Showing posts with label ghost stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghost stories. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

A Sense of Excitement as a New Deadline Looms

Being a writer is exciting. Being a publisher is even more exciting at times. Two submission deadlines have been reached today. I suppose I mean midnight today really, and is that Greenwich Mean Time or British Summer Time? But I feel this great curiosity to get looking. The deadline for horror stories is up as is the one for ghost stories. The one for Two Side to Every Story also looms ahead.
Will there be that story which takes your breath away? That is perfect and helps to define Bridge House?
We are making progress as a publishing company. We have a good web site now. We have professional sounding email addresses.
One person who has submitted seems impressed with the number of titles we are producing. All in the name of getting out there.
I actually can’t wait to get going on the new books.

Monday, 1 December 2008

Writing Ghost Stories

I’ve been asked to write some ghost stories. This was quite a joy, or so it seemed at first. I found myself sitting in a cafĂ© in Radcliffe, writing about the ghosts of Ordsall Hall, Ordsall, Salford. It is said to be the most haunted house in Britain.
Anyway, there I was, writing about the ghost of one Margaret Radclyffe. It felt quite right. There must be a connection between her and the town where I now live.
I’ve five stories to write. I’ve completed three, all from the point of view of the ghost. Two are even first person. One is a child and one is a man looking for his dog. Even the dog has a ghost. I have done the child – that is close third person. The man and the dog will be one story – close third person. Then I must tell how the spirits of the hall supported a friend and made her seem transparent.
I believe I have told the stories well, but are they the truth and will the ghosts be angry if they are not?