A doctor called out to a sick baby, a stranger chatting on a park bench, a warrior preparing to die for her Queen, a young couple falling in love…
From writers’ group Bounds Green Book Writers, these are short stories and tall tales of horror, romance, humour, travel, war, peace and love, told in diverse styles and voices.
Across time and space, these are stories to enthral, amuse and enlighten. We’re calling at all points imagination, so let your imagination fly.
Susie Helme is an American from Nashville, Tennessee, living in London, after sojourns in Tokyo, Paris and Geneva with a passion for ancient history, politics and magic, mythology and religion. She is a political activist and a socialist. Once editor of Mobile Communications Asia and other mobile communications magazines, she co-authored the Jan 2000 Future Mobile Handsets. She published with the Conrad Press in December 2020 her first novel, The Lost Wisdom of the Magi, which is a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards for ‘Best Historical’. She is founder member of the Bounds Green Book Writers writers’ circle, which published in Autumn 2020 an anthology of coronavirus-inspired fiction, Lockdown Lit—Inspiration in Isolation. She now subedits Dignity magazine, writes historical novels and grows organic vegetables. She is offering freelance services proofreading or developmental editing for authors needing help with their novels and is open to offers of review-swapping and mutual beta-reading. Hey! My 2nd and 3rd (unpublished) novels are finalists! The Genizah Codex is a finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Historical. Dreaming of Jerusalem is a finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Action Adventure.