Below is a really positive review for Words and Women One, from the Eastern Daily Press 12.04.2014
Words and Women anthologies one, two and three. I am delighted to have been selected each year for the Words and Women competition and have stories in each anthology.
The stories are: The Sitting, The Siren and Folding.
Reviews: if you have enjoyed reading Words and Women One and Words and Women Two or Gene Genie the publishers would be really grateful if you would take the time to review the book (s) on Amazon.
Below is a really positive review for Words and Women One, from the Eastern Daily Press 12.04.2014
The 21 pieces are the winning entries in a new competition launched by Words And Women in 2013. Vivid prose candidly explores every subject imaginable. A daughter discovers decades of infidelity at an exhibition. A young woman faces a terrible diagnosis. A lover mourns her loss through a sensory feast of recollection, and an old man is reminded that the weight of love is exactly 159 mangoes. A child is snared in futuristic sleep, while a life rushes past in a pattern of violence.
This is a book for adventurous readers who like to mix subtlety with verve and originality with imagination.
Contributors: Deborah Arnander, Sarah Baxter, Susan Dean, Anni Domingo, Layn Feldman, Wendy Gill, Caroline Jackson, Alice Kent, C.G. Menon, Lily Meyer, Patricia Mullin, Karen O’Connor, Judith Omasete, Bridget Read, Dani Redd, Elizabeth Reed, Bethany Settle, Kim Sherwood, Nedra Westwater, Rowan Whiteside, and Lois Williams.
To order your copy go to unthankbooks.com. Also available on Kindle and ipad from Amazon on March 8th. Words and Women One inaugural anthology of women writers in the East (and containing my short story ‘The Sitting’ is available from Unthank Books – click on the link below. To order any of the anthologies go to unthankbooks.com
http://unthankbooks.com/bookshop/index.php?route=product/category&path=59
The stories are: The Sitting, The Siren and Folding.
Reviews: if you have enjoyed reading Words and Women One and Words and Women Two or Gene Genie the publishers would be really grateful if you would take the time to review the book (s) on Amazon.
Below is a really positive review for Words and Women One, from the Eastern Daily Press 12.04.2014
The 21 pieces are the winning entries in a new competition launched by Words And Women in 2013. Vivid prose candidly explores every subject imaginable. A daughter discovers decades of infidelity at an exhibition. A young woman faces a terrible diagnosis. A lover mourns her loss through a sensory feast of recollection, and an old man is reminded that the weight of love is exactly 159 mangoes. A child is snared in futuristic sleep, while a life rushes past in a pattern of violence.
This is a book for adventurous readers who like to mix subtlety with verve and originality with imagination.
Contributors: Deborah Arnander, Sarah Baxter, Susan Dean, Anni Domingo, Layn Feldman, Wendy Gill, Caroline Jackson, Alice Kent, C.G. Menon, Lily Meyer, Patricia Mullin, Karen O’Connor, Judith Omasete, Bridget Read, Dani Redd, Elizabeth Reed, Bethany Settle, Kim Sherwood, Nedra Westwater, Rowan Whiteside, and Lois Williams.
To order your copy go to unthankbooks.com. Also available on Kindle and ipad from Amazon on March 8th. Words and Women One inaugural anthology of women writers in the East (and containing my short story ‘The Sitting’ is available from Unthank Books – click on the link below. To order any of the anthologies go to unthankbooks.com
http://unthankbooks.com/bookshop/index.php?route=product/category&path=59
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Words and Women
For the past three years the following short stories selected for the Words and Women regional short story competition and included in the anthology.
Title and Judges:
Folding - Emma Healey 2016
The Siren - Sarah Ridgard 2015
The Sitting - Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood.2014
Gene Genie: Buy it now:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gene-Genie-ebook/dp/B00AK9NWT2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1355523721&sr=1-1
Gene Genie is a gripping story exposing the confused ethics of contemporary life and politics.
Michael Barton MP is the Minister for the Family. A happily married father of two daughters he never imagines that an apparent act of altruism could come back to haunt him. When a young man claiming to be his son contacts him, Michael’s life begins to unravel and as the press-pack circles Michael Barton struggles to keep his career, his family and his integrity intact.
‘Dramatic elements combine with political intrigue to create a fast-moving page turner.’
Mark Nicholls. Eastern Daily Press.
‘Crisply written, moves at a good pace and a good read. Mullin deals with a number of ethical issues - sperm donation, the power of the press/sleaze - from the perspectives of its main characters in a sensitive and humanistic way. I look forward to reading more by this writer.’ Ms C A Foxhall on Amazon
Casting Shadows - by Patricia Mullin
'The soul's capricious reporter, memory filters out what hurts, combines the incidents that remain, and then adapts them to the form it wants to remember: memory composes its own truth.' Martha Zamora. From the preface: Frida Kahlo. The Brush with Anguish.
I had wanted to write about memory for some years. This quote from Martha Zamora was the trigger; 'The soul's capricious reporter' seemed particularly close to my feelings about memory with its illusory nature. When people ask me what Casting Shadows is about, I reply: 'It is about mistaking memory for truth.'
In part this novel reflects my own memories of the farmland behind our home where Gypsies often camped. Nagging at the back of my mind was the idea for a novel where the central character is an artist who unravels the darker aspects of her childhood through her fragmentary memory and childhood collections. I decided that her artistic practice would be pivotal within the plot; that the very objects that Sally Kettlestone uses would carry significance in the unfolding drama. Young Sally has been a joy to write, she seemed to come to me whole; a persistent funny little girl who unwittingly collides with the dark adult world. A unique feature of the novel is the making of Sally's artwork and collections, these are included in the novel.
For the past three years the following short stories selected for the Words and Women regional short story competition and included in the anthology.
Title and Judges:
Folding - Emma Healey 2016
The Siren - Sarah Ridgard 2015
The Sitting - Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood.2014
Gene Genie: Buy it now:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gene-Genie-ebook/dp/B00AK9NWT2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1355523721&sr=1-1
Gene Genie is a gripping story exposing the confused ethics of contemporary life and politics.
Michael Barton MP is the Minister for the Family. A happily married father of two daughters he never imagines that an apparent act of altruism could come back to haunt him. When a young man claiming to be his son contacts him, Michael’s life begins to unravel and as the press-pack circles Michael Barton struggles to keep his career, his family and his integrity intact.
‘Dramatic elements combine with political intrigue to create a fast-moving page turner.’
Mark Nicholls. Eastern Daily Press.
‘Crisply written, moves at a good pace and a good read. Mullin deals with a number of ethical issues - sperm donation, the power of the press/sleaze - from the perspectives of its main characters in a sensitive and humanistic way. I look forward to reading more by this writer.’ Ms C A Foxhall on Amazon
Casting Shadows - by Patricia Mullin
'The soul's capricious reporter, memory filters out what hurts, combines the incidents that remain, and then adapts them to the form it wants to remember: memory composes its own truth.' Martha Zamora. From the preface: Frida Kahlo. The Brush with Anguish.
I had wanted to write about memory for some years. This quote from Martha Zamora was the trigger; 'The soul's capricious reporter' seemed particularly close to my feelings about memory with its illusory nature. When people ask me what Casting Shadows is about, I reply: 'It is about mistaking memory for truth.'
In part this novel reflects my own memories of the farmland behind our home where Gypsies often camped. Nagging at the back of my mind was the idea for a novel where the central character is an artist who unravels the darker aspects of her childhood through her fragmentary memory and childhood collections. I decided that her artistic practice would be pivotal within the plot; that the very objects that Sally Kettlestone uses would carry significance in the unfolding drama. Young Sally has been a joy to write, she seemed to come to me whole; a persistent funny little girl who unwittingly collides with the dark adult world. A unique feature of the novel is the making of Sally's artwork and collections, these are included in the novel.
‘Has mummy forgotten who I am?’ She asked.
‘Mummy’s still not very well. The medicine she is taking at the moment makes her a bit confused.’
‘When will mummy come home?’
‘Soon darling, soon.’
Sally leant her head against the car window and allowed it to bump against it. She enjoyed the sharp repetitive pain. She watched the grass verge as it whizzed past in a blur and squeezing her eyes tight shut she hoped and hoped that it wouldn’t be soon.
When the artist, SALLY KETTLESTONE, clears the family home she unearths animal skulls and other macabre childhood treasures. She recalls summers spent roaming the Meads, avoiding her mother’s frightening moods by playing in dens and hideaways and reading the curious prophetic images that appeared in clouds. A funny, quirky child, who imagines herself a friend of The Famous Five, Sally forges friendships with Georgina (George), Rupert Jardine and Tyso Lee the Gypsy. Spying on the Gypsy camp she observes ominous comings and goings across the Meads and draws all the wrong conclusions.
