The Northern Fiction Alliance introduce isolation initiatives

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the UK and the country’s subsequent lockdown, the publishing industry has been working creatively and collaboratively to support its organisations and its readers with new initiatives that encourage engagement and sales where events have had to cancel, and shops have had to close.

Members of the Northern Fiction Alliance are introducing a range of offers and online activity designed to support our communities and to continue delivering our work to isolated audiences. We have collated these initiatives below and will continue to update this page as more exciting new projects are announced.

And Other Stories

· For each new subscription that they get, And Other Stories will now donate 20% of the subscription price to a bookshop of your choice/wherever you would normally buy your books from: https://bit.ly/3btOaY1

· And Other Stories are going to be asking their authors and translators to record very short readings from their books that they’ll host on their website, Youtube channel and social media – so even those of you who couldn’t have made it to events will now be able to hear their authors (front and backlist) reading from their work. They’re also going to host some live online Q&As, details of which are to be announced.

Bluemoose Books

· Bluemoose Books will be hosting a virtual book tour of Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession, details of which are to be announced: https://bit.ly/2WLB985

Comma Press

· We are now offering weekly eBook deals, with at least 40% off a new title every Friday.

· We are asking a selection of our authors to record themselves reading their short stories, or pieces that inspire them, for us to host on our socials.

· We are launching a new online book club for translated fiction in collaboration with Charco Press, Tilted Axis, Istros Books, Nordisk Books and Peirene Press. This will take place every Thursday evening at 8pm for six weeks, starting Thursday 26th March. Sign up for free: https://bit.ly/3dy53CY

Publishers involved are offering discounts on the books in discussion, including ourselves with Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, which is now further discounted when you order direct from our website: https://bit.ly/2Unw0Sj

Dead Ink

· Dead Ink are currently offering free postage on all their titles! https://deadinkbooks.com/shop/

· You can further support Dead Ink by signing up to their Patreon subscription: https://www.patreon.com/deadinkbooks

Peepal Tree Press

· Peepal Tree Press are hosting an online book launch of The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey on the 2nd April: https://bit.ly/3bmXaye

Saraband Books

· Saraband have launched a brand new podcast called Cabin Fever Fables featuring everyday conversation and readings from their authors, to keep us all company while we’re inside. Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/saraband_books

· Watch Saraband’s virtual book launch of The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange by Sue Lawrence: https://bit.ly/2JfRrON

Tilted Axis

· Tilted Axis are also taking part in our new online book club for translated fiction, presenting their title Where The Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko on Thursday 2nd April. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3dy53CY

Valley Press

· Valley Press are currently running a half price sale on 46 of their titles! https://bit.ly/3azuIZK

Wrecking Ball Press

· Wrecking Ball Press are sharing a variety of new Literature Lockdown content, including poetry readings and live recordings from their archive: https://bit.ly/2WKEswe