Open Writing

Firstly, I’ve had some extremely positive feedback from Dorinda Cass on her short story critique. She told me, “Your critique was helpful and insightful. I have no qualms in recommending your critique service to others.”

Therefore I am pleased to announce that the First Impressions Critique Service is now open for business.

The cost is £10 for a critique of a story or piece of non-fiction up to 2,000 words in length. Full details of what’s included can be found on my First Impressions Critique Service page. Why not pop over and have a look? http://sallyjenkins.wordpress.com/first-impressions-critique-service/

Secondly, The Writer’s Coffee Shop is currently open for submissions.http://www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/ This is an independent publisher based in New South Wales in Australia and it is also the publisher that first released Fifty Shades of Grey as e-books and print-on-demand paperbacks. I thought that EL James had initially self-published the e-books but according to her website, this was not the case. http://www.eljamesauthor.com/faq/

The Writer’s Coffee Shop is currently looking for stories between 20,000 and 30,000 words (a good stepping stone from short story to novel?). The stories must fall into the genres of either romance or erotica. Stories can be emailed and full details are here. http://www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/

Finally, I’ve had a couple of nice surprises in the past week. I was shortlisted in the Writers’ News ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Short Story Competition – I was pleased about this since I’d gone to the trouble of reading the book (for the first time) especially so that I could enter the competition.

And today I heard that I’d won a £25 Tesco gift card for leaving a comment on Hire Bloggers Facebook page. Hire Bloggers is a new undertaking that aims to match bloggers to businesses for paid work. Wouldn’t it be nice to earn money from blogging? https://www.facebook.com/HireBloggers