Chortle Book Festival // Caimh McDonnell: Stand-Up, Sit Down, Write A Book
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...unless you're a familiar panel-show face how can you hope to compete? By publishing it yourself of course.
Caimh McDonnell was a stand-up and TV scriptwriter for 13 years before he switched to writing words in between where the actors spoke and quickly became a best-selling novelist. His debut novel A Man With One of Those Faces was nominated for best novel at the 2017 Independent Author CAP awards, and his book I Have Sinned was shortlisted for the 2019 Kindle Storyteller Award.
He joins former stand-up and TV writer Dave Cohen (Comedy Store Players, Have I Got News For You, Horrible Histories) to discuss self-publishing, how to do it and why you have to change your name ever so slightly in the process.
The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell is published by Penguin in January 2021; How I Invented Alternative Comedy And Other Delusions by David J Cohen is published in March 2021.
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About the Organisers: NextUp
At NextUp, our mission is to amplify the power of comedy whilst supporting comedians and the wider comedy community in as many ways as possible.
We primarily do this through our subscription-video-on-demand platform dubbed ‘The Netflix of UK stand-up’ by Engadget but since COVID-19, we’ve also run the following initiatives:
- A Just Giving fundraising campaign to financially support comedians who need it most. At the time of writing it’s raised over £120,000.
- A live-streaming service called NextUp Now that gives comedians a virtual live-streaming stage to perform and earn revenue from.
- Doubling our commission payouts to any venue or comedian who promotes our video subscription service, helping them earn easy additional revenue.
- Ticketed live gigs via Zoom that present comedians a ‘closed-door’ comedy club-like scenario to practice their material and earn revenue from.
It’s going to be a while before live comedy returns to its normal state but we’re determined in the meantime to create a working model that benefits everyone and we’d like to thank you for your supporting this festival, and live comedy.
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