Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: published work

  • Callout for pre publication reviewers

    So, experimenting with new stuff, my forthcoming book, The Dowry Blade (February 2016) is on NetGalley, a review site for librarians, bookshop owners, book bloggers and professional reviewers. If that is YOU, you can download a review PDF here. It is UNPROOFED, ok, so no comments about typos!

  • Once more into print… Clockwise

    Now, anyone who had anything to do with Solstice Shorts last year will know how much I like a good time theme. So I was delighted to find SolarWyrm‘s Latchkey Tales and their current project, Clockwise, a series of journals focussed around different times of day: this time Midnight Blues. So I sent them a…

  • More From Cut a Long Story

    More stories up on Cut a Long Story… Starkridge: Don’t Mess with Mountains… Glory, or Hope: two goddesses meet on a beach… Prairie Rain: a flash fiction set on a porch near the town of Normal, Illinois Déjà Vû: A radical retelling – Sleeping Beauty and Snow White seen through the prism of The Stepford…

  • Cutting a Long Story Short

    NAWE’s new website ‘Cut a Long Story‘ is finally live, and you can or will soon be able to find several of my stories on there to buy as single story ebooks. The fastest way to find my stuff is via my profile page. I’ve only got one story up at the moment, but I…

  • Earthshaker published in Holdfast #2

    My (longish)  short story, Earthshaker (based on the Minotaur myth) has just been published in the second issue of Holdfast Magazine online, with a fabulous illustration from Zoe Lee.

  • LGBT History month: reading at North Kensington Library – video

    This week I did two readings from Mosaic of Air for LGBT History Month, the first at North Kensington Library. (note about the videos: my website randomly allocates different formats to video, not all of which work with internet explorer: they all work with Mozilla Firefox so try that of you can’t see them!) Here…

  • Forthcoming Publication – Earthshaker

    A bit of good news this morning, my story Earthshaker has been accepted for Holdfast’s  Beasts edition due out in March (I think!)

  • Inspirations – Deja Vu

    I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of Déjâ Vu, and this story originated in something I wrote when I was still at school, a highly melodramatic piece about walking into one’s own past. That story remains as just one scene, as Lucy/Hilary steps out of the train at a station, and goes to a…

  • New Review of Mosaic of Air

    An absolutely lovely review from Sabotage! High points ‘Mosaic of Air’ is an interesting parable featuring a proto-post-feminist lead, a computer programmer whose programme becomes sentient which surprisingly encases an abortion debate. If you read nothing else in this book you must read ‘Arachne’s Daughters’; this takes apart a myth about Arachne (a human) challenging…

  • Inspirations – Russian Fairytales, illustrations and London Bridge

    Two stories came from the same picture, which I have been completely unable to trace. I think it is from an edition of The Snow Queen, and the illustrator might have been Kay Neilsen or Edmund Dulac or possibly Arthur Rackham, but as I’ve been unable to track it down I can’t confirm; maybe, like…