Somewhat Grumpy Press

01/11/2024

The Mall Walkers, a novel about how the 2020 arrival of Covid affects a northwestern USA shopping mall, will be going out for review in December.

The November batch of Early Reviewers is now live! Head over to LibraryThing to enter to win one of 4,102 copies of 209 titles. This month we've got exciting new titles from Alcove Press, Arctis Books USA, Baker Books, Bethany House Fiction, Broadleaf Books, CarTech Books, City Owl Press, Crooked Lane Books, Entrada Publishing, E-Spec Books, Gefen Publishing, IngramSpark, Islandport Press, Lerner Publishing Group, The New Press, PublishNation, Purple Diamond Press Inc, Book Publishing, Revell, Riverfolk Books, Rootstock Publishing, Running Wild Press, Simon & Schuster, Somewhat Grumpy Press, Stone Bridge Press, Tundra Books, Twisted Road Publications, Unsolicited Press, Vibrant Publishers, Yorkshire Publishing and more! https://www.librarything.com/ner

31/10/2024

31/10/2024

Just in time for Hallowe’en, here are a few spooky gardening stories.

A trio of Hallowe’en arrangements. Photo by R. Last. Just in time for Hallowe’en, here are a few spooky gardening stories. Oddities Sherlock Holmes & Poisonous Plants Sherlock Holmes in “…

28/10/2024

Looking for Halloween reading? Consider "Tales from the Darkside," by Robert John Schwarzmann. A collection of eight dark fantasy short stories set in various locations around the world, on themes of revenge, fate, and greed. Justice is meted out, sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly, sometimes by people and sometimes by nature. eBook currently discounted at Amazon. Paperback available at Dartmouth Book Exchange. https://somewhatgrumpypress.com/darkside/

20/10/2024

Congratulations Carolyn on a great launch party, and thanks to OC Publishing for organizing this! Fun fact: Somewhat Grumpy Press is mentioned in Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders, and Vikings (our first mention in fiction), for organizing a book launch party - something we'd never done. Now we know how to do it!

Tomorrow at the Halifax Public Libraries main library on Spring Garden Rd., in the BMO Community Room (2nd floor), we're celebrating the launch of Carolyn J. Nicholson's two new novels - The Last Witch on Skye (OC Publishing - editing by Marianne Ward, and illustrations by E.M. Gales, book design by David W. Edelstein!); and Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders, & Vikings (Somewhat Grumpy Press). I'm in awe of her for juggling both projects simultaneously and happy to be collaborating with Tim Covell at Somewhat Grumpy on this dual launch party! Hope to see you there.

19/10/2024

Recalling Rose Blanche is coming early next year! Rose Blanche is a Newfoundland village, founded in the 1700s. George Rose grew up there in the 1930s and 1940s, and in this memoir he paints a vivid picture of life in the outports at that time. “Growing up in Rose Blanche was an experience I wouldn’t trade for anywhere else I’ve seen or read about.”

19/10/2024

Tomorrow at the Halifax Public Libraries main library on Spring Garden Rd., in the BMO Community Room (2nd floor), we're celebrating the launch of Carolyn J. Nicholson's two new novels - The Last Witch on Skye (OC Publishing - editing by Marianne Ward, and illustrations by E.M. Gales, book design by David W. Edelstein!); and Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders, & Vikings (Somewhat Grumpy Press). I'm in awe of her for juggling both projects simultaneously and happy to be collaborating with Tim Covell at Somewhat Grumpy on this dual launch party! Hope to see you there.

18/10/2024

Coming early next year - The Mall Walkers, a COVID era novel.

Reviews The Mall Walkers R. Brian Howe Coming early 2025 In the summer of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading, and a mall bookstore clerk is found dead in a washroom, a blue facemask stuffed i…

18/10/2024

Calling all HRM poets! We're seeking submissions for the November 2024 issue of Open Heart Forgery. Send us your poems for consideration by Friday, October 25th. Find all submission guidelines and info on our website: www.ohforgery.com

17/10/2024

Congratulations Glenn Burwell on the release of his fourth Detective Robert Lui novel, The Girl From Raven Island! This is his third book edited by DABrown. The eBook is now available from most eBook retailers, and currently discounted at Amazon. Paperback can be ordered from most bookstores, or directly from Somewhat Grumpy Press.
https://www.amazon.ca/Girl-Raven-Island-Detective-Robert-ebook/dp/B0DGZJ8SJ2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

15/10/2024

This weekend! Thanks to OC Publishing for organizing!

I hope all my fellow Canadians had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I actually took some time off and hung out with family so it was three days of full-on eating...turkey and lobster! I am a happy camper. Now, it's back to work!! Don't forget, this Sunday is the launch celebration for Carolyn J. Nicholson's two books - The Last Witch on Skye (OC Publishing), and Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders & Vikings (Somewhat Grumpy Press). Carolyn has just returned from Scotland so will be bursting with stories to share! I hope you can join us and support Carolyn from 2-4 pm at the Halifax Main Library on Spring Garden Rd. in the BMO room. There will be refreshments, author Q&A and readings, and books will be available for purchase and signing.

07/10/2024

Friends and Consequences (eBook), the debut novel from Nova Scotia writer DJ Watt, can be pre-ordered from Amazon with a 20% discount.

Friends and Consequences: Tales from the Old Fort - 1973 eBook : Watt, DJ: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

07/10/2024

The Girl from Raven Island (Detective Robert Lui Book 4) eBook, by Glenn Burwell, is available for pre-order from Amazon with a 20% discount.

The Girl from Raven Island (Detective Robert Lui Book 4) eBook : Burwell, Glenn: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

07/10/2024

Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders, and Vikings (eBook), the new historical fiction novel by Carolyn Jean Nicholson, is available for pre-order from Amazon with a 20% discount.

Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders, and Vikings eBook : Nicholson, Carolyn Jean: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

05/10/2024

All set up at Booktoberfest.

04/10/2024

03/10/2024

This is the first time SGP has participated in a launch party - thanks for setting things up, OC Publishing! And congratulations to Carolyn for having two books coming out just weeks apart!

October is a crazy busy month! Mark your calendars for the dual launch party for Carolyn J. Nicholson's books, The Last Witch on Skye (OC Publishing) and Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders & Vikings (Somewhat Grumpy Press) on October 20th at the Halifax Main Library on Spring Garden Road from 2-4 pm.

01/10/2024

We have two books out for reviews this month: Friends and Consequences by DJ Watt, and The Girl from Raven Island by Glenn Burwell - the fourth Detective Robert Lui novel.

The October batch of Early Reviewers is now live! Head over to LibraryThing to enter to win one of 3,718 copies of 197 titles. This month we've got exciting new titles from Alcove Press, Baker Books, Bethany House Fiction, CarTech Books, City Owl Press, Entrada Publishing, E-Spec Books, Fawkes Press, Harbor Lane Books, IngramSpark, Inhabit Media Inc., Lerner Publishing Group, Modern Marigold Books, New Vessel Press, NeWest Press, PublishNation, Revell, Riverfolk Books, Running Wild Press, Somewhat Grumpy Press, Thinking Ink Press, Three Rooms Press, Tundra Books, Tuxtails Publishing, Type Eighteen Books, Yorkshire Publishing, Zibby Books and more! https://www.librarything.com/ner

01/10/2024

Somewhat Grumpy Press is proud to announce that we will be distributing an ebook version of the Open Heart Forgery Poetry Cooperative Tenth Anniversary anthology, featuring the work of almost 100 Halifax poets. All proceeds will go to the cooperative. We hope to have this online in a few weeks. Meanwhile, the paperback version is still available, and in stock at Bookmark and Dartmouth Book Exchange.

01/10/2024

Somewhat Grumpy now has a YouTube channel! It's launching with three shorts from Glenn Burwell, reading the epigraphs from his Robert Lui books, last May's reading of Ocean's Lure by Tim Covell - Writer and Editor, and last week's great presentation on researching historical fiction and readings from Spit & Polish and Bib & Tucker by DABrown.

Kingston writer DA Brown talks about researching her novel Spit & Polish, and the upcoming sequel Bib & Tucker. This virtual reading was sponsored by The Wri...

30/09/2024

"To further reconciliation, I’d like to share some stories about the importance of Indigenous stewardship for protecting lands and especially forests."

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public comm…

27/09/2024

27/09/2024

Carolyn Nicholson's new novel, Traitors, Cannibals, Highlanders, and Vikings, is just weeks away from publication, and we have a new cover, featuring artwork by author and illustrator E M Gales!

20/12/2020

Shelf Awareness