DEAN PARK PRESS & COMELY BANK PUBLISHING
  • Welcome
  • Dean Park Press
    • History
  • Our Current Authors
  • Blog/News
  • Resources for Talented New Authors
    • Submissions
    • Style Guidelines
    • Formatting
    • Covers
    • Dealing with Writer's Block
    • Sequels Advice
    • A Guide to Scrivener
  • 'Legacy' Comely Bank Publishing Authors
    • T D Burke >
      • The Man From Outremer
    • Gordon Lawrie >
      • Four Old Geezers and a Valkyrie
      • The Discreet Charm of Mary Maxwell-Hume
      • The Blogger Who Came in from the Cold
      • The Piano Exam
      • Recipes
      • 100 Not Out
    • Lucy Lloyd >
      • Russian Doll
    • Jane Tulloch >
      • Our Best Attention
      • Assured Attention
      • Christmas At Murrays
    • Roland Tye >
      • Weekender
  • Bookshop
  • Info for Booksellers
  • Terms & Conditions
  • About Us
  • Contact
Community Publishing for the community

Roland Tye: Weekender Novel Official Launch

29/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Blackwell's Bookshop will be hosting the launch for Weekender, the debut novel by Edinburgh author Roland Tye.

Set in Edinburgh's recent past, Weekender follows the intertwined lives of a series of the city's residents. As the life of each very different character touches the next, we move through the weekend discovering a city of contrasts: a city of wealth and poverty, drugs and desire, sex and not a little love, despair and redemption.

The event will take place on Wednesday 12th October at 6:30pm. Roland will be reading from the book and answering questions posed by Comely Bank Publishing founder's Gordon Lawrie.

​Tickets are available in person from the desk on the ground floor at Blackwell’s Bookshop, by phoning 0131 622 8222 or emailing [email protected]. Tickets can also be booked on Eventbrite.

For more information or if you would like a signed copy because you can't make it to the event, please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8222 or [email protected]

 


0 Comments

The Sad Demise Of YEt Another Indie Bookshop

25/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
(Photo: Jen Campbell)
RIP Looking Glass Books. At least I think so.

Earlier this week I discovered that the innovative bookstore/coffee-shop in Edinburgh's Quartermile had... well, it had closed. Its owner Gillian Robertson is still out there – she's judging the Saltire Society's Publisher of the Year – but it's not at all clear if, when or where Looking Glass Books is going to re-open. There's nothing on their website, but events being advertised relate to 2015.


I think that leaves Edinburgh with just three true indie bookstores:
Picture
Golden Hare Books St Stephen St
Picture
Word Power Books West Nicholson St
Picture
The Edinburgh Bookshop 219 Bruntsfield Place
Now, it's possible that there are others out there in Edinburgh that I haven't heard of, and if that's the case, please let me know. Other cities have the odd bookshop, but most have pretty limited selections of titles – the usual range of current bestsellers. Interestingly, a few bookshops situated in attractive little tourist spots such as Aberfeldy, Peebles, St Boswell's manage to do a little better, perhaps because day-trippers like to take a book home as a memento. And of course there's always Wigtown.

But in general I suspect that unless a bookshop is prepared to stock more than the standard bestsellers, it's doomed to fall prey to the big boys such as W. H. Smith and Waterstones, or even to the supermarkets. Little independent bookshops need to try and stock small local publishers and local authors to show that they're a little different. Edinburgh is lucky that most of our smaller shops – and also the excellent Edinburgh Blackwell's Scottish room – are aware of the need to have their own special identity.
0 Comments

"Weekender" published

19/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Roland Tye's debut novel is published today. Set in Edinburgh's recent past, Weekender takes the reader through a maze of Edinburgh scenes, from leafy suburbs to seedy bordellos, from sudden, unprovoked violence to quiet contemplative moments.

The reader is passed like a relay baton from one seemingly unconnected character to the next... except that it turns out that not everything is as it seems.

The novel has taken almost 15 years to come to fruition and perhaps lays bare some of Tye's own soul in the process. The reader is guaranteed an exhilarating ride.

Roland Tye's Weekender is priced £9.99 and is available from all good bookshops and is on sale on special offer at Blackwell's, South Bridge, Edinburgh.


0 Comments

First Newsletter - Out This Week!

14/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Do you want to know what's going on with Comely Bank Publishing? Do you want to know when the next edition of our best-selling novel, Our Best Attention, will be coming out or when Weekender is due to be officially launched?

if so, why not sign up for our newsletter? We'll send you all our news, as well as a round-up of what's happening in the self-publishing world in general and some tips about writing and reading.

We'll keep the newsletters infrequent (once a fortnight or so) as we know there's nothing worse than signing up for a newsletter and then getting bombarded with information day after day.

As a further incentive - if you sign up for our newsletter here, we'll send you a short story, Gordon Lawrie's The Piano Exam. Just quote The Piano Exam and newsletter in the subject line and email us at [email protected] 



0 Comments

Publisher to sue Pride and Prejudice and Zombies AuthorĀ 

1/9/2016

0 Comments

 
The author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is being sued by his publisher for delivering a manuscript they claim mostly uses public domain work.

Seth Grahame-Smith also wrote Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He is being taken to court by his publisher Hachette for alleged breach of contract. According to the complaint, which was published online by Publishers Marketplace, Grahame Smith was contracted to write two new works. One, The Last American Vampire, was published in January 2015. The deadline of the second book was extended from June 2013 to April 2016, an extension of 34 months.

Grahame-Smith and Hachette made a deal of $4 million in 2010 for the two new works, and the author was given an initial instalment of $1m. The complaint alleges that the manuscript delivered to Hachette in June of this year:
  • “is not original to Smith, but instead is in large part an appropriation of a 120- year-old public-domain work”
  • “materially varies from the 80,000-100,000 word limit fixed in the Agreement”
  • “is on a subject that was never approved by Hachette in writing
  • “is not comparable in style and quality to Smith’s wholly original bestseller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

Hachette is suing Grahame-Smith and the company he owns, Baby Gorilla, for at least $500,000.
0 Comments

    News

    Latest news from
    ​Comely Bank Publishing


    ARCHIVED Posts

    PLEASE NOTE That links in archived posts may no longer be valid

    October 2023
    August 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    August 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013

    Picture
    Click here for more about author Roland Tye
    Picture
    Click here for more about author T.D.Burke
    Picture
    Click here for Gordon Lawrie author page
    Picture
    Click here for more about Jane Tulloch
    Picture
    Click here for more about Lucy Lloyd

    Picture
    proud sponsors of
    ​
    Friday Flash Fiction

    Picture
Picture

Website by Platform 36
Photo from gianandreap