MOMAYA, A WIN AND ANOTHER NOTE OF INTEREST

I don't enter many writing competitions these days... maybe two or three a year as against the sixty to eighty I used to do. Mostly this is because I am aiming in a different direction... in my writing and in my goals. I have one novel published ('Mrs Winchester's Gun Club') and others out there doing the rounds. If I enter a competition now it is on a whim and just for fun and once I enter I am able to completely forget about it (something I could never do when I was doing it in earnest!!). So, it was nothing short of the most delightful surpise when the lovely ladies at Momaya emailed me this week to say I had won this year's Momaya Short Story Competition. They also chose another of my stories to be included in their annual publication, 'Momaya Review'.

At the same time an independent publisher, having read a sample of a novella I have written and which I submitted to them at the start of the year, emailed me to say they liked it and were intrigued and engaged and so could they see the rest of the manuscript. Of course this does not mean they will like the rest and then want to publish it, but it still feels good that they want to see the rest.

So, bouyed up by these two positives, I put a collection of my stories together and sent it out there - that would be good to have a collection of them to share.

Will keep you informed.