More video from the launch of our to new sci-fi/fantasy books Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air.
Alistair Lock reads from Peng Shepherd‘s tale of extreme workplace stress, Free Cake
and Henrietta Clemett reads from Richard Meredith‘s wonderfully weird Museum of the Future
As usual Cherry Potts couldn’t manage to video herself, so here’s a recording instead: A snippet from the title story of Mosaic of Air.
All photos © Andrew Petrie 2013
A few pictures from the launch of Mosaic of Air and Weird Lies at the planetarium at Royal Observatory Greenwich (who were absolutely LOVELY) . We had a glorious star show (hence the incredible lack of light in the reading pictures) and we had a song from Summer All Year Long, and some weird and wonderful stories.
The full gallery of photos can be found here
Big thank you to Andrew for managing to get such great pictures in next to no light.
watch this space for video – need to edit it first!
Drinks in the foyer from 6.05 (building opens at 6), readings of Science Fiction stories from both Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air from 6.45 in the Planetarium with star show.
RSVP to reserve your place, this is essential because the Observatory is in the middle of Greenwich Park, and access in the evenings is controlled and we need a guest list, and to alert you to how to get in (and more importantly out!) It’s an adventure – space suits not required, fortunately.
We will be reading:
James Smyth: Let There Be Light (read by David Mildon)
Cherry Potts: an Extract from Mosaic of Air
Andrew Lloyd-Jones ChronoCrisis3000 (read by Cliff Chapman)
Peng Shepherd Free Cake (read by Alistair Lock)
Richard Meredith The Museum of the Future (read by Henrietta Clemett)
Hope to see you there!
(Huge thanks to Marek, Rob and Ed at the Observatory for all their help setting this up, and to Sophie for the idea.)
Some photos of the readers at Sunday’s Preview event for Weird Lies at Misty Moon Gallery.
Thanks to John Gaffen of White Windmill Photography for sharing his photos with us.
Alistair Lock
copyright John Gaffen
Sophie Aldred Copyright John Gaffen
Ray Newe copyright John Gaffen
Cliff Chapman copyright John Gaffen
Cherry Potts Copyright John Gaffen
We had a spectacular evening at Misty Moon last night. Thanks to Stuart for hosting,and to all our lovely readers for making the stories shine (and for bringing a Doctor Who element to the proceedings!)and the authors for writing such brilliant material in the first place … and the audience for showing up and buying books and laughing so much.
Stuart has asked us to make it a regular date – quarterly to start off with so the next one will be Sunday 29th September, just after we publish Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air.
If, having watched the videos, you want to help Arachne Press publish Weird Lies you can contribute to the funds by preordering or by contributing to our kickstarter campaign.
Sophie Aldred reads Content Management by Derek Ivan Webster (from Weird Lies)
Alistair Lock reads Zwo by Alan Graham (from Weird Lies)
Ray Newe reads ChronoCrisis 3000 by Andrew Lloyd-Jones (from Weird Lies)
Cliff Chapman reads A Time and Place Unknown by Jason Jackson (from Lovers’ Lies)
There’s no video of Cherry Potts reading The Bone Box, from Mosaic of Air because a button didn’t get pressed on the video (that’s the sort of thing that would happen in ChronoCrisis 3000).
© Arachne Press 2013
