Sue Moorcroft

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Sue Moorcroft writes...
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November 30 2009, Choc Lit
Between Two Worlds
Magna Large Print, September 2009
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Image Love Writing - How to Make Money Writing Romantic or Erotic Fiction (Accent Press ISBN 9781906373993) to be published 04 January 2010 £9.99
Loves Me, Loves Me Not (Mira Books), hardback October 2009, paperback February 2010
(edited by Sue Moorcroft)
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Image Family Matters (Robert Hale, ISBN 978-070908523-2). Buy it here or here
Image Family Matters (Isis Large Print Books).
Buy it here
Uphill all the Way is out with Transita

Buy Uphill all the Way

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Image Published by Magna Large Print Dale Series

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Short Stories:

Spring Forward - People's Friend
The Best Man - My Weekly
Bicycle for Two - My Weekly
Treasure Days - My Weekly
Simple Pleasures - My Weekly
The Ring of Truth - People's Friend
Fight the Good Fight - My Weekly
The Best Laid Plans - My Weekly
Celebrating Christmas - My Weekly
A Lot to Worry About - My Weekly
No Love Lost - My Weekly
Patrick's Technique - Ireland's Own
Across the Miles - My Weekly
Back to School - Ireland's Own
Titch - My Weekly
What's in a Name? - My Weekly
Back to School - My Weekly
Across the Miles - Ireland's Own
Old Joanna - People's Friend
A Farewell to Willie - Ireland's Own
Acting the Part - People's Friend
Liam's Gold - Ireland's Own
The Space Programme - People's Friend
Getting a Break - Ireland's Own
Less Space Programme - Ireland's Own
The Golden Age - People's Friend
Coping with Christopher - People's Friend
Smoke Without Fire - Ireland's Own
Dancing - People's Friend
Danny's Idiots - Ireland's Own
Under the Weather - Ireland's Own
Pyramids of Apples - People's Friend
Separate Honeymoons - Fiction Feast/ME
The Ups & Downs of Joseph's Ladder  - Ireland's Own
Ring in the New Year - Ireland's Own
Marrying an Older Man - People's Friend
The Natural Way of Things - People's Friend
The Trouble with Cars - People's Friend
The House Frank Built - Ireland's Own
Martin's Children - Woman/ME
The Parting - People's Friend
It's Called Swimming! - People's Friend
Falling in Love Again - People's Friend
Birthday Cake and History Lessons - People's Friend
A Sunset to Share  - People's Friend
Mary's Birthday - Ireland's Own
Sharing Charlotte - Bella
My Friend - Bella/ME
Autumn - Woman's Weekly/ME
Awkward Questions - People's Friend
Fancy Meeting You - Norwegian Market
Tommy's Idiots - People's Friend/ME
Lost Among the Nettles - People's Friend
The Other Line - Ireland's Own
Holding the Fort - People's Friend
Chasing Rainbows - People's Friend
Leave Jack Behind? - People's Friend
Past It - Woman/ME
Simple Things - Ireland's Own
Home - People's Friend
Rule of Thumb - People's Friend/ME
But What About Me? - My Weekly/ME
Crossing To The Other Line - My Weekly
Naughty Forty - People's Friend
Titch - Ireland's Own
Not What You'd Want - People's Friend
Song for Julia - People's Friend
Cindy's Lodger - Bella
Sharing Chloe - Aus/NZ market
Ups & Downs - Yours
Spring Forward - Ireland's Own
Separate Honeymoons - Woman's Day, Australia
Welcome to Our World - The People's Friend
The Finishing Touch - Yours
The Space Program - Woman's Day, Australia
How to Cope - Woman's Weekly
A Familiar Ring About It - Woman's Day, Australia
The July Bug - The People's Friend
Things Were Different, Then - My Weekly
In The Picture - The People's Friend
Granddad's Holiday - The People's Friend
Friendship - Woman's Day (Australia)
Farewell, Jamie - The Weekly News
Why? - Woman's Day (Australia)
Not What You'd Want - Ireland's Own
The New Year's Party - The People's Friend,
Thirteen Years - YOU (South Africa)
Are Diamonds Forever? - Sexy Shorts
Janie's Spare Room - Woman's Day (Australia)
Space - Allas (Sweden)
Sharing Saskia - Allers (Sweden)
Waiting for Kieran's Phone Call - The People's Friend
To Mum, Love Jason - Woman's Weekly
Making Space - Arabella Romance (USA)
The Bridge Over Nothing - Arabella Romance (USA)
Houdini - The People's Friend
A Break - Woman's Day (Australia)
What Hannah Wanted - The People's Friend
The Sea of Life - The People's Friend
Cindy's Lodger - Allers (Sweden)
Recycle Michael - The People's Friend
Talking in the Park - Scary Shorts for Hallowe'en
Life Without Jessica - The People's Friend
A Proper Family - The People's Friend
What Money Can't Buy - The People's Friend
Nothing's Going to Plan - The People's Friend
Glorious Autumn - The People's Friend
My Bad Thumb - Woman's Way (Republic of Ireland)
Honest Louise - The People's Friend
Summer Holiday - The People's Friend
Are You Sure? - Woman's Weekly
A Mum is a Mum - Woman's Weekly
A Walk on the Wild Side - The People's Friend
Love is in the Air - My Weekly
Threads in my Tapestry - Woman's Weekly
A Career in Cryptozoology - Woman's Weekly
More Precious than Diamonds - The People's Friend
Glorious Autumn - Ireland's Own
The Softest Touch - Woman's Weekly
Blossom Time - The People's Friend
All Work and No Play - The People's Friend annual 2009
I Can Look After Myself - The Weekly News
Behind the Smile - Woman's Weekly Fiction Special
Love and Science - Woman's Weekly Fiction Special
Brotherly Love - The Weekly News
Clean and Tidy - Ireland's Own

Serials:

A Place to Call Home
I really enjoyed writing this serial with The People's Friend (summer 2005).
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!

One Summer in Malta
Published in 2008 by The People's Friend.
Tina and her nephew, Jack, spend one fabulous summer in Malta. Why don't Brad Cassar and Claire want them there?

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
What Can Literature Development Do For You? - Writers' Forum
Target Practice: Shirley Blair of The People's Friend - Writers' Forum
Your New Best Friend? - Writers' Forum
Target Practice: Gaynor Davies of Woman's Weekly - Writers' Forum
Love Writing - Verbal Magazine
Dreaming Up Leads, Masterclass with Jill Mansell - Writers' Forum
Indian Summer - Verbal Magazine
Target Practice: Jill Finlay of The Weekly News - Writers' Forum.
Loves Me, Loves Me Not - Romance Matters
Woman's Weekly Results - Writers' Forum
Teresa Ashby - Writers' Forum
The Weekly News Results - 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.

LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT (Mira Books)

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.

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.

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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.