India's book

I recently heard the lovely news that I've had a short story accepted into the first draft of a book project called The Life of India Emmott. It's a great idea - a collection of stories and poems by different writers, all about the same fictional character.

I believe they're still looking for submissions, so writers should go and check it out. The book is being represented by a literary agent at RCW.

All very exciting. Fingers crossed my story makes the final book. Either way, I'm happy. Writing fiction - unlike journalism - is so isolating and, for me, so much more challenging; the rejections pile much higher. It's good to have a "yes" once in a while.