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FrancesK

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about me

I write plays for children, novels for adults and romances for money - er, I mean fun. Presently inserting rude rompings into 19th century classics - for royalties only! How altruistic can you get?
DOLLYWAGGLERS is now off the site. 107 comments from readers like you made a huge impact on me and on the final version of the book. Hoping to try and get it published this year..if I can cure my Autho forum addiction and actually submit the fecking thing .
CALLIE CHOOSES is the first draft and I am revising it pretty well day by day while it's here. I welcome any good critical comments and thoughts. If I'm happier with the second draft, I will upload more. Let me know what you think.
I have two published books and there is a sample of one here, called MICKA, fondly imagining it might encourage you to rush to Amazon and buy one. For which, my thanks.

Fans of Bradley Wind [and who is not?] might like his illustrations to a couple of tongue in cheek pieces written by me for a quirky online magazine called 'The View from Here'
Here are the links:
http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/2012/11/pan-zador-interview
http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/2012/03/frances-kay-is-interviewed-by-frances.html
The editor is open to guest articles by fellow writers on interesting topics of any literary nature.

favourite books

MASTER AND GOD Lindsey Davis
THE HUNGER GAMES Suzanne Collins [before the film came out!]
THE SIEGE, COUNTING THE STARS and A SPELL IN WINTER Helen Dunmore
THE LITTLE STRANGER Sarah Waters
THE BOOK OF DAVE Will Self
IF THIS WAS A MAN and THE REPRIEVE Primo Levi
LUCKY JIM Kingsley Amis
MONEY Martin Amis
THE SEA Iris Murdoch
ALONE IN BERLIN Hans Fallada
SUITE FRANCAISE Irene Nemirovsky
RIDDLEY WALKER Russell Hoban
Olivia Manning - THE BALKAN TRILOGY and THE LEVANT TRILOGY
DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES Eugene McCabe
THE CURE Carlo Gébler
THE GLASS ROOM Simon Mawer
THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH TRILOGY Rosemary Sutcliff
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA Richard Hughes
THE GREENGAGE SUMMER Rumer Godden
REBECCA Daphne du Maurier
CHILDREN OF MEN P.D. James
LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding
LAND OF SPICES Kate O'Brien
ANIMAL FARM and 1984 George Orwell
THEN Julie Myerson
WEIRDO Cathi Unsworth

my websites

http://franceskaywriter.wordpress.com http://www.picador.com/Blogs/2011/6/Micka-by-Franc

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my bookshelf

Where She Lies

Nick Goulding

rank 2

Stonebird

J.L.Fontaine.

rank 3

Cypher

Violet Wells

rank 23

ROOM 100

Sarah Cypher

rank 120

Steadfast

Audrey Bennett

rank 687

Callie Chooses

Frances Kay

rank 476

Callie Chooses

Frances Kay

This book is not suitable for children.

Sussex, 1950s. Callie is nine. She's fat, she writes stories, loves acting and wants to rescue animals. Boarding school is a lonely place of rumours, whispers and lies. She has no friends at home. If only she understood that grown-ups - including her own mother - can be as cruel and treacherous as children, she might not make this decision - but there is no one around to help her.

The book is complete at 65,000 words. 16,000 uploaded here.
Cover photo by Milan Jurek, with my thanks.

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Micka

Frances Kay

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Micka

Frances Kay

A bleak tale of two boys who should never have met.

You can buy this book on Amazon - and I hope you will, if you like the chapters here.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Micka-Frances-Kay/dp/0330513826/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359920806&sr=1-1
You are warmly invited to read and star it, BUT IT NEEDS NO BACKINGS because it is already published..
[CALLIE CHOOSES, on the other hand, welcomes all interest - comments, stars and backings]

Micka is ten and wants his brothers to stop bullying him. He'd love a puppy. Laurie is eleven and wants his life - and his parents - to be more ordinary.When they meet, they dream up something else altogether. Something secret and unpleasant.
Set in the north east of England in the early 1990s, this is a story about children betrayed by adults.

The chapters uploaded here are by kind permission of Picador.

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NA Randall wrote 3 days ago

Frances, Hope all is well with you. And i hope you don't mind ....

Charles Knightley wrote 11 days ago

Hi Frances Did you get a chance to read “The Secret of Netley Abbey"....

Nick Goulding wrote 23 days ago

Hi Frances, Thank you so much for backing 'Where She Lies', again, I....

Cait wrote 24 days ago

Frances, I've just replaced your book for a spell but will return it ....

Kevin Bergeron wrote 29 days ago

Dear Frances, You warned me that MICKA was a dark book, and still ....

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I wrote 55 days ago

Bill, I read the first four chapters and hope to come back and finish this engaging story. You have a distinctive voice here, and an intriguing start. The characters are clearly drawn and the only lack I feel in this opening is more about Penny - I only see her through the eyes of adults. Does she e... view book

I wrote 55 days ago

It's rare to find a novel set in South Africa, even rarer one that deals with mines. I enjoyed this book, though with the benefit of hindsight, now that apartheid is finished and South Africa is a democracy, it's less unsettling and uncomfortable than it should be. Your characters are drawn with war... view book

I wrote 57 days ago

Certainly had me hooked. Reminded me of 'The Collector' and 'Misery'. Am intrigued to know how this will end, even though Jeffrey is such an unappealing character, you get inside his head so convincingly that he becomes more sympathetic. I hope Caralena escapes..... view book

I wrote 57 days ago

Carrie, you tackle a complex and poignant subject with great heart. I read the first ten chapters, then chs 20, 20, 20, 50 60 and through to the end. I was easy able to understand the narrative arc of the whole story, which suggests that you either need more subplots, or you need to edit your mater... view book

I wrote 97 days ago

Tony, I read all of this. You create a vivid and credible atmosphere of Soviet Russia at war; I particularly like your cameos of the peasants who help pull the car out of the ditch, the uneasy alliance of Chaliapin and his liberator, and the women snipers, their relationships amid the minutiae of tr... view book

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