Extracts from fiction and publications
The following titles can be bought from www.lulu.com/lisa9 If anyone would like to review any of the following works, I would be happy to send a complimentary copy. For orders of multiple copies a discount is available.
Notes on self-publishing and Lulu
Non-fiction
Writing Fiction Workbook (2006) ISBN 978-1-84728-250-7
This concise and practical writing
fiction workbook, based on an online course in prose fiction written for
Continuing Education at the University of East Anglia, can serve as both a coursebook and a workbook. As well as many exercises and tips for beginning
writers, the book leads you on a journey through writing. At the end of which,
you will, hopefully, have written a short story – and much much more.
Cost £9.95/ €14.54/ $18.06 for paperback or £3.88/ €5.67/ $7.04 for download (prices
do fluctuate with exchange rates).
Children's & Teenage Fiction
A Divine War (1997) ISBN 978-1-4303-2075-3
A fantasy about an ancient pantheon of gods who, having caused the worst drought
the earth has ever known, are forced to visit a world they no
longer know anything about.
Cost
£9.95/ €14.54/ $18.06 for paperback or £4.00/ €6.00/ $7.50 for download (prices
do fluctuate with exchange rates).
The Trials of Tricia Blake (2006) ISBN 1-4116-7917-2

A gritty tale of love, hate, and murder, set in 1979 following the winter of discontent in Britain when kids sang about bricks in walls and hated Mondays. Tricia Blake, age 14, commits a terrible crime.
Cost £7.99/ €11.67/ $14.50 for paperback or
£2.74/
€4.01/ $4.98 for download
(prices do fluctuate with exchange
rates).
Dina & Doctor Dot (Work in progress)
A contemporary children’s fantasy, Dina & Doctor Dot is an adventure in cyberspace: a world into which young people mysteriously disappear after playing an infected computer game.
Contemporary novels
The Strange Tale of Comrade Rublov (2000)
A satirical tale about how the fall of communism and the arrival of capitalism affects one family in Russia. An earlier extract is published in Fishtank, 1996.
The Last Dance over the Berlin Wall (To be published shortly)
Set in 1984 and 2004, The Last Dance over the Wall is a story of love, aerialists and a dangerous crossing over the Berlin Wall.
An extract of this is published on www.visionsofthecity.com
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Last updated 8 April 2008