In a varied writing career, Sue Clark has penned BBC radio and TV comedy scripts for the likes of David Jason, Lenny Henry and Tracey Ullman, as well as contributing to newspapers, magazines, trade journals and guidebooks, as a journalist, copywriter, PR and editor. But she had never done what she had always longed to do: write comic fiction. That is, until she was able to give up the old nine-to-five, take a creative writing course with Oxford University, join a writing group and – at last! – unshackle her Imagination and let her love for comedy roam free. She brings this comic touch to her short story, On The Brushes, in this exciting new anthology, Taking Liberties. Her debut comic fiction, Note to Boy, was published in 2020, gaining a Pencraft award, and her second, A Novel Solution, will be released in late 2023/early 2024. Sue Clark believes no story, no matter how tragic isn’t enhanced by an injection of comedy. And likewise, no story, no matter how comic, isn’t enriched by an injection of pathos. Her aim: to give the reader that winning combination of laughter, laced with a few tears. Heart and humour.