Columns – Writing is Easy...
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." Gene Fowler, US journalist and author was probably the first person to say, in public, what most writers feel in private. So, here's to our writers, and the many drops of blood they've shed to fill our site. We thought you'd like to meet them. So allow us to introduce you to ...
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Writing is Easy...
Michael Spring
Michael Spring lives and works in London, where he is a director of a small corporate design agency. Over the last few years he has had a little more time in which to write, and was encouraged by having a couple of short stories broadcast on Radio Northern Ireland. Since then, he has had fiction published in magazines in the UK, the US and Canada. He’s married with two grown-up children.
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Fred de Vries
Fred de Vries is the author of Little Leftovers, which explains what it’s like to follow a story - and a dream. Strange as it may seem, journalists can fall in love too and, in Little Leftovers, Fred tells the story of his grand crush on Justine Frischmann, singer of Elastica. But here is Fred’s own story..
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Eileen Thornton
Eileen Thornton is our featured writer this week. Since allaboutlove has published two of her short stories and her first novel, The Trojan Project, a thriller, has just been published we asked her a bit about herself.
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Ranulph Moore
Ranulph Moore describes himself as an explorer, who became a writer to purge himself of all the past adventures that were crowding his life in the present. He says he has seen it all, in a life spent observing the lives of others.
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Alissa Baxter
Alissa Baxter is our featured writer this week and since allaboutlove is publishing all three of her books we asked her a bit about herself.
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Emilie Connes
Emilie Connes is French by birth and learnt English in Africa. She also writes in French and Spanish. She moves every three years to a different country which is thoroughly confusing but helpful as far as writing goes.
She completed a degree in English Literature at Lancaster University. It was followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at the same institution, her final portfolio being a collection of short stories entitled Loose Ends.
She has had several poems published in small press magazines in the United Kingdom such as Orbis, Anon and Citizen 32. She has also been a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines for several years now both as a feature writer and a reviewer of books and plays. She is working on her first novel.
Allaboutlove has published Emilie Connes’s collection of short stories, Loose Ends. We asked Emilie Connes a little about herself and her writing:
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