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Hi all, It’s good to hear that writers I have interacted with online are having success in the publishing world.   Anthony J Langford has just had his excellent novella, The Bottomless River , published. I reviewed it in my last blog post . I am currently a third of the way into Karen Tyrrell’s memoir Me and Her , which she recently published. It tells of her battle with bipolar and is an engrossing tale. Karen was gracious enough to allow me to interview her for an article I wrote for Divine last year. And David Kitson has found an agent for his excellent self-published ebook Turing Evolved . I have previously posted a review of Turing Evolved on this blog. The quality of their stories/writing tell me that it is ridiculously hard to find a traditional publisher these days. But their determination and a changing publishing industry show that there are new ways to succeed. New Divine Article. Divine posted a new article of mine about people with disabil...

  The Bottomless River begins in a small town in rural Victoria in Australia. Three mates, Tom, Jen and the male point of view character, regularly get together at a river bank for harmless fun and banter. But their innocent world changes one night when they get drunk. The main character cannot forgive himself for what he has done.    The Bottomless River surprised me with the quality of both its writing and story.  It has an emotional punch thrown by believable characters. Their dialogue is as natural as the river the teenagers meet by, echoing the voices of people I grew up with.    The novella’s author, Anthony J Langford , comes up with plenty of original similes as he explores guilt and regret. The main character’s inner turmoil seemed so realistic that I thought the writer had to be writing from experience. To get the full impact of the novella I recommend reading it in one go.