London torn. Night and day. Sinners and angels. Debut novel by Mark A. King, available now
The draft novel is finished. What now? Almost two years ago, I wrote a post explaining how I took zero words and managed to produce the first draft of a novel. I spent my entire life aspiring to do this almost impossible thing. Life is busy, hectic, full of responsibilities and serious stuff going on--but …
FlashDogs Update 5h September 2017 will see the anniversary of VSS365. What is VSS365? A daily prompt (sometimes more than one) is posted each day on Twitter from the @flashdogs account. This for anyone that wants to write a tweet-sized story based on the prompt. Generally, this is just a word, but sometimes it is …
The Infernal Clock is an anthology conceived by David Shakes. It was delivered through much hard work by Steph Ellis (I know how that feels after the 3.5 FlashDogs Anthologies). It has beautiful artwork from Tam Rogers and internal design from Emily June Street. It takes the clock as the theme and 24 different tales …
Debut Novel Update My first novel, Metropolitan Dreams, will be submitted to Kindle Scout soon. To say that I am proud of the book would be an epic understatement. It has been an ambitious project to attempt for my first novel, but with the help of a very dedicated and talented editor (thank you, EJS), …
How to write a draft novel (maybe) Towards the end of last year (2015), I promised myself I would put the blinkers on and finish a draft novel. I didn't have a single word stored that I could use as a foundation for such a daunting project. I had nothing more than a collection of unrelated …
The last year of my life has been slightly dreamlike. I am not being over the top when I say that Flash Fiction has changed my life. It has helped me to focus on positive, creative and community projects when I was suffering deeply from grief. There are so many people that helped me with this …
Metropolitan Dreams 