I was delighted to gatecrash Ian W Sainsbury’s Friday night chat last week. We discussed Alpha/Beta Readers, book covers, Facebook Groups, the joy of editors, the wonders of notebooks, Ursula Le Guin and why whenever Ian hears my voice he thinks of dog...
How long did The Crow Folk take to develop? A lot longer than you might think. In this second part of the highlights of the Bestseller Experiment podcast, I talk about false starts, rewrites, junking old versions, nearly self-publishing, and how some notes from my...
We are delighted to announce that the following were the lucky names drawn for the Signed Crow Folk and Chocolate Ration Giveaway: Jason Obee Jenise Lucia Chaplin Saevar Halldorsson Tommy Ekholm All the winners have been informed. You can find the terms and conditions...
I can’t being to tell you how much I love the audiobook of The Crow Folk as read by the wonderful Candida Gubbins. Here’s an exclusive clip…The audiobook is available from all the usual audiobook retailers and libraries. TRANSCRIPT: Hello. I’m out for a walk in some...
Giveaway time! For your chance to to win one of five signed/dedicated copies of The Crow Folk and a special bar of chocolate simply sign up to the my newsletter here at the Woodville Village Library… https://witchesofwoodville.com/#library Ends 5pm GMT,...
A huge thank you to everyone who came to last night’s online launch for The Crow Folk! I think a splendid time was had by all. If you missed out, or want to relive the giddy joy of it all over again, it’s here in its entirely for your viewing pleasure… Thanks also to...
We had a special episode of the Bestseller Experiment this week and Mark Desvaux asked me a bunch of listener questions about The Crow Folk. I’ve broken them up into short videos, and in this first episode I talk about how the idea developed from a contemporary TV...
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the launch of local author Mr Mark Stay’s new novel The Crow Folk. The launch will be happening online on Facebook and Youtube on Thursday 4th February, 7-8pm GMT (11-noon PST, 12-1pm MST, 2-3pm EST, 6am next AEDT, 5am next...
We did one of those author unboxing videos… We might have got a bit carried away. Camera, sound and edit: Kai Newton Production Assistant: Emily Stay Pumpkinhead: George Stay Music: Dom Currie Kai is keeping a video diary and you can see behind the scenes here…...
Artist and illustrator Harry Goldhawk tells me how a book cover goes from a few words on a brief, through different rough concepts, to a final finished book cover. You can pre-order The Crow Folk and get a free art print signed by myself and Harry here. You can buy...
