During the last six months Cheryl-ann and I have been working extremely hard alongside an author called Ian Bowie, artist Tim Bulmer and his wife Sarah to set up an independent publishing company where we can write, illustrate, design and publish our own range of high quality humorously illustrated books with the tongue-in-cheek tag line of "Entertaining reading for an inspirational lavatorial experience". Ian first approached Tim in April and the concept moved on very quickly from there and when they invited us at Design Farm to come on board we jumped at the chance to work on something so exciting. So, after a lot of planning and hard work, Bog Books Ltd was set up to bring the idea to life. Bog Books are basically for anyone with a good and broad sense of humour. They make excellent ‘stocking filler’ gifts or a souvenir gift as well as a great present to oneself!
The very first Bog Book is called “Yorkshire Pudding ‘n’ All That Tripe” and it is an affectionate tribute to all the friendly folk of Yorkshire and their illustrious county. The book contains a special edition fold-out Bog Books ‘Map of Yorkshire’ which can also be bought as a beautiful ‘giclée’ watercolour print, in fact all the full page illustrations are available as prints via our website.
We are launching Bog Books in a number of places in Yorkshire over the next few months including Pickering, Whitby and York. The weekend of 16th, 17th & 18th October sees the Bog Books hometown of Pickering turned into 1943 Wartime Britain. The annual Wartime Weekend has coincided with the launch of "Yorkshire Pudding 'n' All That Tripe" and our good friends at The Ginger Pig have kindly allowed Bog Books to use their currently empty shop space in the middle of Pickering's Market Place to call our own for the weekend. There will be 'Ration Book' flyers being handed out all around town giving you £1.00 off the RRP of £8.95 of the book and FREE entry into a prize draw for a specially signed copy of the Bog Books Map of Yorkshire. So come along to Bog Books at The Ginger Pig to see all we have to offer and pick up a nifty present to remind yourself of Yorkshire!
Bog Books Ltd are also proud to be affiliated with the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity and are doing their bit to keep this amazing group of people going. YAA save lives all over Yorkshire, and sometimes beyond, and their tireless effort should not go unnoticed. Bog Books Ltd donate money from the profits of every single copy of the "Yorkshire Pudding 'n' All That Tripe" book to the charity and also donate profits from every "Bog Books Map of Yorkshire" and every giclée print from the book!
You can purchase the book and any of the prints via our website so have a look to find out a bit more about us www.bogbooksltd.co.uk
You can also keep up to date with what’s going on at Bog Books HQ by visiting our blog at www.bogbooksbogblog.blogspot.com
So go and check us out when you have a minute or two!
