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Fairy Tales relating to Spring
Spring time in fairy tales What do fairy tales have to say about spring time? Quite a lot, it seems. To celebrate the equinox, let’s take a look. DIY The familiar zeal for carrying out maintenance tasks on the home during spring time is seen in the fairy tale The Wayward Castle where a servant…
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Fairy Tale traditions associated with Pancake Day
Pancake day and fairy tales. Pancakes are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday (or indeed any Tuesday). In medieval times, the pancake was seen as terribly indulgent. Eating pancakes was a way of letting your hair down and celebrating the end of week. We should point out that, before the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582,…
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Book page markers – make some today!
Why book page markers? An upcoming event where we will have a book stall made us think about a small craft activity that we might offer. It needed to be book related, family-friendly and cheap to do. We decided that we would take along materials to make these book marks. They are the ones that…
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Giveaway for Oddjobs
If you’d like to win a paperback copy of the new comedy book, Oddjobs, then check out the giveaway at Goodreads: Goodreads Book Giveaway Oddjobs by Heide Goody Giveaway ends August 12, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway “Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world and someone has to make…
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A fun quiz to celebrate a new book
We’re very pleased to announce that the latest book from Clovenhoof authors, Heide Goody and Iain Grant, is available for pre-order from Amazon: It’s the end of the world as we know it, but someone still needs to do the paperwork. Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world but that’s no excuse…
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Five habits of successful writing partners
Iain and Heide have been writing collaboratively for nearly 5 years now and they’ve learned a thing or two about how to play nicely together . Don’t sweat the small stuff If you’re super-prepared collaborators, you will have worked out some ground rules about how the collaboration will work. If you’re really canny, you will have…
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Birmingham Readers Map
Birmingham Readers Map Local authors Heide Goody and Iain Grant Birmingham Readers Map Local authors, telling stories about places that matter to you Have you ever wondered whether there are books featuring places in your local area? Birmingham Readers Map is a google map that shows you where stories are set, in and around Birmingham.…
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Goodreads giveaway – win a paperback copy of the new Clovenhoof novel, Beelzebelle
The new Clovenhoof novel will be out in mid-April. If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning a paperback copy, then you can enter the Goodreads Giveaway: Goodreads Book Giveaway Beelzebelle by Heide Goody and Iain Grant Giveaway ends April 16, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
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A Hard Day’s Write
Join Heide Goody and Iain Grant… in a vintage phone box! They have recently been made writers in residence of this spectacular venue, so they are inviting you to join them in a writing marathon. It will coincide with the launch of their latest novel Godsquad which continues their bestselling comic fantasy series. A Hard…
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My Writing Process – Blog Tour
Thanks to Jacqui Rowe, who nominated us, we’re taking part in the “My Writing Process” blog tour. You can see Jacqui’s blog at http://brummagemscrewdriver.com/2014/04/ The idea is that we answer 4 questions about our writing process: 1) What are we working on? We are currently writing books 3 and 4 in the comic fantasy world…