No, I'm not giving anything away, so don't ccome asking. What I am doing is actually bothering to enter a competition myself for a change. It's not a strikingly amazing one, and technically the prize (some sort of writing course) is pretty naff, however the aim of the competition is to write a short piece to put on a postcard as part of a collection Waterstones (the book store) are producing for National Reading Month, with all the proceeds going to a Dyslexia charity. A list of high profile authors have already created stories for this collection and they include Irvine Welsch, J.K. Rowling and NEIL GAIMAN!

Yes, I am doing this principally for the chance to have something published alongside those names.

Anyway, I chose a story which was actually part of my unfinished If Cats Played Tomb Raider collection and then edited it heavilly. The piece is now called Immersion and can be found at the Waterstones' What's Your Story website - where you can search for it by title and, if you so please, by surname (mine's George). If it fails to win, as is reasonably likely given the number of entries, I will submit the extended version of it here.