Sniggerless Boundulations

Interviews by Samantha Marie Samantha Marie Author/Beta reader sat down today and asked Morgan Bell some questions about life and her book Laissez Faire. So let's get to know Morgan. 1) Where did you come up with your pen name? I was born with it! I just use my regular given name as my pen name. 2) At what age did you decide to become an author? Something definitely happened when I turned 30.

WiHM 2018 Laissez Faire Morgan Bell by Jeannie Wycherley | Feb 13, 2018 | Short Stories, Women in Horror Month. There is no way that were going on a plane to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didnt you see Fatal Attraction? Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America! Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) Sleepless In Seattle What kind of female characters do we find scary? Evil queens, witches, and stepmothers could be contenders from Grimm to Narnia, Wonderland, Oz, and Westeros.

SALAMANDER Bay author, editor and publisher Morgan Bell encourages writers to “get involved” in the local and online writing scene. “Join a writing group, in person or online (try facebook.com/groups/flashfictionchallenge/) and get involved with your local writers’ centre and writers’ festivals,” she said. “If you can’t afford workshops, volunteer.” Morgan certainly embraces her suggestions.

From fairytales to moments of pathos, from science fictions to parables, Morgan Bell’s Laissez Faire is similar to her earlier work Sniggerless Boundulations in that it collects weird and disorientating vignettes and microfictions, but feels more developed. Bell’s voice retains her witty absurdism, but it is complemented by a greater confidence that allows more depth of situation and character.

Do we need to read it before we start on Laissez Faire? You don’t need to read Sniggerless Boundulations to enjoy Laissez Faire. There are no common characters, each story is a stand-alone. They share a similar layout, each containing 15 stories. Both books are really diverse. What genre would you put them in? Literary. What kind of readers will it appeal to? Edgy, open-minded folk who are looking to broaden their horizons. Fans of Lovecraftian horror, Lynchian suspense, and the growing movement of experimental microfiction.

Morgan Bell's Blog January 19, 2018 Let's Talk Day Jobs, Anthology Submissions, Workshops, Disabilities, And New Talents I was a featured "Writer Of The Week" over at Let's Talk Writing. The five posts were: January 16, 2018 The Power of Independence By Morgan Bell That was me three years ago ... Do weird short allegories make a difference? ... Battlestar Galactica, Westworld, Orphan Black, Legion, Mr. Robot, Firefly ... One of my favorite books is Angela Carter’s The ... For short story lovers, I recommend ... For fans of Lovecraftian horror, Lynchian suspense, and the growing movement of experimental microfiction

Port Stephens Examiner: STORIES FROM THE HUNTER: Book editor Morgan Bell at her Salamander Bay home. Picture: Stephen Wark A PORT book editor has used crowdfunding to help fund the first print run of a new publication on the theme of wicked plants. A Hunter Anthologies project, the paperback is edited by Salamander Bay's Morgan Bell, a 34-year-old qualified technical writer with a certificate in technical communications and a certificate in news media.

Morgan Bell is a Newcastle-based author and editor. Her works include the collection Sniggerless Boundulations and the anthology Sproutlings, which will be launched at this year�??s festival. She is a qualified technical writer, and a resident film and book reviewer at Salty Popcorn. Her story Midnight Daisy was awarded a Story Commendation by the She: True Stories project, with live readings on 1233 ABC Newcastle and at the 2014 Newcastle Writers Festival. Her anti-travel story Don�??t Pay The Ferryman was shortlisted for the Hunter Writers Centre Travel Writing Prize. Her stories The Shift and A Deer In The Shunting Yard have appeared in Novascapes Volume 1 and Novascapes Volume 2.

Join us for the launch of Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions. With Magdalena Ball, Morgan Bell, Tallulah Cunningham and special guests. Free session

Celebrate the launch of Novascapes Volume 2, an anthology of Hunter Region speculative fiction. Hosted by Cassandra Page. Free session

***AUTHOR INTERVIEW*** Hi Morgan, welcome to our Fantasy Sci-Fi Network interview space shuttle. We�??re excited to be beaming you up from Australia. Your books have such original titles, that we�??re keen to hear all your goss.

How do you discover the ebooks you read? Recommendations from booktubers, emails from Amazon about discount deals, general electronic word-of-mouth on Facebook and Twitter How has Smashwords contributed to your success? First time caller, long time listener ... I had previously used Kindle Direct Publishing but like to try a range of resources, the instant publishing was appealing this time around as I was running to a deadline, KDP has a wait on approvals

VENGEFUL VEGETATION Morgan Bell�??s Sproutlings is a mesmerising collection of exquisite peculiarities. Welsh and Cornish mythology. Australian campfire tales. Astral and fantastic. The pertinency of forty-three modern authors is punctuated by bites of botanical fiction from Poe, Lawson, Orwell, Lawrence, Wells, Alcott, and Wilde in this tour de force of tiny stories.

Top 15 Books Read In 2015 Morgan Bell's Top 15 books read in 2015 GOODREADS BLOG

By CHARLES ELIAS Oct. 29, 2015, 7 a.m. STORIES FROM THE HUNTER: Book editor Morgan Bell at her Salamander Bay home. Picture: Stephen Wark A PORT book editor has used crowdfunding to help fund the first print run of a new publication on the theme of wicked plants. A Hunter Anthologies project, the paperback is edited by Salamander Bay's Morgan Bell, a 34-year-old qualified technical writer with a certificate in technical communications and a certificate in news media.

A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign ran from 1 September until 25 October 2015. One of the rewards was a $20 pre-order of the paperback of the anthology. It was the most popular reward selected by our backers. Since the campaign ended many people have communicated their regret in not pledging before the due date. For those people, this site has been created to allow pre-orders to continue coming in. Paperbacks will be posted out in Dec/Jan after the first print run. If you pre-order through this site you will be receiving a first edition. There is also an option to have your paperback signed.

Sproutlings is a community publishing project from Hunter Anthologies in Newcastle NSW Australia, edited by Morgan Bell, on the theme of wicked plants. The book Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions will be a paperback anthology containing short stories about carnivorous creepers, poisonous plants, and vengeful vegetation. Submissions for flash fiction and poems, between 150 and 2,000 words, closed May 2015. There are 40 contributing authors in the anthology. The Kickstarter campaign will fund the first print run. The campaign currently has 70% of its $2,000 funding goal. It ends on 25 October 2015.

Morgan Bell is a movie and book reviewer for Salty Popcorn, author of Sniggerless Boundulations, contributor to several anthologies and editor of the upcoming Sproutlings. A good friend and supporter of writers in Newcastle, shes written a guest post for me while Ive been under the weather. READING FOR PLEASURE: WHY DID YOU STOP?

A seed of an idea Have you ever thought about editing an anthology? I love editing. And I love the joy that community publishing projects bring to emerging writers. For many people an anthology is a first chance to get published. It can also be a new chance for an author to get noticed, to rustle their leaves a bit in the virtual forest of indie books An anthology, because of the mass of contributors, is a marvel of collaborative energy. The production value is higher. The distribution is wider. And the good will is stronger. Every author in the collection comes with its own team of supporters: friends, family, and fans. An anthology is the perfect project to crowdfund.

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Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions Edited by Morgan Bell. Illustrated by Tallulah Cunningham. Over 40 authors. CARNIVOROUS CREEPERS. POISONOUS PLANTS. VENGEFUL VEGETATION

4.8 out of 5.0 stars Sniggerless Boundulations by Morgan Bell Narrator: Jon Severty Published by Morgan Bell on 5 March 2015 Length: 58 mins Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Horror, Literary, Science Fiction Format: Audiobook Source: Author

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Sproutlings is an anthology of flash fiction about wicked weeds. CARNIVOROUS CREEPERS | POISONOUS PLANTS | VENGEFUL VEGETATION. Sproutlings is a community publishing project from Hunter Anthologies in Newcastle NSW Australia, edited by Morgan Bell, on the theme of wicked plants.

They are mostly suspense-filled pieces. Most of them I quite enjoyed. There are some real thoughtful gems in this collection, capturing in stark light the darker nature of us humans. My three favorite stories were The Dermoid Cyst, Earth Mites, and Shark Fin Soup. There were a few stories that flew by way too swiftly for me & were over so abruptly I was left bereft and wanting more. A few left me with too many questions. Yet for the most part this was a delightful collection of dark short stories. The Narration: Jon Severity has the perfect creepy voice for these stories. It�??s a little rough, like that of a beloved uncle who has smoked a pipe since he was 15. And yet he is often telling these mini-mysteries where the main character may or may not be the murderer. His voice totally worked for those stories specifically.

Includes Dont Pay The Ferryman by Morgan Bell (shortlisted for the 2014 Hunter Writers Centre Travel Writing Prize)

Why cant I use a comma splice? Every once in a while I encounter a grammar nazi, sometimes it can happen several times a day, sometimes I can go months without stirring the beast. See what I just did there? That is called a comma splice. I joined three independent, but related, clauses with a comma only. I didnt supplement the comma with a conjunction, and I didnt end each clause with a full stop. On this one hallowed eve in the not too distant past I found myself engaging in what is known as an internet argument. There is a saying about internet arguments: Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics, even if you win, youre still retarded. I knew I was arguing with an idiot because my opponent immediately proved the following internet forum laws: Shaker's Law - those who announce their imminent departure almost never actually leave Law of Exclamation - the more exclamation points the more likely it is a complete lie Danth's Law - anyone who declares themselves victorious has probably lost They asserted that my defence of the comma splice as a legitimate way of separating clauses in a run on sentence was a slippery slope to the ruination of the English language, and thusly would lead to the dismantling of the publishing careers of every individual who viewed it.

MORGAN: I would like to write a book of movie reviews/essays of all my favourite movies . I would bunch movies together in categories and use all of my favourite quotes and trivia. I feel like I need to watch a lot more movies before I have the knowledge base to pull it off. I am very inspired by Vito Russos The Celluloid Closet, and would love a large portion of my analysis to center around queer characters and themes. MORGAN: I lived in Tasmania for a brief period when my life felt completely upside down. One of my best friends came down to visit me and we stayed a night in this odd little pub in Launceston that was owned by a work acquaintance of a friend. The whole night was super surreal like we were in a Lynch film. As the night drew to a close we went to our room and ended up sitting on the edge of the bathtub smoking cigarettes out the window and just laughing for a good hour or so. It was pure bliss. I will write it up one day as a short story. Chris Cornell (if we are just willing people to do things they would never do in real life) could sit in a rocking chair of my front porch (I have neither a rocking chair or a porch) and sing me the soft lullaby songs I imagine he sings to his children while I fall asleep on a hammock (I also dont have a hammock). Basically Chris needs to provide the venue and equipment for this scenario.

The ezine for writers and publishers. FRIDAY, 27 MARCH 2015 Snapshots from... Sydney In our regular series, international writers share some snapshots from their part of the world. This issue, Morgan Bell tells us about the writing life in Sydney. By JJ Marsh Who are the best known local writers? Kate Forsyth, Margo Lanagan, Garth Nix, Jaye Ford, Wendy James, Greg Bastian, Pamela Freeman, Kirstyn McDermott, and Kaz Delaney are all big local names in Young Adult and Genre Fiction. Some of our national treasures include David Malouf, Andrew McGahan, Tim Winton, Peter Carey, and Patrick White.

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American short story writer Nathan Englander has said that aspiring authors can be paralysed by a misunderstanding of the advice write what you know. Many people equate this oft quoted expression as an instruction to make all your stories thinly veiled autobiographies. Englander said If youre a drunken, brawling adventurer, like Hemingway, no problem. Similarly, if you were the kid of a slave owner in confederate Missouri, in a Mississippi River steamboat port town, you will be well-positioned to pen the next Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. This was Mark Twains real experience, and the write what you know quote is attributed to him. At a writing workshop in 2014 I had a brief exchange with Australian fantasy and historical fiction novelist Kate Forsyth on this very topic. She makes it well known at her speaking engagements that she dislikes the expression write what you know because it limits peoples imagination. It was not until Kate researched every detail about the culture and customs that Dortchen was submerged in, that she was able to form her on the page. Therefore it is possible for one to write about a topic or universe that they are not personally familiar with. Now I begin to wax philosophical. My contention is once you complete your research, the constraints of your subject became known to you. You didnt know them at first, but you found out, and now you know. Given this new-found knowledge, you are able to fill in the detail of how your character would have reacted in a given situation with how you would have reacted were you in her exact same shoes.

Theme: Wicked plants Type: Flash fiction (150 words to 2,000 words) Ideas: Killer weeds, botanical atrocities, enchanted forests-woods, strangling vines, poison fruits-berries-darts, the tree of life-knowledge, carnivorous flora, cabbage patch kids, wise talking-walking trees, magical beans, primordial slime Inspiration: Jack & The Beanstalk, The Day of the Triffids, Little Shop of Horrors, Alice in Wonderland Deadline: 11:59pm (GMT +11) Sunday 31 May 2015

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Morgan Leigh Bell (born 1981 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian writer of short stories, who grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales, and currently resides in Sydney, New South Wales. Bell is the author of short story collection Sniggerless Boundulations (2014), a story contributor to local anthologies and community projects, and in 2014 was short-listed for the Hunter Writers Centre Travel Writing Prize for her anti-travel story Don't Pay The Ferryman.

Novascapes Sunday, March 22, 2015 10:00am 11:00am City Hall Mulubinba Room Novascapes: Readings by local writers who feature in the Hunter Regions inaugural speculative fiction anthology. Hosted by the editor, Cassandra Page. Free session Novascapes: Readings by local writers who feature in the Hunter Regions inaugural speculative fiction anthology. Hosted by the editor, Cassandra Page. Free session Novascapes Sunday, March 22, 2015 10:00am 11:00am City Hall Mulubinba Room 290 King St Newcastle, NSW, 2300 Australia

Neil Gaiman writes a good short story, I recently saw him speak (and sing) at Sydney Recital Hall and he read a piece called Adventure Story that was pure perfection. Cate Kennedys A Pitch Too High For The Human Ear and Tobias Wolffs In the Garden of the North American Martyrs are must-reads for short story lovers. I was dreaming about red coconuts that took one-hundred years to ripen and the enveloping warmth of reconnecting with an old friend. It was like the word silencio in David Lynchs Mulholland Drive. I can read people really well, I probably missed my calling as a cold-reading psychic charlatan.

RG Member Morgan Has the following books and games on their website. Click the Game image to visit the game and website or click the book image to see more about the book ReadersGazette.Com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Short Stories Books Sniggerless Boundulations by Morgan Bell This book has a genre of Short Stories, Short Story Books may contain one or more stories to make up a collection of stories. Female Literature Books Sniggerless Boundulations by Morgan Bell This book has a genre of Female Literature, Female Literature Books would be about life experiences of women mainly or that the book would be more suitable for women. We have included the sub genre Chick-Lit in with Female Literature even though not all Female Literature would ever be classed as a Chick-Lit Book. Chick-Lit Books are often set in urban settings and includes elements of romance, humor, professional struggles and relationships, where as Female Literature Books cover a much broader spectrum. Science Fiction Books Sniggerless Boundulations by Morgan Bell This book has a genre of Science Fiction, Science Fiction Books are often set in the future or on other planets, they are sometimes called Sci-fi books or Sci fi Books. Famous Science Fiction Book Authors include Peter F. Hamilton and George R.R. Martin

Morgan volunteers as a HSC student mentor for Charlestown Community Centre: Study Space, and as a Primary Ethics teacher. In 2003 she was a speaker for the Sydney Women in Engineering & IT (SWEIT) Speakers Program, presenting information about engineering career paths to high school girls. In 2006 she was a facilitator for a robotics workshop for the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Open Day for high school students. In 2013 she was a live-reader and prize-presenter at the Grieve writing competition awards in Newcastle, celebrating National Grief Awareness Month. She volunteered at the 2013 and 2014 Newcastle Writers Festivals, manning author signing tables and prepping speakers. In 2013 she had the honour of judging the childrens poetry prize for Tighes Hill Community Gardens, including presenting awards.

I love picking out the names for my characters, researching the origins and meanings of names, and working with short and long syllables and dull and sharp vowel sounds to develop a name that is absolutely perfect for a character. I also I love giving my characters unique speech patterns where appropriate. And Im a sucker for the big reveal of a hidden quality in a character, something unexpectedly bad or good, something refreshingly unusual or comfortingly common. I like my characters to have flaws and vulnerabilities and quirks. Horrible characters are the most fun to write, but they usually have some redeeming personality trait or motivation.

Australian press has recently gone in for crowdfunding: like Twelfth Planet Press Kaleidoscope anthology, Fablecrofts Cranky Ladies of History, and Novascapes (stories from authors of the Hunter region).

Morgan Bell | SNIGGERLESS BOUNDULATIONS (short story collection) | January 2014 | http://sniggerlessboundulations.webs.com | The horrors of life in fifteen slices. Anxiety. Jealousy. Fear. Time. Aging.

Fifteen short stories make up the contents that weave a crooked path. It left me feeling disturbed and unbalanced. Morgan Bell has a deeply imaginative mind, and her stories, while brief, certainly make a lasting impression

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Whilst scratching my head I was at least thinking more deeply about the content and meaning of the story. Those that did not leave me wondering tipped the other scale with a thought provoking ending. I suppose this is where the balance fits so nicely. Morgan Bell has done a wonderful job of using few words to say so much. I give her credit for this as this is something that a lot of writers struggle with and a skill within itself. Morgan Bell seems to have got it down to a fine are.

A fantastic collection of short fiction. Minotaurs, mermaids, vampires and dinosaurs compete for space alongside devils, angels, aliens and completely indescribable entities. The authors collected in Novascapes transport you from one side of the multi-verse to the other and leave you breathless and wide eyed at the possibilities of simple existence. Novascapes is a collection of short speculative fiction stories by authors either from or originally born (or connected in some major way) to the Newcastle, Hunter and Central Coast regions of NSW, Australia. The stories are as varied and wonderful as the authors who penned them.

I have very vivid dreams, and often wake up and jot down imagery and phrases. Sniggerless Boundulations is a phrase from a dream. They are invented words from my subconscious, and I decided to stick with them because they represented who I am as a person and a writer. It has a certain sleepy creativity vibe to it. Fiona: What book are you reading now? Morgan: I just finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn and am starting Dreams & Shadows by C. Robert Cargill The following is an excerpt from my latest story, entitled A Deer In The Shunting Yard:

I have stories (or the seeds of stories) written on the back of envelopes, on scrap paper, on post-it notes. All the characters are mirrors of the inexplicable and often self-defeating things we all do. I put out my debut collection of short stories earlier this year, it is entitled Sniggerless Boundulations and as the tagline suggests it is the horrors of life in fifteen slices. It is full of tension and unease and delicious anxiety and jealousy. They are only little tales most fall into the category of micro-fiction or flash fiction but they are concentrated and potent. I've been very inspired by the episodic structure of Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club and the films of Tarantino. Its about time we had a postmodern Australian feminist dystopia!

$2+ Select four key words as story prompts and I will craft a 100-500 word piece of flash fiction based on the words and name you as inspiration in the resulting collection.$10 +I will post you a signed hard copy of each new book that I publish.

In the moving process I brutally culled my piles of useless papers, putting anything crucial aside: a few group certificates, my cat registration papers, a friend contact list from back when phone numbers only had six digits, and any creative writing pieces. From amongst the rubble emerged the contents of Sniggerless Boundulations.

What kind of readers will it appeal to? Hipsters, nerds, academics, bohemians, paranoid people, amateur psychologists, people with short attention spans.

Immediately captivating, Sniggerless Boundulations introduces readers to bizarre medical conditions, industrious creatures, conniving cops, killers, dead bodies, a rescue mission, homoeroticism, nonchalant students, a secret garden, and the road to hell. This collection of fifteen short stories is a cross-section between dreams and reality, and an examination of the horrors of life. Themes include fear, time, aging, anxiety, and jealousy. The introspective Sniggerless Boundulations combines literary and speculative fiction with razor sharp dialogue and surrealist imagery. It has Lynchian suspense with Wildian social commentary and wit. Self Publishers Showcase called Sniggerless Boundulations a triumph. The writing has been described as crisp, clean, sharp and vivid, sucking you into this boundless world of layers, and a hybrid of unfiltered reality, humanist morality play and whimsical Bizzaro.

Like I said at the start, the writing was almost film-like and you could nearly see the camera fade between the stories, which is a triumph because the characters and scene in each tale were barely described and yet it was brought to life so vividly through the dialogue and the portrayal of the characters emotional states that physical description was unnecessary.

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Q: What makes your stories unique? Morgan Bell: They come from a unique place, within the world, within society, and within my perspective. They do not conform to short story conventions, in structure or in length. They also have a common narrative and themes running through them as a collection. I write entirely in third person, and I have a strong voice, its like being led into the wilderness by someone you trust.

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I am currently reading a paperback edition of Ann Learys The Good House, an unreliable narrator first person recollection of a local middle-aged alcoholic real estate agent, fictional, but very realistic. It has been fantastic. I also have Dathan Auerbachs Penpal on the nightstand, a creepy look at childhood memories. Did you have a favourite author as a child? I loved Enid Blyton, then a bit older I read everything by Robin Klein, John Marsden, and David McRobbie. I also liked by Babysitters Club, Im sure I collected every book in that series, and was a huge fan of the horror writer Christopher Pike.

What kind of readers will it appeal to? Hipsters, nerds, academics, bohemians, paranoid people, amateur psychologists, people with short attention spans. Complete this sentence for us: if you like _________________, youll love my book. Haruki Murakami. That reminds us, why Sniggerless Boundulations? What does it mean? In the style of Lewis Carols Jabberwocky and Roald Dahls Vermicious Knids, my Sniggerless Boundulations is a nonsense phrase.

Describe your style of writing. Concise third-person narrative, using free indirect style. As one reviewer said Rarely is an author able to so clearly capture and convey emotions and small slices of life in so few words, with the economy of a poet. Which authors have inspired you? Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Angela Carter, DBC Pierre, James Frey, Cate Kennedy, Deborah Levy, Margo Lanagan

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Q: Can you explain the meaning and significance of the title SNIGGERLESS BOUNDULATIONS? Morgan Bell: It is a non-sense phrase that stuck in my mind while I was half-asleep. It sounded to me like something the Dormouse from Alice In Wonderland would talk about in between tales of treacle and drawing a muchness from much of a muchness. Linguistically it translates to a calculated series of steps forward. I like the riddle quality and the weightlessness of the phrase.

1. So what made you write these short stories? I wrote these stories over three years after returning to my hometown of Newcastle Australia, after a long absence, in a period of rebuilding and re-acclimatising to living in a post-coal-mining-boom regional centre. A lot of the stories are about adjustment and fear of change and awareness of time passing. A short story collection is a bit like a mezze platter of writing, a bag of mixed lollies if you like. I like Strings & Ribbons for its poetry and reprieve. Its placement in the collection is like a lighter musical interlude on a heavy rock album. Mrs Jackson was an actual anxiety dream I had, much of the imagery has a Freudian bent. ... riffing off a few fairy tales and nursery rhymes and the odd Dickensian villain.

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MF: If I gave you a hippo where would you hide it? MB: This question reminds me of the infamous Van Halen demand about brown M&Ms in the dressing room MF: If you could jump into a book, and live in that world which would it be? MB: Obviously I would want to be in woods of some kind, magical woods. I could possibly settle for Sherwood Forrest, I could wear green stockings with a bunch of merry men. MF: Sniggerless Boundulations developed from a collation of scraps of paper that you had scrawled on during your weekly writers groups. Did the scrawlings and eventual stories emerge from prompts, observations or pure imagination?

10. Do you and your characters have any similarities? If so, what are they? Anything neurotic, paranoid, or self-doubting is essentially a little reflection of me. I am prone to exhausting myself with over-thinking. I am also the quintessential observer straight man to eccentric exchanges. Im sure every character I write has some element of me in it.

Do you have any favorite authors and did they influence your choice of the genre? I was given confidence to present my work in its current structure by collections like Jim Craces The Devils Larder, Tim Wintons The Turning, and Deborah Levys Black Vodka. As for voice I am a huge fan of Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen and their subtle witticisms with cleverly placed choice of words in dialogue and description. I am probably even more influenced by screen-writers like Charlie Kaufman and Stephen Frears.

I have been inspired by Angela Carter, Ursula Leguin, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf. Some home grown (Australian) short story collections that really motivated me to publish my own collection (Sniggerless Boundulations), and/or encouraged me to keep promoting and creating, are Margo Lanagan's Black Juice, Cate Kennedy's Dark Roots, Tim Winton's The Turning, and Angela Meyer's Captives.

Was it easy to pick the title for your book? The title, Sniggerless Boundulations, came to me in a dream. It is essentially jibberish, but as an invented phrase, linguistically, it means a calculated step forward, which is what I was attempting to do with my life at the time. What advice you would give to new and aspiring writers? Keep your sentences short. Do not use adjectives. Show, dont tell. Break these rules every once in a while to prove youre not a robot.

In Garsdale the cavern represents the depths of depression and the struggle between the broken part of you that wants to stay hidden and the highly-functional part of you that is frustrated because it has to spend so much energy battling the lost and frightened broken part. It is a reflection of the splintered psyche we all have. In Mrs Jackson I essentially retell a common anxiety dream, I have these dreams often, trying to ward off something bad, and being responsible for something that you are unable to take care of. In real life that something is yourself, but in a dream you may be herding cats or literally attempting to hold back a tide.

Free review copies pf Sniggerless Boundulations. Promotion lasts for 21 days. Download yours today. Experimental contemporary literary fiction, with story lengths varying between 150 to 2,000 words. Some of the characters include killers, nosey office workers, seedy old men, competitive women, a galactic physician, and a haughty abseiler.

Website Twitter Facebook Goodreads Sniggerless Boundulations (Literary Fiction/Short Stories) sniggerless boundulationsDebut collection of short stories by indie Australian author Morgan Bell. A cross-section between dreams and reality. An examination of the horrors of life, with plenty of peering, in the form of vignettes, micro fiction, flash fiction, and short stories. Themes include fear, time, aging, anxiety, and jealousy. This collection of fifteen stories contains bizarre medical conditions, industrious creatures, conniving cops, killers, dead bodies, a rescue mission, homoeroticism, nonchalant students, a secret garden, and the road to hell. Amazon Barnes & Noble Lulu Book Depository

The story of the project Novascapes is an anthology of stories from across the speculative fiction range. All the stories are penned by authors who currently live, or were born and raised, in the Hunter, Newcastle and Central Coast regions of New South Wales Australia. It is an indie project showcasing some of the best speculative fiction authors to come out of this region alongside a collection of fantastic emerging talent. Included in the anthology are works by award winning authors: Margo Lanagan Kirstyn McDermott Jenny Blackford Russell Blackford Janeen Webb Thoraiya Dyer Aidan Walsh The cover art is being produced by the wonderful Tallulah Cunningham

Each piece is a brief glimpse into a world both like and unlike anything we could ever imagine. The light and dark aspects of human nature are played out on the canvases of these worlds, though the players are not always human. Minotaurs, mermaids, vampires and dinosaurs compete for space alongside devils, angels, aliens and completely indescribable entities. Novascapes will transport you from one side of the multi-verse to the other and leave you breathless and wide eyed at the possibilities of simple existence. Appearing in the anthology are: The Enternal Twilight Of His Maze by Jenny Blackford (http://www.jennyblackford.com) Idol by Russell Blackford (http://www.russellblackford.com) The Switch by Morgan Bell (http://sniggerlessboundulations.webs.com/) Never Love A Wild Thing by Megan Buxton Portal by Sheree Christoffersen Night Herons Curse by Thoraiya Dyer (http://www.thoraiyadyer.com) Heartsick by Samantha Fisher The First Stone by Andrew C. Jaxson The Fold by Bethany Kable Mouth to Mouth by Margo Lanagan (http://amongamidwhile.blogspot.com.au/) Devils by Blake Liddell She Said by Kirstyn McDermott (http://kirstynmcdermott.com/) Siren by Catherine Moffat Arms Dealer by C. E. Page (http://ignorethebird.com) Shulamite by Danuta Electra Raine Focused by Rob Reil Dystrophic by K. M. Ross The Cat Detective by Willie Southgate Reunification by Aidan Walsh Paradise Design�??d by Janeen Webb Illegal Aliens: A Space Oddity by Lee-Anne Wilson-Smith

My engineering work often infiltrates my creative writing. I will do composite characters based on traits of customers, character names based on street names, technical terms laced into descriptions.

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The books I love will tell you more about me than any blurb (that said, there is a blurb). In no particular order: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby The Fault in Our Stars by John Green A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Fractured by Dawn Barker

HWC member, Morgan Bell, has self-published her collection of short stories Sniggerless Boundulations. A cross-section between dreams and reality. An examination of the horrors of life, with plenty of peering, in the form of vignettes, micro fiction, flash fiction, and short stories. Themes include fear, time, aging, anxiety, and jealousy. This collection of fifteen stories contains bizarre medical conditions, industrious creatures, conniving cops, killers, dead bodies, a rescue mission, homoeroticism, nonchalant students, a secret garden, and the road to hell. Linda Drummond - A francophile who dreams of Paris Ruth Cotton - Blogs about Hamilton - people, places, past and present Jean Kent - Poet and 2013 judge of the Newcastle Poetry Prize Katrina McKelvey - HWC children's writing group facilitator Magdalena Ball - reviewer - also see Compulsive Reader Jess Black - Children's Author Morgan Bell - self-professed feminist and nerd Shauna Stafford - media consultant Andrew McKiernan Australian speculative fiction writer and Illustrator Anthony Wood - writer, blogger, graduate of Swinburne Melanie Lee - www.agirlintheworld.org Tracey Dwyer - book reviews Ed Wright - author, poet, musician and literary critic Karen Street - novelist and poet Kate Moore - Blogger since 2008 Mark Maclean - the erudite Mark writes about Styx Creek and more Meryl Dunton-Rose - travel blogger Gerry Bobsien - author of books for teens and children Clark Gormley - President of Poetry at the Pub And still more . . . Lauren Fitzpatrick Elena Terol-Sabino Jenny Blackford Phoenix de Carteret Zoe Disher Sarah Lason Linda Brooks Kim Upton James Turvey Russell Blackford Mark Gaul Elizabeth Robson Susan Whelan Laraine Bunt Peter Lewis - artist Alain Khouri - photographer Peter Crumpton - film editor

Sniggerless Boundulations Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews Morgan Bell is clearly a writer who has no reservations about taking her stories there. Ive seen no collection like this anywhere else! Tags: amazon, book, e book, review, Sniggerless Boundulations Related Posts: There Be Dragons Key To Immorality Limo Bill the Undercover Assasin

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5 stars! Posted by Serenity Sheild Sniggerless Boundulations by Morgan Bell Book: Stand Alone Publisher: Morgan Bell Pub Date: Jan 21 2014 Book Links: Goodreads Amazon My Review: A bunch of stories to love. Each one different, so you will be deep into the stories and they are done wonderfully.

I really respect blogs like The Pen & Muse for giving a platform to indie writers, in the form of reviews and interviews. I think you are making our literary culture richer and helping the common people contribute to a global artistic conversation. In generations past we would have been largely voiceless, but thanks to the internet and enthusiastic bloggers we now get to hear from a diverse range of authors, not just trust-fund babies and the sons and daughters of academics and celebrities.

Wednesday, 5 March 2014 Writers On Wednesday: Morgan Bell Welcome to Writers on Wednesday. This week I'm chatting with Australian author, Morgan Bell ...For me indie publishing all the way. I can be as weird as I like, experiment with form and length, be intentionally provocative.

I am an extremely picky reader, and I dont like filler. If you can say what you want to say in 500 words why write more? Morgan Bell 27 February 2014

She: True Stories. Sunday, April 6, 2014 10:00am to 11:00am Mulubinba Room - Newcastle City Hall (map) 290 King Street Newcastle NSW 2300 This Newcastle community project is designed to celebrate the contributions of women. Readings by Morgan Bell, Ann Blackwell, Karen Eastwood, Bev Henwood and Irene Wolczak. Hosted by YWCA executive director Jenny Baldwin. Free event.

Additional story commendations: Midnight Daisy, by Morgan Bell The exhibition for she: true stories, ordinary and extraordinary, a YWCA Hunter Region Newcastle community portrait project, opened February 14 at the Lovett Gallery, Newcastle Regional Library. Prize finalists and commended entries are marked throughout the gallery. Congratulations and thank you to each of our finalists! Please come visit the Lovett to experience the exhibition up until March 22, 2014!

The short story Midnight Daisy by Morgan Bell, as published by the YWCA Newcastle as part of the She: True Stories Project (highly commended)

Spoken word version of the short story Midnight Daisy, read by the author, Morgan Bell, as aired on Newcastle ABC 1233 radio on 12/2/14

Kindle Edition ebook of the Newcastle Writers Group Anthology for 2012, includes the story It Had To Be Done by Morgan Bell

Review of 2013 documentary film about 80s drag personality Divine, written by Morgan Bell for the film review website Salty Popcorn

Morgan Bell is a successful entrant in local exhibit with her piece Chastain (2014, printed ink on canvas, 100cm x 100cm). Theme: Selfless Acts. Category: Community. Chastain is a digital manipulation of a climactic scene from the film Lawless (2012) by Australian director John Hillcoat. This derivative work is a snapshot of the fear and horror this woman experiences realising that sexual violation of her body can and will be used as a strategic blow in a violent gang conflict. Women in wars and civil conflicts are often subjected to systematic rape as a means of psychological warfare. The obscuring and shadowing of this womans face represents the secrets women keep about rape, selflessly motivated, hoping to reduce the intensity and duration of the larger conflict. Thursday 6 March 2014 - Opening event and announcement of winners at See Street Gallery, Meadowbank, 6pm - 8pm. Friday 7 March - Saturday 22 March 2014 - Exhibition period of works. Gallery open days: Tuesday - Saturday Gallery, 11am - 4pm.

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I am very excited to have an anthology out this week, Novascapes: Speculative Fiction from the Hunter Region of Australia (buy here http://www.hunteranthologies.com/shop.html). The collection has been nominated for a 2014 Aurealis Award. My story is called The Switch and I got to collaborate with some wonderful friends and share the volume with established names in speculative fiction, such as Margo Lanagan and Kirstyn McDermott.

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What people are saying - Write a review User ratings 5 stars 10 4 stars 1 3 stars 1 2 stars 0 1 star 0 Review: Sniggerless Boundulations User Review - Sherry - Goodreads I received a free digital copy from storycartel in exchange for a review. This book is a collection of short stories that expressed life lessons and observations. My favorite stories were "The Dermoid ... Read full review Review: Sniggerless Boundulations User Review - Danniele Whitburn - Goodreads Sniggerless Boundulations was creative and not only was it enjoyable to read, it made you think about the characters, the plot of each story and why a particular thing happened, which always makes the ... Read full review

Works at Sniggerless Boundulations Attends University of Newcastle Lives in Sydney, NSW Basic Information Gender Female Looking for Friends, Networking Birthday 31 August 1981 Relationship In a domestic partnership Other names Morgan Leigh Bell, Morgan Hardy Bell Work Occupation Author of Sniggerless Boundulations Skills Technical writer, Traffic engineer Employment Sniggerless Boundulations Author, 2014 - present

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