Den of Writers | fransico alice | Friends Activity https://www.denofwriters.com/members/aliceuu/activity/friends/ Activity feed for fransico alice's friends. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:19:15 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 a23eb86428700e0901526f7cdfe9bfaa Kate posted an update: Happy Christmas for tomorrow to all you lovely Denizens. Xx https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/25144/ Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:06:14 +0000 Happy Christmas for tomorrow to all you lovely Denizens. Xx

]]> 1 b22cb65bb9add3614c0fbabd247aceea Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/25113/#acomment-25143 Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:05:24 +0000 Congratulations, Libby.

In reply to - Libby started the topic Short story published in the forum Podium The story I wrote for the November comp. ‘I Lied When I Said My Daughter Lived Abroad’ has been published […] ]]> effdaae4a7778dbcba8fd34a51d29858 Kate's profile was updated https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/25132/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:23:47 +0000 0 7774d3fd2e8ff48541806e360ea1cc26 Kate replied to the topic Choices in the forum September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/september-song/forum/topic/choices-7/#post-16982 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:55:16 +0000 Ice

The Last Kingdom

]]> 0 0fd1cda7c44d5d6779463459a78a2c99 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24826/#acomment-24886 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:49:47 +0000 Having fun writing and publishing. The marketing… less so. But a necessity!

In reply to - Athelstone posted an update Welcome to a new member Silver. Some may remember her as Catasshe back in the Wordcloud days ]]> 51afa0aeb568c4356ea5f4f673ea763f Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24826/#acomment-24835 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:18:56 +0000 Hello my old SE buddy! Lovely to see you here.

In reply to - Athelstone posted an update Welcome to a new member Silver. Some may remember her as Catasshe back in the Wordcloud days ]]> a44dd23e389300ac9bb29a01350a2ec4 Kate joined the group September Song https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24798/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:54:31 +0000 0 8da808de7b7ad61b9f7441d4d5872d69 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24527/#acomment-24528 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:48:39 +0000 I love that book, and the sequel. Beautifully written, with a touch of magic.

In reply to - RichardB posted an update Finest line of dialogue I’ve encountered for some time. From The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley: ‘What does a clockwork octopus in an elevator shaft sound like?’ ]]> 71a1a5b97c22ccd318b9cf5aaadd1154 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/24246/#acomment-24249 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:39:57 +0000 Thank you!

In reply to - Janette posted an update Kate, brilliant stuff. Congratulations! ]]> 62c4a9f842761918c428a98f15d0024a Kate replied to the topic New novel from Kate Machon! in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/new-novel-from-kate-machon/#post-16438 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:53:00 +0000 Thanks, Sea! 😃

]]> 0 561d235d239dc9c82eb1ecf5bc8c4bee Kate replied to the topic New novel from Kate Machon! in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/new-novel-from-kate-machon/#post-16419 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:35:48 +0000 Thanks, Ath – as I’m sure you remember, they came to life in a short story in one of you winter writing challenges. Now I’m about to start writing book 3.

]]> 0 6f8b91be9e5153ee519161dc3ba78495 Kate replied to the topic New novel from Kate Machon! in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/new-novel-from-kate-machon/#post-16416 Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:08:46 +0000 Thanks, Libby!

Book 1 in the series was a bronze winner in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards last week too. So I’ve had lots to celebrate on the writing front. A very nice feeling after the years of drought when I was chasing agents!

]]> 0 fa3bbba2303099cb52ba5cb28f73b690 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23579/#acomment-23629 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:34:22 +0000 I’m sorry you’ve had a bad experience trying to get the message out Janette. I share your and Philippa’s frustration with the celebrity Christmas book, especially now I’m truing to get my funny children’s book under people’s noses. An unfair situation, but one I doubt publishers will be interested in rectifying.

In reply to - Janette started the topic Is a social media Christmas appeal worthwhile? in the forum Blogs Recently, @Philippa East posted a copy of her letter to the Society of Authors on facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/photo […] ]]> eb33aa946bbf3bf0f8554be1c6e6be73 Kate joined the group A Different Time https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23367/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:27:53 +0000 0 bd8bfe0d794196db89cd0a6570e49ac7 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23015/#acomment-23062 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:35:45 +0000 Thanks so much, Janette, I really appreciate that. And good luck with finishing the WIP.

In reply to - Kate posted an update I wanted to let you know that I’ve finally gone ahead and published my humorous middle grade book. I’m very excited! Some of you may remember the characters Pix and Gabe from one of […] ]]> 9d27a3562b0f519c343700b986aec28d Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23015/#acomment-23054 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:41:18 +0000 Thanks, Kaz!

In reply to - Kate posted an update I wanted to let you know that I’ve finally gone ahead and published my humorous middle grade book. I’m very excited! Some of you may remember the characters Pix and Gabe from one of […] ]]> a7cbf7bbc15bc2b6533233833a847f9d Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23015/#acomment-23026 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:11:36 +0000 Thanks, Athelstone. Fingers crossed. 😊

In reply to - Kate posted an update I wanted to let you know that I’ve finally gone ahead and published my humorous middle grade book. I’m very excited! Some of you may remember the characters Pix and Gabe from one of […] ]]> 38ad1cbfcb71ffeee7cad582171637d8 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23015/#acomment-23022 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:10:50 +0000 Thank you, Libby!

In reply to - Kate posted an update I wanted to let you know that I’ve finally gone ahead and published my humorous middle grade book. I’m very excited! Some of you may remember the characters Pix and Gabe from one of […] ]]> f017f631a1044982c70f04898eff93ac Kate posted an update: I wanted to let you know that I've finally gone ahead and […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23015/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:09:54 +0000 I wanted to let you know that I’ve finally gone ahead and published my humorous middle grade book. I’m very excited!
Some of you may remember the characters Pix and Gabe from one of Athelstone’s short story contests. Well, the pair have now gone large.

It’s launching on 12 July. If anyone is interested, you can pre-order an e-copy now, or get a…[Read more]

]]> 8 8ced7fe8b467e0de911c28f8d6c5ab2f Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22969/#acomment-22979 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:38:18 +0000 That’s working. Thank you!

In reply to - Kate posted an update Is anybody else have trouble with group posts? It’s impossible to get to recent posts. ]]> 85a87c658df6881e016ad62872371b3a Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22969/#acomment-22976 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:49:38 +0000 🙂 yes, that’s what is happening.

In reply to - Kate posted an update Is anybody else have trouble with group posts? It’s impossible to get to recent posts. ]]> 0f327c4edee86fdb7bb719f2ec2cfc3e Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22969/#acomment-22971 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:11:03 +0000 Thanks, Ath. It’s in our SE course group. A forum has multiple pages but we can’t move beyond the first page to look at later posts.

In reply to - Kate posted an update Is anybody else have trouble with group posts? It’s impossible to get to recent posts. ]]> 3618fcbd1e759b2cb3606ff83b48b5b8 Kate posted an update: Is anybody else have trouble with group posts? It's […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22969/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:58:01 +0000 Is anybody else have trouble with group posts? It’s impossible to get to recent posts.

]]> 9 f10b99476463b5d37fb71436fe9b9d87 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/22524/#acomment-22590 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:05:19 +0000 Congratulations, John. I’ve picked up a copy.

In reply to - John T posted an update For those of you who are interested, Apples in the Dark is now available as an Ebook (paperback coming at the end of June). Almost ten years in the writing, tearing up, rewriting, rewriting […] ]]> 2d94408b39d66c0884decd03888b0323 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21808/#acomment-21814 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:16:40 +0000 Woohoo! Exciting as well as scary, I hope.

In reply to - John T posted an update The proof copy of my novel has arrived. This is getting scarily real! ]]> cd18c6c36042321a263a1af7357f14dd Kate replied to the topic Choices in the forum Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/whodunnit/forum/topic/choices-6/#post-14225 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:04:09 +0000 Arithmetic

Spanner

Comical

]]> 0 3826ad3039925d1c15336f4afeade657 Kate joined the group Whodunnit? https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21697/ Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:42:47 +0000 0 aee61fd76a9be300cb2858067312bc98 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21683/#acomment-21696 Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:42:34 +0000 That time already? Hooray.

In reply to - Athelstone posted an update Whodunnit? Idunnit. There’s a new challenge. Find your way to the new group called Whodunnit? to solve all your questions about how to fill those autumn and winter days. ]]> 72373cf819cced43f23637bf0bde5b86 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21518/#acomment-21521 Sun, 23 Jul 2023 12:03:32 +0000 Thanks for keeping this place going Ath. I’ve made a transfer to your account.

In reply to - Athelstone posted an update One More Year! Probably daft, bearing in mind we have maybe 10 to 15 members who are even close to regular, and perhaps half a dozen who are. I need to raise about £150 this month to […] ]]> b966694b188998eb37d0b9da9ef20690 Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp - May 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-comp-may-2023/#post-13885 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:39:02 +0000 Thank you all for a fabulous batch of stories.

Seagreen – you had me on the edge of my seat wondering what was in that letter.

Sandra – such a lovely heart warming tale.

Athelstone – I love that kind hearted Brenda got the reassurance she needed.

Alex – oh! Such a tale of mystery and deceit. Thus feels like the basis for a longer story.

A…[Read more]

]]> 0 4540d5e001729644930b3450568e7dc8 Kate replied to the topic Monthly comp - May 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-comp-may-2023/#post-13840 Tue, 23 May 2023 10:42:41 +0000 Any takers for the monthly competition? A week to go.

]]> 0 bf6fa25461d946e5b10b6be2be6242ec Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/21236/#acomment-21238 Thu, 04 May 2023 15:18:16 +0000 🤣🤣

In reply to - Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition That Pixie gets everywhere. Well done Kate! ]]> d819a0f23ca62bb5e73f4d3e707fa479 Kate started the topic Monthly comp - May 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-comp-may-2023/ Tue, 02 May 2023 15:57:02 +0000 You arrive home to find an unmarked envelope on your door mat. Who is it from? What does it contain?

Let me know in less than 500 words.

]]> 0 519f86ba32467d4214e7c8b2858d0c12 Kate replied to the topic Monthly Comp - March 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-comp-march-2023/#post-13775 Tue, 02 May 2023 11:49:34 +0000 Thanks, Alex. It was fun to give Pixie and Gabe an outing! I’ll have a think about a theme for the coming month.

]]> 0 d20c22233d33026cf0b7bc48f56e57b4 Kate replied to the topic Story in new collection in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/story-in-new-collection/#post-13774 Tue, 02 May 2023 11:48:03 +0000 Congratulations Daedalus!

]]> 0 1fbf73c389e491ea16b24236531d91bc Kate replied to the topic Monthly Comp - March 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-comp-march-2023/#post-13711 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:47:27 +0000 A STRANGE ENCOUNTER

Len slammed on the brakes of his electricity work truck and squeezed his eyes closed. This couldn’t have happened. It had to be his imagination. Too much beer last night and too much coffee this morning.

He peeked open his eyes and gave a screech more usual for his five-year-old daughter.

Pressed against the windscreen was a…[Read more]

]]> 0 481eff895f844350de2f074ff8ae3ef8 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/20569/#acomment-20570 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:11:30 +0000 Happy new year to you too and all the Denizens.

In reply to - Athelstone posted an update …and a very Happy New Year! ]]> a716175db01e5d0ceefd244e3deaf605 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/20355/#acomment-20373 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:47:47 +0000 Brilliant news. Congratulations, Hilary!

In reply to - Hilary started the topic Prize and novel publication in the forum Podium Some of you will already know this if you hang out on twitter. My debut novel, Sea Defences, is coming out in January and can be pre-ordered […] ]]> e33a00c2267bd194ec415ae4998fad1b Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/20306/#acomment-20315 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:59:32 +0000 Fantastic news, Thea. I’m a print book person too. I love your short stories, so will look forward to getting myself a copy of this in the new year

In reply to - Thea started the topic Free book in the forum Podium At long last, my first novel is about to be published! Signum is the first instalment of The Serpents of Caesar historical fantasy series set in an alternate […] ]]> 5b41dc595e1bda0ac96c054276dcb7a4 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/20162/#acomment-20171 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:01:59 +0000 That’s amazing news, Raine. Huge congratulations.

In reply to - Raine posted an update Hi all, just dropping by to catch up on the annual challenge & whisper that a previous challenge story (Bathymetry) has just won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. So thank you […] ]]> 15a28457a9e782a4d84a8ebfc83977ac Kate replied to the topic Choices in the forum All You Need https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/all-you-need/forum/topic/choices-5/#post-12720 Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:50:38 +0000 Ravenwood

No there is not

]]> 0 5995ececa8c1d307e692debdea4c7364 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/20012/#acomment-20025 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:31:13 +0000 Interest and moving. Thanks, Richard.

In reply to - RichardB started the topic The Price of Coal: Senghenydd, 1913 in the forum Blogs At 8.00am on the morning of 14 October 1913 the mining village of Senghenydd (Seng-HEN-uth, hard s as in sip, soft th as in […] ]]> 18a493b21f81718cf5b4d09c425d5b78 Kate joined the group All You Need https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/19969/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:46:28 +0000 0 e7cc20f2acdb4de38b62b3579e0abcfa Kate replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/cas-longlist/#post-12568 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:13:43 +0000 Is that yours in second place, Richard!! Huge congratulations.

]]> 0 c9818f9ce1b58ed3d9c0996353cd6c56 Kate replied to the topic How to reach out to a speculative fiction editor? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/how-to-reach-out-to-a-speculative-fiction-editor/#post-12567 Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:45:50 +0000 Hi Knicks – what sort of editorial review are you looking for. There is the pretty standard book doctor report, a deeper developmental edit that I’ve heard of offered by Jericho, or mentoring.

I’ve recently gone down the mentoring path, because I wanted the opportunity for some personal back and forth with an editor, rather than just a book…[Read more]

]]> 0 895dd6208e212c31a7e12a62af85f108 Kate replied to the topic CAS longlist in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/cas-longlist/#post-12534 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:06:17 +0000 I’m on the shortlist too. Nice to have such excellent company. Congratulations.

]]> 1 3a8b2aead5885cb266a9320f1b15a6d3 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/19806/#acomment-19809 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:46:05 +0000 Congratulations, Raine. I remember the story well.

In reply to - Raine posted an update Wanted to let anyone know who remembers my Bathymetry story from one of the winter challenges … it’s been shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award! Very surprised by that, but proves how far […] ]]> be76f0991d36c7159c4b68d227128d78 Kate replied to the topic I've seen fiction written in present tense described as potentially static in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/ive-seen-fiction-written-in-present-tense-described-as-potentially-static/#post-12455 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:00:14 +0000 I find the idea of present tense feeling static quite odd. Because you are in the moment, I think it’s hard to pause in a way that is possible in past tense. So I’d say the opposite of static.

Like Sandra, sometimes I’ll find a book jars a little initially in present tense, but I’ll quickly cease to notice as I adapt to the books style.

I read a…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b375623d916eb2f3a90e0b7b1742aba Kate replied to the topic Not Such a Literary Byway: The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/not-such-a-literary-byway-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january-by-alix-e-harrow/#post-12403 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:03:17 +0000 I think our reading tastes have developed in a similar way, Richard. I read fantasy as a teen (though never a LOTR fan) but as I got older and every book back I read seemed to involve a magic sword or a ring and sorting the good from the bad became impossible, I moved away from the genre.

I do enjoy (and often write) our reality with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0cec4123fabc2c42ff380ff0f832a32 Kate posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/19712/#acomment-19724 Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:52:21 +0000 I always enjoy a writerly debate, so would happily read blogs on aspects of fiction.

In reply to - Libby replied to the topic The Future of the Den (again) in the forum Blogs I echo Kate’s comments. I was sorry to miss the last annual story challenge when I was away from home but I’m about to start a further […] ]]>