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There were some strained moments last week on the Ambulance Box tour bus after the driver nearly fell asleep at the wheel in the Swiss Alps and the tour manager’s navigation nearly had us in Luxembourg rather than heading Londonward. But nobody has actually fallen out or off and, today, we reach our final stop
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This just in from Salt: In order to keep Salt on track through the wet British summer, we’re offering you another special deal throughout August. All Salt books are available from us at 33% discount yet again. That’s a third off all Salt titles, and free shipping on orders with a cover price of over
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The Bookseller is reporting good news on the Salt front: the press has managed to raise enough money to keep going through 2009 — as long, that is, as it achieves its budgeted sales for the rest of the year, which is far from a given. Which means all sales and efforts such as this
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Kevin Cadwallender, editor of Red Squirrel Scotland, has organised an Edinburgh benefit reading for Salt. It’s at Out of the Blue arts centre, Dalmeny Street on Thursday July 30th at 7 pm. Poets include JL Williams, Rob A Mackenzie, Colin Donati, Kevin Cadwallender, James Oates, Anita Govan, Steve Urwin, Alistair Robinson and others TBC, all
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Unoccupied as I am and have been, I’ve added another date to the Ambulance Box virtual tour: on 5 August, I’ll be at fellow Salt poet Anne Berkeley‘s blog Squared.
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A wee while back, I speculated about the preception and truth of poetry sales. This was before the BBC’s admirable poetry season and Salt‘s cash crisis. Now, today, courtesy of Matt Merritt, I found this article on the effect the Beeb’s tranche of programmes has had on poetry sales. Or, to be more precise, the
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Lifting the Lid: the Ambulance Box virtual book tour gets under way today over at Our sweet old etcetera … the blog of the Scottish Poetry Library. Pop by and read about my earliest influences, Weebles, my writing methods and more besides.
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This latest update on Just One Book comes courtesy of the blog of Salt short story writer Elizabeth Baines: We’ve been busy campaigning over the last two weeks to save Salt. The business has faced some serious financial difficulties as the recession hit us hard. I’m pleased to say we’ve stabilised the business, but we
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I was delighted to read this Facebook status update from Salt‘s Chris Hamilton-Emery mid afternoon today: Salt is now commissioning again, including a children’s poetry list. Thanks for buying us time & for saving the press. Tremendous news! Many thanks to everyone who bought books and helped this vital publisher not only continue but push
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From Wednesday next week, I’ll be popping up here and there on the blogosphere, subjecting myself to the inquisitions of a varied bunch of bloggers. Here’s the full itinerary*: 10 June – Our sweet old etcetera … 17 June – The Crafty Writer 23 June – One Night Stanzas 26 June – Douglas Robertson 29
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Well, I almost was: the covers for The Ambulance Box, The Opposite of Cabbage and Ian Gregson’s How We Met filled the screen momentarily as a clip from Salt’s Just One Book video was played. Priceless advertising! Chris got a few seconds on the campaign, on which you can read the latest here. You can
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The Just One Book campaign has hit the Guardian books blog here! And that’s not all folks: Chris Hamilton-Emery will be on Newsnight Review this Friday. The campaign is working — 800 orders in the first four days, bringing in £17,000, which is six weeks’ cash for Salt — but Chris, Jen and their stalwart
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Chris and Jen are marvels. Cash crisis or no, they have just launched Salt Contemporary Writers, the new Salt author portal, a typically stylish web resource with a page for every one of their authors. Here’s mine. It seems that they never cease to innovate and push forward. That’s one of the reasons why we
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The good news is that Salt’s “Just One Book” campaign is beginning to make a difference. It has even been picked up by the Bookseller, but Chris and Jen are far from out of the woods yet and we need to keep it up. I intend to make a few suggestions for your one book
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The previous two posts collide in Helena Nelson’s generous review ofThe Ambulance Box and Rob A Mackenzie’s The Opposite of Cabbage over on the HappenStance blog. It’s my first blog review! (Although I’ve already gained a five-star Amazon customer review!) There are also reviews in the pipline or promised from Matt Merritt, Tony Williams and
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