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August 24, 2015
August 20, 2015
FREE WEEKEND READS WEEK 2
STARTING TODAY
From Now until Mid September there will be a different Black River Chronicle FREE TO DOWNLOAD on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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This Week – Dawn of Darkness.
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August 14, 2015
#AWETHORS AWARENESS DAY
Today we celebrate globally the wonderfulness of writers and storytellers
#Awethors Awareness Day
Showing pride in ourselves, our unity and our work
and trailing Awethology, an outstanding Anthology of work put together but an extraordinary group of writers.
FREE WEEKEND READS
STARTING TODAY
14th August, there will be a different Black River Chronicle FREE TO DOWNLOAD on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
This promotion will run EVERY WEEKEND for the next five
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First up – In Shadows, Waiting.
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August 9, 2015
HELP ME GET PUBLISHED …please….
VOTE HERE
SOOP is a publishing company that crowdsources it’s contracts. Writers submit book ideas and try to get votes from readers. 1000 votes gets you a contract.
I have submitted ‘Ratatatat’, my current work in progress and I’ve scored 70 votes so far., which is great but a long way from 1000.
The voting system is similiar to online petitions – in that you need to verfiy your unique identity by entering a verificaiton email address and verifying your vote. You won’t receive spam from SOOP, just an offer to purchase Ratatatat should it reach 1000 votes.
Help out an up and coming author, give a girl a boost and vote for me please. Whilst you’re there, check out the other new book ideas waiting for votes! It’s not a knock out, so vote for as many as you want.
August 5, 2015
July 20, 2015
The Startling Toad – extract from Ratatatat
The Startling Toad was well known as a Goblin bar – and with a name like The Startling Toad it would be stupid to expect otherwise. The innkeeper – Charlie – was human as far as was human as far as it was possible for the observer to tell and Aberddu born and bred,aving grown up here when the city was actually just the Royal Port of Albion. He had mostly kept his head down during independence – which had been achieved by remarkably bloodless but mysterious means – and emerged into the newly born Free-state with wide eyes and a nose that could sniff out profit at a thousand yards. In a place like this a low-born stable hand could get rich if he was smart and Charlie and was very smart. He’d spotted a gap in the market it and with a bit of borrowed cash and a lot of cheek he managed to fill it. Goblins get everywhere, like a peculiar talking rash. In a major trading port like Aberddu they were everywhere; ships used them as skivvies because they preferred to work for barta, considered maggots a treat and didn’t mind the smell of the bilge in the hull. The only problem with them was that they enjoyed being keel-hauled which meant they were difficult to punish unless you were more inventive. Goblins like all sailors of calibre would swarm off ship when they made port and drink everything in sight until they ran out of pay – and this is where Charlie’s genius came in. Goblins are a unique experience, and not to everybody’s taste. Also, because they preferred barta to coin often found themselves out of luck when it came drinking their wages in most regular inns. However, Charlie would take just about anything as payment – he had a very inventive fence – and didn’t mind the random noises or smells that his little green friends produced. He opened the Startling Toad with in staggering distance of the docks and the Ddu and within three years had made himself a small fortune and an interesting reputation. He had also had seventeen cases of scrofula, twenty one bouts of ringworm, five different types of parasite and a linger dose of white-powdered mildew. Charlie didn’t care, apart from when he couldn’t stand the itching, he was raking it in and having a blast to boot.
May 26, 2015
Where are the new UK lesbian authors?
Originally posted on Clare Ashton:
This article in The Guardian is doing the rounds at the moment.
The article describes how few of the entries for an LGBT debut author prize were from lesbians, for the second year running. The journalist puts forward the theory, that despite having lesbian authors who have had great success in the mainstream market (Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, Stella Duffy, Val McDermid, etc.), the UK publishing industry still doesn’t see lesbian fiction as saleable. No-one is taking a chance on new authors.
Here’s my experience to add to the anecdotal evidence.
I initially submitted my novel Pennance to UK agents. I was told explicitly by at least one that lesbian stories don’t sell, and that I should get in contact if I wrote anything else. My novel, Pennance, has a mix of heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual characters. There’s no token straight friend. There’s no token gay friend. I wrote the…
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