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Our Story

Where words meet illustration

Lichen Glen Publishing is an accident. A long time ago a poem was started, and it grew and changed; many, many times. 

Several people liked it, several enjoyed it. And over the years it kept changing and growing. Then one day, a wiser person called Kevin said 'this could be good, do something with it!'. 

So the writer finally did. Luckily he found this really good illustrator, who liked and more importantly, enjoyed the story. So they started to work together and the illustrated book project started, for fun and adventure. And as the ideas for the illustrations developed, and as conversations wandered and twisted, it grew a bit more. Then there was a second book, but it was too big. So it became the second and fourth book, as a sapling had taken root, which was the third book. And there is a fifth book, well an ending, with Grugach, Wold Swan and Urisk.

The story of this to do it. Don't worry about it. Do it. Do what Kevin says.

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The Deptford Pixies is written to be playful, challenging and adventurous. 

It uses made up words, mis-spellings and convoluted rhymes to take the story along the path the rhythm of the words paint. The imagery uses small pieces of quirky identity to add to the tale and deepen the story telling. 

We hope the stories engage, fascinate and inspire the reader to do their own writing, poet their own poems, bounce their own rhymes,  splash their own paintings on the living room wall or scratch their own sketches in the tiles in the bathroom. To enjoy themselves through the power of storytelling.

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