Nine Months Later - An Update on Birthing 'Call It Anything But Love'

CALL IT ANYTHING BUT LOVE IS NEARLY HERE

Your free short story collection, Call It Anything But Love is close to completion - and I am so excited!

I’m through with most of my second draft edits and unless something very left field lands in the middle of my life, the third and final draft shouldn’t take long. 

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If you’re interested in reading Call It Anything But Love at the second draft stage to offer suggestions for the final draft, or positive reviews I can share with prospective readers, please do let me know by messaging me on the Amanda Coreishy Facebook author page.

Getting curious?

The eight-story collection is the length of a novella, or half the length of a short-ish novel.

Five of the eight stories are Judith’s. Judith was the only protagonist of these short stories that I didn’t know fairly well when I began this project and writing her was an act of discovery.

In Reputation, she's a rarely referenced memory. But in Call It Anything But Love she became real. And once her story began to unfold, writing it felt like a compelling duty. She suffers immensely, moreso than I ever have – and I found myself empathising deeply with her as I wrote.

If I had to write a blurb for the collection, it might read like this:

One moment Judith is admiring her devoted husband on stage. The next, she learns he’s a bigamist. Set in mid-1990’s Trinidad, Call It Anything But Love explores polygny and much more in eight startling short stories. Love will be thwarted and if you want a happy ending, you might have to make your own. You have been warned.

Call It Anything But Love is an honest, raw and heartbreaking exploration of a subject rarely tackled in fiction.

Best read in order, these stories introduce the characters of Reputation, spoiler-free and with no hint of what is to come.

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