Despite Arachne keeping our authors hard at work with events to promote our books, they do have a (writing) life outside Arachne.  Because Arachne was set up to support authors as well as produce books which we hope the reading public will fall in love with, we are very interested in what our authors are doing outside of their Arachne stuff.

so: in no particular order…

Wendy Gill is having her musical That Man performed by  Player-Playwrights  for one night only on Monday 25th February at 7.30pm, at the Florence Tavern, 50 Florence Street, Islington, London, N12DU.The play will be read/performed and then there will be a discussion/critique.

Joan Taylor-Rowan‘s musical Kandy Kottage is being showcased in a performance for one night only 14th March at the Landor Theatre as part of a festival of new theatre, from Page to Stage. She is looking for funding to build a set etc so if you have a few pennies down the back of the sofa she’d love to take them away from you http://wefund.com/project/kandy-kottage-a-bitter-sweet-musical/p56543/

Andrew Blackman‘s second novel A Virtual Love, is being published by Legend Press on 1 April 2013

Richard Smyth has a new book out Bloody British History: Leeds (The History Press – February 1), and the title story in the new Fiction Desk anthology Crying Just Like Anybody.

Ellie Stewart‘s story The Ghosties has just won first prize in the Writers Village Competition

On Saturdays Bobbie Darbyshire is often to be stumbled across in Waterstones introducing book browsers to her two novels Truth Games and Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones. And watch out for her talk in the 2013 Streatham Festival, 11-14 July.

Michelle Shine’s short story,  Blind Faith, was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Short Story competition last year. The winners anthology will be called The Book of Euclid and is out soonish.  She also has an historical novel about to be published by Indigo Dreams Publishing, Mesmerised, set in Paris in 1863