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All Hallow’s Read event to celebrate Clovenhoof giveaway
Our All Hallow’s Read spoken word event has received a lot of recent attention and we’re looking forward to an amazing evening of spooky stories and creepy poems (see earlier posts). The event is to mark the launch of the Satan’s Shorts story collections which are FREE stories featuring the much-loved characters from our latest…
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Authors sign up for All Hallow’s Read event
Pigeon Park Press is taking details from storytellers, writers and poet interested in reading at our special Halloween event (see recent posts). If you wish to get involved, e-mail us at events@pigeonparkpress.com. The All Hallow’s Read event is free and open to all. Come along on the night or friend Pigeon Park Press on Facebook…
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All Hallow’s Read – Spoken Word Event
To celebrate the Kindle publication of “Satan’s Shorts” the new set of FREE Clovenhoof stories, Pigeon Park Press has organised an open mic evening of fiction and poetry on 31st October 2012. All Hallow’s Read will take place in the suitably spooky basement (dungeon?) of the wonderful 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham from 6pm-8pm.…
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Collaborative Writing Workshop
During Birmingham’s Artsfest, which is the UK’s largest free arts festival, Iain and I ran a Collaborative Writing Workshop. We were housed in the Council House, so we enjoyed some gentle background music from a guitarist performing in Victoria Square. The participants who turned up had a variety of expectations. Some were writers that we…
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All Good Things Come To An End
At some point, any collaboration must come to an end. Your novel is published and is selling and you’ve done everything you reasonably can to help promote the book and those sales. What happens next? Perhaps the first thing to do is take the time to evaluate the success of the collaboration. Actually, no, the…
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Clovenhoof Reading in Waterstones
On 8 September, Heide Goody and Iain Grant read from their new Satan-in-suburbia novel at Waterstones bookshop in Birmingham. The event, part of Birmingham’s Artsfest weekend, was well-attended and followed by some book signings and a photo opportunity. Clovenhoof (not available in Waterstones at the moment, oddly enough) is available to buy on Kindle or…
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Clovenhoof Launch Party
On 8 September, Pigeon Park Press held a party for the launch of Heide Goody and Iain Grant’s comic novel, Clovenhoof. The launch was a celebration of the hard work and effort that went into this unique collaborative novel. Clovenhoof, in which Satan loses his job as Lord of Hell and is relocated to suburban…
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Selling your collaborative novel
To be a writer is to be a salesperson. Writing is a respected profession but no one is going to fall at your feet, begging to publish or even read your work, just because you’ve written something. Once your novel is complete, you will have to sell it yourself. That might initially be to an…
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Should collaborative writers self-publish?
There’s a lot of information out there about the pros and cons of self-publishing your novel versus taking your novel to publication through the traditional route. I would, however, like to discuss it here and then reflect on the implications it specifically has for the collaborative writer. Advantages of self-publishing 1. Control This is the…
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Do collaborative writers need a pre-nuptial agreement?
It rarely does one good to be pessimistic but the tangled and seemingly endless relationship that is collaborative writing is even more complicated than I might have suggested in other blogs. The road to publishing success is not evenly paved and there are legal, technical and even moral potholes to negotiate. I’m not going to…