Alison Wells Author

42 The Meaning of Life…Flash Fiction Writing Competition!

To celebrate the e-book launch of Housewife with a Half-Life on May 8th (paperback to follow) and my love of flash fiction I’m running a flash fiction writing competition. Since my space comedy book is a sort of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in Suburbia and because by amazing coincidence(!) my current age is the…

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April 30, 2012

Flash fiction, Housewife with a Half-Life, Self-publishing, Short story competitions

42, Flash fiction competition, Housewife with a Half-Life, The meaning of life, the universe and everything

Housewife with a Half-Life: E-book Launch & Blog Splash May 8th!

I’m delighted to announce that I’m going to launch the e-book of my first novel (as A.B.Wells) Housewife with a Half-Life on May 8th! HOUSEWIFE WITH A HALF-LIFE Susan Strong is a suburban housewife who is literally disintegrating. When, Fairly Dave, a kilt sporting spaceman arrives through the shower head to warn her, she knows things…

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April 26, 2012

Housweife with a Half-Life, Self-publishing

hitchhikers, Housewife with a Half-Life, indie, sci-fi comedy, self-publishing

The Alliance of Independent Authors: Inaugural Dublin Meeting 24th April

The publishing world is changing with increasing challenges for publishers and authors alike. The traditional model faces the many challenges of sustainability, digital rights management, and in the case of smaller publishers survival itself. Some would argue that publishers, particularly among the Big 6 are risk averse, giving rise to homogeneity within the industry and…

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April 23, 2012

Self-publishing, Uncategorized

Alliance of Independent Authors, Dublin Chapter

5 things I did to make my self-published book brilliant

The first thing I want to do is write. It’s essential, it’s non-negotiable. The next thing I want to do is share my writing with others. And that’s what I’ve been doing on this blog and through my submissions to anthologies and zines. Like many I’m still in the process of figuring out what’s the…

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April 19, 2012

Self-publishing

Housewife with a Half-Life, quality, Self-Printed, self-publishing

Book of Hope Competition Win!

I’m delighted to say that I’ve been chosen as the winner in the Fiction category of the Big Book of Hope Ebook with my story Flashes of Entropy and Hope. This story was created out of a series of interrelated flashes I have written for a project in progress Flashes of Sadness and Light. My…

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April 16, 2012

Fundraisers, short stories

Big Book of Hope ebook

Random Acts of Posting: April 15

Here are some of my writing.ie posts that you may have missed in the last while. Enjoy! Historical Fiction: Hazel Gaynor’s Titanic Novel The Girl Who Came Home Hazel Gaynor explains the intricacies of writing historical fiction for her Titanic novel. Love: Writer & Journalist Lucille Redmond on her short story collection Writer and journalist…

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April 15, 2012

Uncategorized, Writing Tips

Ailsa Cox, flash fiction, Hazel Gaynor, Lucille Redmond, short stories, titanic novel

Lucky Seven: Seven lines from Housewife with a Half-Life

I’ve been tagged by Jane Rusbridge and by Martha Williams as one of her authors in the Lucky Seven meme. It gives established and new writers a chance to showcase what they are working on. The instructions for Lucky 7 are: · Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript · Go to…

alisonwells

April 12, 2012

Fiction, Self-publishing

Housewife with a Half-Life, Lucky Seven

Self-Publishing pen name:Introducing A.B.Wells & Housewife with a Half-Life

I’m becoming two people… I’ve been writing consistently since my first son was born 11 years ago but even more seriously in the last number of years since the real baby days of my youngest child, now 4. From my early endeavours I have 1.75 novels in a drawer. In the…

alisonwells

April 10, 2012

Books and Authors, Self-publishing

A.B. Wells, Housewife with a Half-Life, pen names, self-publishing

Writers: ditch your angst

Writers, we’re special, we’re creative, artistic, we tap into the hum of the world that ordinary folk don’t. Hmm? We are struck by ideas, by the muse. We struggle and strain to manifest our gorgeous ideas into words that will astound, entertain, move. We’re reaching for something and sometimes we get there and we send…

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March 30, 2012

Writing Tips

angst, self-publishing, submissions, writers

Flash fiction thoughts and A.J. Ashworth’s short stories

Howdy. I’ve been putting myself about elsewhere today. On writing.ie I interview A.J. Ashworth whose wonderful short story collection Somewhere Else, Or Even Here won the Scott Prize and is now released by Salt Publishing. The collection is fabulous. Read more about it and A.J. Ashworths views on short stories here. I’ve also been pontificating…

alisonwells

March 22, 2012

Flash fiction, short stories

A.J. Ashworth, flash fiction, national flash fiction day site, or Even Here, Somewhere Else