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Isle of May lighthouse.

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All in all good luck. It's forever tricky balancing what might help promote and what is a cost you can't take on, it's an incredibly difficult learning curve. But find yourself a good independent bookshop owner - they know the business inside out, they'll know the answers better than anyone.

With that in mind, and with us having to cover the transportation of the books to the larger stores, we'd be making a loss working with the chains. Hence it's links, conversations and making deals you can afford with people you want to work with. Getting an article in the local paper helps.

Instead we're sticking with local independent shops. They will work with you, often at a discount (trade commission, sometimes 25% of the cost price but up to 35-40% at times), whereas the larger shops such as chains can be 70% easily.

We then entered the book into Neilsen's Title Editor, including the ISBN. The larger bookshops trawl this and enter the publication to their websites. However you have to contact the distributor who works with them (different for different shops) and agree a discount with them. We've decided not to.

We're a tiny publisher. Basically we just looked up all the shops, contacted them, worked out their discount and made a deal with them. We bought an ISBN, contacted local press and got the word out. The small local websites and newspapers love a local news story like a book about the area.

I'm getting the sense he's more David Marina at the moment.

It was great. Not sure Sounds works outside the UK but let me know if you can't listen to it.

The most Government thing ever, they want to charge VAT on the payments they give to people they deport.

It's a kid's world.

May or may not contain frogs.

YouTube video by Plenty Wenlock A Spooky Story for Nos Calan Gaeaf - The Spirit Ysbryd Cynon by Dr. Jack Hunter

Dr. Jack Hunter shares a spooky and immersive story from 'The Folklore of the Tanat Valley / Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat' for Nos Calan Gaeaf.

The tale of the spirit Ysbryd Cynon, who haunted the workmen building the great dam at Lake Vyrnwy / Llyn Efyrnwy.

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Creepy Jenny, by Creepy Jenny 6 track album

Creepy Jenny lives!

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New music arrival……on the wonderful @plentywenlock.bsky.social label

Creepy Jenny: creepy jenny

“Nos Galan Gaeaf”

It's hard to get anything into the inner circle when most attempts are brickwalled.

I mean, she certainly is new. Maybe they just give the prize to the person they've just become aware of before the awards ceremony.

The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat - 64 Page Full Colour Guide Book 64 page perfect bound full colour guide to the folklore of the Tanat Valley - Dyffryn Tanat by Dr. Jack Hunter. A comprehensive collection of the...

It was great fun watching Jack recount the stories and Genevieve and Johnty from BBC Shropshire have put the program together beautifully. Do treat yourself.

Copies of 'The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat' are available here:

tinyurl.com/pwptanat

A few weeks back we met up BBC Shropshire to record a collection of stories taken from 'The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat' for their 'Secret Shropshire' series, on location at Llanymynech Hill.

You can find the episode here:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

They float, and move slightly and you have to brush them away to see anything.

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen.

A clear No.5

Secret Shropshire - The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - BBC Sounds Legend has it that Tanat Valley is home to ogres, giants and fairies.

These, and other folkloric tales from the Tanat Valley can be found in his book 'The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - Chwedlau Gwerin Dyffryn Tanat' available now on Plenty Wenlock Press.

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Secret Shropshire - The Folklore of the Tanat Valley - BBC Sounds Legend has it that Tanat Valley is home to ogres, giants and fairies.

Lovely to hear Jack Hunter on BBC Shropshire's 'Secret Shropshire' series talking about the folklore of Llanymynech Hill and the wider Tanat Valley.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Huge thanks to Genevieve and Johnty for all their work on this.

Warmly, unsettlingly beautiful.

4our?

To be honest, I'm always wondering what is going down.

And stop running around briefing that you're going to try and leave disabled people destitute again after roundly being handed your arses on a plate last time you tried it.

Always had you down as a closet Henry Cow fan...

Haha that's not how the internet works!

(And whenever posted about our books people left 😅)

We're not even there yet 😅