Book an event for reluctant readers this Autumn / Winter - Uncle Zeedie by Colm Field
Perfect for the colder months, The Blood Texts by Colm Field are an excellent YA anthology horror series for readers who have fallen out of love with reading. Colm’s energising and approachable workshops and assemblies are perfect for getting your reluctant readers not only turning the pages, but maybe even picking up a pen.
The assemblies are packed to the brim with audience participation; questions and opinions both invited and welcomed throughout. The workshops incorporate group activity throughout, in which the participants develop their own basic outlines for a horror story.
About the Author
Colm Field works in construction by day, and writes devilish teen / YA horror by dark and stormy night. (And, um, wacky middle grade adventures). He has given assemblies to busy halls of primary school children and held workshops with angry-looking fourteen year olds, and he’s enjoyed them all. Basically Colm is very keen to talk books and writing with as many people as possible, and if the students are enjoying themselves you’ll struggle to shut him up.
Uncle Zeedie is his fourth book to be published (a fifth, under Collins’ Big Cat imprint is also out later this year). Colm is London-based, but with strong connections to the Midlands, Newcastle, Devon and Ireland, he would be delighted to visit further afield if travel expenses can be met. Frankly he’d visit the seventh circle of Hell if they let him sell and sign some books afterwards.
About the Books
UNCLE ZEEDIE
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY… OR SERIAL KILLER?
Uncle Zeedie is weird, but at least he’s rich and his house is amazing. That’s what George and Lacey tell themselves when they arrive at his isolated mansion in the Welsh woods. Only something here is worse than weird. Uncle Zeedie seems unhinged, serving them rotten food, and skulking around at night. The house is decaying, blood stained, and stinks of sour milk. And George is seeing kids that aren’t there. They’re dead, these kids. And if the rumours are right, Uncle Zeedie is the one who’s killing them.
YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT
Evangeline knows she isn’t perfect. She might even be a bully. But did her dad really need to bring that freaky-looking Watching Elf home? Just how old does he think she is?!
Then footsteps scuttle beneath the fairy lights. Wrongdoers are attacked, each assault more violent and disturbing than the last. When she finds a tacky old horror magazine warning of a malevolent demon that flays your skin in the spirit of Christmas, Evangeline is filled with dread; is this connected to that hideous doll watching her from the hallway? And if so, what if she is on the naughty list?
About the event
Structure
A 30 – 60 minute workshop / assembly structured around the three elements Colm argues are needed for a decent horror story – Monsters, Scares, and Cares. See the document for more details.
Recommended age range
12 – 16 years
Preferred audience size
15 – 30 for a workshop
50 – 150 for presentation event
Fee
Gratis provided a pre-agreed number of books can be sold, and travel expenses are covered for visits outside the M25.
Required Materials
This talk is designed to be delivered in front of a Powerpoint presentation – screen required
Downloads and links
- Document https://tra-resources.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/entries/document/14591/The_Blood_Texts_Horror_Writing_Workshop_Pitch.docx.pdf
- Bookshop.org link https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/uncle-zeedie-frank-cadaver/7874635?ean=9781916747753
Contact
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