Yesterday, the ArtPix/Arcane team crossed the border to Devon and visited a castle and a fantastic Book Market organised by Exeter City of Literature! Read all about it HERE on Miss Gish's website!
6/17/2021 Arcane is on Instagram!As we prepare to ramp up our promotional activity, we have at last opened an Instagram account!
It might take a while for us to start posting content as we are not used to doing everything on a phone and would much prefer to be able to upload our content from our computer instead... Please bear with us, hopefully we'll have some lovely photos of books on there very soon! We might even have a go at posting live from our next event next week if it is all confirmed... More soon! Matt ArtPix and Arcane had a brilliant time at the Giant Shepton Flea yesterday, Sunday 30th May!
We got up at 4am and arrived back home at 6pm, but it was so worth it! This was our first event for over a year, and we were lucky indeed with the weather: sunny but not too hot, a slight breeze... Just right! This was probably our most successful event so far and we sold many of the splendid items we had brought with us and are on the pictures above and below. We are currently exploring a few more opportunities in Somerset, so watch this space! I am already planning my stock for the next Giant Shepton Flea on July 18th. We will definitely be there if the weather holds and the third wave of the virus stays away! This week, we will be busy organising the delivery of a massive amount of stock, of which later... We're keeping it under wrap at the moment, just in case we can't pull it off! This summer promises to be busy for ArtPix and Arcane, with our unit at The Customs House in West Bay getting really busy now and our plotting for the next few months and the future... Miss Gish is also trying to complete the first draft of her third novel, The Right Place, so she can hand it over to Arcane for Editing and eventually publishing. There is still a long way to go... We are delighted to say that our Anais Nin two-book bundle, which was out for sale for the first time ever yesterday, was snapped up by an eager customer! What is this, I hear you say? An event? REALLY?
Arcane will be sharing a stall with the always fabulous Matt ArtPix this Sunday 30th May at The Giant Shepton Flea Market. We'll bring some old stock we'd like to get rid off (books and ephemera) at fantastic prices! Matt will have some great vintage items... Some go and get your cash out and see you on Sunday! Fingers crossed for the rain to stop... Unfortunately, things being as they are, we do not have any other event booked so far but this might change in the forthcoming weeks! But in the meantime, you can go to our unit at The Customs House in West Bay where we have some great items for sale (Matt's designs and Retro Football range and some pre-loved books!) We have loads of plans for the future so watch out for news! 5/15/2021 Back to work!Miss Gish is back to work on her third novel, The Right Place, which of course will be published by Arcane Publishing!
We might even have one event to announce soon... Watch this space! 5/1/2021 Intermission...We'll be back late May!
The next two to three weeks will be crucial to the future of Arcane Publishing... Finally! Today, we, the ArtPix/Arcane team made our merry way to The Customs House in West Bay, Dorset, where we have our unit! It was brilliant to be there again as we haven't set foot in our little space since late December... The place was a hive of activity as traders and the managers prepare the building for the Grand Reopening on Monday 12th April! Thankfully, the winter has been kind to our stock and we found everything still in place and in tip top condition just as we had left them back in 2020! We spent three hours in there, changing our stock, putting some new shelves in (and they look very nice indeed, if I may say so...) Our very colourful unit is now replenished, refreshed and ready to welcome customers next week! Fingers crossed for a good summer and no more lockdowns. One can only hope. Most of the space is taken up by Matt ArtPix's wonderful stock of vintage items, art and retro football products (including his own designs on cards, frames and fridge magnets as well as original pictures, books and match day programme). Arcane Publishing has a few paperbacks and a selection of pre-loved books; our two published novels have been removed from the unit and will only be available to buy at events and online. The Arcane stock will stay in the unit for the next couple of months and it is possible that it will then be available exclusively online and at events in the future - this will depend on sales in the unit - but this is exclusively a tourist destination and books are a hard sale...
Out and about at The Customs House as the team prepares for the Grand Reopening on Monday 12th April!
4/5/2021 Back to nature...We are making the most of this Bank Holiday to think about our next steps and prepare for the grand reopening of The Customs House... About which more very soon!
Miss Gish is resuming work on draft 1 of The Right Place as we type... More news later this week! There has been a massive burst of activity at the Arcane/ArtPix towers as we prepare for the lockdown to ease and for our unit at The Customs House to reopen on 12th April. There is also a possibility of a few dates making their appearance in our events calendar... Nothing is sure yet, but we will of course update you on here when/if things are confirmed. We will be working on our new online bookshop over the next few months but in the meantime, here's our Arcane Spring sale! option 1: damaged copies of The Book of ThothOne May evening during the first lockdown, we had a massive leak in our office cupboard and some of the water damaged a few copies of our second published novel, The Book of Thoth. Whilst the damage is not immediately apparent, there is a bit of staining and creasing to some pages and we couldn't possibly sell those 9 copies at the normal price. Therefore, we are offering those copies at a hugely discounted price! RRP: £15 Arcane shop price: £10 Damaged copy: £5 OPTION 1: The Book of Thoth, damaged copy, £5 + P&P £3 - second class Royal Mail within the UK option 2: I Am a museThis is the first novel Miss Gish worked on, published back in 2013. If you want to read more about I Am a Muse, please go to the dedicated page on the author's website HERE. RRP: £7.99 Arcane shop price: £6 OPTION 2: I Am a Muse, £6 + P&P £2.40 - second class Royal Mail within the UK option 3: The book of ThothYou might not be interested in purchasing a copy of a book that has been damaged by water... You like to get your copies in a pristine condition, and I do understand that! So here's the option to buy a brand-new, untouched-by-water copy of Miss Gish's second novel. To know more about The Book of Thoth, go HERE. OPTION 3: The Book of Thoth , £10 + P&P £3 - second class Royal Mail within the UK option 4: special package i am a muse + the book of thothOPTION 4: I Am a Muse + The Book of Thoth: special price of £13.99 + P&P £3.50 - second class Royal Mail within the UK
At Arcane/ArtPix towers, we are a bit fed up with all the lockdowns, restrictions, etc. We have scrupulously followed the rules and haven't been out of Weymouth/Portland since late December, when we have the whole of the glorious county of Dorset on our doorstep! But there have been some days when our resolve has been seriously tested...
The past twelve months seem to have been such a dreadful waste... We have struggled to be creative and to find inspiration and motivation... 2020 was supposed to be such an exciting year: we were to complete the first draft of our third published novel The Right Place and to start the publishing process, and we also had loads of wonderful events booked in Bristol and in some other exciting locations. All these have been scrapped and we've basically brought our business to a halt. But we've decided that there was no way we were going to waste yet another year! So we are slowly starting to make plans again for events, we are about to start work on the future Arcane online shop and we hope to make some good progress on the manuscript and publishing schedule of The Right Place. We will soon be offering some discounted copies of our first published novels, I Am a Muse and The Book of Thoth... Also, our unit at The Customs House in West Bay will reopen on 12th April... So watch this space! |
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