Dear all,
I uploaded my latest two short story
collections this week, Collection Four and Collection Five, and wanted to share
them with you. I blogged last year explaining how I entered lots of
competitions, I think in the region of 25 in total, and I didn’t place in any
of them (fully expected, don’t worry!) so I blogged the shorter ones, set some
aside for future development, and then reworked 6 that I thought suitable for
self publishing. In truth, they did need reworking. I tried my best to work
fast to deadlines, but by attempting so many in such short periods of time, it
is very apparent to me that it’s not something I’m capable of. After re-reading
these 6, I knew full well they were not good enough. It took me several weeks
of editing and rewrites but I’m happy enough with them now and I’ve split them
into two ebooks of 3 stories each.
I realise that it is nearly 3 months since
my last blog post… that’s bad. I knew I was a bit occupied lately but that’s
worse than I thought. I’ve been working on a few personal things that have
taken up all of my concentration so haven’t been sharing much on social media
at all. Hopefully that will change shortly, once I’ve settled back into a
routine. Also I have been working on some new scripts for the literary drinks
series I started last year. As soon as they are ready I’ll be sharing them,
should be fun.
Here are the links to Collection Four and
the next blog post will have the links for Collection Five.
All the best,
R.G Rankine
