Welcome
to the April 2015
Dernier
Publishing newsletter
What
can you buy for £5.99?
- A house plant
- A box of chocolates
- Have your car washed
- An Easter egg for your dog (I'm not joking!)
- A good book
Where
can I buy Dernier books?
I
received an encouraging email from a satisfied customer: “I have
previously purchased all the Mary Weeks Milland Books via Amazon, so
was very pleased to be referred by a friend to a more 'ethical'
source.” Yes, please do buy our books from your local Christian
bookshop or from our own website if you can – we need your support
and every bit helps! Amazon does help us out in that our ebooks
are instantly downloadable all over the world, even in places where
we would be unable to ship our printed books, so we are grateful for
this. Still, if you can support direct sales, it's a great help
because it means we can put the money back into producing more books!
You can find your local Christian bookshop here:
http://www.christianbookshops.org.uk/
or buy from our website here: www.dernierpublishing.com/youthf.php
Could
you send books to children abroad?
Many
children from poor backgrounds are desperate to get an education to
better themselves and help their families. I was delighted to receive
this news from a supporter: “My sponsored boy in Uganda and his
brothers and sisters have particularly enjoyed I want to be an
Airline Pilot, Living in Hope and Under the Tamarind
Tree.”
I
have recently been put in touch with a shipping organisation who ship
aid and goods to Christian charities and NGOs all over the world . .
. so if you have an idea to get books to a school or children's home
desperate for resources but don't know how it would work in practice,
get in contact with me and we'll see if we can make it work. As Shema
learns in I Want to Be An Airline Pilot, 'the
Lord will make a way where there seems to be no way'.
:-) This is the testimony of
Dernier Publishing, start to finish!
How
far do your books go?
Some
of our books are going to be setting off for Uganda
soon, and some to Gibraltar!
The books to Gibraltar are
going to schools with Speaking
Volumes, who encourage
churches to get Christian books out into their communities. You can
find more about them here: http://www.speakingvolumes.org.uk/
The
books going to Uganda are
following my meeting with Dickens Zziwa, National Director of
Scripture Union
Uganda – so many thanks to all of you who prayed for the meeting! I
will be shipping a box of books quite soon – if you would like to
donate a book or two, let me know. The needs are great and SU do a
fabulous job – you can read more here: http://suuganda.org/
Every child is precious,
wherever they live – we are delighted to be able to reach a brand
new audience in these places.
Is
Write for a Reason still running?
The
new course started 13th
April – I won't be running another one until July now, but if you
know anyone who writes Christian stories for children aged 8-14-ish,
please point them in the direction of www.write-for-a-reason.com.
I started this initiative to encourage unpublished writers and
to help them with common problems I see with manuscripts. I am also
planning a monthly subscription programme for a very small cost, with
teaching at a more in-depth level. This will include a 'webinar',
where I will go over the teaching
and anyone can ask questions on the topic. Please
email me if you are interested:
janet@dernierpublishing.com.
The harvest is ready!
When
will the new books be out?
The
City Kid is moving along slowly but surely. Beech Bank
Girls 4 will be with us in paperback next month! Both BBG4
and A Pennyworth of Peppermints have been nominated for
the prestigious Christian Resources Awards – I will of course let
you know how that goes. :-)
Anything
else new?
Nothing
ever stands still, least of all me! I am currently doing a course in
Digital Marketing which sometimes makes my brain ache :-) and I also
participated at a forum for Christian European publishers earlier in
the month. Please pray that good will come from each of these –
that it will help me to get our books where they are needed. It's
very early days yet, but two or three publishers seemed genuinely
interested in translating our books into their own languages. These
included Russian and Croatian – please do pray for this, as it
would be an amazing next step for us to reach non-English speaking
children.
Sometimes
I stand back and am totally overwhelmed how far Dernier has come. At
other times I'm frustrated that sales are so slow! Thank you for
standing with me in the good and the bad. Every book in a child's
hands is a miracle and I'm grateful to you for your support and your
prayers.
May
the Lord bless you!
Janet
Janet Wilson, founder of Dernier Publishing and Write for a Reason.
PS
If you haven't already clicked on something, why not come over to one
of our facebook pages: www.facebook.com/writeforareason
and/or www.facebook.com/dernierpublishing?
Be lovely to see you there!
