Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: The Dowry Blade

  • NOT the Booker! The Dowry Blade is long-listed

    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…

  • out and about with Carmen

    I’ve not been on here much recently, there’s been too much happening. The opera – of course the opera! Each year I’ve done more and written about it less. Barely managing a faint tweet now and then this year. Carmen, under the direction of Chris Rolls had us on stage almost all the time  even…

  • Rebellion: Writing Fantasy

    Rebellion: Writing Fantasy

    Arachne Press  Rebellion: Writing Fantasy, author talk and workshop Author Cherry Potts reads from her new novel The Dowry Blade, and discusses ways of writing fantasy with an opportunity for a short writing exercise for the audience. World building, weird logic and rule breaking at Brompton Library 210 Old Brompton Road London SW5 0BS Thursday…

  • Kate Foley & Cherry Potts reading at Gay’s the Word – Video

    Arachne Press We had a great evening at Gay’s the Word – thank you to Uli & Jim – and despite Kate’s determination to walk out of shot, we have some video – where it got silly, with just a sleeve on show, there’s audio instead. Here’s Cherry reading a bit about family from The…

  • Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade

    Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade

  • Launching the Dowry Blade – pictures

    Launching the Dowry Blade – pictures

    Launching The Dowry Blade at Lewisham Library last week. you next opportunity to catch up with me reading from the epic fantasy TONIGHT,  7pm Beckenham Bookshop, high street Beckenham, Kent opposite the church. Get your skates on!

  • Launch events for The Dowry Blade

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • LGBT History Month: Crofton Park Eco-Community Library

    This is about as local as you can get for me, the library is a twelve-minute walk from my house, so I was very pleased to be invited to read. A small audience but a generous one, they bought more books than the other LGBT history month events put together, and most of us ended…