Just in time for Christmas, A Bad Year for Trees would make a good stocking filler for anyone who likes short stories. Almost all of them have been published before, anthologised by other people or even broadcast on Radio 4.
I've been meaning to collect them together for a long time. At the moment, I have a new non-fiction book, the Last Lancer, going through the Saraband publishing process, I also have some ideas for a brand new project simmering away. Assembling this little retrospective has proved to be a pleasant distraction, especially allowing me to look back at what inspired these stories.
I think they epitomise something I was told by an (ex) agent. 'Your work is too well written to be popular, but too popular to be really literary,' she said. My bad.
All the same, it makes them readable! Let me know what you think.
It's available as an eBook, and now in paperback. I've written other stories, over the years, but these are the ones that I believe have stood the test of time.
The paperback was published with the invaluable help of Duncan Lockerbie at Lumphanan Press
1 comment:
Sounds good, Catherine. I'll buy it and review it too.
Dennis
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