It’s taken a while, but we have finally got a way of selling our audiobooks direct. We are partnering with Glassboxx and the sales are hosted on their site.
To celebrate, we are offering 50% off any one of our audio titles from now until the end of March.
Head over to our audiobooks page, and have a listen to the samples, and when you’ve decided which you would like, click the relevant ‘buy now’ link, and use the code audio intro at the checkout.
I think I’ve set it up right, but if you have problems please let us know at once!
Our Jolabokaflod 2021 offering: buy a second (roughly) half-price copy of the same book. Applies to any book with a cover price of £9.99 or less, until 17th December, last 2nd class posting day for Christmas.
Buy early, buy two!
The Icelandic tradition of giving books on Christmas Eve and staying up all nights reading (with optional vat of hot chocolate) is known as Jolabokaflod – literally, Yule Book Flood.
We’d like to encourage this tradition, so this year, we are offering a discount on second copies of the same book. When you order, ask for 1 copy, and add the Jolabokaflod ‘product’ for £5, and we’ll send you 2 copies. This can be used once for each full-price title you order.
Continuing our eighth anniversary celebrations, with the most recent Solstice Shorts Festival and book, Time and Tide.
Stories and poems set on and beside the sea with a strong female voice, BSL translations by Marcel Hirshman of: Remittance, by Kilmeny MacMichael; Arrival by Valerie Bence (with voice over by Holly Blades); I Nearly Drownded Daddy by Vivien Jones and Napoleon by Nick Westerman.
Plus news of the future of Solstice Shorts.
You can buy the book, in two different editions (the special is illustrated) from our Webshop
throughout August there is a discount if you apply code ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout.
Sale ends 31st August. Join us each day at 8pm (2pm on Sundays) for readings and conversations about each of our books, get inspired, buy a copy! More info
We are trying not to be downhearted that we had to take the launch of Time and Tide online, (check out our Facebook page for videos, we’ll be editing them and adding them to the website soon), everyone did a fabulous job and the videos are getting quite a few hits, but with minimal sales as a result. We are also very disappointed that we are having to put publication of Zed and the Cormorants back 12 months.
The good news is, we are continuing to translate some of the Time and Tide stories into BSL with the help of Marcel Hirshman, and some funding from ACE. We will be launching these videos fairly soon.
AND…with all eight legs crossed, we are going ahead with No Spider Harmed..., Tiny Spidery Cheer… We aren’t anticipating an in-person launch, and we have to be very careful about how many copies we print, as a result, we are asking people to pre-order, so we don’t end up with stock we can’t sell through trade or events.
More good news for readers!
We’ve reduced the price of some of our ebooks. If people like this idea and buy them, we will reduce all ebooks to £0.99 for the duration of the misery.
Let us know when you buy one via usual social channels: #Arachne99p, as it takes a while for the news to seep through our sales reports, and we want to be nimble in responding.
Obviously, while the postal service is still functioning we will send out actual books which you can buy from our webshop.
With many bookshops closing, we are in an increasingly precarious position, and we really rely on our direct sales – normally we do 60% or more of our sales at events, and that’s impossible right now.
People seem to be reaching for poetry, so we are getting all our poetry titles converted as fast as we can. We’ll let you know when they are available. They may not be perfectly formatted on an e-reader but we will do our best.
And finally, to try and keep our books in the light, you might consider nominating us in the Saboteur Awards?
That’s an ‘O’ not a zero. If you don’t use the code, you won’t get the discount.
There is also free postage in the UK at the moment. We will start charging postage soon – basically the next time we print a catalogue, which is likely to be September/October, so you might want to order before that happens.
We thought we’d give a bit more warning of this sale than the last one, to give you a chance to decide what you fancy and remember to place an order… Don’t try yet!
August Bank Holiday,
00:01 Saturday 24th August through to 23:59 Monday 26th August BST
10% off all physical books
with this single-use-per-customer code
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That’s an ‘O’ not a zero. If you don’t use the code, you won’t get the discount.
There is also free postage in the UK at the moment. We will start charging postage soon – basically the next time we print a catalogue, which is likely to be September/October, so you might want to order before that happens.
To celebrate LGBT history month we are publishing Jeremy Dixon‘s In Retail on the 7th February.
These poems were written on the back of till rolls and smuggled off the shop floor of a well-known pharmacy in Jeremy’s socks. They chart the absurdities of being a member of staff in retail (most of us have been there at some point), and the cultural take that being a queer poet gives to the experience.
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the in-store radio is on a major seventies kick after an advert for Snoxin anti-wrinkle serum
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) starts
replaying a dark corner of the youth club where I dance by myself to Sylvester unable to resist that immaculate beat
compelled to leave the false safety of a line of canvas chairs failing to see what is apparent
to everyone else watching me
punched the length of the pool table
Jeremy is launching the book in his local village hall on the outskirts of Cardiff. The very village hall where THAT youth club was held.
To mark LGBT history month we are giving you the opportunity to buy our other LGBT titles for half price when you buy In Retail. (Mosaic of Air is already half price so there’s just a small further reduction there)
All three of our #WomenVote100 titles on offer for one day only, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the first female vote going into an actual ballot box on 14th December 1918
