"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
This quote appears at the top of the “About” page on Miss Gish's ABOUT PAGE. It was lovely yesterday to see so many young people at the Bristol Alternative Market daring to be different, and so many traders selling their wares. There was some fantastic art, loads of clothes, records, and so, so much more! The Trinity Centre is a truly fantastic venue, a real gem! Thank you to the people who bought books, especially to the ones who purchased copies of The Book of Thoth! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. This book has a special place in my heart! The next book, The Right Place, inspired by the PJ Harvey song “The Wind”, should be published in early 2025! Also, a special shout-out to the young girl who bought the “Black in Fashion” book and who is going to study textiles and make clothes: good luck! I love it when young people are creatively ambitious! Yesterday reminded me of the 10+years I spent as a music journalist in London writing for alternative culture/music magazines, and of how alternative venues/clubs/events have always been so safe and welcoming to anyone who dared to be different or were different being of no fault of their own. Long may it last! Arcane Publishing doesn’t do a lot of markets, but we still have one left to do under the Arcane Publishing banner this spring/summer and we will announce it in a separate post. It will be much closer to home this time! We had a wonderful time at the The Poundbury Independent Market on Sunday!
We met some really interesting people (traders and customers) and we sold quite a lot of wonderful books! Thank you to everyone who purchased one of our preloved books, it’s great to know that they go to a good home! I don’t really do a lot of events with Arcane Publishing, but it’s quality over quantity that we are after! Thank you Matt ArtPix for being so helpful on the day and taking great pictures of the stall, and yes, I do need to get a new phone which takes good photos and allows me to get the internet outside of the house! The next Arcane Publishing event will be Bristol Alternative Market in Bristol on 4th June and I will be posting on the Arcane INSTA account about the stock I will be taking – completely different to the one I took to Poundbury! Variety is the spice of life as they say… The next event for Arcane Publishing is a full Arcane stall!
We will be at the The Poundbury Independent Market on Sunday 14th May with a very full stall of books, from 50p to £20! Preloved books about vintage fashion and icons, design, art, classic cinema, vintage cars and transport, children's books, a few beautiful vintage Women's magazines and of course, copies of Miss Gish's first two novels, I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth published by Arcane Publishing! You will be able to purchase individual copies or two-book bundles (I Am a Muse/The Book of Thoth) at a very competitive price! I will be posting about all the stock for the day on Instagram today and next week (with a break over the weekend as people will be distracted!) Below is a sneak preview of the stock I will bring on the day! I am really please to announce that I will be helping my partner-in-crime @Matt ArtPix on his stall at the fabulous Bristol Vintage Flea at the hip Paintworks in Bristol on Sunday 30th April! I will bring a small but great stock from my Arcane Books stock of vntage and preloved books!
Of course, there will have a few treasures from the Arcane Publishing stock dotted around the stall - some really nice books from or about the 50s/60s/70s, some great 1960s women's magazines and some fab music mags about which I will be posting over the next few days on the Arcane Publishing instagram! AND my amazing 1968 fashion portfolio will make an appearance! We are thrilled to announce that Arcane Publishing will be trading at the @bristolalternativemarket on 4th June 2023.
We will tailor our stock to the event with preloved books and magazines all about alternative music, science-fiction, Fantasy, Gothic culture, art and literature and of course, we will have copies of Miss Gish's first two novels, I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth. We will post about the stock we'll be taking with on the day in the weeks leading to the event. Watch this space for more announcements soon, and head to the Arcane Insta Page as we post current and new stock regularly! We're really happy to announce that Arcane Publishing will have a stall at @thepoundburyindependent market in Poundbury, Dorchester on Saturday 14th May!
We will bring copies of our own publications I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth, and of course, we will have an exciting hand-picked selection of preloved and vintage books especially chosen for the event! Expect beautiful books about music, fashion, art and cinema and interesting vintage children's books and novels. I will post about my stock nearer the time on the Arcane Instagram HERE so keep an eye out! Also coming soon more dates of exciting events we will be trading at, including a couple in Bristol! 1/18/2023 Out of hibernation...A rare "Arcane Publishing business day" for us today, finally managed to book a market in Bristol to sell our books (Our own published and our pre-loved, vintage and rare books). Can't say more about it at the moment!
We have also applied for a stall at a super local artisan market in May... Two radically different events, but equally exciting! Watch this space! HAPPY NEW YEAR from Arcane! The online Arcane shop, selling our books as well as a carefully curated selection of vintage, pre-loved and rare books will be launched in summer 2023! The new pub date for Miss Gish's third novel,The Right Place, has been moved to late 2024. We are also planning on doing more markets, fairs and events this year. Watch this space! For updates on our vintage and pre-loved stock, keep an eye on our Instagram page HERE! Above are the official trends in publishing in 2023...
And we're just soooo trendy, aren't we? Our second publication, The Book of Thoth, is a Gothic novel with its fair share of horrific elements! You could also probably put it into the new "Witcherature" popping up everywhere... As for "cosy crime"... our fourth book, Hell Lane: A Barton Stacey Mystery, will probably fall into this category: a tribute to Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's detective novels with a dash of Wodehouse... At least, that's what I have in mind... It's a shame it won't be published for a few more years! Sadly, we don't have any progress update on our third publication, The Right Place, as we have paused any work on it for a number of reasons. We hope progress will resume later this year! 12/16/2022 WINTER INTERMISSION! SEE YOU IN 2023!WINTER INTERMISSION!
Arcane will be hibernating early until 2023. We thought we'd be able to post about the progress of our future plans and winter walks in the beautiful Dorset countryside but Covid's reared its ugly head (after 3 years of managing to avoid it!) and has thrown our plans into disarray... Not a great end of the year with a lot of work and Covid. See you in 2023 and hopefully there will be more upbeat news about manuscripts, events and the online shop! We had a great time yesterday at The Christmas Library Bazaar at Exeter Library organised by Libraries Unlimited and Markets In Exeter. It was brilliant to trade at this state-of-the-art book-loving place, the perfect environment for my books!
Thank you to everyone who browsed and bought books! Thank you to Matt ArtPix for his invaluable help and support on a rare non-trading weekend for him (although we had some prints of his art on display as a little extra!). Sadly no new events for Arcane until Spring 2023 but we hope to be able to start work on the new Arcane online bookshop early in 2023 and have something up and running in the spring. Miss Gish will also carry on working on the first draft of her third novel The Right Place, due to be published in 2024. For up-to-date news, follow our instagram page @arcanepub as we are not very active on here anymore! Follow Matt ArtPix for news about the brilliant events he attends with his wonderful and colourful stock of vintage, antique, upcycled and handmade items, his collage art and more! Some of our books sometimes make it to his stall... (I had some pictures of the library itself but Weebly refuses to upload the correct ones...) |
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