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Nik Perring: short story writer. Author. This is his journal.
About Me
- Nik Perring
- Nik Perring is a writer, occasional teacher of writing, and sometimes editor, from the UK. His short stories have been widely published. NOT SO PERFECT, his collection of short, short stories is published by Roast Books and out now. Freaks!, a collection co-written with Caroline Smailes and illustrated by Darren Craske, is out now!
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"Playful, subversive, poetic and smart, Nik Perring’s stories are gems. Every one of them."- 3 :AM Magazine
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18 comments:
That looks great. This is looking so like my kind of thing.
Awesome! Love it.
Scott was right - freakin' great!
Brill!
Wow! Looks amazing. Love it!
Looking good, Nik, looking good.
Love it! I particularly like the bull, for some reason I can't fathom. But yes, it's fab. Can't wait to read it.
Thanks Dan. I certainly hope so!
Thanks, Aliya - me too!
Indeed, Julia - when is he ever wrong? ;)
Thanks Teresa!
Thanks Cally - me too!
Thanks Sam!
Thanks Rebecca - oh yes, our resident, friendly Minotaur!
It looks really good, really cool x
It reminds me of comic books - in a good way.
You have a fabulous blog! I’m an author and illustrator and I made some awards to give to fellow bloggers whose sites I enjoy. I want to award you with the Creative Blog Award. There are no pass along requirements. This is just to reward you for all the hard work you do!
Go to http://astorybookworld.blogspot.com/p/awards.html and pick up your award.
~Deirdra
Awesome to the max x
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