Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: Weird Lies

  • Awards and Mermaids

    It’s been an exciting week. First I won an award for one of the anthologies I edited for Arachne Press – Weird Lies – The Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award! It’s one of very few independent awards, voted for by the book-reading public, and it was thrilling to win. They don’t tell you beforehand and being…

  • Blog hopping the writing process with fellow writers

    I don’t know where the idea originated, but here I am blog hopping, thanks to Michelle Shine, author of the extraordinary fictional biography of Dr Paul Gachet, Mesmerised, and of short story Skin Deep, which I published in Lovers’ Lies. So here goes with the hopper’s questions: What am I working on? I’m always working…

  • Inspirations – The Archetypal Good Wife

    The first story I ever got published, Penelope is no Longer Waiting ( A Very, Very long time ago) came from my finally reading Homer (not in the original Greek, comprehensive schooling isn’t that kind of comprehensive) as opposed to interpretations of… and I found that what I thought I knew about the Odyssey was…

  • bright shiny new book

    So I’ve been working through the first box of books sending them out to reviewers. And I’ve been so busy organising things I didn’t get round to posting on the website, so (Trumpet fanfare!!) Mosaic of Air is here, and will be in the shops on 26th September. There will be a launch party at…

  • 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…