PRESS RELEASE Gaiman Kickstarter video and Colfer original fiction help launch The Read Quarterly The Read Quarterly (TRQ), the magazine launching in January 2016 to discuss the culture of children’s literature, has today revealed its first issue  cover and has announced that the magazine will contain an original four-part Eoin Colfer story, Holy Mary, to be published through the first year. TRQ have also announced details of how to support the first issue of the magazine via Kickstarter and that Neil Gaiman has been instrumental in setting  up that campaign, even recording a video for them to help push the crowd funding. Sarah Odedina, one of the founders of the magazine,said "We have had such fantastic support since we announced The Read Quarterly. We are excited by the Kickstarter campaign as we feel that its energy suits our magazine so perfectly. Support has already been flooding in from such luminaries as authors including Malorie Blackman and Neil Gaiman, publishers Neal Porter and Louis Baum and bookseller Melissa Cox. We look forward to growing our magazine to reflect the energy and drive that is so characteristic of the children's literary scene around the world,” Eoin Colfer said. “It seems like I have been waiting for The Read Quarterly forever and now that it  is finally almost upon us I am ready to stride down the main street, holding my copy aloft and shout: See? I told you children’s literature was important. Perhaps I won’t go that far but I will  definitely read it in a café and coo loudly. I am proud to have my profession represented and dissected by this wonderful magazine, but I am even more chuffed to be a small part of it.” To support the Kickstarter please go to www.kickstarter.com/projects/748565480/the-read-quarter- ly. Pledges for the project start at £20 and you will receive not only Odedina and Manning’s undying gratitude and the joy of supporting the project from the start, but also exclusive prints, bags and original artwork. From publication, the magazine will be stocked in bookshops and there is also a subscription service from issue two onwards. If you are interested in stocking the magazine, please contact Kate Manning at kate@thereadquarerly.com. Launching in January 2016, The Read Quarterly will be a forum in which global children’s literature can be discussed and debated. Created by children’s literature enthusiasts, each with a wealth of experience in the publishing industry, Sarah Odedina and Kate Manning, this quarterly magazine will provide an environment in which both writers and readers can share their enthusiasm, introduce new ideas and challenge old ones.