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It has been an exciting week in the world of short fiction and for A Mended Pencil in particular.Two friends have both had their first books of short fiction made available through Kindle.
Clare Kirwan has been producing her Broken Biro blog since 2009. In recent years she has also been successful in several local and national writing competitions for short fiction and poetry. Not satisfied with that, she has also taken part in open mic evenings from Nevada to New Zealand. But more usually, it has to be admitted, in Liverpool and Manchester!
Many of her short stories have also been printed in various magazines etc., and There Will Be Ink is a collection of some of her most successful short fiction so far. The always original and quirky subject matter varies widely from a holiday journal to a ghost story, from Hallowe'en exploits to the hunting down of a screwdriver. Andrew Munro is a member of The Clerkenwell Writers Asylum. He doesn't write a blog, and I understand, documented evidence apart, there is no truth in the rumour that he can be heard pontificating on any and all subjects on street corners after closing time in Tottenham and its immediate environs.
Many years have passed since Andy and I first began criticizing each other's literary output and the work he has produced for this new ebook, The Clerkenwell Writers Asylum First short Story Collection, is some of his best. Readers will particularly enjoy his The Bank Job story, an hilarious tale of mistaken identity.
But now I come to the most exciting news of the week, and you're looking at it! Not being the most technophobe person in the western hemisphere, but running him pretty close, it has been a while between the purchase of my first computer in the early noughties and my inclination to become part of the world of blogging becoming manifest, but here it is; one small page of blogging for a man, one series of considered comments (and mild libel) for mankind. The Pencil has mended!
