I’m delighted to have two books of short stories available now. One is of the first 25 stories I wrote during the first two years of the FREE 12 Short Stories in 12 Months programme – now known as Deadlines for Writers – more about this here. 25 more will follow early in January 2021 with the 3rd and 4th year stories (plus bonus, of course!).

25 Short Stories - Volume One

The second book is a Flash Fiction book. The same group of people at Deadlines for Writers came up with another interesting challenge to keep us busy during the long lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis.

‘Write a story of between 50 and 500 words every day until lockdown ceases!‘

(it took 70 days!). But I thought that 70 wasn’t a great number, so I continued to 101 and this came at the end of that burst of writing (I do so love short stories)!

Just to keep you all on your toes for the future, more short stories will come early in 2021 (this link will become live when it is available).

As yet unpublished

‘Twins’ – a Nicholas Sparks type romance (with a happy ever after, I promise!), will be published in 2021. It won’t be called that but it is my working title.

‘Bougainvillea’ – a femme-fatale thriller will also see the light of day during 2021. Again, a working title.

‘Canal Girl’ – a psycho-thriller with supernatural elements. A very new arena for me! Working on it this year as part of the 52 Scenes in 52 Weeks Challenge over at Deadlines for Writers!

I’m totally excited about getting bigger works out there.

Note, I co-wrote a bunch of romance novellas under the pseudonym Alicia Best over the last couple of years. You can check them out here. They are great stories and have, for the moment, a dreadful marketer (me!). This will improve over the next year. Available individually or as box sets.

Martin Haworth – September 2020