I am immersed in the reviewing and editing of my short story collection, and the experience feels like the most self-obsessed process I have ever engaged in. Each story takes me back to the place, people or feelings that prompted me to write it. If everyone put together their own short story collection, and set […]
`Do you suffer from indecision?` asked the doctor. `Well. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don`t.` This was a joke repeated countless times by family members, during my childhood. And indeed, I sometimes did, and sometimes do still. I am coming to the end of editing my short story collection. Sometimes I look at a […]
I have a list of a few dozen topics about which, if I was granted a few dozen lifetimes, I would hope to gain a PhD. Every few weeks another occurs to me. Today`s PhD is on the topic of The Creative Process. Finishing, to my satisfaction, the short story collection, although still checking back […]
I am three lines from completing Mary`s Decision, which is the last story I am submitting for my collection of short stories, title Tell it Not, to be published by Red Heifer Press in January. It has to be approved by Peter Gimpel, my dear publisher of course, but till now he has liked every […]
For what we hope are the concluding weeks of Jeff`s recovery, we have been hunting through Netflix to find something both of us might be prepared to watch. The formulaic, violent crime series (pl) just don`t do it for us. The other day we hit on The Kominsky Method, but early in episode one, in […]
I have been surprised not to have missed theatre as much as I have missed live concerts, during this Corona year. Or rather – almost a Corona year and a quarter. The last concert we went to was a Chamber Concert at Kings Place, where the accoustics are superb. It was in early March 2020 […]
That is going to be the title of my short story collection. Jeff jokes that it`s offering easy puns for a reviewer who perhaps doesn`t like the stories. But I reckon anyone can dislike or like any story at any time. I chanced upon a project inviting Emerging Writers to apply for funding and support, […]
`Tell It Not` will definitely either be or not be the title of my forthcoming collection of short stories. One of the stories, published in The Jewish Quarterly in the nineteen eighties as `The Shelter,` is now called ` Tell It Not.` Final decision re title to be made in due course but meanwhile I […]
We set about living in Ashkelon in 1970. After a year or two there I began to feel that this was not the place in which I hoped to stay and bring up our children. Jeff began to work as a trainee paediatrician at Ashkelon hospital. The head of paediatrics at this small (then) hospital, […]
I have signed the contract for the publication of my short story collection, but haven`t yet posted it, secure delivery, to its destination in California. But I am pleased to have done this and in a few days will write to the three UK publishers who have not yet read or commented on the collection […]