We’ve extended our summer sale to the end of August!
30% off backlist short story titles with a minimum spend of £10.
SUMMER SHORT STORY SALE EXTENDED
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Arachneversary: Time and Tide
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.
Welcome to the Arachneversary SALE!
The SALE starts here:
£1 off almost all our books with this code: ARACHNEVERSARY. Add it in the voucher code slot at checkout.
The only exceptions to this offer are those books that are already only a fiver, and the one that isn’t officially published yet: No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book.
Special offers on series and bundles for younger readers – all three Brook Storyteller YA Fantasy novels for £25 (normally £29.97) buy Devilskein & Dearlove and get Claude at Harfleur for £6
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
#Arachne99p a little comfort in time of trouble
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.
London Lies, Weird Lies, Lovers’ Lies, Stations and Mosaic of Air are all now £0.99
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?
August Bank Holiday Sale NOW ON
August Bank Holiday,
00:01 Saturday 24th August through to 23:59 Monday 26th August BST
with this single-use-per-customer code
KKNLMB22OSSL
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.
Enjoy!
August Bank Holiday Sale coming soon
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
KKNLMB22OSSL
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.
Enjoy!
Happy LGBT History Month 2019
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) startsreplaying a dark corner of the youth club
where I dance by myself to Sylvester
unable to resist that immaculate beatcompelled to leave the false safety
of a line of canvas chairs
failing to see what is apparentto everyone else
watching mepunched 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.
There’s progress for you.
Further events in Cardiff 7th March and Bristol 1st June
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)
In Retail + Outcome (photographic portraits by Tom Dingley)
In Retail + Mosaic of Air (short stories by Cherry Potts)
In Retail + The Dowry Blade (Fantasy Novel by Cherry Potts)
In Retail + A Gift of Rivers (Poetry by Kate Foley)
In Retail + Foraging (Poetry by Joy Howard)
In Retail + The Don’t Touch Garden (Poetry by Kate Foley)
#WomenVote100 at the ballot box and on offer
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
We/She Liars League stories by Women,
Five by Five, short stories by Katy Darby, Joan Taylor-Rowan, Cassandra Passarelli, Sarah James and Helen Morris,
Vindication Poems from Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Elinor Brooks, Jill Sharp and Anne Macaulay
Normal price £28.97 still post free in UK – you have until I get to the computer tomorrow morning!
#ComingOutDay special offer on Outcome
To celebrate Coming Out Day and the anniversary of publication of Tom Dingley’s photographic portraits Outcome we have a special offer of £5 off until Midnight tonight. head over to the shop to take advantage of this offer.
And a reminder that the last remaining SIGNED copy is up for grabs on our crowd fund
#Arachne5 Free Books available to Libraries
Free Books available to Libraries (our first 5 titles available free to bona fide libraries – you just pay for delivery get in touch)
London Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-00-1 In collaboration with Liars’ League, featuring unlikely tales set in London.
Stations: Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line ISBN: 978-1-909208-01-8 A story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace, and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the East London line all the way to Highbury & Islington.
Lovers’ Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-02-5 A second collaboration with Liars’ League, bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love.
Weird Lies ISBN: 978-1-909208-10-0 WINNER of the Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award. A third Liars’ League collaboration – more than twenty stories varying in style from tales not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights to the completely bemusing.
Mosaic of Air Cherry Potts ISBN: 978-1-909208-03-2 FANTASY/SCI-FI/ CONTEMPORARY
Sixteen short stories from a lesbian perspective.
We’ve always received a great deal of support from libraries, (Lewisham, Kensington & Chelsea and Greenwich in particular) helping us with venues for readings and more high profile events, like the Solstice Shorts Festival which has been hosted by Better Libraries in Greenwich for three years now, and our Anniversary party being held at Manor House Library in Lewisham (managed by V22), and want to return the compliment. Our only stipulations are that the library pays for the delivery, and that books go into stock, and aren’t sold to raise funds. That way we both benefit, as our authors will receive Public Lending Rights fees.
Our first take-up for this offer has come from Merton Libraries and the books are packed and ready to go!