Sandstone Press

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Posted by RLD on 24th December 2009

It has been quite a year for Sandstone Press and as it draws to an end it seems appropriate for the House to thank all our authors and associates, typesetter, designers, printers, distributor, Dyan Berry our Marketing Associate, and everyone else who has contributed to the year’s achievements. Most of all we would like to recognise and thank the many people who have bought our books and given us their support.

The core of this support is among this web site’s many visitors and we thank you in particular. We have improvements planned for the site in the early weeks of next year, so please do continue to visit. Among much else we will be extending our list of entertaining bloggers.

Between January and June we will publish eight books, possibly ten if our plans in Gaelic come off, more than we have published in any one year to date. You can read about them all now in Forthcoming, with covers for Hamish’s Mountain Walk and Yin Yang Tattoo now at design stage. We put a lot of effort into our covers and hope you like them. Feedback is welcome. In addition, with Liz Ashworth’s Orkney Spirit we will be introducing you to a new concept that will also be our first full colour, large format book, one of the most beautiful books you are ever likely to see.

More on all this will follow in the New Year. The first two books of the following half year have been accepted and we are planning still further ahead.

The present generation of web site only began a few months ago and, as you know, incorporated our Twitter feed. We experienced an immediate upsurge in visits and have found that the level of visits has continued. We will be using Twitter as part of our information system to an even greater extent next year, incorporating schmaps to guide you to our launch locations.

The first two books of 2010 will be Simon Varwell’s Up The Creek Without A Mullet, and Bobbie Darbyshire’s hilarious comedy of errors, Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones. These two books will take us in our new direction which will continue the narrative non-fiction, journey books, which we have become famous for, combining it with the most entertaining fiction in publishing. Bobbie’s book will be a great start.

Simon’s launch will be at the Bishop’s Palace, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, on Monday 1st February. Bobbie’s launch will be at Clapham Library, London, on the 20th. Please do look in the press for reviews and notices on these two books, as well as with the book bloggers we will be pointing you towards.

Thank you again for your support in 2009. As the Old Year gives way to the New we will be raising a glass to the future and to the most important people of all, our readers.