VSS365 Anthology
I joined a writing community on Twitter a couple of years ago called VSS365. Thousands of writers around the globe writing micro fiction or Very Short Stories with a single word writing prompt provided through the hashtag #vss365
In 2019, the hosts led by flash dog Mark A King, tasked a talented global writing community to produce their best work. We were provided with 37 challenging prompts with a strict 280 character limit. From thousands of entries, they selected just 365. I was lucky to have two stories chosen for inclusion.
What can be achieved with just 280 characters? On the pages of the anthology you will feel the fabric of love and depths of loss, you will explore mortality and ponder what it truly means to be alive, you will find poetry, prose, wonder, despair, humour and courage.
Most of all you will find exceptional thought-provoking authors who are pushing their form to the very limits and beyond. All royalties of this anthology go directly to a children's literacy charity.
Available through Amazon
VSS365 Anthology
I joined a writing community on Twitter a couple of years ago called VSS365. Thousands of writers around the globe writing micro fiction or Very Short Stories with a single word writing prompt provided through the hashtag #vss365
In 2019, the hosts led by flash dog Mark A King, tasked a talented global writing community to produce their best work. We were provided with 37 challenging prompts with a strict 280 character limit. From thousands of entries, they selected just 365. I was lucky to have two stories chosen for inclusion.
What can be achieved with just 280 characters? On the pages of the anthology you will feel the fabric of love and depths of loss, you will explore mortality and ponder what it truly means to be alive, you will find poetry, prose, wonder, despair, humour and courage.
Most of all you will find exceptional thought-provoking authors who are pushing their form to the very limits and beyond. All royalties of this anthology go directly to a children's literacy charity.
Available through Amazon
VSS365 Anthology
I joined a writing community on Twitter a couple of years ago called VSS365. Thousands of writers around the globe writing micro fiction or Very Short Stories with a single word writing prompt provided through the hashtag #vss365
In 2019, the hosts led by flash dog Mark A King, tasked a talented global writing community to produce their best work. We were provided with 37 challenging prompts with a strict 280 character limit. From thousands of entries, they selected just 365. I was lucky to have two stories chosen for inclusion.
What can be achieved with just 280 characters? On the pages of the anthology you will feel the fabric of love and depths of loss, you will explore mortality and ponder what it truly means to be alive, you will find poetry, prose, wonder, despair, humour and courage.
Most of all you will find exceptional thought-provoking authors who are pushing their form to the very limits and beyond. All royalties of this anthology go directly to a children's literacy charity.
Available through Amazon
VSS365 Anthology
I joined a writing community on Twitter a couple of years ago called VSS365. Thousands of writers around the globe writing micro fiction or Very Short Stories with a single word writing prompt provided through the hashtag #vss365
In 2019, the hosts led by flash dog Mark A King, tasked a talented global writing community to produce their best work. We were provided with 37 challenging prompts with a strict 280 character limit. From thousands of entries, they selected just 365. I was lucky to have two stories chosen for inclusion.
What can be achieved with just 280 characters? On the pages of the anthology you will feel the fabric of love and depths of loss, you will explore mortality and ponder what it truly means to be alive, you will find poetry, prose, wonder, despair, humour and courage.
Most of all you will find exceptional thought-provoking authors who are pushing their form to the very limits and beyond. All royalties of this anthology go directly to a children's literacy charity.
Available through Amazon
VSS365 Anthology
I joined a writing community on Twitter a couple of years ago called VSS365. Thousands of writers around the globe writing micro fiction or Very Short Stories with a single word writing prompt provided through the hashtag #vss365
In 2019, the hosts led by flash dog Mark A King, tasked a talented global writing community to produce their best work. We were provided with 37 challenging prompts with a strict 280 character limit. From thousands of entries, they selected just 365. I was lucky to have two stories chosen for inclusion.
What can be achieved with just 280 characters? On the pages of the anthology you will feel the fabric of love and depths of loss, you will explore mortality and ponder what it truly means to be alive, you will find poetry, prose, wonder, despair, humour and courage.
Most of all you will find exceptional thought-provoking authors who are pushing their form to the very limits and beyond. All royalties of this anthology go directly to a children's literacy charity.
Available through Amazon
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Suzy Aspley
Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier: her son, Dougie is at university, and her friend Orla will give birth at any minute, and she’s becoming ever closer to her ex Jamie.
But all this is turned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers, calls on her to help with a truly disturbing case: a human ear with an unusual Celtic earring has been found next to a railway line in the Highlands.
And when the body of a young woman wearing matching jewellery turns up at a landmark Church shortly after, the mystery only deepens. Why has she been laid out in such a ritualistic fashion?
Does her trek along the little-known Cailleach Way have anything to do with her demise? And who is running the Facebook group where she posted details of her journey to the shrine of The Bone Mother goddess?
As Martha tries to unpick the threads, she soon finds herself entwined with a ghost from her own past, and in conflict with the owner of a company committed to a huge hydroelectric scheme that threatens to destroy the goddess’ sacred land.
With Halloween approaching and someone determined to protect the goddess at all costs, can Martha and Summers catch the killer before they strike again - and this time much closer to home…?
About
South Shields born author Suzy Aspley began writing her first book after a prompt at a writing retreat in the Scottish Highlands, secrets rattling in a matchbox, reminded her of a story she once covered as a newspaper reporter.
After pitching successfully at Dragon’s Pen in summer 2019, where all four panellists wanted to see her manuscript, she won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition in September 2019 and a month later was shortlisted in the DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award at the first Capital Crime festival in London.
In 2020 she was awarded a mentorship through Hachette's Future Bookshelf Initiative and was delighted to work with Hodder Executive Publisher Jo Dickinson on the manuscript for her debut novel into 2021 The book was long listed for the Caledonia Novel Award 2022 and in January 2022, she signed with wonderful agent Euan Thorneycroft at London agency AM Heath Ltd.
Suzy's latest novel The Bone Mother is available to pre-order from Orenda Books, and all good booksellers, in paperback, ebook and audiobook She lives in Scotland with her family and when she’s not writing is usually walking in the woods with assorted kids, dogs and horses.
