Violetta Antcliff


Biography

Violetta Antcliff has been a member of the Nottingham Writers’ Club for the best part of Twenty years. She is the winner of numerous short story competitions and was area short listed in Waterstone’s WOW factor story competition. She took first prize in Nottingham short story competition with a story called Irish Mouse Tales and has read her poetry and short stories on local radio.

Books

The Anvil Ghosts    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $3.99 USD. 10900 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on April 30, 2012. Fiction.

When Anne Scrimshaw moves to a cottage in Yorkshire, the last thing she needs is ghosts.
Sapphire    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $2.99 USD. 5020 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on April 30, 2012. Fiction.

Sapphire doesn’t believe in ghosts, but a spiritualist meeting makes her have second thoughts.
His Father's Son    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $2.99 USD. 4260 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on February 24, 2012. Fiction.

James didn’t realize coming out would be so difficult.
The Haunting of Bramble Briar    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $3.99 USD. 5860 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on November 30, 2011. Fiction.

Bramble Briar is a cottage of mystery with its own resident ghost.
Jason Sinks to a New Low    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $3.99 USD. 20730 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on September 17, 2011. Fiction.

Can the two chums possibly survive against all the odds?
Magic and Mayhem    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $3.99 USD. 19030 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on July 14, 2011. Fiction.

Jason finds out for himself why one should always be careful what they wish for.
Jason and the Friendly Ghost    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $3.99 USD. 18950 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on February 25, 2011. Fiction.

Tommy is a boy who died at the beginning of world war two, and has returned to look for his parents. Wayne, Jason’s best friend, takes some convincing that Tommy is a ghost, as he seems so normal. But the appearances and disappearances soon convince Wayne. The problem is: how can they tell Tommy that he is dead?
Jason and the Corner Shop Mystery    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $2.99 USD. 18460 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on October 5, 2010. Fiction.

The abrasive love-hate between siblings eventually leads to trouble when Jason and his friend Wayne, go to the rescue of the owner of the corner shop. Unable to convince relatives and friends that Mr. Kashmir Singh is in danger, they decide to take things into their own hands. The result is a hair-raising chase round a deserted airfield in a stolen co-op hearse before the kidnap plot is foiled.
The Haunting of Wisteria Cottage    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $2.99 USD. 6630 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on August 23, 2010. Fiction.

The fact Wisteria Cottage is supposed to be haunted doesn’t deter Zoe from buying it; she doesn’t believe in ghosts. However, when she starts to experience ghostly kisses, it doesn’t take her long to change her mind. Coming to terms with the fact her ghost is there to stay, she strikes a bargain with him.
Sneaky Shenanigans    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $2.99 USD. 4380 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on August 23, 2010. Fiction.

With Father O’Tool breathing down his neck to make an honest woman of the widow Bridget Flynn, Patrick O’Malley had a problem. Could he ask the woman he loved to marry him and move from her cottage with all its modern conveniences to a farm that had nothing to offer but a tin bath and a peat fire?
Leprechaun Magic    by Violetta Antcliff
Price: $2.99 USD. 5370 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on June 29, 2010. Fiction.

When Mr. and Mrs. Goldstein find they have an uninvited guest, they don’t know if they should make him welcome or make him leave. Mr. Goldstein is all for telling him to stay, pointing out to his wife that not everybody has a Leprechaun for a houseguest; and Joseph, their unruly eight-year-old son, meets his match when the Leprechaun uses magic to teach him a lesson.

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