I hope no-one else had a bad head after the launch party. I knew I shouldn’t have finished that last bottle of Champagne after every one had gone. And I feel like celebrating all over again now because someone’s given me a really nice review on Amazon.

Anyway, basking in past glories won’t get the next book done. So how about a tight deadline to get the creative juices flowing?

Litro are running a free flash fiction competition. They want up to 1000 words from the prompt, “This is not love …”.

Entries should not have been previously published anywhere and the closing date is 7th Feb 2013 (entry is on-line). The winner will be announced on 14th February.

The winner and the two runners-up will have their stories published on the Litro website and the overall winner will receive three beautiful Clothbound Classics editions of Alice in Wonderland, Hard Times and Bleak House, supplied by Penguin.

Full details are here.

You’ve got 7 days – go for it!