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NEW WEBSITE!!!!
Vanessa Gebbie's news — ... I have a new website. I have often wondered why creative people have some of the most staid sites about. My new one is most definitely NOT staid. MY NEW WEBSITE HERE Send me a message, and look at the graphics on the 'contact me' page!!! I might even reply. ...

Promotion: It's a Mystery To Me, But Something's Working
Red Room - Where the Writers Are — ... Rushdie every now and then)! I have been cross-posting my blog posts here for months, hoping I might get into the Most Popular blogs once or twice, but never imagining I'd make the front page. I don't know what this mean in terms of book sales, who knows what it means directly? But it's buzz, it's great for me, it's great for Mark. Just goes to show...umm, something like, Try anything and everything and something might just pay off. Right? Hmm. In other news: inspired by Vanessa's gorgeous new look , I with my very amateur web designing skills, redesigned my website, ...

SHORT CIRCUIT A Salt Publishing Guide to the Art of the Short Story
Vanessa Gebbie's news — ... Myth and Imagination. Tobias Hill: Character, dialogue, and much more. Sarah Salway: Stealing Stories. Elizabeth Baines: True Story, Real Story – Good Fiction? Tania Hershman: Art Breathes from Containment David Gaffney: Get Shorty. The micro-fiction of Etgar Keret. Marian Garvey: On Intuition. Writing into the Void. Elaine Chiew: Endings Paul Magrs: Thoughts on Writing Fiction, at the End of Term Vanessa Gebbie: i) Leaving the door ajar: Opening the short story ...

Save Salt - buy a book, or three
Red Room - Where the Writers Are — ... we can hopefully find more sales and save our literary publishing. Remember it's just one book, that's all it takes to save us. Please do it now. With my best wishes to everyone Chris Director Salt Publishing If you are in the book-buying mood, now's the time! Here are just a few of the wonderful Salt titles that are available. Click on each cover for more information: [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] And these are just some of the short story collections, there is a wealth of ...

ME AND TRACEY EMIN, JOANNA TROLLOPE, JO BRAND
Vanessa Gebbie's news — ... I am putting a gang together to go, so if anyone would like to join me, plus (so far), two friends (both writers) email me via my website HERE if you don’t know my email addy. ...

And another competition...
Sarah's writing journal — I have a chapter in the forthcoming guide to writing short stories, Short Circuit, edited by the brilliant Vanessa Gebbie and published by Salt Publishing. Can't wait to get hold of my copy and see what fellow contributors, Tania Hershman, Elizabeth Baines, Linda Cracknell, Catherine Smith and so many others have to say. But in the meantime, if you want to win a copy, there's a competition right here. ...