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‘Communication’ accepted

Georgina Kamsika — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:25:02 +0000

During the frenzy of NaNoWriMo, I got sick of trying to write as much as I could, as quickly as I could. So I took a break from my novel and had a look at a short story idea I had, for a flash fiction story of a maximum of one thousand words. It was an interesting challenge to reign in my waffle and create characters and a plot in that word count, but it seems to have worked, as the story was accepted for the December issue of ‘Romance Flash’. I’ll add a link when the story goes live.

Working & writing

Georgina Kamsika — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:39:25 +0000

Been up to my eyes working & writing, mainly due to an idea for a third novel. Finally gotten most of the plan down, and have a good selection of new short stories to start shopping around as well.

Looking ahead, I’ll probably aim for completing Script Frenzy in April for a new super secret Team Awesome project, then get back to work on draft 2 of Naz.

Twitter Audiobook

Georgina Kamsika — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:50:30 +0000

“Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, “We don’t love you anymore.”

Earlier, I mentioned submitting to the BBC Twitter audio book. This has now been released and is available to listen for free, or to download at their site.

http://bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/

‘Our Fathers Eyes’ accepted

Georgina Kamsika — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:46:01 +0000

A success for the Team Awesome that is Andy, Nige and myself. At the start of our collaboration, we played around with an exercise from the excellent book “The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction.” The excercise was simple, someone started with a line or two, then someone else carried on the story, until we decided to stop. You’re not allowed to write anything down that night, but start your story the next day. The idea is to see how different the three stories would be even though coming from the same original premise. Your memory and your style would be the major factors in the differences.

Although my original short, ‘Only Connect’ was a mere thousand words, I liked the strange world we’d come up with between us. A mix of mutants, aliens and prostitution, I knew it could go further. I expanded the story to around four thousand words, and yesterday it was accepted by “Cossmass Infinities” to be released in Jan. I’ll update when it becomes available.

November

Georgina Kamsika — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:28:34 +0000

Already a busy month due to writing a fifty thousand word novel, I’ve decided to really push myself and try and get a short story submission in this month, too. There’s actually three that I’d been thinking about due at the end of November. The one that’s most developed is a young adult supernatural story, for the Rebel Books anthology. So, while ‘The Sulphur Diaries’ is almost two days ahead of schedule, I might start thinking about my as yet untitled short.

Four friends who play a lot of co-op lan games find themselves on the wrong side of an apocalypse. Can their finely honed strategies and tactics help them survive, even without extra lives and unlimited ammo?

‘My Darling’ accepted

Georgina Kamsika — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:41 +0000

A woman has just been bitten by a zombie and has locked herself in the cellar as the change occurs. She writes a note to slip under the door, so that her husband knows what has happened to her.

I submitted this to the ‘“Letters from the Dead” anthology on October 11th and was accepted late last night.

A very heartfelt letter. It will fit perfectly!

I’m extremely happy with this acceptance and it’s helping me focus on a couple more short stories I’d like to finish before NaNoWriMo kicks off next month.