Mar 23
20116
commentsA Little Help from Friends
I’ve just been reading very kind words by writer Ken MacLeod on Déjà Vu:
I wasn’t the only reviewer who thought the book, and the writer, deserved a lot better. Ian’s efforts to become a properly published writer were serious, unavailing, and in the end heartbreaking. He had another life than being a writer, and reckoned it was time he got on with it.
It was a day in the Christmas holiday immediately following publication of the book that I got Ken’s email telling me how much he liked it (together with some business advice). That was the moment I breathed a sigh of relief. If Ken liked it, there was good chance it wasn’t rubbish. Grand days.

Readers of this blog will be all to familiar with my own attempts at flash fiction, which I try to keep as ‘flash’ (i.e. short) as possible. Fiona Robyn, however, goes one better. She goes for the ‘f’ of the ‘flash’ like Linford Christie used to go for the ‘b’ of the ‘bang’.