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Inspirations – claustrophobia in the closet
To celebrate HM the Queen’s royal assent on Gay Marriage, some thoughts about what it used to be like when I was first coming out in 1982… when I wrote Trying to Tell You… A story about coming out,...
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bright shiny new book
Mosaic of Air by Cherry Potts (cover Melina Traub) So I’ve been working through the first box of books sending them out to reviewers. And I’ve been so busy organising things I didn’t get round to...
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Inspirations – The Archetypal Good Wife
The first story I ever got published, Penelope is no Longer Waiting ( A Very, Very long time ago) came from my finally reading Homer (not in the original Greek, comprehensive schooling isn’t that kind...
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Inspirations – Dancing in the Darkroom
Getting a book ready for publication (Typesetting, proofreading) even second time round and twenty years later, does send me back to the roots of the stories, and with so many of the stories in Mosaic...
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Inspirations – Russian Fairytales, illustrations and London Bridge
Two stories came from the same picture, which I have been completely unable to trace. I think it is from an edition of The Snow Queen, and the illustrator might have been Kay Neilsen or Edmund Dulac or...
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New Review of Mosaic of Air
An absolutely lovely review from Sabotage! High points ‘Mosaic of Air’ is an interesting parable featuring a proto-post-feminist lead, a computer programmer whose programme becomes sentient which...
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LGBT History month: reading at North Kensington Library – video
This week I did two readings from Mosaic of Air for LGBT History Month, the first at North Kensington Library. (note about the videos: my website randomly allocates different formats to video, not all...
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LGBT History Month: Crofton Park Eco-Community Library
This is about as local as you can get for me, the library is a twelve-minute walk from my house, so I was very pleased to be invited to read. A small audience but a generous one, they bought more books...
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LGBT History month – LoSoCo
LoSoCo is what I’ve always known as Lewisham College. I did a reading there on Thursday for LGBT History Month. Here are a couple of snippets. (Apologies for the background noise – it’s the...
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LGBT History Month reading at Richmond Library
It’s taken me a while to get round to posting this, as there’s been other things on my mind. https://cherrypottswriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/richmond-lgbthm-cp.mp3 Here I am reading at Richmond...
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