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Heather Parker has won prizes in several literary competitions, including the Benjamin Franklin House 2009 Literary Prize. Her stories have been published in popular U.K. and U.S. magazines including The People’s Friend, The Weekly News, Space and Time, Sniplits, Bards and Sages, Abandoned Towers, Big Pulp, Glassfire, Expanded Horizons, and Woman’s Weekly. Her new novel, Middlewitch was recently published by Drollerie Press. The book was inspired by life in a small and remote English village, although it doesn’t have witches or vampires—as far as she knows. Heather has a novella due out soon from Wild Child Publishing, and her stories have been published in the Out of Line Human Rights Anthology 2009, Little Sisters Anthology, and the Sonar 4 and Absent Willow Review annual anthologies.
Heather writes all kinds of stories but says her favorite genre is humor—particulary satire. Politicians, celebrities and line dancers make wonderful targets. Heather lives in the English Lakes region with a collection of cats, dogs and a husband.
Terry Pratchett and all his Discworld novels. He combines humor and fantasy with such astute social and political comment. I would love to have written some of his books!
John Wyndham. The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes and The Chrysalids are as enjoyable now as when they were first written. His stories are timeless.
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I was nervous. Somehow audio brings the story to life and is a totally different experience. Perhaps we should all read our own aloud - and then edit again!
Who most influenced your writing process, style, or technique?
Terry Pratchett and John Wyndham
As a fellow Sniplits author, I wonder if you prefer writing short stories to other forms of writing? Always interested in the opinion of a published writer. Thanks, Tom Anselm
Hi Tom, I really enjoy writing novels and novellas as I get a chance to develop my characters - and then I find the writing becomes much easier. However, I think writing short stories has taught me to be much more concise and not allow the action to drag. They also give me the opportunity to write humour one month, fantasy the next and drama after that - so life is a lot more varied? How about you?
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No one knows Clare's a witch, until her spell to catch Richard's eye goes awry - who could have guessed the difference one small eye of newt would make?
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Short Stories
My Learned Friend, published in
Little Sisters, published by Shannon Road Press, 2007
The Prime Minister and the Egg, First Prize in the Twyford Writers Competition
Worlds Apart, First Prize in The People’s Friend Magazine 2007, and First Prize in the 2006 Twyford Writers National Humour Competition
The Birthday Party, Second Prize in the Mary Gornall Memorial Competition
First Contact, Third Prize in the JBWB Competition in 2006
Stranger in the Night, published in The Weekly News
A Close-Knit Community, Second Prize in a Deliverd Magazine competition
The Seventh Wife, published by Ranfurly Review, 2007
Spectral Relations, published by Big Pulp, 2008
A Question of Trust and The Critic, published by The Scruffy Dog Review, 2007
Reunion/ Paradise Lost, published by Women’s Weekly, 2007
Modern Lives, published by Outercast, 2007
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