Sue Moorcroft writes...

	Family Matters (Robert Hale, ISBN 978-070908523-2) came out on 31st March 2008. Buy it here or here. There will also be a large print edition from Magna Large Print in September 2008.
Uphill all the Way is out with Transita Buy Uphill all the Way
	Published by Magna Large Print Dale Series Buy A Place to Call Home
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A Place to Call Home is about a family who have been living in Germany and have to go home to England in a hurry. Except eldest daughter Briony, who's eighteen, decides she'll go to France with her boyfriend, instead ... Property prices have gone up, investments have gone down, where is the family going to live? Why can't Guy get another job? Why does Sarah feel off-colour? Why doesn't anyone notice that Ellie is unhappy at school? And don't even ask what Ripple the dog's been eating! Now available as a Magna Large Print book! Between Two Worlds Published at the end of 2007 by The People's Friend. It, too, is a family drama, about two families becoming one. The problem is that the two halves are from vastly different lifestyles! Soon to be available as a Magna Large Print book! Articles: Writing Short Stories is Hard Work, Not Magic - Writers' Forum, April 2004 The Transita Experience - QWF Magazine, May 2005 The Page is a Stage - Writing Magazine, March 2007 Short Story Rules, OK - Writing Magazine, tba Act, React and Interact - Writing Magazine Can I Borrow a Pen, Please? - Writers' Forum Meet the Editor: Angela Gilchrist of The People's Friend - Writers' Forum Meet the Editor: Liz Smith of My Weekly - Writers' Forum Meet the Editor: Gaynor Davies of Woman's Weekly - Writers' Forum Meet the Editor: Sean Nolan of Ireland's Own - Writers' Forum Newly Minted Adults - Northamptonshire Herald & Post Meet the Editor: Pat Richardson of Best - Writers' Forum Meet the Editor: Marion Richardson of Yours - Writers' Forum Meet the Editor: Jill Finlay of The Weekly News - Writers' Forum Mr. Blockbuster - Writers' Forum Piracy - Northamptonshire Herald & Post What's Selling in Literary Fiction - Writers' Forum Anthologies: Sexy Shorts for Christmas I was delighted to be included in this classy anthology from some of the country's best short story writers. Sexy Shorts for Christmas supported Breast Cancer Campaign Scary Shorts for Hallowe'en Another charity anthology, again to support Breast Cancer Campaign - Published in September 2004. Workshops Already a tutor for the excellent Writers' News Home Study Division Short Story course and Fiction Writing Course (www.writersnews.co.uk), and the London School of Journalism's brilliant Short Story and Novel course, Short Story Course and Novel Writing Course (www.lsj.org), I'm on the roll of tutors at the University of Leicester, Northampton Centre, Adult Education Northants and Writing School Leicester. Courses Last year I wrote two courses for the London School of Journalism: the Short Story Course and the Personal History Course. To the Personal History Course I've now added a Family History Supplement.
And the award ...
I was the Katie Fforde Bursary Award winner for 2002. I hadn't won anything since the Secretarial Duties prize at Wellingborough Technical College when I was 17 - the last time I showed promise - so I was capering-about-the-room delighted at the presentation and got on everyone's nerves. I even gave a witty speech, I'm told! Me! Witty! I wish I could remember what I said.
And thanks to Victoria Connelly for taking the photo and letting me use it! :) All good things come to an end. The Award has passed to other writers in subsequent years.