View from the Galley

Regular updates of the news and views from Galley Beggar Towers. Some opinions own. But please don't use them against us...

Short story prize longlist

 
We now have a longlist for the first Galley Beggar Short Story prize - and it's one that makes us very proud. There are some wonderful stories.
 
But while we're delighted with the end result, we have to confess to some difficulty and anxiety too. It wasn't easy whittling down the stories to this level - and we've had to leave some really excellent pieces of work out. In fact, the first thing we'd like to do here is to thank everyone who entered. The standard was often impossibly high and left us wondering just how we were ever going to decide. 

And lo!

Yesterday, this arrived at Galley Beggar HQ. 

 

 

I worried that if I opened this box, my third eye might open and time would start running backwards.

Eventually, I plucked up courage.

 

And trumpets (golden trumpets!) did ring out, and angels sang, all raised in one ALLELULJAH!

For it is here. It is in the world now. Just look at it:

Guest post - Dodo Ink

Continuing our very occasional series of guest-posts by fellow indy-publishers, with information on new start-up, Dodo Ink, written by Sam Mills.
 
 
 
There are four of us running Dodo Ink – novelist Sam Mills, book blogger Thom Cuell, marketing whizz Alex Spears, and our rather louche Sobranie-smoking pet Dodo. 
 

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