Lou's new short story collection
Imagine if you were waiting in a queue at the DIY store and realised you were invisible, or were in line at the supermarket and suddenly, violently, grew angel's wings? What if every house on your street got egged one night but nobody saw who did it, or if you were in charge of the dishwasher in a department store cafe (unnoticed by the morose tea-drinking customers) but you dreamed of travelling around the world to see the places in a Geography textbook? Or if the drowned returned to the shore in a storm with a message for the living? And has that dead body only just appeared in the chimney or did we simply not notice it? Magical realism meets the mundane and the macabre in these gently disruptive short stories. Coming soon.
Writing workshops
Lou will be running mindful goal setting workshops for writers at the new Yellowave in Hove, initially from Feb-April 2026. She has also created several self-paced online courses on novel writing, planning your writing year, making money from your writing and writing for beginners.
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Unusual Places
Human remains are concealed in the Greenwich Tunnel in a world where London is a prison; a market is the setting for sexual and sensual awakenings; a professional picnicker finds love. Louise Tondeur’s stories skip along, rich with detail and musical prose, only to trip us up with turns and surprises: the unusual lurks in the most ordinary of places. Written on location in unusual places.
These are the stories you might feel surging around you as you walk down a crowded city street, every one its own world of tenderness, violence, absurdity and joy. - Joanne Limburg.
Tondeur's eye for detail is so precise, you might fear being in her presence, lest she see your secrets, too. What a tender, dark, nuanced book: a quiet storm. I am jealous and quietly devastated. - Leone Ross.
The Small Steps Guides
These guides to the writing process and designed to be short and friendly. All of them break the writing process down into small steps and they all contain accessible writing exercises developed over many years of teaching Creative Writing.
"When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored [...] It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship."
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