Christmas 2025

Christmas 2025

It’s our first Christmas selling our full range of items: paperbacks, ebooks, art and products featuring our art, and I won’t pretend it hasn’t been a rush preparing. I was only just beginning marketing the online store at all when it was upon us. But we still have managed a few good things.

Christmas Products for 2025

We have brought out a Christmas range featuring our artwork. There is a selection of art Christmas cards available singly, in packs of ten and packs of twenty. The Winter Bird design also appears on gift wrap, gift tins and a ceramic Christmas tree ornament, and the Santa’s Tea Break picture appears on a festive jigsaw available in a range of sizes. We also have a special seasonal tote bag/gift sack.

I was particularly pleased with the Winter Bird tins and ornament. The design transfers to those gentle gloss materials beautifully and looks both peaceful and elegant.

I also launched my Harlequin Collection in the autumn and this is a very festive, colourful design that is perfect for Christmas.

Christmas Offers for 2025

We have been experimenting with some Christmas offers. One is a festive version of our regular bundle offers. The other two are focussed on encouraging customers to shop early, as the last ordering date for Christmas is earlier for our made-to-order items than it is for items held in stock

Christmas Gift Bundle

We have some regular bundle offers always available and from mid-November until the last order date for Christmas, we are offering a special Christmas Gift Bundle. Pick any four items, including repeats, from our selection and get £10 off. That’s a really good saving to introduce you to our new Christmas items and we hope you’ll enjoy using it.

Free UK Shipping on Christmas Cards until 1st December

We don’t generally offer free shipping, because the only way to do that is by adding the cost of shipping – there are costs such as packaging, fuel, staff, vehicles etc – to the price of the products. And we would rather be transparent about what you are paying for. However, we do sometimes offer free shipping on specific products as a promotion, and this is designed to encourage you to buy your cards early and get writing!

Small Business Saturday

It probably won’t surprise you to learn that we don’t do Black Friday. We don’t make massive profits on our products, and the only way we could offer huge blanket discounts is by charging our customers more the rest of the year. (I’m not saying don’t buy in the Black Friday sales, but it is worth doing your homework and making sure that you really are making a saving, and that it is a genuine product that you are buying and not an inferior one that’s not normally for sale. Dodgy things go on in business!).

We have decided to run a Small Business Saturday offer instead. Small Business Saturday is 29th December in USA and 6th December in UK. This makes it a perfect time for you to shop with us, as we have an early cut-off.

We will be offering extensions of some of our usual bundle offers:

• £5 off all art prints, rolled and mounted. A big saving on our usual buy four to get £5 off bundle.
• Buy a paperback and get a second half price. Our usual bundle offer is 33% off the second book.
• Buy any hardback notebook and get a second half price. Our usual offer is £3 off when you buy two.

We think these are good options for gifts (perhaps for yourself!). The offers will run 29th and 30th November and again on 6th and 7th December.

Half-price Ebooks

Because we do have an early cut-off for Christmas, from 16th December until 24th December our ebooks will be half-price. This means that if you missed out on shopping for our physical products for Christmas gifts, you can still give an ebook. Remember our ebooks are suitable for all formats and devices, so the lucky recipient is certain to be able to enjoy them.

Last Ordering Dates for Christmas 2025

Please note that we can’t guarantee delivery in time for Christmas. Things sometimes go wrong at busy times, especially with courier services. However, if you stick to these dates you should get your order in time for the big day.

Paperback Books

At the time of writing, I still haven’t had the Christmas cut-off date confirmed by the paperback manufacturers. I’m recommending 14th December for UK, Europe, USA, Canada and Australia. For other countries I would order earlier if possible. If you need exact information, please drop me a line at contact@castleseftonpress.co.uk and I will ask the manufacturers.

Original Art Works

• UK: 20st December
• Europe: 16th December
• All other destinations: 15th December

Other Artwork

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Finally

Thank you for your interest in and support of our small creative business in 2025.

A very Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
from
John Blake
and
Emily Tellwright