Short Story Collections
When you're an author, sometimes the stories are too short to become a book, so you put them in a hard drive folder and move on.
Sometimes you go back to them for inspiration for a book - That happened to "Chamberlain's Secret"; it became "Curse of The Jade Cat" - and sometimes you find that you've collected enough of them to turn into a book, which is when you publish a "Collection".
My first one was "Necklace of Harmony"; the second was "Darkness in Mind." Normally, this doesn't happen to me much, mostly because I struggle with short-form writing.
*It's not my fault that Characters keep running away with the plot...Glares at a certain Blue and Purple Fairy Dragon, who looks Innocent.*
So my "short-form" can often run from 100 words to 10,000! And because I have multiple genres, I end up with a lot of different stories; it just takes me longer than some other authors.
I recently realised that I had enough short-form words for a couple of collections. The first is "Tales from The Hall of The Worlds", a collection of stories from "The Secret of Arking Down" series. The next one will be unrelated to any of my usual book universes... I think... and there may be a Science Fiction / Science Fantasy one as well.
*But as all my stories exist on The Hall of The Worlds somewhere... "Shhh, that's a secret!" ... Sorry, Puff. *
Well, anyway, you'll find all the Short-Form stories here. Perfect to dip in and out of, when all you want to read something quick, or you are on holiday.
Enjoy!!