue polkadot sundress and raspberry crocs, but she was no Swan Lake.

The minutiae of checking in called then, and by the time we were through, there was no sign of the elderly man.

Unpacking in our room later, conversation turned to him, and it turned out he’d had the same affect on my wife. “I suppose, you know, some might find it sinister, but it wasn’t like that, was it? He just looked so … oh, sad and elated all at once. Perhaps we’ll see him around and he might explain. Tell you something though, no-one could look that moved without deep reason. I reckon Maisie reminds him of someone. That’ll be it.”

Jean’s intuition seldom lets her down.

We didn’t have long to wait before seeing the old-timer again. Opting for a few hours at the children’s pool the next morning, we found some free sun beds and were soon taking turns with Maisie the human dynamo on a cascading water slide. It was as I was towelling off after handing over to Tess, our friend passed by with a smile and a nod, before lowering his stooped frame onto the wall close by. It was no surprise when his washed-out blue eyes fixed on Maisie.

Now our granddaughter’s not what you’d call conventionally pretty, but with Mum Tess’ wide, tilted eyes and pert nose, Dad’s strong chin and fresh colouring, all topped off with silky white-blonde locks, it’s a striking combination that draws smiles and attention wherever she goes. Despite this, her watcher’s absorption was still something else.

As if aware of my scrutiny, his unguarded gaze shifted to me. It seemed ridiculous to look away, so I gave him a small salute and wandered over to where he sat in a wedge of shade beneath a faded angelica tree.

“Lovely child,” he stated without guile, pushing steel-rimmed spectacles up his long, narrow nose.

Trying to place his thick accent, I nodded proudly. “My granddaughter. Part angel, part savage.”

He smiled, deep lines spreading like sunrays at the corners of each eye. His gaze grew rapt again as the subject of our conversation came splashing back, squealing at Toby chasing her.

“Come and say hello, honey,” I called...

Story to be published next year!

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Bridge House Short Story Competition 2009

At last I can share with you the information about the winners of the first Bridge House Short Story Competition. The standard was high and it was hard to choose the winners- but they are all worthy. We decided that all three places will have their stories published in future anthologies.

The stories are:

First Place Sandra Morgan Dancing To Lili Marlene

Second Place Susan Stern I Never Wear Black

Third Place Carol Croxton When Angels Weep

Find out more about the authors and read extracts of these stories here on the Bridge House Blog...

News

Apologies for the lack of posts- we are all really busy trying to get the Christmas books out in time!
Delays beyond our control have given us rather a lot to do and this cuts down in marketing time, so we hope all of our authors are doing their part to push the books!

Spooked is out and available to order through the Bridge House Website. Scream should be out any day. All is not lost as we can relaunch these for Halloween next year. As for the Children's Advent and 12 Days- these will make in time for Christmas- just! So again we may have a relaunch next year.

These things happen, especially as we all have other jobs as well!!! But we are working like mad to make this happen so we thank everyone for their support!

Check out the website this week when we have offers on books for Christmas- free postage on older titles... so please add books to your Christmas lists!

Debz :)

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Let's get all spooked

First of all there will be the cosy nights of denial that it's not quite autumn so you can settle down to some adult fairy tales. Alternative Renditions is now out! £8.99- check out the Bridge House website to order direct from us or from Amazon, WHSmith and Waterstones.

And then when you can't deny the nights are getting longer- surrender to the darkness and try out our adult ghost collection- 25 scary tales... SPOOKED out soon £9.99.

And so the teens don't miss out it's time to SCREAM! Also coming soon our young adult horror £6.99

Coming soon for sale on the website- you can buy both for £15!

Monday, 12 October 2009

Hi everyone,

Not been posting a lot but we've all been busy with three new books about to come out. As you know there was a slight delay but Alternative Renditions the Adult Fairy Tale collection is now ready to preorder on the website! Check out new titles for October. This is a delightful collection of well known tales as you've never seen them before! What a charming Christmas presie!

We are also busy working on our young adult horror collection SCREAM and our adult ghost stories SPOOKED- both due out early-mid November. We had really hoped to get these out for Halloween, we're doing our best to get them out as soon as possible, things happen, right?

So check out the website for more information.

More soon,

Debz

Monday, 14 September 2009

Autumn News

Well as the year moves on and the feeling of Autumn is in the air we are all busy at Bridge House getting ready for the launch of Alternative Renditions- the adult fairy tale collection. This was due for release September 13th but has now been delayed until the end of the month. A great Christmas present!

We are also hard at work with the young adult horror and adult ghost collections out by Halloween!

And the children's Advent Anthology and adult Twelve Days of Christmas... we're as busy as the elves.

The debut novel competitions is now open for submissions- check out the website and the submissions are rolling in for the Animal Anthology...

Post a reply, get a conversation going- check out the growing list of authors.

More soon!

Debz

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Richard Adams offers to write an animal story for the Animal Anthology!

I had the pleasure of visiting the acclaimed author of Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Shardik and many more, this weekend. He will not only write a foreword for the Born Free charity book to be published in Spring 2010, but he has offered to write a short story especially for the collection. Bridge House are delighted!

The call for submissions is currently open- please see the information on the Bridge House Website- also see the information as posted on the Born Free website:

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/get-involved/animal-anthology/

See Mr. Adams pictured here reading from the latest Bridge House anthology Disasters and Miracles now available to order from our website.

Other news:

We now have the cover for the Adult Fairy Tale anthology- with the design team and I have just had a sneak preview of the Adult ghost cover- spooky!

Thanks!

Debz :)

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Latest News August 2009

Dear all,

Well Disasters and Miracles is due for release this week and the author copies should have arrived today! Looking great! Well done Gill who put it together!

The cover for the Adult Fairy Tales is now being inked and Gill was trying to decide on the right title- so we should have this soon as well.

For the Ghost and Horror these jackets are also in design and the stories are finishing their editing.

The selections have been made of the Christmas books- the Childrens Advent and the Twelve Days of Christmas so we will be thinking about editing these soon.

And finally keep those submissions rolling in- good news about the Animal Anthology- look out for the call for submissions in BBC Wildlife Magazine in September and now on the Born Free website

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/get-involved/animal-anthology/

Also check out the feature about Bridge House in Writer's News this month!

Exciting times!

Let me know how you're all doing!

Debz :)

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Amanda Addison

Amanda Addison writes both adult and children’s fiction. A common theme to her work is the world of art & design. Amanda is a graduate of Chelsea school of Art and more recently completed an MA in writing the visual.

She is currently trying to get an agent for her first full-length novel, ‘Stitch’. Previous publications include: ‘To Market……To Market’, a children’s picture book and ‘Lost for Words’, a teenage novella about a dyslexic art student.

In ‘Two Sides to Every Story’, Amanda wrote Blue Beauty, a version of Snow White set in Ancient Egypt. It’s inspired by Norwich castle Museum’s Egyptian collection.

Amanda co wrote the first UK access to HE in Creative Writing at Norwich City College.

www.nuca.ac.uk/images/documents/.../alumni%20winter%2009.pdf

www.mywritingworld.org.uk/story.asp?ID=143&subname=Myjourneys

www.literaryconsultancy.co.uk/success.php

Adam Bealby

Adam Bealby’s first published work was a short feature in computer magazine Zero at the tender age of 13. Since then he’s shot up a bit. He now lives in Worcestershire with his wife and two children and writes novels and short stories. His more recent work can be seen in indie comic book anthology Fusion; the award-winning Red Eye Magazine; Ada and More Nano-Fiction (Leaf Books); and Dragontales (Wyvern Publications), due to be published in November 2009. Adam’s work for Bridge House can be seen in their upcoming anthology of ghost stories.

http://leafbooks.co.uk

http://www.wyvernpublications.com

http://www.enginecomics.co.uk

Anne Brooke

Bio:

Anne Brooke’s fiction has been shortlisted for the Harry Bowling Novel Award, the Royal Literary Fund Awards and the Asham Award for Women Writers. She has also twice been the winner of the DSJT Charitable Trust Open Poetry Competition. Her latest novel is The Bones of Summer, a romantic thriller about religion, murder and the chance for a new beginning. Her work is represented by agent, John Jarrold, and she has a secret passion for birdwatching. More information can be found at www.annebrooke.com and she keeps a terrifyingly honest journal at http://annebrooke.blogspot.com. Anne has a story in Disasters and Miracles.

Pauline Burgess

Pauline Burgess is a 39 year old teacher of English who spends her limited spare time writing, writing, writing! With a two-year-old toddler in the house, there isn't always the time or the space for this, but she does the best she can. She has had four short stories published in both print and online magazines in

Ireland

, and had three poems published on the N.Ireland BBC website. Pauline completed a diploma with The Academy of Children's Writers and was recently short-listed for the Brian Moore Short Story Awards in Northern Ireland. Pauline’s story, Traveller’s Rest, appeared in Bridge House publication A Suitcase Full of Stories

Dawn Bush

Dawn Bush likes to write stories for both children and adults that keep the reader guessing, She has had stories published in Raw Edge midlands arts magazine as well as Writing Magazine and for Bridge House. Formerly an actress, she now works in an office doing accounts, which might explain the murderous quality of some of her stories. One reporter described her work as having something of a macabre twist. It must have been the dismembered body under the Clematis Montana that did it... And she looks so normal...

Nicola Cleasby

Nicola Cleasby grew up in the North of England. After training as a Chartered Accountant she spent four years working as a volunteer in Zambia which left her with a love of the sun and a dislike of 9-5 work. She then spent a number of years mixing travel (whenever possible) with work (whenever necessary) but has now settled down to a life of writing and almond picking on a remote farm in the mountains of Southern Spain.

She is currently experimenting with different genres and styles and has a story in the Adult Ghost Anthology.

Ian Charles Douglas

Ian Charles Douglas cut his literary teeth writing for the press in East Asia. He returned to his hometown of Nottingham to study an MA in Creative Writing. Since graduating with distinction, he has built up a reputation as a writer of children’s fiction. His short stories have been published in several anthologies, including:

The Croc at Coopers Rock, Making Changes. (Bridge House Publishing)

In 2008 Ian won the Short Story Radio competition with’ Making Grampie’.

He is a member of the Nottingham Writer’s Studio and regularly performs his work. He is also an artist and has held several solo and group exhibitions. For more information please visit http://www.iancharlesdouglas.co.uk

Ruth Eastham-Paoli

Ruth Eastham-Paoli was a finalist in the BBC Talent Children’s

Fiction Prize 2002 and co-founded Children’s Fiction Services, www.childrensfictionservices.com, a manuscript appraisal agency

for aspiring authors of children's and young adult fiction.

She was born in Lancashire and has taught English in schools in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy, where she is currently organising The Children’s Writers’ Conference to be held from Friday 18th to Monday 21^st of June 2010 in Duino, a beautiful location on the Adriatic Sea. Inspirational speakers are lined up, with the award winning writers Sarah Mussi and Susie Day, bestseller M.G. Harris, and Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize winner, Sally Nicholls.

Ruth has work published in the Suitcase Full of Stories and 12 Days anthologies.

www.rutheasthampaoli.com

www.childrensfictionservices.com

Sarah England

I'm Sarah England and I live in Dorset with my husband and springer spaniel, Harry. Originally from Sheffield, I trained as a nurse and then worked for 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry. At 40 I had the chance to do what I always wanted - learn to write fiction. I'm a raconteur, you see - I love to tell stories and entertain. I've been writing for a few years now with published stories in women's mags, newspapers and the small press both in the UK and overseas. My preferred style is contemporary humour and my ambition is to have my first novel published. Please read my wicked tales in the 'Two Sides to Every Story' and 'Horror' anthologies published by Bridge House this autumn.

Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming writes articles and short stories (for adults and children). Since taking early retirement from her job as a modern languages teacher, she has been able to devote more time to writing, recently completing her second novel. A member of Erskine Writers and the Scottish Association of Writers, she has had success in competitions in both. She has had two articles published in The Highlander, and in July 2009 was a prize winner in Writers’ Forum short story competition with Beds of Roses. Joan is delighted to have her story Flying Free accepted for the forthcoming Children’s Advent Anthology.

Danny Gillan

In his youth, Danny Gillan used to think he was a musician, and played in several bands in and around Glasgow with varying degrees of failure. Now in his late thirties, he accepts that rock godhood is an unlikely eventuality and has decided to think he is a writer instead. In order to fund this delusion Danny works In Social Care, supporting adults with learning disabilities. His first novel, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, was published in 2008, and he has had a number of short stories published in anthologies and magazines.

Danny is looking forward to being included in his first Bridge House publication, Adult Ghost Stories, with his short story, Awake.

www.dannygillan.co.uk

www.homepage.dannygillan.co.uk/

info@dannygillan.co.uk

Catherine Greene

Catherine Greene is currently a director at a pension fund in London managing investments in hedge funds and private equity. Her real ambition has always to be a writer though and this year she decided to make a concerted effort to work toward this. After university she began life as a journalist before moving into the City. She took a year off in 2004 to travel around the world and during this trip she wrote the story that was accepted for the adult ghost story anthology. It was inspired by a mountaineering course she went on in New Zealand. She is married, 32 years old and live in Sevenoaks.

Lynne Hackles

Lynne Hackles has been a full time writer for ten years. Her stories have appeared in most of the UK and Australian women’s magazines and she writes regular features, My Writing Day and Novel Ideas, for Writing Magazine. She has also written for children and is awaiting publication of her third non-fiction book about ancient cures. The first two were The Handy Little Book for Writers (NAWG Publications) and Writing From Life (How To Books). Lynne is a tutor for a leading home study course, a regular at Writers’ Holiday, Caerleon, and she gives workshops all over the UK.

www.lynnehackles.com

www.lynnehackles.blogspot.com

Mindy Hardwick

Mindy enjoys writing young adult romance and creating ghostly characters. Her published children's stories include: “Hurricanes” published with Blooming Tree Press, “Hand on the Door,” a ghost story published with Crow Toes Quarterly, and “I Believe,” an audio story published with Sniplits. Mindy’s published articles can be found in: The Children’s Writer Guide 2008 and 2009, My First Year in the Classroom, Columbia Kids, Children’s Writer, ALA Book Links, and The Writer Magazine. Mindy facilitates a writing workshop at Denney Youth Juvenile Detention Center where many of her ideas take shape. She lives in Washington State. You can learn more about Mindy at www.mindyhardwick.com.

Alyson Hilbourne

Rebecca Holmes

Rebecca Holmes' short stories are published regularly in women's and general magazines, and also appear in the Bridge House anthologies 'Making Changes', 'In the Shadow of the Red Queen' and 'Disasters and MIracles'. For the past two years she has been chairwoman of the Lutterworth Writers' Group, as well as a member of the Leicester Writers' Club.

Although hailing originally from Lancashire, she currently lives in Leicestershire with her husband and their two daughters, and has finally knuckled down to writing her first novel, a contemporary family saga set in the Lake District.

http:/makingchangesadvent2008.blogspot.com

http:/redqueenadultsuitcase.blogspot.com'

Kathleen Howarth

Kathleen Howarth is a recently retired primary school teacher. She now spends her time writing and working as a Reiki practitioner. She has a fascination with all things paranormal and has written several short stories with a supernatural flavour. She also enjoys writing poetry. At the moment she is writing a supernatural novel for older children entitled Owlboy.

Kathleen has ‘The True Story of Goldilocks’ in the Two Sides to Every Story Anthology and ‘The Beast’ in the Horror Anthology.

Sophie Jackson

Sophie Jackson has worked as a freelance writer since 2003 mainly writing historical articles. She has turned her hand to a diverse range of subjects including Medieval games and the History of Underwear. She spend two years editing The History Magazine and currently divides her time between producing stories and articles, teaching a creative writing class and working with the local schools to encourage children to explore their heritage. She has two stories being published in the Ghost Story Anthology and was a runner up this year in the English Heritage Pure Inspiration Short Story Competition. She just finished her first historical novel and is currently working on a non-fiction book for The History Press about POWs held in Britain during World War II.

Robin Jarossi

“I like speculative fiction, stories that have emotional impact but make you think, What if Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Stef Penney all take me there. I love crime writers such as Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard for their dialogue and characterisation. I�m a freelance magazine editor/writer living in London. I won a novel-writing competition run by Iota, a small US publisher, in 2008 for my story Cheetah. I�ve had a short story published by Twisted Tongue and I�m delighted to have a spot in the 2009 12 Days Anthology.

I also write about books and TV for Suite101.com”

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/tavener

Don Nixon

Don Nixon is a retired university academic who started writing poetry and fiction a few years ago. He has had a number of short stories published in anthologies and magazines. He is particularly interested in crime fiction and was published in the Tindal Street Press anthology `Birmingham Noir` and won the Writers and Artists` Year book Short Story prize in 2004. He was recently runner up in the formal poetry section of the Lake Orta Festival competition. He has a short story in the upcoming Bridge House Horror anthology

Dulcinea Norton-Smith

Dulcinea was going to be called Charlotte Emily Kate, but when she was born her mother had a momentary lapse in judgement and called her 'Dulcinea'. With such a literary name what choice did she have but to aspire to be a writer?

Dulcinea is a Civil Servant and freelance ghost writer. She also writes a pregnancy and parenting website called Baby Nunu.

Dulcinea has short stories in the Bridge House Teen Horror Anthology and the Advent Calendar for Children 2009. She’s currently working on two YA novels; the historical novel Blood & Clay and the teen horror Wendigo Wars.

Dulcinea's blog can be found at http\\:www.dulcineanortonsmith.co.uk

Michael O'Connor

Much of Michael O'Connor's writing in the past has been what is termed 'genre fiction' i.e. fantasy, horror and SF. However, he is moving away from that now into more mainstream work, although he suspects that he will never be able to forgo of an element of fantasy in any story that he writes. He doesn't really have a writing routine: he does it as and when the inspiration happens to coincide with the free time. He does a lot of reviewing, editing and proofreading for other people, which generally has deadlines, so his own work has to be squeezed in around that. His stories have been accepted by Bridge House for Making Changes, In the Shadow of the Red Queen, and the forthcoming Horror anthology. He believes that it is vital that the short story anthology as a form does not die out, and that Bridge House are doing great work to breath new life into it. His website is at www.mpoconnor.co.uk

Alix Parker

Alix started writing with RANDOMPACT Theatre Company in the 1980’s. One of her plays, As My Eyes Close, So Yours Will Open, won the Time Out Award for new Theatre. A defining part of her life was spent with HEART 'N SOUL, the UK's leading disability arts organisation, where she worked with learning disabled artists devising and producing music theatre shows that were successfully toured throughout Europe. Since then Alix has written screenplays and stories and is currently writing a children’s novel with co-author Sue Eves under the pseudonym Fox E Parker. Alix has a short story in the Horror Anthology

Philippa Rae

Philippa Rae rediscovered a love she had of writing when she was ten whilst currently working for Cbeebies Radio. As part of her job of producing programmes she had to write short stories and poems for her scripts. Having done some sort of work with children since she was 16 she naturally graviated towards writing children's stories. She has some poems published an anthologies and also a poem featured on the Cbeebies TV series Poetry Pie. She loves animls and so a lot of her stories tend to feature them! She would love to have her own book either poetry or a story published one day.

Philippa Roberts

Philippa Roberts is a professional writer from the UK who has published ebooks, short stories, poetry, reviews and journalism. Her work has appeared in a wide range of publications: Horizon; Aquila; Cadenza; Quality Womens’ Fiction and a number of anthologies, including My Best Friend from OUP. Philippa edited print editions of Winter Jasmine, The Golden Glory has Fled and A Wartime Poetry Journal by her grandmother, Effie M.Roberts for her own publishing co., Fractal Publishing. She is now working on a ghost story with a disabled heroine, and a novel for children based on real science

Amanda Sington-Williams

Amanda says, "I write novels, short stories and occasionally, poetry.

I won an award from the Royal Literary Fund for my first novel 'Curved Moon.' This is due to be published

by Sparkling Books in Autumn 2010.

Two short stories ˜The Zoo Keeper and 'Three Cleaners' were
selected by 'Short Fuse' for me to read at The Komedia in Brighton during
2009 and my poetry has been read out on BBC radio . I was short-listed for the 'Asham Award.' I have just completed
my second novel, 'In the Shadow of the Flower City.' I have an MA in
Creative Writing and Authorship from Sussex University.
I teach Creative Writing in Brighton and live with my husband, who is an
artist and our fluffy cat, Sasha."
www.amandasingtonwilliams.co.uk

Mark Smith

Mark Smith has been writing since he was a schoolboy. After a number of years as a nurse he moved into health management jobs which required a great deal of writing, but not the creative kind. He has now written a dozen short stories and some poetry. He is also writing a novel about a small parish choir and their struggle to pull off a weekend’s choral services in a major cathedral.

He says writing is immensely enjoyable regardless of whether any of it is published, though he always hope it is! He has a story appearing in the ghost anthology in the autumn.

Suzanne Stanton

Suzanne works as a Teaching Assistant with children who have physical and complex learning disabilities. She describes her job as ‘teaching while learning,’ and finds it very rewarding. Suzanne also loves to write and is a member of the Verulam Writers Circle in St Albans. She has had a short story, ‘The Unlikely Adventures of a Stick Insect’ accepted for publication with Bridgehouse which will be included in the 12 Days Anthology. Suzanne is working on a serious of three stories at the moment, which (if published) she hopes will encourage children to question the world around them and always expect the unexpected!

Paul Starkey

Paul Starkey has wanted to be a writer since he was ten, and in the last decade he has pursued this ambition with increasing success. He works within the horror, science-fiction and thriller genres, often blurring the lines between the three. His first novel, a post-apocalyptic horror story called City of Caves is now available to buy online, where his second, a time travel thriller called Full Circle might one day join it. He is currently writing his third novel, a haunted house story with a twist. He has a story in Bridge House Publishing’s upcoming ghost story anthology

www.cityofcaves.me

Alison Symes

Allison Symes, ex-secretary, always a bibliophile, started writing after having a family. She writes novels about a fairy godmother and the half-human daughter she should never have had. Allison's short story writing led to her A Helping Hand being published by Bridge House in their 2009 Two Sides to Every Story anthology. She won second prize in the Writers' News First Line competition with Life is What You Make It, due on their website in September 2009. Allison belongs to the P.G. Wodehouse Society, Association of Christian Writers and Society of Authors and welcomes emails at allison.symes@lineone.net

Joyce Taylor

Joyce Taylor recently retired from being a part-timefoster carer and a school inspector. She still regularly visits a Britishschool in Eastern Europe to provide support but spends most of her timewriting, gardening and walking her badly behaved dogs. She is building acollection of children’s fiction and, as well as ‘Helen’, in the Bridge HousePublishing Teen Horror collection her short story ‘Calcifired’, can soon befound in Dragontales, published by Wyvern Press. At the moment she is seekingan agent for her fantasy story, ‘Angelo and the Thought Walkers’ and for a contemporarynovel, ‘Secrets’, which is about mixed heritage brothers

Nesta Tuomey

Nesta Tuomey first wrote stories for the BBC and went on to write plays
and documentaries for radio, before turning to novel writing. Her first
novel ‘Up Up And Away’ about air hostesses and pilots in an Irish
airline, her second ‘Like One Of The Family’ a moving family story of
passion, tragedy and love. She is currently working on her third novel,
another exciting airline novel. She has won two short story awards, one
play award. She lives in Dublin with her family.

Nesta has a short story in ‘In the Shadow of the Red Queen’.

www.nestatuomey.com

www.nestatuomey.blogspot.com

Jeannette Towey

Jeannette Towey gave up the daily London commute about 9 months ago (as good a gestation period as any) to concentrate on writing for children and adults. She is currently working on her third novel, Nihilation, a teen fantasy with an eco theme, whilst seeking an agent or publisher for her second, an historical thriller, the Secretorum Secretissimus. She also writes reviews and feature articles for The Phantom Zone. She has short stories in A Suitcase Full of Stories and the forthcoming 12 Days of Christmas.

http://www.jetowey.com/
http://nihilation-the-book.blogspot.com
http://www.thephantomzone.co.uk/

Lois Tuffield

Lois lives and writes in an old rural farmhouse in western France. She is passionate about animals and looks after goats, chickens, parrots and cats. These often form the basis of articles which have been published in a variety of national magazines.

Following operations to eradicate thyroid cancer, a vocal chord was paralysed and so now her main means of communication is through the written word.

She has submitted several short stories to Bridge House and was delighted when her re-take on Rapunzel was selected for Two sides To Every Story.

Kathryn Wood

Kathryn Wood is 64 years of age and a mother and Grandmother. Since her retirement she has time to concentrate on her writing. She attends two writing workshops, and also enjoys poetry, both writing and reciting her works. She has just had my first short story accepted for publication and it comes out in an anthology this September. At the moment she working on a trilogy of stories for children. The next step, hopefully, for publication. She also loves gardening and, of course, reading.

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Anne Brooke

Pauline Burgess

Pauline Burgess

Dawn Bush

Dawn Bush

Nicola Cleasby

Nicola Cleasby

Ian Charles Douglas

Ian Charles Douglas

Ruth Eastham-Paoli

Ruth Eastham-Paoli

Sarah England

Sarah England

Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming

Rosemary Gemmell

Rosemary Gemmell

Danny Gillan

Danny Gillan

Catherine Greene

Catherine Greene

Lynne Hackles

Lynne Hackles

Mindy Hardwick

Mindy Hardwick

Alyson Hilbourne

Alyson Hilbourne

Rebecca Holmes

Rebecca Holmes

Kathleen Howarth

Kathleen Howarth

Phil Kurthansen

Phil Kurthansen

Sophie Jackson

Sophie Jackson

Robin Jarossi

Robin Jarossi

Don Nixon

Don Nixon

Dulcinea Norton-Smith

Dulcinea Norton-Smith

Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor

Alix Parker

Alix Parker

Philippa Rae

Philippa Rae

Philippa Roberts

Philippa Roberts

Gynis Scrivens (and Benny!)

Glynis Scrivens