I’ve been interviewed (again) this time by Ambrose Musiyiwa, and it is at Oh My News today.

It is also scheduled to appear on Conversations with Writers and New Writing International. The latter is where my favourite excerpt from Exit, Pursued by a Bee waits for readers. excerpt here

I’ve nearly finished a new short story, Most Unwanted. Based on the FBI Most Wanted list of fugitives and inspired by a woman who turned in a man on the list, this is based on another planet in the future and with trust, betrayal, eroticism and all sorts built in. I wanted it to be ready for the Cafe Doom crit week starting this monday. I thought I’d finished it two days ago because I’d read the max word limit for a scifi competition was 800 words. I’d lacerated dead text, then sliced off barely alive settings and killed off characters to pare it to 800. Now I find it is actually 8000 words max! Arrgh. 800 is far too short for a comp asking for 8k as max, so back in go resurrected characters. It’s hard doing that without it feeling artificial so I’m glad I have the Cafe Doom crit group to be hard on it first.

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