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Book sales. Our experience of what makes them happen.
So, when you sell a book, you want to make sales, right? How do you approach that? Do you start with the people you can reach out to immediately and ask them to help you spread the word? Do you try and create a buzz in the local area? Do you try to establish yourselves…
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Loughborough Literary Salon
Last Friday, Heide and I were invited to speak about our experiences of collaborative writing and publishing at Loughborough University. Frankly, I think we were only invited along because the guy from Angry Robot couldn’t make it. We approached it with the utmost honesty about the smallness of our operation. In fact, Heide kicked me…
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Collaborative writer in solo book shocker (pt 2)
From the Pigeon Park Press website: “Million Dollar Dress, by Heide Goody, currently available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk In this modern-day Cinderella story, cutting edge technology gives Justine the body of a supermodel at the flick of a switch. She uses her new-found confidence and sex appeal to snare her ideal man. But…
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Collaborative writer in solo book shocker (pt 1)
From the Pigeon Park Press website: “A Gateway Made Of Bone by Iain Grant, available now from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk The Seelie Court controls an empire of a thousand suns, each world linked to the next by the black oneirium gateways of the Sacred Guild of Gatemakers. While the empire plunders the conquered worlds…
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All Hallow’s Read event – Great Success
The inaugural Pigeon Park Press spoken word evening was a wonderful successful. The audience for the All Hallow’s Read event filled the performance space at the lovely 6/8 Kafe in Birmingham. Katharine d’Souza The two hour event featured stories and poetry from the likes of Katharine d’Souza (author of Park Life), Mark Faulkner (author of…
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Testing the water – how do you know you’ve found the right collaborator?
What do you do if you and a potential collaborator have found each other, but you’re not sure if you are ready to commit to working together? You write some test pieces. This might sound like a lot of hassle if you want to dive in and create the finished article, but if you imagine…
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All Hallow’s Read event to celebrate Clovenhoof giveaway
Our All Hallow’s Read spoken word event has received a lot of recent attention and we’re looking forward to an amazing evening of spooky stories and creepy poems (see earlier posts). The event is to mark the launch of the Satan’s Shorts story collections which are FREE stories featuring the much-loved characters from our latest…
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Authors sign up for All Hallow’s Read event
Pigeon Park Press is taking details from storytellers, writers and poet interested in reading at our special Halloween event (see recent posts). If you wish to get involved, e-mail us at events@pigeonparkpress.com. The All Hallow’s Read event is free and open to all. Come along on the night or friend Pigeon Park Press on Facebook…
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All Hallow’s Read – Spoken Word Event
To celebrate the Kindle publication of “Satan’s Shorts” the new set of FREE Clovenhoof stories, Pigeon Park Press has organised an open mic evening of fiction and poetry on 31st October 2012. All Hallow’s Read will take place in the suitably spooky basement (dungeon?) of the wonderful 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham from 6pm-8pm.…