3 things I’ve learnt Querying
Here’s 3 things I’ve learnt while querying my YA adventure fantasy with literary agents!
Short stories
A dyslexic writes a novel…why?
Every wondered why someone wants to write a book? is it for fame? money? or maybe just spite…and of course to inspire those with dyslexia.
Short Story: Ruins of Popularity
The Ruins of Popularity is a short story set in Ancient Rome inspired by Giovanni Panini’s painting, ‘Roman Ruins with Figures’, 1730.
Read the story.
Short Story: Life’s a lottery
A creative writing piece inspired by Giovanni Paolo Panini’s painting ‘The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio.
Short Story: What lurks beneath the stormy sky
A picture tells a thousand words. In this creative writing series, I am inspired to write a short story in a thousand words using famous artwork housed in art galleries as inspiration.
Inspiration: A shipwreck in stormy seas, 1773 by artist Claude-Joseph Vernet on display at the National Gallery, London.
Short Story: The Ice Cube Murder – the party to end all parties.
This is an excerpt from a short story where a detective has been chasing a criminal mastermind for years with no real evidence, but a gut-feeling that Mortimer Lantana is playing games, always one-step ahead, until now. The detective has cornered the mastermind and for once is winning the battles of will – or so he thinks.
A crime that is committed in plain sight and in the most public of scenes is the hardest to solve. Mortimer is the flaneur of every soirée.
The party guests have disbursed and leave the trail of their hedonism in their path, the world is quiet outside, but the noise is deafening in the detective’s mind, the clues and failures all start to slot into place and he confronts the one who always haunted the loudest and outrageously scandalous parties, never alone but always distant.
Who will win the battle that is already won? The war of deceit and charm is intoxicating.
Read this chilling short story excerpt of The Ice Cube Murder.