Category: Fiction

Accepted for Colinthology

My short story Looking for a Knight in Shining Armor will appear in the Colin Harvey Memorial Anthology “Colinthology”. Sales will go to the charity Above and Beyond, benefiting Bristol’s local hospitals.

Anthologie annuelle de fantastique

I have been published in French!

Ténèbres 2012 by Domis Benoît (Paperback) – Lulu

Anthologie annuelle de fantastique. L’édition 2012 comprend 17 nouvelles inédites d’auteurs français et anglo-saxons, plus un Italien cette année, sélectionnées par Benoît Domis. Au sommaire, des textes de Brenta Blevins, Tobias S. Buckell, Jay Caselberg, James Cooper, C.C. Finlay, Serena Gentilhomme, Fanny Herquel, Frédéric Holic, Michael Kelly, Richard Labbe, Alison Littlewood, Luca Masali, Richard Mesplède, Thana Niveau, Pascal Sacré, Johan Scipion, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley.

I have not yet received my contributor’s copy but doesn’t the line-up look spectacular? I’m awed to be in such august company!

You Fly Like a Woman now available on Amazon

Getting a pilot’s license was the furthest thing from her mind – until an ex-RAF instructor suggested that she wasn’t competent to do so. The thing is, he could be right. Sylvia has just a few weeks to prove that she can fly as well as any man.

You Fly Like a Woman tells the story of one woman’s search for confidence as she stumbles into a man’s world.

You Fly Like a Woman is now available as an ebook from Amazon.

Looking for a Knight in Shining Armor – now online

Daily Science Fiction :: Looking for a Knight in Shining Armor by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

Foreign Flavours Anthology now available

My short story, Excerpt from The Geusian Ladies Society Food InfoManual, is included in this charity anthology by the Writers Abroad online writing group.

“The anthology takes as its theme food, drink and recipes from around the world. It is a tantalizing collection of fiction and non-fiction, full of spice and flavour and sprinkled with mouth-watering recipes. The wide-ranging, sometimes bittersweet, contributions show how adaptable an ex-pat has to be to leave familiar dishes behind and venture into the culinary unknown.”

The anthology is available on Lulu now: Foreign Flavours by Writers Abroad in Literature & Fiction. All proceeds will go to The Book Bus.

Looking for a Knight in Shining Armor sold to DSF

My short fantasy story, Looking for a Knight in Shining Armor, has sold to Daily Science Fiction. As I have very much been enjoying their mailing list (a snippet of speculative fiction Mon-Thurs and a longer story on Fridays), I’m thrilled that I will be included.

Honorable Mention for Writers of the Future

I received an honorable mention for the first quarter Writers of the Future contest.

1st Quarter 2011 Silver Honorables and Honorable Mentions Announced | L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future Contest

Plague of Locusts – now online

The first issue of the Journal of Unlikely Entomology has been launched and includes my short story, Plague of Locusts, as well as a gorgeous illustration by Linda Saboe.

Plague of Locusts to appear in The Journal of Unlikely Entomology

My short story, Plague of Locusts, has been accepted for the launch of The Journal of Unlikely Entomology. I’ll link to the first issue when it is online.

Short Fiction: Parabola

I thought I’d post a snippet of steampunk for your delight and delectation. This piece was inspired by the Forgotten Futures story contest in New Scientist. You can hear me reading it on my blog: Can’t Backspace » Short Fiction: Parabola. It took me all day to get the recording to work with my iPhone so if no one listens to it, I might cry. Just sayin’.

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