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It seems fitting to come back to the platform I started this bookish journey on, at the end of Ninja Book Box. The changing online world, along with the expansion of Bookshop Crawl UK, means we have closed Ninja Book Box as an online bookshop and subscription service, and will be focusing our attention on running more and more Bookshop Crawls around the country, and on creating our beautiful Indie Book Advent Calendars, the profits of which will now be going towards helping fund more bookshop crawls!

Of course, I still adore independent publishers, and I want to use this blog to keep the focus on them, and to tell you all about amazing indie books I'm reading, and the brilliant people publishing them. I'm hoping that refocusing my time and attention like this will free me up to have more time to read and to actually write down my thoughts about the books I'm reading - something that's been hugely lacking while I was trying to balance parenting, human-ing, running two very different businesses and then also blogging alongside... There's got to be a better way, and I'm hoping that this is it! 

If you're coming here from Ninja Book Box, I cannot overstate how very grateful I am for your support over the years since we started, and for coming with me to see what happens next. Without my wonderful online community, none of this would have happened, and it's provided me with amazing opportunities so far. Let's see where we go next!

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