Sandstone Press

Book launches on the way

Posted by RLD on 10th January 2010

We are all well and truly into the New Year now, although low temperatures and deep snow are holding back the real start of the working year for most. Not so here at Sandstone Towers. Look forward to two important launches now taking shape behind the scenes.

Firstly, Simon Varwell and Up The Creek without A Mullet will be pushed out onto the Sea of Books on 1st February at the Bishop’s Palace, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, at 6.00pm. Simon has a first time author’s natural knee trrrrremble (suitable for the season), as he describes in his most recent blog, which you can click into directly from the Home Page. I see that two of our other authors have given their support in Comments.

Secondly, quite distant from here in terms of geography, but no distance at all in our thoughts, second time novelist Bobbie Darbyshire will be launching Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones at Clapham Library on the 20th February. Bobbie’s book is destined to become a comic classic that will sit very comfortably beside Compton Mackenzie’s Whisky Galore.

A tentative third is that it looks like we will be launching Liz Asworth’s Orkney Spirit, which features the incredibly beautiful artwork of Selena Kuzman, at the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall on Friday 26th March. More to follow in due course.

Incidentally, of the two books we have committed to in the period beyond June 2010 (which we haven’t come out on yet, but watch this space) one is set in an even colder landscape than Britain’s at the moment. So also is another which is under consideration and with which we are v-e-e-e-ry impressed, but all that is ahead.

Soon we will be making the important announcement this News spot has been hinting at for a few months. Please do keep visiting.