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ALT A CALL TO ARMS: One book could make all the difference. We got the news, yesterday, that the Arts Council have rejected our recent grant bid. While this doesn’t affect our plans going forward, it does mean we don’t have the same financial security as other arts organisations may have. We have over seven thousand (7,000) newsletter subscribers, and over twenty thousand (20,000) followers spread across our social media accounts. If everybody who is subscribed to this newsletter bought just one book we would have the sort of financial security we could only dream of. It would ensure we can continue to create and grow new avenues for Broken Sleep Books, while maintaining the charitable and community-based endeavours we have always engaged in. We have got to where we are because of you, because of every reader and author we’ve ever worked with, for, and towards. Just one book from every newsletter subscriber and we’d be safeguarded for years.
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ALT What I haven’t said is When I heard about the woman who ate her bedroom wall – each day a new piece of plaster, chipped off and choked down with a cup of warm water – my mouth went dry, a taste of chalk and earth. I too keep rocks in my stomach, small and quiet, though I’ve never told you. Just as I’ve never mentioned the tapping from inside the skirting board, or the light switch that fizzes in the dark, sometimes the pine trees on the wallpaper nod from side to side and I can’t tell if it’s a warning or an invitation. But I do know that each time I don’t say this I grow heavier and the walls which keep us safe are getting thin.