We love January. OK, that’s a love tempered by January’s obsession with dressing itself up in something cold and wet and dismal, while it piles on the guilt about our festive excess, so calling it love may be taking things too far. Maybe it’s something more like affection. Affection for the fact that – for small independent publishers, at least – January also means the opportunity for a little down time. Down time after a busy year of editing, typesetting, publishing and – above all – promoting books.
In the summer, we launched Ian Elmslie’s wonderful memoirs(if you haven’t read them yet, where have you been??) and in the autumn we followed that up with another volume of poems from Steve Pottinger(we recommend that too, natch). Right now, we’ve earned the right to sit back a little and take things easy. We’ll still keep things ticking along, though. Over the festive period we created a Kindle edition of A Marvellous Party for those of you who prefer that option – we’ll always choose ‘real’ books ourselves, but we understand the attraction – and if Kindles float your boat, you can buy that edition here.
While you’re doing that, or going to the gym, or trying to ignore that bottle of wine waving at you from the fridge because you’re doing dry January, we’ll put our feet up, have a little breather, and get on with drawing up our plans for 2018. They’re going to be good ones. Happy New Year!
