Our offices at Bishop’s Castle in South Shropshire are a few yards from the Town Hall and the Town-Hall clock, subject of a recent report in the Daily Mail. Passions are running high over a suggestion that the ancient clock should be made to restrict its chimes. We rather like them, but that’s just us. We’re just to the left of the picture.
Rowan Williams poem on organ donation
The former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has added his voice to a campaign for organ donation. In a 19-line poem”Host Organism”, described on the Guardian website, Williams – now master of Magdalene College, Cambridge – takes an oblique line on transplants, imagining surgeons as gardeners and donors as “unnamed birds”. The poem is intended to assist National Transplant Week, running until 14 July.
Lives in Print
We are planning to launch a new Imprint called Lives in Print .
This will be a collection of Self-Published Biographies, Histories and Memoirs.
If you would like to know more about Lives in Print,
get in touch by email at enquiries@youcaxton.co.uk
Sheffield International Artists’ Book Prize 2013
The closing date for entries for this art book prize is 31 July. Kaho Kojima’s ‘A Drop of Cloud’ won the 2011 Exhibition prize.
Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2014
This indispensable guide to the publishing industry is now available, also a Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook is due to be published in August. Orders before 31 July carry a 25% discount.
Book clinic
We’re holding a ‘book clinic’ at Gloucester Green Market, Oxford, next Thursday, 9.00 am to 2.00 pm. If you have a publishing project which you would like to discuss, do call by our stand.
Self Publishing – Lancashire
Self Publishing – Rugby
YouCaxton will be starting regular book clinics in Rugby during 2015. This will provide local writers with the opportunity to discuss their projects in person with one of our editorial staff. We are particularly interested in hearing from writers of books with connections to Warwickshire.