Ficlet - a modern day Jonty and Orlando discover twitter...

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
Hey @freshnumbers. Is your phone off? Rang three times. #worried

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
Ah, @loveremembered Phone in bowl of rice. Don’t ask. Laptop dry at least.

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers Relief! Glad you’re OK. #droppedintheloo #again ?

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered Can neither confirm nor deny. Will be home Dec 23rd

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers Splendid. Will kill fatted calf. Or get Waitrose fillet steak #samething

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered I know what you’ll get, young man

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered Your Christmas present

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers Spoilsport. You know what I thought you meant. How is prep for #mathcon13 going?

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered OK, except for too many unrealistic plans.

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers Unrealistic plans from mathematicians? #knockmedownwithafeather

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers What’s my pressy? Caviar? Champers? First Edition The Charioteer?

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered #youllfindoutonchristmasmorning and no sooner!

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers You used a hashtag! #result

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered #youyreapaininthebackside #dontknowwhyiputupwithyou

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers #youknowwhy

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered #thatchair

Jonty Stewart @loveremembered
@freshnumbers #thatchair #thatbed #thatsofa

Orlando Coppersmith @freshnumbers
@loveremembered #thatsenough!

Newsletter ninety three

The most important thing is to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a truly blessed new year. May you get everything you want and may it be as wonderful as when you only wanted it.

It feels like the time to sum up 2013, and I’d say it’s been a good year, with three things published. A new Cambridge Fellows book, “Lessons for Suspicious Minds”, a novella, “Promises Made Under Fire”, and a short story, “Secrets” in the anthology Undeath and the Detective.

Looking ahead, “Awfully Glad” will be coming out in January, but I hope that won’t be the only release of 2014. I’ve got three stories of various lengths submitted to three different publishers, and several works in progress in varied degrees of completion.

The Deadly Dames took off this year and we’re looking at exciting things for 2014, including Purbeck Litfest. If you haven’t seen our interview conducted by Stevie Carroll, it’s been reposted at the Promoting Crime blogspot.

I’ll leave you with a snippet of a modern day Jonty and Orlando flirting over twitter.

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