Sandra

Smashing story, Sandra. Very well deserved win!

Wow, who would have guessed that no take-up would transform into four superb entries that I can’t fit a gnat’s wing between. I’ve read and re-read, and gone out for a walk – and here are my conclusions, before I change my mind:

Sandra – Catalyst

A gritty, rich voice taking us through a concise, gripping read and an unexpected but brilliantly…[Read more]

Rose the Cat

One day when I was seven, my sister Rose turned into a cat. I expected it because Rose had said ‘You won’t catch me here much longer. Not like this.’ Mr Cobden, the old man at the end of the road next to where the people had little walls all over their garden that my mum said were ‘common’, said to us that we would both live long…[Read more]

Transformation

It’s easy to transform. You just change, from one state to
Another. Nothing much to worry
About. Examples are (quite literally) everywhere you
Look. Consider the universe. Just
Took the universe a picosecond to drag itself
Out of an incomprehensible
Mess, shrugging on the laws of physics, sorting
Its chaotic nature into f…[Read more]

last (24hr-ish) shout for the monthly comp (do we still want to keep this going in its current form?). Already we have two excellent entries, but one or two more would be lovely.

Fantastic review and blog, Sandra. She really understood your book and your writing! Bravo and well-deserved.

UNTITLED (as usual!)
89 words, so a bit on the short side, and I don’t mind if this makes no sense to anyone but me 🙂

I saw the prompt and thought I would
Write a poem, if I could,
I took a vintage text (or two)
And tried to fashion something new,
Nothing worked till I caught sight
Of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
And so my Transformation…[Read more]

Fab review! Well done – she clearly really enjoyed it & picked up on all the things that I love about your writing! 🙂

What a brilliant review. I hope this generates some activity/interest/sales!

Incidentally, I see that Carol McKay wrote a pandemic novel that just beat the actual pandemic to publication, as did Kimmery Martin and Lawrence Wright. But they got splashed all over the papers and radio for it. Not a fair world.

This is fab, Sandra. Congratulations.

One week left for the March comp, with one excellent entry as yet.

Wow, that’s not far from me at all. Half an hour by car. A pilgrimmage might be in order

@daedalus

Well – I replied but it has not posted. Hmmph. Will try again.

There’s a little red light vessel LV18 at Harwich. They did broadcast from it a bit, I think.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/museum/gb/trinity-house-lightvessel-no.-18-harwich/.html

This wiki has quite a bit of info about ship damage. Mi Amigo seems to be the main one…[Read more]

@bellam, perhaps you can help me. I remember as a child hearing about a pirate radio ship that had been caught in a storm and had to put into Harwich, when it was impounded. I was there with my Mum and she pointed it out to me. I just remember a small, red ship. This was in the mid 1980s. I can’t find any references to it. I know we still had…[Read more]

You brought back so many memories Richard. Begging for my own radio so I could listen to Radio Luxembourg at night. Was the Power Play a RL thing? Anyway thanks for the chance to remember my youth!

I was born a tad too late to really enjoy all of this, but your blog Brough back memories of a wonderful 3 day cruise we took in 2014 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Radio Caroline.

They had Johnnie Walker, Emperor Rosko and Dave Cash, Georgie Fame, The Rhythm Kings (we watched both their sets all 3 nights – it was a joy), Eddie…[Read more]