15/7/2013 I Am a Muse review in!There was a lovely review of I Am a Muse in the Village Green special edition of the culture magazine Level 4.
I will post proper scans of the review in the Reviews and press section of this website later this week. 10/7/2013 A little bit of promo...This Saturday is Village Green, the arts and music festival organised by Metal Southend.
The culture magazine Level 4 has produced a pocket edition of the mag, and in there, you should find a review of I Am a Muse, as well as an ad for Arcane Publishing and one for Matt ArtPix! :-) I am really pleased to have my little book in there. I will post a scan of the article in the review section next week. 8/7/2013 Great finds again!On Saturday, I found some more great books for the stall... Among others: A smashing The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan by Diana Bell, Quarto Publishing, 1989 edition, hardback, near perfect condition! Betty Grable, The Reluctant Movie Star by Doug Warren, Robson Books, 1982, perfect condition! Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, The Film Classics Library, Picador/Pan Books Ltd, 1974 (probably first edition), "the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book form!" John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, The Film Classics Library, Picador/Pan Books Ltd, 1974 (probably first edition), "the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book form!" On the same day, I also purchased a marvellous copy of Thomas De Quincey's The Confessions of an English Opium Eater, with illustrations engraved on wood by Blair Hughes-Stanton. This hardback copy is from a very early edition (1948) of the Folio Society, and it is gorgeous!
There are a few more details about the book and some examples of the illustrations on this blog: THE BOOK EXAMINER . This book will not be available to purchase on the stall at the moment... It will become part of my personal collection! I am still sharing Matt Artpix's stall at the moment, but it is possible that Arcane Publishing will be booking its own stalls for fairs and markets in 2014 - with Matt Artpix and Arcane Publishing stalls located next to each other but offering an even greater range of goodies! 6/7/2013 New event! Maldon Motor showTomorrow, Sunday 7th July, I will be at the Maldon Motor Show. I will not be selling I Am a Muse - customers will get a flyer for the book! - but I will have a great range of second-hand books: cinema, entertainment, classic cars, glamourous Hollywood stars, football,... And of course, Matt ArtPix will be selling his range of vintage-inspired art (read his blog about the event HERE)!
Next week, we will be posting some news about I Am a Muse and we will start the count down to Shorelines: literature festival of the sea! After weeks of not being able to write, I have next week free to work on The Book of Thoth. Deadline for the first draft is approaching dangerously... I might have to change the publication date from summer 2014 to autumn 2014... In the next few weeks, I am hoping to start working again on the promo for I Am a Muse and Arcane Publishing... 26/6/2013 Event!This Saturday 29th June, Matt ArtPix and Arcane Publishing will be on the road again, this time to Ipswich.
We will have a stall at The Secret Vintage Fair. It will be in a Masonic Hall, so loads of inspiration to be had from it for The Book of Thoth! A French friend has an online bookshop and has kindly accepted to trial I Am a Muse there. Therefore, I am a Muse is available to purchase on Amazon via his shop and on Ebay. Amazon lists the book as being in French language - a bug in the system - but it is in English!
We've had to increase the price as it is sold across the world with free postage - so we had to take postage to the US etc. into account! Also, this bookshop is a proper business and the complex software used to put it all together is quite expensive... We thought it would be good exposure though, and you never know... 16/6/2013 EVENTS!I have been daring today and have splashed out (well, £6.99!) on a "studio display easel" to make my book display a tad more interesting at events! Next week is the first of a series of events we will be going to - a joint stall Matt ArtPix/Arcane Publishing! The first event, A Vintage Affair, will be next Sunday 23rd June at Hedingham Castle, a historic venue set in beautiful countryside. There will be loads of things to see and do! We are keeping our fingers crossed for dry weather... For more forthcoming events, please go to the Arcane Publishing events page!
31/5/2013 promo again!For my inspiration, I could have added Poppy Z Brite, Oscar Wilde, Daphne Du Maurier, Bram Stoker, Tracy Chevalier, Saki, Sarah Waters, Will Self (the journalism, not the books, I can't understand them), Cathi Unsworth, Shakespeare (and so many others...) And these are only the literary inspiration! Don't get me started on the music... A good couple of days for I Am a Muse!
My interview with the lovely Hannah Marsh from The Echo is in the weekend pull-out today! They've managed to put my picture in three different places in the paper... Guess I'd better get over my phobia of looking at pictures of myself... Not everything we talked about ended up in there, that is the nature of journalist - how I remember struggling with word counts for my reviews and features! - but I love the angle of the article. Everything in there is just what it's all about! :-) I will make some proper scans for the press and review section over the weekend. 30/5/2013 reader's review in!Thank you Stella for the wonderful review.
"I was the first sale Miss Gish made at the Secret Vintage Fair in Colchester back at Easter… ‘I am a Muse’ appealed to my sense of drama and called out to my curiosity. My intention was to read and write a review pretty quickly. But, nothing could have prepared me for the emotional journey I was about to undertake! Miss Gish has managed to find the pure essence of Alda Thunberg’s grief and distress and it was painful to read at times - this is no criticism but the highest form of praise! The journey’s of self exploration that both women undertake is beautifully related and wholly believable. Miss Gish’s portrayal of the intensity of the relationship between artist and muse is wonderfully portrayed and I started to care about these characters and what happens to them; on several occasions finding myself either laughing or crying. No 'Chic Lit' this book, but a clever and thought provoking exploration of the nature of dependency and the unseen cost of intense creativity." Stella Bawden 30/5/2013 press!One of my local newspapers has a small article about I Am a Muse - and a photo, eeek. You can read the article HERE (PAGE 5). It makes me sound so awfully cool. What it doesn't say is that the music journalism wasn't paid - well, in free CDs and gigs! ;-)
The article is positioned next to some adverts about back and pain relief and double glazing... Is that conveying some hidden meaning? |
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