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About A.M. Harte

A.M. Harte writes twisted speculative fiction, such as the zombie love anthology Hungry For You. She is excellent at missing deadlines, has long forgotten what ‘free time’ means, and is utterly addicted to chocolate.

Where Story Ideas Come From

Posted on February 8, 2012

Where do you get your ideas? It’s a question I’ve been asked time and time again, and really the only honest answer is Neil Gaiman’s: “I make them up. Out of my head.” Continue reading →

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7 Ways to Start Writing Again

Posted on February 1, 2012

It’s every writer’s nightmare: you’re halfway through that story, the words are flowing, the characters witty, the plot twisty… and then disaster strikes: you stop writing. How do you get your butt back in the writing chair again? Continue reading →

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Where has January gone?

Posted on January 24, 2012

Did you know gym attendance doubles in January? The sweat-soaked weight machines groan under the eager, inexperienced enthusiasm of the well-meaning but physically unfit, whilst the regular gym-goers look on in disgust.
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A Closer Look At Flash Fiction

Posted on December 24, 2011

Why you should take part in FridayFlash Continue reading →

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The Long Line

Posted on December 23, 2011

Fur-trimmed coat, dyed blonde hair that brushed her elbows. Legs closeted in tight leather and denim, slyly parted in invitation. The girl was leaning against a motorbike — his motorbike — with such casual indifference that he almost smiled. Almost. … Continue reading →

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Red Herrings

Posted on December 16, 2011

His beard is a disguise. Continue reading →

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Interview on Free Book Reviews

Posted on December 7, 2011

With shout-outs to poet Gabriel Gadfly, chocolate, the horror genre, and other such stuff. Continue reading →

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Win a Kindle! and Other Short Stories

Posted on December 5, 2011

Win a free ebook and a Kindle Fire by signing up to the 1889 Labs mailing list. Continue reading →

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Fancy being on the radio?

Posted on November 29, 2011

Not literally on top of a radio — that would be silly. As you may know, I’m the director and host of Webfiction World, a bi-monthly podcast dedicated to e-fiction which has been running since June. Halfway through the show, … Continue reading →

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The Burning Need to Write

Posted on November 22, 2011

“When I was a young teenager, I had a childhood friend, called Eileen Barnetston, who wrote fan fiction — although she didn’t know what that was at the time as it hadn’t been invented yet. Eileen was a fangirl extraordinaire. … Continue reading →

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