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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.

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu. 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.

 

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu. 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.

 

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu. 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

For more information please email  Lisa (lisa.selvidge@clix.pt) or call 00351 962887680 (mobile)

 

Mountain accommodation nr Monchique

  Creative writing feedback/critiques

 Day workshops on writing fiction

Around Monchique & the mountains

  Writing holidays in the Algarve

 Creative writing courses
About Lisa Selvidge   Back to homepage  Creative writing exercises & useful links

Last updated 8 April 2008