May is International Short Story Month.

Those of you who know my own writing and who follow my blog will already know how much I love reading and writing short stories.

I have written a few collections of short stories.








I have also contributed stories to the BestsellerBound Anthologies (most of which are currently free to download on Amazon Kindle).








I also have a story in the collection Murder, Madness, and Mystery






More recently, I have been contributing stories to the Mind's Eye Series.






Book four in that series is coming soon with 2 new short stories from me.

I'm also currently editing my latest collection of short stories, 'Lost and Found'. Look out for that later in the year.

I'm happy that there is a month to celebrate the short story form because this type of fiction is often neglected in favour of novels.

I think short stories are perfect for the way we live these days. Finding time for reading is a luxury. If you pick up a short story you can often finish reading it in one sitting. That means you don't have to remember what happened when you last read it. With novels, if you don't get time to read and go for 2 or 3 days without picking it up, it's easy to forget what happened, who the characters are, etc. etc.

Aside from all that, some of the best works of fiction I've ever read have been short stories.

I'm going to recommend some of my favourites and hope you'll try at least one. (Click on the covers to find out about the books.)



























































I'm going to stop there, but you can check out my list of books/reviews to see others that I've read and enjoyed.

Happy Short Story Month and Happy Reading! I hope you find a new favourite author from this list!