The alarm went off, sending an agonising wave of pulses through her head. Miranda gritted her teeth, fumbling for the snooze button. Seven minutes to decide how the day would progress from here. When had she finally fallen asleep? Had the light been seeping in through Venetian blinds? Or was that yesterday? The day before? [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Over the next ten weeks we will be giving you tasters from each of the ten stories in The Red Book, beginning tomorrow with Mercurial. Each writer will also share with you the inspiration for writing their short story and their reflections on being part of the first ever Chinese Whisperings anthology. We will also [...]
Paul Anderson is the co-creator of Chinese Whisperings, co-editor of The Red Book and author in waiting as the final writer of the chain with the unenviable task of tying the first and final stories together. Displaying the same forward planning that saw him study law just in time for a glut of overqualified and [...]
According to her grandmother, Emma started writing stories at the age of four. She wrote fiction throughout her childhood until she penned a short story that won her a place at Oxford University to read Experimental Psychology. It was another ten years before Emma summoned the courage to write again, in the mean time distracting [...]
Rob has been writing short stories, poetry and novels since he was in elementary school, focusing largely on mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, often with comedic turns. He has also written numerous stage plays, including The Legend of Sweetbriar Cemetery, which was performed by the Cross Creek Players in November, 2008. Rob is a [...]
Media whore by day, party machine come the weekend – such is life for Jasmine. A twenty-something transplanted Canadian, an aversion to ‘settling down and being an adult’ has kept her living abroad in London for the past six years. An over-active imagination and a voracious appetite for reading encourages her to create her own [...]
Chinese Whisperings invites you to kick back with your favourite beverage and Take Five with Richard Jay Parker.
The Red Book, Audio Trailer
