My first editorial decision as Fiction Round Up work experience boy … to ditch the Roman Numerals! Swiftly moving on from any controversy and onto the readable delights on offer this week: “The Resurrection Men” by Icy Sedjwick Midnight mist swirled around my ankles. I stumbled, my foot caught under a tree root. At least, [...]
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It was bound to happen… the seperate books for this “mated anthology”, with the same characters but often with wildly different turns of fate would evolve into tiny universes of their own. This was how the Yiniverse (The Yin Book) and the Yangiverse (The Yang Book) came to be named. It was also a way [...]
From the marketing/publishing side of the tracks, what has been the biggest surprise, both from the ‘most challenging’ aspect and the ‘most rewarding’ standpoint? The most challenging thing has been trying to get hardcopy paperbacks sorted out. We’re a small start-up, without sufficient capital to order in advance, so we needed to find a print [...]
What was the closest you came to giving up on CW? What day is it today? Really? Well in that case, it was yesterday… I’ll admit there have been a number of times since the start of The Red Book when I’ve considered calling it a day. When writers dropped out, when depression got too [...]
One of our very own authors, Richard Jay Parker, has been nominated for an Author Blog Award. Let’s see if we can provide a late surge and push him across the finish line in first place – Vote for Richard!
What was the closest you came to giving up on CW? For me, despite all the ups and downs in 2009, and moments of sheer hard work and seemingly impassable blocks… the closest I came to giving up on Chinese Whisperings was in 2008 when we used the idea for a conceptual, collaborative anthology as [...]
Chinese Whisperings invites you to kick back with your favourite beverage and Take Five with Icy Sedgwick.
The Red Book, Audio Trailer
