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  1. Kindle is ruining bigcloset

    Author:  Shiraz Rissarissa46's blog Before I get to experience an author I might like, their stories disappear and reappear on Amazon/Kindle. I spent days searching for a story only to find it in my kindle library. It is getting very confusing! ...

    - 2021/06/04 - 5:41am - 21 comments

  2. Catching up

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I discovered that the last edition of Bike I'd read was just past 2000. Trying to catch up the 300 in the meantime and it's hard work. Loving it again, despite ( ...

    - 2014/07/16 - 12:26am - 3 comments

  3. First story re-posted

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've just published "Human Resources" which first appeared on BCTS in 2011 as "Martha". There's been a major edit/revision of the original te ...

    - 2014/07/17 - 7:57am

  4. Child support (again)

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical I last wrote two years ago about my quest for my ex partner to pay maintenance for our daughter, who lives solely with me. In the past two years several calls have been made to the Child Sup ...

    - 2014/07/18 - 11:38pm - 1 comment

  5. Stories update

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Eve is being extensively revised and my re-editing is running a few chapters ahead of publishing at the moment. The chapter numbers will no longer tally with the previous ...

    - 2014/07/30 - 6:31pm - 5 comments

  6. More on stories

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It's been a little strange going back over stories I wrote 5 years ago and hadn't looked at for 2 years. Whilst I can remember the Eve plot, some of the chapters ...

    - 2014/08/07 - 8:57pm - 3 comments

  7. Just another day

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Home / Family / Children It's just another day in Chateau Shiraz. Being a single parent isn't always easy, particularly when there's a teenager in resident, but I can recall it feeling almost ...

    - 2014/08/22 - 10:14am - 2 comments

  8. Unaccounted Gains etc

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The next chapter of Unaccounted Gains, number 30, may take a day or two as I've deleted a 1000 words from the draft chapter and commencing a rewrite. Unfortunately I ...

    - 2014/09/11 - 11:35am - 2 comments

  9. Housekeeping

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The sharp-eyed amongst you may already have noticed some logo changes for the Eve & Unaccounted Gains series as each is now displaying Book 1. The Series page has been ...

    - 2014/10/04 - 9:38am

  10. New or revised?

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Here's an update on my stories: Unaccounted Gains Book 2 is continuing with a posting schedule of every 2 days (ish). It is brand new, never published elsewhere. Tama ...

    - 2014/10/10 - 12:24am

  11. Tommy & Tamara series continuation

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've just posted chapter 17 of Tamara's Debut, due to editing that series will end on Chapter 24. Most of what was Chapter 25 now forms the intro into Chapter 1 ...

    - 2014/11/09 - 8:24am - 1 comment

  12. Tammy's continuing story

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing As I said a week and a half ago, Tamara's Debut ends with the next posting. Writing for the next installment (Tamara's First Christmas) has now reached 40,000 wo ...

    - 2014/11/20 - 1:25pm - 4 comments

  13. Stories collide

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Tomorrow, assuming that I don't have to re-edit everything again, I'll be trying something that maybe hasn't been tried before on this site. Let's just ...

    - 2014/12/18 - 12:56am - 9 comments

  14. Family 'contact' after divorce

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Home / Family / Children As many will know, I separated from my ex in 2008 but was able to gain custody of my (then 9yo) daughter in 2010. Since then I have made best efforts to maintain con ...

    - 2014/12/22 - 11:08pm - 8 comments

  15. Xmas

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It's that time of year when stories take a backseat to real life. That means there may be sporadic story delivery for a week or so. Abnormal service will be restored ...

    - 2014/12/25 - 5:22pm - 4 comments

  16. Scribbles

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Unaccounted Gains book 2 has now concluded slightly sooner than originally intended but concluded nonetheless after 32 chapters, making the story so far 72 chapters long, ...

    - 2014/12/30 - 8:55pm - 2 comments

  17. Happy New Year

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Autobiographical Happy New year to everyone, whichever time zone you find yourself in. I rejoined BCTS during 2014 having been absent for a while. I have thoroughly enjoye ...

    - 2015/01/02 - 9:33am - 2 comments

  18. Odd few days

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical I've been feeling a bit down recently, partly post-Christmas blues, partly no work coming in, partly money's tight. When I last had a major downer, when I was going through divorce ...

    - 2015/01/14 - 10:07am - 2 comments

  19. A Scottish ferry ride

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I occasionally make reference to the weather in Scotland, where the Tammy stories are set, but regardless of how well weather can be described in writing, nothing beats a ...

    - 2015/01/17 - 1:13pm - 8 comments

  20. Real locations in TG fiction

    Author:  Shiraz shiraz's blog Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I just came across a Burns Night greeting from the senior police officer on the Isles of Scilly, as featured in Unaccounted Gains. Attached to that greeting was this photo ...

    - 2015/01/26 - 9:58pm - 5 comments

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