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for new fiction writers.
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Exciting happenings at Creative Authors HQ. Here are some of our recent projects, and some of those yet to come in 2010.
Jelly with Bompas & Parr out now!
Wibble wobble jelly on a plate. JELLY WITH BOMPAS AND PARR is out now, published by Pavilion (Anova). It's already received some great reviews.
"Giving Heston Blumenthal a run for his money" - INDEPENDENT
"If you're going to do silly, do it in style" - THE TIMES
Bompas and Parr's website
Sex, Drugs and Bigamy
Clare Gee’s fictionalised memoir, HOOKED,
has been
published by Mainstream Publishing. The book is set in London
during the 90s and
early 2000s and is filled with explicit depictions of the naughty
antics that go on in so-called private members’ clubs in the Capital:
drugs, sex, prostitution and lots and lots of booze and let’s not
forget the very real aftermath of excessive indulgence.
Nothing is held back. HOOKED
is a brutal and graphic account of what it
really is like being a prostitute and the emotional collapse that can
ensue when someone chases happiness in all the wrong places.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
As seen on This Morning (ITV).
Out now (Mainstream Publishing).
Help for achy joints
Dr Keith Souter's first book for Sheldon Press is out now. SELF-HELP FOR RHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS is a much needed book and we are positive this will help the millions of suffers out there. Keith is a prolifically published writer both in non-fiction and fiction and we are glad to have him as part of the Creative Authors list.
More information about this book from the publisher here.
Out now (Sheldon)
Beautiful
Fairies
With imagination and flair, Fiona McDonald shows you how to knit a
fantastic range of fairy folk in a range of sizes. Using a basic body
pattern, she clothes the winged creatures in many different ways,
creating fun figures for every fairy occasion.KNITTED FAIRIES will be published in May 2011 by Search Press.
Take
us to your leader...
Aliens have landed and have made contact at last! Twenty lifeforms from
distant planets have come to Earth to make new friends and learn about
humans, and this book shows you how to knit twenty of these friendly
creatures.These are close encounters of the knitted kind. Fiona McDonald's instructions make knitting twenty adorable aliens easy and fun, so blast off and have an adventure with these charming characters.
Twenty designs and twenty alternatives. A perfect gift.
You can see how one craft blogger got inspired by this book here.
The next David Bailey?
Kim Gilmour's DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE OLDER AND WISER is out now. Readers will learn how to use and take professional snaps using digital technology. There will also be special attention given to uploading photographs onto social network sites as well. A perfect book for your parents or grandparents.
Out now (John Wiley).
Putting the punk into fiction
PUNK FICTION is edited by Janine Bullman and has a foreword from legendary guitarist Johnny Marr. The book has been published by Portico and is a tie-in with Teenage Cancer Trust. PUNK FICTION is an anthology of short stories inspired by Punk. The idea came from Janine Bullman, a music PR at dynamic and newly established Notorious PR (www.notoriouspr.com), whose list of clients include Johnny Marr, Bloc Party and The Rakes to name a few. Janine has edited and contributed a story to the anthology.
Contributors, mainly writers and musicians, have been hand-picked from the generations following the Punk revolution; those who were positively influenced by the movement rather than those who played an active part in making it happen.
Their instructions were simple - pick a song that inspires you and write. There are over 30 stories in the anthology and will feature stories by:
Kele Okereke, John Niven, Paul Smith (Maximo Park), David Gaffney, Max Decharne, Kate Jackson (The Long Blondes), Billy Childish, Salena Godden, Laura Oldfield Ford, Joe Stretch, Krissi Murisson (NME ), Stewart Home, Kate Pullinger, Peter Wild, Nicholas Hogg, Joolz Denby, Lydia Lunch, Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Ed Larrikin (Larrikin Love / The Pan I Am), Devonte Hynes (Lightspeed Champion), Laura Barton (Guardian) and a foreword by the legendary Johnny Marr.
Teenage Cancer Trust will receive £1 from every copy sold. The book 's publication coincided with Teenage Cancer Trust’s charity concerts at The Royal Albert Hall in April 2009.
"The standard is, at times, superlative – Janine Bullman ...write[s] with gut-churning incision and emotional rawness." Pat Gilbert, MOJO
That’s all from me at present. Check back soon for more news about our up-coming projects. Remember keep it creative.
Isabel
(Isabel Atherton, Director of Creative Authors Ltd)