Amazon - Paperback Available

Hooray! Finally, A Roof Over Their Heads is available in paperback through Amazon! It's taken months, but we've made it! Here's the .co.uk link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1291002685/ref=cm_sw_em_r_am_ip_am_gb?ie=UTF8

And .com

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1291002685/ref=cm_sw_em_r_am_ip_am_gb?ie=UTF8

Perfect timing for a great Christmas present!

We're Famous Now!

The Sheppey Writing Workshop found itself in the local newspaper (The Sheerness Times Guardian) this week.

There we all are! This photo shoot was a lot of fun, even if I was holding the book back to front for half of it! Thankfully I realised and, rather red-faced, managed to get it the right way round (you'd never know I'd made an error from the photo though!).

If you'd like to hold your own copy of this fascinating book about the Isle of Sheppey (although the stories are universal tales of smugglers, con artists, masked balls and struggles during war time), please click on this link: http://www.lulu.com/shop/lisamarie-lamb-and-geof-reed/a-roof-over-their-heads/paperback/product-20348882.html

And if you have an eReader, the eBook is available on Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/218801 

If you do purchase it, please let us know what you thought by leaving a review - we'd love to hear from you!

We're Stocked!

The Sheppey Writing Workshop is pleased to announce that our book, A Roof Over Their Heads, is now available to buy from the Blue Town Heritage Centre!

The centre can be found at 69 High Street, Blue Town, Sheerness, ME12 1RW, and can be contacted on 01795 662981.

It's well worth a visit (and not just to buy our book!), as it's a fascinating place to find out more about the Isle of Sheppey, its history, and upcoming plans for its future.

The Launch!

On Friday 21st September, we officially launched our beloved project as a paperback book - A Roof Over Their Heads!

As part of the Promenade 2012 events, the Sheppey Writing Workshop were invited to give a reading in front of Mayor of Swale Pat Sandle, MP Gordon Henderson, and an audience who were offered traditional cream teas for elevenses!

To start, Geof Reed, the man who organised the Roof Over Their Heads project, as well as Jo Eden, one of our writers, entertained us with a rousing rendition of the beautiful Summertime from Porgy and Bess. If you would like to hear Jo sing (and it's certainly worth it), she will, I'm sure, be engaged in events all over the island in the coming months.

We have sold out of our first run of books, but don't worry, we're taking orders for more! If you would like to buy a copy, you can do so through Lulu http://www.lulu.com/shop/lisamarie-lamb-and-geof-reed/a-roof-over-their-heads/paperback/product-20348882.html;jsessionid=4AAFDC370536D709B4F9C28E7A520936

It will soon be available through Amazon as well.

Alternatively, you can contact me (lisamarie20010@gmail.com) to order a copy (you never know, we may even sign it for you!).

We hope to be stocking the book in local shops soon, and we will be updating this page as exciting new things happen!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved for making this project come to life. Here's to the next one!

A Roof Over Their Heads - Available as an eBook!

If you like to read your books electronically, A Roof Over Their Heads is now available for all eReaders including Kindle, Nook, and in pdf so you can read it on your phone or computer! How exciting is that?

To download from Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roof-Over-Their-Heads-ebook/dp/B0091JN2YW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1345796055&sr=8-13

To download from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Roof-Over-Their-Heads-ebook/dp/B0091JN2YW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1345796055&sr=8-13

To download from Smashwords (all formats): https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/218801

The paperback will be available from Amazon soon, but can currently be bought through Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/shop/lisamarie-lamb-and-geof-reed/a-roof-over-their-heads/paperback/product-20348882.html

We Have A Book!

After months of hard work, meetings, research, more meetings, and of course writing, the Sheppey Writing Workshop has produced the paperback version of A Roof Over Their Heads.

We think this is a great achievement! What better feeling than to have created something that started from nothing but an idea and a group of like-minded people? To see a project through from initial conception to finally being able to hold a physical copy of the book in our hands?

And now, because we're so proud of it, we want everyone else to see our hard work and be able to hold a copy of the book (or download the eBook, if that's your preference!)...

The book will soon be available to buy from Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions, and Smashwords in other eBook formats (Nook, pdf, Epub, LTF, PDB, RTF, and HTML). As soon as the process is complete, we will put links here to where it is being sold.

In September, we will be taking part in the Sheppey Promenade event, and will be selling and signing copies of the book in Blue Town, at the Heritage Centre. More on that to come in a future blog post!

Next step: we'll be contacting local shops and libraries, museums and places of interest, to ask them if they would like to stock A Roof Over Their Heads.

Blue Town Heritage Centre - Have You Been?

It's been a while since we posted any news, but a lot has been happening recently, and the A Roof Over Their Heads project is nearing completion. The stories have been edited, checked and, as I type, are about to be double-checked. The cover is coming together and taking shape. The eBook is being formatted.

Exciting stuff!

And even more exciting is our launch for the book. The Blue Town Heritage Centre in Sheerness is providing the Isle of Sheppey with entertainment this September, in the form of the Promenade 2012. In conjunction with the Sheppey Little Theatre, the What the Dickens? themed festival will be open to everyone, and will share the history, nature, and people of this fascinating island in Kent. There will be talks, open houses, film screenings and much, much more, including us! Yes, the A Roof Over Their Heads writing group will be launching our special and Sheppey themed book during this event.

We will be available for readings, questions, and book signings, and you can walk away with a first edition copy of the finished product. It's a unique collection of stories, and you should be able to recognise many of the streets and places and buildings mentioned within it. Maybe even some of the characters, as some of them can be found in past census listings and so actually existed!

The Blue Town Heritage Centre is a stunning example of what people can achieve when they have love for a place. A TARDIS of a building, I certainly did not expect to find a cinema, music hall, cafe, and museum inside when I first visited.

Did you know all that existed in Blue Town?

The cinema can hold up to one hundred people, and shows recent films on the first Friday of every month - and the prices are great. Where else can you pay £5 to see a film, and get tea and cake at the same time? In July, they are showing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which is well worth seeing. Not only this, but the cinema can be hired privately - contact Jenny for information (01795 662981).

The Blue Town Heritage Centre also hosts other events. They are currently running a model exhibition. Our very own Geof Reed is starring in a play bout Hogarth's drunken trip around Sheppey. There's a Laurel and Hardy film evening coming up in July, and it's only £1!

The centre is easy to find in Blue Town, and there is plenty of easy, free parking. So why not do yourself a favour, and pop in for a visit? There's so much going on, you're bound to find something that you're interested in.