What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective is selling steadily. If you want a copy before Christmas, please order by Friday for absolute certainty.
This has been an exciting project and we had planned to make the entire book available as BSL videos for free.
We have been uploading videos of BSL versions of the poems and stories daily, here, some are already captioned, some will have to wait for more funds, but we thought better to have them without captions for now, than not share them at all.
We will pause shortly to concentrate on our latest book, Words From the Brink, and the Solstice Shorts Festival, coming back to sharing the BSL in the new year.
What Meets the Eye?
It has proved FAR more complicated and expensive than we first thought, and our budget of £4k [provided by ACE] has proved hopelessly inadequate, despite being based on actual costs for other BSL translation work. We are doing our best to achieve what we set out to do, but it’s a hand to mouth existance, being a small independant publisher – we don’t have assets or savings or a head office to bail us out. We need help.
We told our mailing list about the problem and have been tweeting regularly, and posting here – With book sales added to to the total we have now raised £1323, just over half of what we need – there is still a LONG way to go.
[Thank you to the 42 people who have contributed donations, and everyone who has bought books direct recently, you are all stars.]
How can you help?
Buy the book… buy any of our books, actually, we don’t ringfence the income from them.
Or … (and?) donate! We will do as much BSL as we get money to cover.
And tell anyone you know who you think would support this. Retweet, share on Facebook or wherever. This started out as an important, exciting, inventive project, and we’d really like to be able to recreate the buzz that the original idea came with.
