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Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens
My latest publication! buy it here: I couldn’t make the launch, which although on line was at 2am in the morning, so I recorded a reading of the first page or so. Here it is. my creature of the air, is nothing like the cover image. I had something more like this in mind, but…
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Some bits of good news
This morning I signed the contract on a short story being included in an anthology: Final Flight will be in Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens edited by Rhonda Parrish for Canadian publishers, Tyche Books. No idea about the publication date yet! Needless to say, the heroine of my story is not as ethereal as…
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Story Cities – Foundation Myth
Story Cities is an Arachne Press project, bringing together 42 writers and 51 stories about the city – any city, every city, in flash of under 500 words. The brief for the book was: no names, no recognisable landmarks, and to fit one of the themes – termini, transport, hotels, cafes, squares and parks, markets,…
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Rising Dawn at Story Fridays
Although I couldn’t be there, Kirsty Cox did a grand job reading my story Rising Dawn at Story Fridays in Bath last week for their Speed of Light evening. You can listen to her reading it, and other stories read by the authors and Kirsty here.
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Shortest Day, Longest Night
21st December 2016 ORDER NOW from Arachne Press Edited by Cherry Potts 978-1-909208-28-5 print £9.99 978-1-909208-29-2 epub £5 978-1-909208-30-8 mobi/kindle £5 144 pages The Solstice Shorts festival celebrates the shortest day of the year, which is also short story day, with stories poems and songs to an appropriate theme. In 2015 that theme was Longest…
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Liberty Tales
17th November 2016 ORDER NOW from Arachne Press 978-1-909208-31-5 Print 978-1-909208-32-2 ebook 978-1-909208-33-9 mobi/kindle £9.99 198x129mm 144 pages 2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Arachne Press celebrated with an evening of stories, poetry and song on the subject of Liberty. The call out continued until the end of the year, and here…
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NOT the Booker! The Dowry Blade is long-listed
Trumpet Fanfare…. The Dowry Blade has been long-listed for The Guardian’s Not the Booker prize …along with over 100 other books. Thank you Neil & Juliet for nominating. So if by some miracle you, like them, have finished reading it, and feel moved to vote, follow the link above and do that thing – for…
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The Thirty Second Mariner
And… the poem is published. you can read it here, and even rate it. Spilling Cocoa is rapidly getting stuffed with witty and daft poems, go and have a browse.
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Launch events for The Dowry Blade
Publication day for The Dowry Blade approaches, and pre-publication copies are already available from Arachne Press’ web shop, where there is also a special offer of £25 (free postage in the UK) for combining TDB with Mosaic of Air (normal combined price £27.98) for the first 20 people to get there. I have 4 launch events lined…
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The Dowry Blade, live and in the flesh
There is nothing to beat a pile of new books, except a pile of new books that you wrote yourself. And this is a big pile, of big books! The Dowry Blade is big! It weighs 620 grams. I hadn’t really thought through the amount of space a 400 page book printed in Royal format…
Cherry Potts, Writer 