Rugby Cafe Writers

Here are a few news items from our meeting.

Book Sales

Get to the Point (a second edition is now available) – 143 sales at £5

Press Pause: Relax with a Poem – 75 sales at £6

A Story For Every Day of Summer – 48 sales at £5. An Ebook version, at £1.99, has now been added to our Amazon platform.

Autumn Anthology

Our next publication will be A Story For Every Day of Autumn. Fran has now proof-read the book and John is making corrections. A PDF copy will then be sent to every contributor so they can check their own stories. The aim is to publish this book in August.

Festival News

Art At The Alex. This resumes in September. Full details here.

Saturday July 8th, 10.30am to 11.30am – Second Saturday Singing at St Andrew’s Church.

Saturday August 19th – Market Harborough Craft and Book Festival. We are not exhibiting here, but members may be interested in the workshops.

Saturday Sept 23rd – Literary Festival at Harbury. We have booked a stall and will be setting up a Cafe Writers’ Bookshop. Any member is welcome to supply books for us to sell there, though only two people are permitted on the stall.

Sunday October 8th – Southam Book Festival.

Contact Phil on phil@philgregg.net if you would like to sell your books at either Harbury or Southam festivals.

Voices of Autumn

This event is taking place on Friday September 29th at St Andrew’s Church at 7.30pm and will be an opportunity for members to read out their poems and stories, or to sing an original song, and to have your books on sale. Please make a date in your diary! So far, 21 members have said they would definitely like to read out some of their work or sing a song. There is still plenty of time to add your name to the list, so please send me a message. It will be a relaxed gathering of friends with nothing to be nervous about.

Bookchat Online

Our last BookChat online was a pleasant hour. The next one should be in later July. I will send out a separate invitation for this.

Playscript

No further updates.

Publishing News

Lindsay’s new book, The Cat’s Eyes, will be published on July 28th.

Future Themes for Meetings

July 21st – Writing Challenge: Superstition (which could include St Swithin’s Day/ Weather)

August 4th – Writing Challenge: A Number

August 18th – Writing Challenge: A Colour

September 1st – Writing Challenge: Autumn

September 15th – Planning meeting for Voices of Autumn evening.

Next meeting

Friday July 21st at 10am at St Andrew’s Church, Rugby.