Turkey | El Gecko Publishing https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store Books From Southern Africa Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:00:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-512Logo-32x32.png Turkey | El Gecko Publishing https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store 32 32 What does 2017 have in store? https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store/blog/2017-2 https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store/blog/2017-2#respond Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:06:35 +0000 https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store2/?p=314

Do you also hear the news (struggling to sift what is real from what isn’t) and see social media depicting a world gone mad?

We don’t want to be complete ostriches, with heads in the sand and nether regions exposed in the air, so we try to keep up. But most days, it seems like we have fallen into some sort of alternative reality (one where alternative facts are the order of the day!) So, to maintain our frazzled minds in some sort of sanity, we plan to do a lot of travelling this year, whenever an opportunity presents itself, and to continue writing about the good things we encounter along the way. The planning is also fun, and helps build anticipation for the real thing. Since world politics seem to be dragging us to hell and back, we thought it would be apt to finally visit Die Hel, a.k.a. Gamkaskloof, which has been on our impossibly long bucket list for many years. So that is the plan for the easter weekend.

On the publishing front, Santa’s New Helpers has proved quite a hit, so next on the ‘to-be-printed’ queue will be another title in the Tales from the Waterhole series… watch this space!

In the meantime, More Travels troubles with Koos has been translated into Afrikaans (thanks again to Mignonne van Heerden) and is available as a PDF.

We also printed a VERY limited edition of the 4 Postcards from Abroad books, so if you are interested in quality coffee-table style books with sunning B&W images of Turkey, Bulgaria, UAE and Jordan, now is your chance.

As 2017 already seems to be running away from us, the 2017 calendars are on a crazy special, now selling for R60 each while stocks last …

Hope you all get a chance to do some travelling too; the road beckons and new horizons give us perspective!

]]> https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store/blog/2017-2/feed 0 Another book (or 7) joins our Merry-go-Round! https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store/blog/santa-joins-our-merry-go-round https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store/blog/santa-joins-our-merry-go-round#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:33:44 +0000 https://elgeckopublishing.co.za/store2/?p=813 Oh my goodness! Loving this merry-go-round of indie-publishing craziness, but wow, someone tell these old fogeys to slow down! In the past 2 months, we have designed and produced so many new products, and it is really exciting to see the awesome positive response! Books and stationery are flying off the shelves.

So, just a roundup of some recent events, highlights, products etc:

The launch for Santa’s New Helpers, hosted by Theresa and Mark Hardman, was such a fun evening, and the books are officially a HIT!

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Thanks to Louise Liebenburg of the Herald, for your enthusiastic support of the event, and to Karen Vollaire for being official photographer!

On the afternoon of the launch, we also received a VERY LIMITED EDITION print run of 4 book previously only available as PDFs. The Postcards from Abroad series was born out of Travels Abroad (also on PDF) They are collections of black & white photos, of Bulgaria, Turkey, UEA and Jordan, which resulted from our travels to visit family. Somehow, it just feels better holding a physical book in your hand. So we will load these onto the website shortly, and it will be a case of first-come, first served for now. We hope to do a bigger print run in future, but honestly, there are so many new books in the pipeline that we are scrambling to keep up!

The day after the launch, we left for another cross country road trip to get them settled into some of our favourite stockists across the Karoo. (We might have got a little sidetracked when we did a short detour into the Kgalagadi, but hey, we couldn’t be so close and not pop up there! And anyway, you know what they say about all work and no play!) We will feature highlights and new stockists in another post, soon.

The night we returned, we ran around like crazy people, setting up our home for the annual PE ART MEANDER… we opened the house and Sue’s art studio to the public, and set up all the publishing products on the dining room table. It was a great weekend, with a constant stream of visitors. Thanks to those who came, for the enthusiastic response! Theresa also did an open studio, with prints and originals of the book illustrations amongst her other fab artwork, and sold up a storm!

So that’s it for now, look out for all the new stuff in a shop near you, or in the online store.

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