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"Okay, writing advice. Best piece of writing advice I ever had was "Use words." This saved me a lot of trouble. I'd tried to write a short story using some cucumber slices and the skeletised spine of a vole, but the pacing was off, the plot dull, and the characters smelled weird."

~ Jonathan L. Howard

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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."

~ Lemony Snicket

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"There should be a circle of hell for writers' in-jokes."

~ Dave Morris, gamebook author

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National Poetry Day 2016

In honour of National Poetry Day...

Seamus Heaney: "I saw a frog." 
Ted Hughes: "I saw a frog and it was dead."
Edgar Allen Poe: "I saw a frog and she was dead." 
Sylvia Plath: "I saw a frog and I am dead." 
Samuel Beckett: "I saw a frog and it was God." 
Siegfried Sassoon: "I've seen Hell and it's a frog." 
Spike Milligan: "Nig nag nog, I saw a frog." 
William Shakespeare: "Verily I saw a frog." 
T.S. Eliot: "Do I dare to see a frog?" 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "I hallucinated a frog." 
Lord Byron: "I'm p****d as a newt!"

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Tie-in Tuesday: Shakespeare Week - Beware the Ides of March!

Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu ties together two of the biggest franchises I have ever worked on, and I am fortunate to have some rather big names working on it with me.

The completed tales that will be appearing inside the anthology include...

• Something Rotten, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Exit, Pursued By...?, by James Lovegrove
• #Tempest, by Jan Siegel
• A Tiger's Heart, A Player's Hide, by Josh Reynolds
• Star Crossed Lovers, by Jonathan Oliver
• A Madness Most Discreet, by Michael Carroll
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Graham McNeill
• Once More Unto the Breach, by C L Werner
• A Reckoning, by Guy Haley

On another note, did you know that the Ides of March also mark the anniversary of the death of H P Lovecraft? I tell you, you couldn't make it up...

Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day

For anyone who's ever said "I want to be a writer" but never actually gets round to writing anything.