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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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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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Clovenhoof Launch Party
On 8 September, Pigeon Park Press held a party for the launch of Heide Goody and Iain Grant’s comic novel, Clovenhoof. The launch was a celebration of the hard work and effort that went into this unique collaborative novel. Clovenhoof, in which Satan loses his job as Lord of Hell and is relocated to suburban…
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Clovenhoof – book launch party info
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Iain Grant Have some sympathy for the devil… Charged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia. Forced to live as human under the name of Jeremy Clovenhoof, the dark lord not only…
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Pigeon Park Press to publish ‘Clovenhoof’
We are very pleased to announce we will be publishing Heide and Iain’s Satan-in-suburbia comic fantasy, Clovenhoof, in September 2012. We will be posting details and images as they become available. We will be launching their first collaborative novel at this year’s Birmingham Artfest. Heide and Iain will (hopefully) be doing some workshops and readings at the…
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Editors v Beta-Readers
SCENE: Flat 2a, four-hundred-and-something Chester Road, Sutton Coldfield. Ben Kitchen sits at the table, painting war-gaming miniatures (Seleucid soldiers from Antiochus’s Indian campaign if you must know) and trying to ignore Nerys Thomas who has come downstairs to get Ben’s opinion on her latest lingerie purchases. In walks Jeremy Clovenhoof (Satan) clutching a lulu.com package…
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Clovenhoof v Draculas
Heide and I have been working on our collaborative novel since last autumn and we’re mere weeks away from finishing a healthy-looking draft of the entire thing. We’ve tackled the collaborative aspect of writing in our own way, simply doing what we felt was right and it’s been interesting to see how other people have…
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Gutterscum’s Performance Management Review
When Heide and I sat down some months ago to bandy ideas about for a comic novel partially set in Hell, we both latched onto the idea of Hell being run like the very worst of bureaucracies. It’s not a new idea but we liked it. We wanted it to be an awful bureaucracy not…
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Vote for your favourite book title
As of this week, our collaborative ‘Clovenhoof’ novel is half completed and we still don’t have a proper name for it. But not for much longer! We’d like YOU to pick the title of our novel. We’ve been given a plethora of possible titles by people who’ve read sample chapters of the novel and we’d…
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Judging a book by its cover: The title
Names are important. They shouldn’t be but they are. In their brilliant book, Freakonomics, US authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner compile top ten lists of children’s names that are most likely to indicate low income backgrounds and low academic achievement. For example, the top five boy’s names that indicate low income and…