Fiction by Susan Bartholomew

Welcome to faceinterface. On this site you can read short stories and online novels by Susan Bartholomew.

Susan welcomes any comments or criticism from readers. Please email Susan with anything you would like to say.

Susan Bartholomew at Olympus 2012

Susan attended Eastercon this year. She gave a reading of an extract from her novel The Lake of Destiny. She also read a poem inspired by characters and events in the sequel, The World Below, in the poetry event.

Other events

Susan will be attending FantasyCon 2012 in Brighton, September 27th to 30th. Please check here nearer the time for details of reading and signing events.

Susan read an extract from her novel, The Lake of Destiny, at FantasyCon at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, on Sunday 2nd October 2011. She also read two of her poems at the poetry event on Friday 30th September at FantasyCon. One was a narrative poem based on a scene from The Lake of Destiny. The other was titled November. A verse from this poem is quoted in the short story of the same name, which you can read here on faceinterface.

Books

Susan Bartholomew has written a fantasy novel, The Lake of Destiny. It is published by Algana Publishing and available from their online shop. It is also available from Amazon, both as a paper book and an ebook. S J Higbee has reviewed it on her blog "Brainfluff".

Susan is now working on the sequel, titled The World Below.

Next on faceinterface

Meat Machines, the sequel to Codename Chameleon.

Competition Winners

Timothy Dance has won the Scary Story competition and you can read his story here on faceinterface. Ancestral Vengeance is filled with antique runes and mysterious shadows. More from Timothy Dance on his website, www.timdance.vpweb.co.uk.

The winner of the faceinterface Shene School short story competition was Charlotte Lyons, with a tale of tragic romance, Knife Love.

Online Novels

Codename Chameleon

Codename Chameleon

The cops think he's a terrorist, the terrorists think he's a cop.

Vine Manor

Vine Manor

The return of the missing heir brings danger to an old manor house.

The Emerald Cross

The Emerald Cross

The Irish Crown Jewels vanished from a locked safe in a strongly guarded castle. A hundred years later, can they be found?

Short Stories

A Conversation about Vampires

A Conversation About Vampires

The first faceinterface story.

Crocodile Teeth

Crocodile Teeth

A visit to a haunted doctor's surgery leads to disaster.

The Sharpest Knife

The Sharpest Knife

Angie keeps cutting herself. Could it be that she's just accident prone?

Rain

Rain

Snakes and Ladders - just the thing for a rainy day.

January

January

Was it him? Or was it his twin?

November

November

A man returns to a magical place he knew as a child. Does the silent wood hide a secret?

Brixton Gun

Brixton Gun

A murdered man is found on Clapham Common. Lisa, watching TV, finds the dead man's face is all too familiar.