NO-CALORIE EASTER TREAT: A Time and a Place

Quick Reader's Quizz

Qu. 1

What does ‘Green Fairy’ mean to you?

A: Fauna in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty

B: Washing-up liquid

C: Absinthe


Image courtesy Creative Commons: The Green Fairy by Surian Soosay



Qu. 2


What does “black and white” make you think of?

A: Ebony and Ivory

B: 101 Dalmatians

C: The Specials


Image courtesy Creative Commons: The Specials by Chris Worden


Qu 3


The island across the Menai Strait in North Wales is called:

A: Tenby

B: Hornby

C: Anglesey


Image courtesy Creative Commons: Bioluminescence by Kris Williams

Qu 4
If society broke down and Wales went feral, what would you want in your pocket?

A: A gun

B: A rat

C: A ferret


Image courtesy Creative Commons: Roman inside a hat by schadenfreude

Qu 5

A woman’s place is:

A: In the kitchen, with a spatula

B: In the bedroom, with suspenders

C: In battle, with a sword


Image courtesy Creative Commons: Siria Palmira by Jose Javier Martin Espartosa

Qu 6


All’s fair in love and war. But when both collide, where does loyalty lie?

A: With your country, family and pride

B: With your lover and your heart

C: With yourself


Image courtesy Creative Commons: Suite Française by Eric Huybrechts

Qu 7


You uncover white-collar malpractice. Do you:

A: Turn a blind eye

B: Blow the whistle

C: Pull the trigger


Image courtesy Creative Commons: caution: itchy trigger finger by Flood G.



If you answered mainly C, I have just the thing. A Time & A Place – The Box Set.

Seven brilliant novels for less than the price of a large Easter egg, and calorie-free to boot!


Available for PRE-ORDER now exclusively from Amazon for a limited period, A Time & A Place will be officially released on Good Friday 3rd April 2015.

Praise for the Paperback

What do you prefer reading: e-books or paperbacks?
Read what we think on the Triskele blog today.

Indie Author Fair 2015

IAF is back for 2015 ... bigger, better and bang in the centre of London.

In partnership with The Alliance of Independent Authors, London Book Fair, Indie ReCon and Foyles Bookshop, Triskele Books are hosting the 2nd Indie Author Fair.

Read all about how you can attend here.

Flash 500 Fiction Competition Judge

When I was asked to judge the Flash 500 Fiction Fourth Quarter, 2014, little did I know the treat I was in for. A wide range of brilliantly-written short stories kept me reading late into the night.

My report: It is a great challenge to condense all the requirements of a good story – plot, pacing, dialogue and characterisation – into just 500 words, and firstly I want to say how much I enjoyed reading the twenty-five shortlisted stories, all of which met these criteria.

My congratulations to the authors of these excellent tales that made my task of choosing the winners extremely difficult. I read the shortlisted stories three times, over three different days, and selected my ten favourites. These ten I read three more times, and chose what were (for me) the best four.

Of course, my decision was, unavoidably, a little subjective, based not only on the criteria of good storytelling, but on my own personal taste. Another judge could easily have chosen four others, but for me, these four resonated the most.

These were the ones that evoked emotion: sadness, happiness, laughter, thoughtfulness. These were the stories I kept thinking about for days after I had read them.

The Good Life France Magazine

The Good Life France Magazine is out! It's FREE to read and FREE to subscribe. It's mobile friendly and you can download a PDF version and read it when you want! Just click on the link to access. This issue features my article: Friendship, Brotherhood, Solidarity.

40 Years Anniversary of Cyclone Tracy

Forty years ago, I recall waking up as a thirteen-year old, at my grandmother's house in Sydney on Christmas morning. My parents told me that, overnight, the city of Darwin had been destroyed by a cyclone they called Cyclone Tracy. Many were dead and injured, and many had lost everything. I think this disaster has stayed with me for so long since Christmas is supposed to be a happy and joyous occasion, which it certainly was not for many Australians that Christmas Eve of 1974.
 Scenes of the devastation.

My short story collection, Friends, Family and Other Strangers From Downunder, which is currently free on Amazon, features a Cyclone Tracy commemorative story: Santa Never Made It.

More about Author Collectives...

For the sixth in our ongoing series of Author Collective interviews, I am pleased to welcome Chris Casburn (writing as Christopher Joyce), member of CHINDI, a Chichester network of independent authors, today on the Triskele Books blog.