Carya Gish has just posted a blog about the Dragnet tent at this year's Village Green festival in Southend-on-Sea. There are loads of pictures! 
Read it HERE.

There is a small review of the Shorelines literary festival written by Carya Gish in issue 16 of Southend's cultural magazine, Level 4 (a longer report from the festival can be found HERE). 
This should have been a printed magazine, but unfortunately the editor didn't receive enough advertising revenue to pay for the printing. The magazine is available to read online HERE. 
There are quite a few interesting articles in there so make sure you go and have a read! 

We have now uploaded an extract of each novel.

Go to each novel's page to read the free extracts. Enjoy! 

I Am a Muse

The Book of Thoth

The Right Place

It is nearly the end of the year and Arcane Publishing goes into plotting mode for the next few weeks... 

Arcane Publishing was born in July 2012, and in April 2013, we published our first book, I Am a Muse, by Carya Gish and attended our first literary festival!
 
We still have a lot to learn about the publishing business and we are taking things very, very slowly, especially as we prefer to support independent booksellers, don't publish e-books and don't want to get ripped off by big distributors and online shops. 

So here is what we are going to do: 
Carya Gish needs to find some time to finish that very late first draft of The Book of Thoth... This is what happens when authors need to work at something else to pay the bills! But we are adamant that our second novel should be out by next December, and therefore The Book of Thoth will be out next autumn. 
Some further work on our publishing plan will involve planning for The Right Place, including applying for an Arts Council Grant - if we manage to understand the very complicated application form... We would like this book to be published in early 2016 at the latest. 

Also next year, we will be promoting I Am a Muse and Arcane Publishing in London and expanding the second-hand book side of things. 
Arcane Publishing will book stalls at various events over the next year, some will be in collaboration with Matt ArtPix, but we also would like to book our own space whenever possible in order to give the imprint a little bit more visibility. 
We will be doing a book listing in this website ready for early next year. 

And we need to think about the feasibility of an online shop! 

In the meantime, head to Carya Gish's blog where she will carry on blogging about writing, culture, music and more in the next few weeks... 

See you all in 2014!

Metal have just posted a fab video of Shorelines: Literature festival of the sea by Sparky Film. It really shows very well what it's all about! 


Interviews with festival curator Rachel Lichtenstein, Mikhail Karikis, Deborah Levy and Julian Hoffman among others.