The Green Room is a twice-monthly Zoom session with me and a bunch of wonderful writers where you can ask me questions about the craft of writing, your WIP, or the business of publishing. Step backstage and let’s figure out practical solutions to your writing problems!
It’s all run through my Ko-Fi page and costs just £20 a month.
My special guest on the podcast this month is LJ Shepherd, author of the stunning debut novel The Trials of Lila Dalton. We discuss first lines and …
Episode 2 with LJ Shepherd
11th-13th October at The Queen at Chester Hotel, City Road, Chester.
I’ll be attending FantasyCon this year and they’ve asked me to do a few panels. Here’s my schedule…
FRIDAY 11th, 9pm: I’ll be reading something horrific (as in from the horror… unless you really want to hear my first drafts?) in the Gladstone Room.
SATURDAY 12th, 9am: MUPPETS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER in the Prince Albert room.
SATURDAY 12th, 3pm: RESPECT AND KINDNESS IN WRITING in the Collonades.
SUNDAY 13th, 10am: BUILDING AN AUTHOR BRAND in the Palazzo
SUNDAY 13TH, Noon: SO YOU’VE FOUND YOURSELF IN A WORLD RULED BY DRAGONS? A SURVIVAL GUIDE in the Edwards Room.
SUNDAY 13th, 1pm: I’ll be reading something fantastical in the Gladstone Room.
Are you looking forward to the Muppets one as much as I am? It’s going to be a fun weekend and I hope to see you there. You can get tickets for the festival here.
Join me live with author LJ SHEPHERD on Friday 20th September.
Join me live with author LJ SHEPHERD on Friday 20th September
LJ Shepherd is author of the stunning debut novel THE TRIALS OF LILA DALTON, which has…
I’ll be at the MCM Comic Con in London for all three days, selling and signing my books and maybe even popping up on a panel. More details to follow!
I had an absolute blast chatting with the two Christophers on the Writing Community Chat Show last night! We covered all kinds of stuff about writing, publishing, which fictional character I’d like to slip into the Witches of Woodville series and, indeed, why Mr Tickle needs to go on a course. Urgently. You can watch the replay here…
If you want to support the two Christophers, then pop over to Substack (where I think you can get a 7-day free trial, so what’s stopping you??).
Tonight is the first Green Room session for writers and it’s not too late to get involved.
I’ve already had great questions on editing a first draft, finding agents, writing for TV, collating research, writing series summaries and more! Even if you don’t have a question, do please come along as something might occur to you in the moment and those can be the best questions of all.
All you need to do is pop over here and become a Green Room member for £20 a month.
Twice a month, I’ll be running a 30-minute live session on Zoom where you can ask me questions about the craft of writing, your WIP, or the business of publishing. The sessions will be fun and informal and chatty. You can send me questions in advance. They’ll be recorded live and saved on Kofi for exclusive access to Green Room supporters.
There’s no long term commitment. With Kofi, you can support for just a month, or for as long as you like. Pop in, pop out: whatever works for you. My goal is to be able to give supporters advice that will make a real difference to their writing and career, because the way I see it: having worked in this industry as a salesperson, bookseller and author for over 30 years, I’ve made every mistake, so you don’t have to.
It’s always a delight to be asked to guest on the Authorized Podcast, but this was a particular joy as we discussed the film Alien Romulus, and my fellow guest was writing chum Gavin G Smith who took umbrage to a line of description in one of my books. As well as discussing the many pros and cons of the film, we also, somehow, got on to the subject of Newtonian Custard. It’s… it’s simpler if you just have a listen…
Last night saw the launch of the first episode of MARK STAY’S CREATIVE DIFFERENCES: a monthly livestream where I talk to writer friends about those little things that make a big difference to their craft and careers in the hope that we can give readers some insight to the creative process, and writers and creative folk practical advice that they can actually use!
You can join me and my guests live and ask questions and get in on the conversation. Or you can listen back to the audio podcast. Here’s the first episode with my special guest SC Gowland, curator of The Law of Consequences, a brilliant fantasy short story anthology. Other topics include the big mistakes we’ve made, happy accidents and Japanese all girl punk bands. Yes, really…
Please subscribe here or on Youtube for details of the next episode, or find me on your preferred podcast provider…
Are you a writer looking for help and advice? Come and join me in the Green Room.
Here’s a clip from the first episode of the Creative Differences podcast where I explain what the Green Room is and how you can get involved…
Twice a month, I’ll be running a 30-minute live session on Zoom where you can ask me questions about the craft of writing, your WIP, or the business of publishing. The sessions will be fun and informal and chatty. You can send me questions in advance. They’ll be recorded live and saved on Kofi for exclusive access to Green Room supporters.
I’m running this via Kofi, where you can join by clicking on the Green Room membership tier for £20 a month…
There’s no long term commitment. With Kofi, you can support for just a month, or for as long as you like. Pop in, pop out: whatever works for you. My goal is to be able to give supporters advice that will make a real difference to their writing and career, because the way I see it: having worked in this industry as a salesperson, bookseller and author for over 30 years, I’ve made every mistake, so you don’t have to.
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