A festive evening of stories from Weird Lies at Lewisham Library: icemaidens, time travellers, dream lovers and … cult murder. Like I said, festive!
Cliff Chapman reads from Richard Smyth‘s Heriot.
Malini Stevenson reads from C T Kingston‘s The Icicle
Rhik Samadder reads from Maria Kyle‘s Candyfloss
Everybody reads from Jonathan Pinnock‘s The Last Words of Emmanuel Prettyjohn
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Science fiction, fantasy and strange stories from Weird Lies at
Lewisham Library 199-201 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG
Thursday 5th December, 8-9.30.
Readings of
The Icicle by CT Kingston read by Malini Stevenson – fairy tale of an icemaiden
Candyfloss by Maria Kyle read by Rhik Samadder – nightmare of a dreamfriend
Heriot by Richard Smyth read by Cliff Chapman – mental institution inmate may be more than he seems
and
Jonathan Pinnock‘s spoof documentary The Last Words of Emmanuel Prettyjohn read by as many people as we can persuade to join in and get rehearsed.
It’s always nice to know your marketing works – how do we know? People buy things!
We’ve just had our third pre-order for Weird Lies and first for Mosaic of Air. Yes, it’s modest, but its a start.
So to get the message really clear: YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT! You can preorder our September books NOW (at a reduced price) and you will receive them ahead of publication as soon as we have them, at the same time as the reviewers. (And if you know anyone who might review for us, please tell us.)
Of course, the absolute best marketing is word of mouth, so please tell your friends, family, colleagues, your bookshop, your library, your reading group, the person sitting next to you on the bus…
Something else we’d like you to tell them is that there are only 28 hours left to back our Kickstarter campaign. I know, I keep on about it, but if we don’t get all the money we don’t get any, so a big thank you to Steven in the USA who is our star backer so far (most recent and most generous), and who has also just ordered a copy of each of the existing books and preordered both September titles: we don’t know who you are, but we like you! (Thank you also to Rebecca, Wendy, Heath, Clare, Doris, Kenneth, David, Stephen, Carrie, Gloria, Edel and Lyn, whose generous pledges mean an enormous amount to us.)
There are still some great rewards left, including a copy of Weird Lies Author Joshan Esfandiari Martin‘s short Film Test Driving on DVD or BlueRay, or a guided walk around the City of London for up to 12 people with award-winning blue badge guide, (and Arachne Author) David Mildon, or a HANDWRITTEN unique, one-off episode of ‘Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens’ from Weird Lies Author Jonathan Pinnock, featuring YOU (or a nominated other if you are thinking of it for a gift) as a named character. A guaranteed collectors item of the future. (If it wouldn’t mean giving money to myself I’d have that one… Ooh! if anyone is stuck for a birthday present for me…).
Obviously, not everyone is in the position to be promising us money, so if you feel passionately about what we are trying to do here at Arachne Press and want to help, check out our support us page, there are lots of things that will help us, including pre-ordering Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air. And don’t forget, you technical whizzes you can now get our books on Kindle and ePub devices from your prefered retailers.
