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Sue G.

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I am the author of a novel called 'The Practical Woman's Guide to Living with the Undead' and I am working on two other novels, one of which also has a supernatural theme.

I have recently had a short story published in the anthology 'Loves Me, Loves Me Not' published by the Romantic Novelists Association, and another in the Mechanics Institute Review 6. I enjoy promoting my work at public readings such as Writloud. I'm very busy revising and updating my book on 'Authonomy' but I will comment on other people's work, hopefully with encouragement and some constructive criticism.

I will appreciate it if people are kind enough to comment on my book, and I much prefer constructive criticism to unconditional praise. I'm here in order to hone my writing and test it out on other readers, who can perhaps suggest ways to improve it and make my work more marketable.
I'm not here because I see this site as a route to publication, nor am I playing a snakes and ladders game to reach the editor's desk. In all honesty, folks, in my view, the best way to achieve publication is to redraft and redraft your work, study your craft, pitch your work to agents, and, if you do want a professional assessment, pay a reputable literary consultancy, or join excellent organisations such as the RNA, who offer a wonderful New Writers Scheme.

Good luck, everyone!

favourite books

The Gormenghast Trilogy--Mervyn Peake
The Eyre Affair-Jasper Fforde
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell-Susanna Clarke
Cold Comfort Farm--Stella Gibbons
Angel-Elizabeth Taylor
Atonement-Ian McEwan

and many, many more.........

my websites

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/writloud/Writers.htm#G     http://groansfrommygarret.blogspot.com/

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The Practical Woman's Guide to....

Sue Gedge

Divorce Lit. with vampires: a novel for those wiling to venture into the dark territory beyond the Aga!


Brave enough to venture into the dark, spooky territory beyond the Aga? Then meet Dora Harker, an ordinary divorced single mother as she battles with demons and vampires.
Dismayed to discover the ghost of her second mother- in- law in the house, Dora is grateful when Ralphie, a charming elderly man she met in a strangely Gothic pub, offers to perform an exorcism. But having been invited in, Ralphie is reluctant to leave and Dora’s perturbation increases when he reveals he is a vampire, Lord Ralph Dunglass de Marney, undead since 1944.
Dora thought she had the job from hell as a supply teacher in a North London comprehensive school, but she soon finds herself facing even greater horrors than class 9X on a Monday morning. Why is there a green, slimy lake in the middle of the living room? What really happened to her second husband Dave, when he set off on his fatal journey with his band, Chappaquiddick? Did Peregrine, her third husband really dabble in demonology? And what about the Apocalypse that Ralphie insists is imminent?
Dora certainly has a few issues to resolve, but maybe her charming, if inconvenient undead guest can help her after all!

 

The Witch-Stone

Sue Gedge

A novel of love, witch-craft, shape-shifting and magic---and you'll never want to travel on the District Line again after reading this!


Jeanie Gowdie was a lonely young woman until she found a job in the Antioch Corey Memorial Library. Then she met her destiny, after falling in love with a shape-shifting magus and discovering she really was a witch, just as her fanatically religious father had feared. Years ago, he'd tried to force her to pray by the Witch-Stone but although she'd been oppressed by her father, Jeanie had also been nurtured by her fey, hedge-witch grand-mother, Nana Herrick. She knew she had a special destiny. Yet she could not have foreseen that the man she loved would be turned into a cat, or that she'd have to do battle with Hopkins the witch-finder, the man who planned to destroy every adept in London, but Jeanie wasn't easily intimidated.......

 

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Oriax wrote 12 days ago

Hello Sue, I wondered if you had had time to look at Wormholes yet. ....

micksands wrote 17 days ago

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AuroraNemesis wrote 18 days ago

I would be very grateful if you could find the time to check my book ....

Ariom Dahl wrote 25 days ago

Please forgive this generic message, which I’m sending to Friends and....

Maevesleibhin wrote 52 days ago

Sue, I saw your pitch for "A Practical Woman's Guide to Living With....

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I wrote 64 days ago

Hi Sully---as you've been kind enough to comment on my book, I'm returning the favour! First up, can I suggest you revise your pitch slightly? A pitch should be like the blurb on the back of a book, to hook the reader in--and you do this well in the first few sentences, up to 'dispose of the bod... view book

I wrote 64 days ago

Sully, your comments are interesting, but it would be helpful if you could be more specific---perhaps you could suggest which descriptive lines should be cut, in your opinion. I haven't described anyone's clothes 'right down to their underpants', although I have described Jeanie's clothes---but thi... view book

I wrote 102 days ago

Having loved 'Fledgling' (so glad to see it in print), I'm back to read some more of 'Renegades', which is still on my shelf. Will is just one hot, vamp hero! view book

I wrote 102 days ago

Hi---I'm back and I've still got 'Zamorna;' on my bookshelf. It's just so good, and (I venture to say) better than some of the steampunk/gothic stuff that's currently on the shelves of Waterstones. (No names mentioned, but thinking of a recent US trilogy, set in alterative C19.......) view book

I wrote 102 days ago

Great pitch! Fascinating opening, a kind of mix of Robert Rankin, Jasper Fforde and Philip Reeve. Am intrigued and wll return! view book

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