Hi all, I apologise for my absence, it's been a busy summer and I have some family priorites at the moment. However for those in London check out the pasted email below it's be great to meet anyone who can make it.

Cheers

Julie
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Pulp Net Down the Angel readings
Thu 29 September, 8.30pm, £5/£3

Your presence is requested at a reading this Thursday of prizewinning short stories
about the Angel in one of Islington’s most historic pubs, The Camden Head. Readers are
Charlie Mayor, overall winner of the Pulp Net Down the Angel short story competition,
along with shortlistees Andrew Lloyd Jones, Julie Balloo, and Mark Piggott, and
novelist Joe Ambrose. Music, real ale and all the usual palliatives will be on offer
(sadly the bar is at regular prices), and the evening's MC is comic poet Nathan
Penlington of Shortfuse.

Venue: Shortfuse, upstairs at The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Camden Passage,
Islington, London N1. Angel tube, buses 73, 38, 30, 43 etc. Bookings: email name and
number of tickets wanted, and phone number to: tickets@shortfuse.co.uk
Authors reading on the night may bring a guest free and reserve up to 4 reduced cost
tickets for friends.

Pulp Net extends its thanks to Down the Angel competition sponsor The Cripplegate
Foundation and
partner organisations Islington Council, First Steps and The Islington Museum.

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Whoops, I mean it'd be great.

Sounds great, Julie. Do let us know how it goes.

Elspeth (wish I lived in London sometimes...)

Hi Els,

Will do, the wretched thing is 9 pages long so hopefully no one will doze off. Quite nervous now, but I'm going to drive down so I'm not tempted to get plastered. Wouldn't mind living in Paris to be honest.

J
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Good luck Julie and well done on bbeing shortlisted.

I don't know London, Paris, you should both think yourselves lucky.

Shay (depressed in Wigan)


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Depressed and now I've developed a stutter!

Sounds fab, best of luck, hope it all goes well. Do report back to us.

Thanks Anna, it went well, though quite a low attendence, which wasn't helped by one of the readers bringing a dozen people who left immediately after he'd been on. My story was the only one in First Person, so I did it in character which was fun. The book will be launched in November and they may do another evening.

Julie
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If that 'gentleman' appears in another of these events I would make sure that he is on last of all. Damned rude of him and his entourage. I don't think it would come amiss for the organiser(s) to drop him a line - preferably one made of barbed wire.

Len

Oh Len, thanks, as it happened he apologised for his friends and stayed to the end.

J