Connections With Nature: 50 Moments of Assembly the Wild, our anthology of nature writing, photos, poetry and work from The Wildlife Blogger Crowd launched merely over 2 months so far, and to this point we’ve been off to a unbelievable begin, with even Sir David Attenborough himself wanting ahead to discovering out his copy of the e e book.
Higher than solely a e e book, the ‘Connections With Nature’ drawback has been about connecting of us from the beginning; giving our neighborhood members a platform for sharing tales and the general public a chance to share in our enthusiasm for nature and wildlife — even perhaps turning into impressed to assemble some connections of their very private. Listed beneath are a few of our highlights from the last word couple of months…
We held our first in-person e e book occasion
On the tip of November, we held our first in-person Connections With Nature e e book occasion at Not Merely Books in Thetford, that options contributorsBerenice Tregenna,Rachael Barber, Nick Stephenson and Rosemary Snowdon.
We talked about how and why the e e book was made, what the background was to our contributions and blogs, and one of the best ways we’re utilizing product gross sales of the e e book for good, together with supporting organisations like World Land Notion, and one of the best ways we’re partnering with Talek Major Faculty in Kenya.
You will watch the occasion in full beneath:
To encourage the connections with our pure world to hold on earlier the occasion, I made up some goodie baggage for everybody who purchased proper right here, full of information on partaking with native wildlife and organisations, similar to BTO Birds, rising your specific particular person fruit and veg, having a greener Christmas and a wildlife days calendar for subsequent 12 months — together with some fowl seed, a fowl ID chart and a wildlife recording sheet.
We’ve been featured all through the Bury Free Press newspaper
Inside the times earlier than our occasion, the e e book acquired some implausible security all through the Bury Free Press newspaper, relating to the story behind our Connections With Nature e e book, the The Wildlife Blogger Crowd at large, and our deliberate occasion at Not Merely Books in Thetford.
“A journalist, blogger and wildlife campaigner, initially from Thetford, is returning dwelling on Saturday alongside collectively along with her new e e book…”
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We’ve been listed as really one among ‘The Largest Books to Purchase — or Ask For — This Christmas’
How cool is that this?! We’ve been chosen as perhaps the perfect books to purchase — or ask for — this Christmas and featured on Good British Life’s web site on-line; the publishers of regional ‘Life’ magazines up and down the nation.
An infinite due to our pretty good pal Jane James from Not Merely Books for placing us ahead for this itemizing, collated by Norfolk Journal.
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In case you may be considering of choosing up a replica for a Christmas current (it positive would make a shocking stocking filler ☺️), you could uncover Connections With Nature in a few the bookshops talked about on this itemizing — @notjustbooksthetford in Thetford and @bookbugsdragontales in Norwich.
The e e book, it’s manufacturing and the cash we’ve raised for charity was coated in Bloom in Doom Journal
One in every of our Wildlife Blogger Crowd members, Emily Gilford, furthermore occurs to be senior editor at Bloom in Doom journal, and was choice enough to interview me for an on-line attribute.
Oh my goodness, what an honour to have our e e book and the story of its creation depicted in a shocking illustration by Caitlin Niamh Illustrations, with the picture even together with only a bit quote from my preface.
I can’t specific my gratitude enough to Emily for such a radical and considerate article.
It means fairly a lot to have the pliability to inform your complete story of our e e book — from why I select to work with Bradt Guides and the options we made all through the publishing course of, to why we’ve chosen to assist World Land Notion and why/how we’ve determined to search out out an ‘teaching affiliate’ in Talek Major Faculty in Kenya.
Emily even gave me the prospect to speak relating to the distribution and selling of the e e book — from electing to inventory in impartial e e book retailers and present retailers or organisations that assist nature (supporting just one Amazon, and that’s the one which has bushes); to prioritising press copies being despatched to the e e book reviewers inside our personal neighborhood — we actually examined all areas of why and one of the best ways the e e book reveals the values of these of us represented inside.
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Connections With Nature Accessible in the marketplace in Waterstones
Merely final week, we acquired our first Waterstones shelf placement (with our implausible cowl work by Chloé Valerie Harmsworth, face-up)! And have a look on the unimaginable company we’re sustaining!
Big as a consequence of Norwich Waterstones for taking a chance on our little e e book, and for giving us such an impressive highlight on the cabinets.
Efficiently achieved to all our contributors for elevating your voices for nature and wildlife! I’m so happy to say that your printed writing is inside the outlets now in Waterstones Norwich, Bookbugs & Dragon Tales and Not Merely Books, and hopefully, you’ll be succesful to search out us in a bookshop close to you quickly!