Cherry Potts, Writer

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  • The Queen’s Safety

    My story The Queen’s Safety was read at Liars’ League last week. For those of you not in the audience, you can read, listen or watch the story (performed by Greg Page) on the Liars’ League site soon, but in the meantime, the video is on YouTube.

  • Performing Live – update

    Brixton BookJam has moved to 8th July due to a double booking at the venue. Everything else is as previously mentioned. I will be reading and running workshops at Towersey Festival (Near Thame, Oxfordshire) over August Bank Holiday weekend with Spread the Word, no more details yet but will know more in a week or…

  • Performing live at a venue near you??

    Opportunities to hear my work live! I’ll be reading from The Bone Box from Mosaic of Air at the Arachne Press Weird Lies Preview this Sunday 9th June 6-9 at Misty Moon Gallery, and then next Tuesday, 11th June 7pm, my story The Queen’s Safety is being read at Liars’ League as part of their…

  • Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

    I love chestnuts, we eat them regularly, in stews, nut roasts, cakes… especially since discovering the vacuum packed french version. I heard something on the radio last week about a man who only liked them in Mont blanc pudding (mostly meringue and cream).  (there was also an idiot on Breakfast TV telling the viewing public…

  • getting a cover for a book

    This is a strange way of going about things, but I’ve just chosen a cover for a book that I haven’t finished writing yet. We’ve been running a competition over at Arachne Press for the covers of the next two books, and I got down to three gorgeous, wonderful designs for the reprint of Mosaic…

  • Gearing up for Yule

    I don’t care how many shopping days, what matters now is, how many singing days are there til the Solstice? And how many reading days? My evenings are  split roughly equally between singing and promoting the books between now and Christmas. Rehearsals every Monday for Vivaldi Gloria at Blackheath Halls Christmas Concert Tuesdays at the…

  • One Eye Grey: Stories from Another London Vol 3 Press Release

      My Story ‘Eye of the Beholder’ is in this collection.

  • One Grey Eye

    I’ve just had a story accepted for One Grey Eye, an electronic ‘Penny Dreadful’ available on  Kindle. My story, Eye of the Beholder will be available around Halloween in Stories From Another London along with other excellent stories to unsettle you good and proper! Here’s a snippet to whet your appetite: Eye of the Beholder…

  • A Second Hand Emotion, read by Gill Stoker

    A recording of the lovely Gill Stoker reading (and singing – brave woman!) my story A Second Hand Emotion at Tall Tales at the Tavern, an event I co-curated with Bartle Sawbridge back in June. a second hand emotion by cherry potts, read by gill stoker © Cherry Potts 2012

  • Blackheath Cendrillon: A slipper and a ring

    Blackheath Cendrillon: A slipper and a ring

    L.C. here.  This is my last post on behalf of Cherry.  She says I’ve behaved very irresponsibly and I am lucky not to have been had up in front of the Leveson Enquiry.  Anyway, I’m feeling a bit crest-fallen because I didn’t find out who the mystery woman was first after all. But I was…