Good news! After a number of recent rejections I received, this morning, an acceptance from Flash: The International Short-Story Magazine for my story “A Trolley Full of Marx.” Flash has an illustrious list of previous contributors including James Kelman, Margaret Atwood, Rodge Glass, David Eggers, Bernard MacLaverty and Ian Rankin. I am utterly delighted toContinue reading “Flash! Aha!”
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Homes for Stories
It’s been quiet on the news front for a while but there have been two new exciting developments in the last few days that I’m itching to share. Firstly, I am delighted to announce that I have an agent. I’ve been stalking Judy Moir for years, sending her both my first, utterly dreadful novel SometimesContinue reading “Homes for Stories”
Publish and Be Damned.
It’s been a busy few weeks for homing pigeons sent by editors and judges. In the negative column came: – The Dundee International Book Prize: shortlisted but not final listed. – From Glasgow To Saturn: flash fiction about a fight caused by a pub quiz machine. – Asimov’s for my post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, my firstContinue reading “Publish and Be Damned.”
Dundee International Book Prize: Update
The organisers of the Dundee International Book Prize have released a sample book containing the first chapter of all thirteen novels shortlisted for the 2013 prize. It’s available as a free download from Amazon or as an actual paper-and-spine book from their offices in Dundee. I got my copy yesterday and can’t wait for theContinue reading “Dundee International Book Prize: Update”
Iain M. Banks, 1954 – 2013.
Janice Galloway said Alasdair Gray’s Lanark was the book that showed her that writing – and by extension any art – produced in Scotland from real, everyday experience was just as valid as that produced in New York, in London, in Paris or any of the supposed cultural centres around the world. That ScottishContinue reading “Iain M. Banks, 1954 – 2013.”
Eastlit
Some of you may already have visited Eastlit, a newish online magazine. They published an excerpt from my novel Dog Mountain in their February 2013 issue and my short poem sequence China in the April 2013 issue. The aim of the magazine is to publish new and interesting writing about or from East / SouthContinue reading “Eastlit”
Mission Accomplished (again).
It is done. My novel, The Wasting Embers, is done. Many of my friends will be thinking “but you’ve said that a number of times before?” I have, it is true, claimed this novel to be complete more times than Bush claimed “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, and with as much accuracy. This time it isContinue reading “Mission Accomplished (again).”
Dundee International Book Prize
Now what is the internet for if not self-promotion?* Today saw the official announcement of the Dundee International Book Prize featuring … me! (No big surprise, I mentioned ‘self-promotion’). Technically, it features my novel, Dog Mountain. Of course, it’s not only me. Twelve other writers have been plucked from about 350 entries. There follows aContinue reading “Dundee International Book Prize”
The Ballachulish Goddess
As usual I have been busy going in several directions at once. My biggest weakness as a writer is finishing things. I’m much better than I used to be. It wasn’t until I was doing my Creative Writing MPhil that I actually started finishing pieces rather than just stopping them, and since then I’ve learnedContinue reading “The Ballachulish Goddess”
Staring Down the Barrel of a Rewrite
The course of a novel never did run smooth. I first had the idea for this novel while I was at university (oh so many years ago). I originally envisaged it as being a thinly-veiled fictional reportage of my grandfather’s World War 2 experiences. Then I realised that wasn’t enough to sustain a book andContinue reading “Staring Down the Barrel of a Rewrite”
Iain Maloney 