Heide and Iain's Writing Newsletter February 2018

Published: Fri, 02/16/18

Here's an update on Clovenhoof Books and other projects.

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FUN STUFF
If you’re on Facebook, you might have seen some of our adverts.
In July, we created an advert to promote the book, Disenchanted.
We decided that the best way to illustrate the ‘you don’t need a fairy tale wedding to be happy’ theme was to blow up a wedding cake.
We had… interesting results. Here is the advert if you want to take a look (give it a like or a comment if you’re feeling generous).
There was violence and fire and there were casualties. But we had a lot of fun. We’ve even cobbled together a Making Of video.

NEWS
Amazon are running a promo on Oddjobs at the moment, so it’s 99p.
If you’ve already started the Oddjobs series, look out for book 3 later on this year.

New Release - A Spell in the Country
Our brand new standalone comedy is currently up for pre-order.
There will be a blog tour with a very special giveaway to celebrate its launch on 23rd February. You can see the blog tour banner at the bottom of this email.
Here’s what you can expect from this book:
Dee is a Good Witch but she wonders if she could be a better witch.
She wonders if there’s more to life than Disney movie marathons, eating a whole box of chocolates for dinner and brewing up potions in her bathtub. So when she’s offered a chance to go on a personal development course in the English countryside, she packs her bags, says goodbye to the Shelter for Unloved Animals charity shop and sets a course for self-improvement.

Caroline isn’t just a Good Witch, she’s a fricking awesome witch.
She likes to find the easy path through life: what her good looks can’t get for her, a few magic charms can. But she’s bored of being a waitress and needs something different in her life. So when a one night stand offers her a place on an all-expenses-paid residential course in a big old country house, she figures she’s got nothing to lose.

Jenny is a Wicked Witch. She just wishes she wasn’t.
On her fifteenth birthday, she got her first wart, her own imp and a Celine Dion CD. She still has the imp. She also has a barely controllable urge to eat human children which is socially awkward to say the least and not made any easier when a teenager on the run turns to her for help. With gangsters and bent cops on their trail, Jenny needs to find a place outside the city where they can lay low for a while.

For very different reasons, three very different witches end up on the same training course and land in a whole lot of trouble when they discover that there’s a reason why their free country break sounds too good to be true. Foul-mouthed imps, wererats, naked gardeners, tree monsters, ghosts and stampeding donkeys abound in a tale about discovering your inner witch.

Other releases for 2018

Two new Clovenhoof books
Another standalone novel called Snowflake
Oddjobs 3

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Leeds Meetup
3rd March 2018
This is an event for readers and writers, hosted by TBC, a Facebook readers’ group. Get in touch if you want to know more

Birmingham Meetup
12th May 2018
This is an event for readers and writers, hosted by TBC, a Facebook readers’ group. Get in touch if you want to know more

Plot and Story Structure
19th May 2018 10am-4pm
The Quad
Derby
Heide and Iain will be running this course.
Note that the listing is not yet live for this course, keep an eye on the above link

Plot and Story Structure
16th June 2018 10am-4pm
Birmingham & Midland Institute
Margaret Street
Birmingham
Heide and Iain will be running this course.

National Writers’ Conference
30th June 2018
University of Birmingham
Heide will be on a panel about self publishing.
Booking is not yet open for this, keep an eye on the above link

Edge-Lit
14th July 2018 10am - late
A fun, one day genre convention.

Fantasycon
19th - 21st October 2018
The Queen
Chester

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Many thanks for reading

Heide and Iain
heide.goody@gmail.com
iainmarcgrant@hotmail.com