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    Collywobblers
    Collywobblers
    Collywobblers
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    Collywobblers

    By Mary Cook

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    A Canadian publisher and a British writer are getting on their broomsticks and launching an e-book of poems on a horror and supernatural theme in time for Halloween. Mary Cook of Lincolnshire, England, has compiled the work titled Collywobblers: Perverse Verse for Guys & Ghouls, and InkSpotter Publishing of Nova Scotia, Canada, is proud to make that collection available to the public.
    While working as a school groundswoman at Billericay, Mary earned her first break as a writer in 1987 when she entered a fiction competition run by the Essex Chronicle. Her short story "They Eat the Eyes" was the winning entry, earning her the title Essex Chronicle Writer of the Year. The contest was staged by Valentine Card, the local benefactor whom she still remembers with great affection.
    This very minor success made her realise horror was her true calling -- but always it had to be leavened with a little humour. She went on to have many articles, poems and short stories accepted by a wide range of publications.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBetty Dobson
    Release dateOct 30, 2011
    ISBN9780981333564
    Collywobblers
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    Mary Cook

    Mary Cook has published almost a dozen books, all of which have become Canadian best sellers! These are books compiled of memories of a more gentle time in our history..an era called the Dirty Thirties. Cook transports us back to that time with humour and sometimes pathos, but always with a warmth unmatched by writings of that genre. She introduces us to characters, who turn out to be real people from her past, and who appear time and again, so that we, the reader, become so familiar with them, we can actually picture them romping through the pages. Mary Cook was a well-known broadcaster with CBC for 48 years, bringing her warm and delightful stories to an appreciative audience, and earning her seven ACTRA awards! She has written for Canada’s major newspapers and magazines, and is in constant demand as a guest speaker both here and in other countries.

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