Somewhat Grumpy Press 🇨🇦
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Hybrid publisher founded 2020, in Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Check our catalog - twenty fiction titles available, various genres. https://somewhatgrumpypress.com/
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Refreshing non-clickbaity piece discusses the history of the format and how industry consolidation contributed to its decline.
Mass Market are the smaller, cheaper books, Trade are the larger paperbacks we associate with lit.
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Mass Market are the smaller, cheaper books, Trade are the larger paperbacks we associate with lit.
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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Refreshing non-clickbaity piece discusses the history of the format and how industry consolidation contributed to its decline.
Mass Market are the smaller, cheaper books, Trade are the larger paperbacks we associate with lit.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Mass Market are the smaller, cheaper books, Trade are the larger paperbacks we associate with lit.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Vancouver Snapshots
Photos from a recent trip to Vancouver, and a few memories.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
All our books are listed at the Canadian book site 49th shelf. Click any title, and you can find a bookstore near you that can order the book. 49thshelf.com/content/sear...
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Search Books: Bestsellers, Canadian reading lists, Author Recommendation, Book Suggestions
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December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
All our books are listed at the Canadian book site 49th shelf. Click any title, and you can find a bookstore near you that can order the book. 49thshelf.com/content/sear...
Another real human at SGP, our founder @dabble58.bsky.social, along with Pierre Trudeau (not real, but not AI) at Carrefour Atlantic. Checkout Brown's books here: somewhatgrumpypress.com#brown #booksky
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Another real human at SGP, our founder @dabble58.bsky.social, along with Pierre Trudeau (not real, but not AI) at Carrefour Atlantic. Checkout Brown's books here: somewhatgrumpypress.com#brown #booksky
Feeling better about some of our sales numbers by authors with much less publicity behind them.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Feeling better about some of our sales numbers by authors with much less publicity behind them.
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The Dreaded Lurgie
Version 1.0.0 I remember buying another copy of this book about ten years ago, after my family had suffered through a series of infections of one sort or another. No idea where it is now, but I could have used it this past month as I fought my way through whatever-it-was that…
Version 1.0.0 I remember buying another copy of this book about ten years ago, after my family had suffered through a series of infections of one sort or another. No idea where it is now, but I could have used it this past month as I fought my way through whatever-it-was that…
The Dreaded Lurgie
Version 1.0.0 I remember buying another copy of this book about ten years ago, after my family had suffered through a series of infections of one sort or another. No idea where it is now, but I could have used it this past month as I fought my way through whatever-it-was that kept me coughing and hacking to an extent I didn't dare go out in public, even with a mask.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Dreaded Lurgie
Version 1.0.0 I remember buying another copy of this book about ten years ago, after my family had suffered through a series of infections of one sort or another. No idea where it is now, but I could have used it this past month as I fought my way through whatever-it-was that…
Version 1.0.0 I remember buying another copy of this book about ten years ago, after my family had suffered through a series of infections of one sort or another. No idea where it is now, but I could have used it this past month as I fought my way through whatever-it-was that…
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In honour of #JaneAusten250, I offer a couple of blog posts about my 2023 and 2025 visits to Jane Austen Country and Jane Austen's House.
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England 3: Jane Austen Country
Peak District, Pemberley, and Bath My England trip earlier this year included a modest Jane Austen pilgrimage, consisting of locations that were convenient to other travel plans. First stop was the…
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December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In honour of #JaneAusten250, I offer a couple of blog posts about my 2023 and 2025 visits to Jane Austen Country and Jane Austen's House.
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Spent the morning reading about a publishing company that sells cheap eBooks under fake names, by rewriting other authors' books. Authors at SGP are real people, writing original stories the old-fashioned way. Here's Glenn Burwell with his latest book. somewhatgrumpypress.com/possession-p...
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Spent the morning reading about a publishing company that sells cheap eBooks under fake names, by rewriting other authors' books. Authors at SGP are real people, writing original stories the old-fashioned way. Here's Glenn Burwell with his latest book. somewhatgrumpypress.com/possession-p...
Possession Point, the fifth detective Robert Lui story from Vancouver author Glenn Burwell, is now available to order from Chapters/Indigo.
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Possession Point: A Detective Robert Lui Story #5 Book By Glenn Burwell, ('tp') | Indigo
Buy the book Possession Point: A Detective Robert Lui Story #5 by glenn burwell at Indigo
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December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Possession Point, the fifth detective Robert Lui story from Vancouver author Glenn Burwell, is now available to order from Chapters/Indigo.
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/posses...
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The @librarything.com giveaway for review copies of 'Farewell, the Beloved Country,' a memoir of a childhood in the Belgian Congo, by Greta Du Boise Cleynhens, is now open! Available in Canada only. #books #booksky
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Book Giveaway for Farewell, the Beloved Country by Greta Du Bois Cleynhens
Enter to win one of 5 free copies available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The @librarything.com giveaway for review copies of 'Farewell, the Beloved Country,' a memoir of a childhood in the Belgian Congo, by Greta Du Boise Cleynhens, is now open! Available in Canada only. #books #booksky
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If you are in the mood to shop for books, we have a score of books in multiple genres, all from Canadian authors, available by order from most bookstores and in stock at Dartmouth Book Exchange (they ship). somewhatgrumpypress.com
Somewhat Grumpy Press
Founded in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 2020
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November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If you are in the mood to shop for books, we have a score of books in multiple genres, all from Canadian authors, available by order from most bookstores and in stock at Dartmouth Book Exchange (they ship). somewhatgrumpypress.com
"Heather is six years old when her mixed-race family emigrate from India to Canada in 1955. She encounters dangers and predators on four legs and two, and learns there are worse things a mother can do than leave her children." #booksky
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New Book from Sherry Scully
Somewhat Grumpy Press is proud to announce we’ve signed a publishing contract with Sherry Scully for her novel Marigold Grey. Heather is six years old when her mixed-race family emigrate from India…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"Heather is six years old when her mixed-race family emigrate from India to Canada in 1955. She encounters dangers and predators on four legs and two, and learns there are worse things a mother can do than leave her children." #booksky
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Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Congratulations Glenn Burwell - Possession Point, the 5th Detective Robert Lui thriller, releases tomorrow! eBook available from any online service; paperback can be ordered at any bookstore. In stock at Dartmouth Book Exchange - they have the whole series. Edited by @dabble58.bsky.social #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Congratulations Glenn Burwell - Possession Point, the 5th Detective Robert Lui thriller, releases tomorrow! eBook available from any online service; paperback can be ordered at any bookstore. In stock at Dartmouth Book Exchange - they have the whole series. Edited by @dabble58.bsky.social #booksky
Magic in Her Blood, contemporary #fantasy by ATL Doyle, has a 4-star average rating on Goodreads and 18 reviews! (Still not sure why one reader said 'Don't judge by its cover,' but Goodreads is still showing the ARC cover). #booksy www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Magic In Her Blood (The Enaid Chronicles Book 1)
When her latest human companion dies, the immortal Frey…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Magic in Her Blood, contemporary #fantasy by ATL Doyle, has a 4-star average rating on Goodreads and 18 reviews! (Still not sure why one reader said 'Don't judge by its cover,' but Goodreads is still showing the ARC cover). #booksy www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
A recent 5-star review for Bib & Tucker by @dabble58.bsky.social on Amazon:
"DA Brown, a nurse herself, clearly spent a great deal of time researching the comparatively gruesome techniques applied to mental patients in the 1940s-50s." #booksky somewhatgrumpypress.com/bib-tucker/
"DA Brown, a nurse herself, clearly spent a great deal of time researching the comparatively gruesome techniques applied to mental patients in the 1940s-50s." #booksky somewhatgrumpypress.com/bib-tucker/
Bib & Tucker
Bib & Tucker DA Brown It’s 1947, and Ruth Maclean has returned to nursing school at Kingston General Hospital, only to find she is on her own for yet another placement, this time in the f…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A recent 5-star review for Bib & Tucker by @dabble58.bsky.social on Amazon:
"DA Brown, a nurse herself, clearly spent a great deal of time researching the comparatively gruesome techniques applied to mental patients in the 1940s-50s." #booksky somewhatgrumpypress.com/bib-tucker/
"DA Brown, a nurse herself, clearly spent a great deal of time researching the comparatively gruesome techniques applied to mental patients in the 1940s-50s." #booksky somewhatgrumpypress.com/bib-tucker/
Possession Point, the 5th Detective Robert Lui thriller, will be available Nov 20! Pre-order the eBook from your favourite retailer. somewhatgrumpypress.com/possession-p... #booksky
Possession Point
Coming November 20! Possession Point Glenn Burwell Detective Robert Lui #5 A string of construction accidents plague Vancouver. Deaths have occurred. Robert Lui doesn’t do accidents, but as h…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Possession Point, the 5th Detective Robert Lui thriller, will be available Nov 20! Pre-order the eBook from your favourite retailer. somewhatgrumpypress.com/possession-p... #booksky
Two new 5-star reviews for Bib & Tucker by @dabble58.bsky.social: "very well-written and engaging" "great Canadian historical fiction" "very well researched" "Ruth is a character to relate to and cheer for."
eBook and paperback available
www.librarything.com/work/3496232... #booksky #bookreviews
eBook and paperback available
www.librarything.com/work/3496232... #booksky #bookreviews
Bib and Tucker by D. A. Brown
Bib and Tucker by D. A. Brown
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November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Two new 5-star reviews for Bib & Tucker by @dabble58.bsky.social: "very well-written and engaging" "great Canadian historical fiction" "very well researched" "Ruth is a character to relate to and cheer for."
eBook and paperback available
www.librarything.com/work/3496232... #booksky #bookreviews
eBook and paperback available
www.librarything.com/work/3496232... #booksky #bookreviews
"Other than the fact that my last name is Nicholson, why would I belong to a clan in this day and age? Aren’t clans something from the past and no longer relevant today? All good questions."
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Why I Joined a Clan
Clan MacNeacail (MacNicol/Nicolson) www.clanmacnicol.org Here’s a picture of the Chief of the Clan. He’s the one in the middle of the picture. First, I better say what a clan is. I was …
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November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Other than the fact that my last name is Nicholson, why would I belong to a clan in this day and age? Aren’t clans something from the past and no longer relevant today? All good questions."
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"I become angry when people say we shouldn’t be funding the Canadian Forces, yet continue to expect our men and women to go and do everything with materials and equipment dating from the Second World War. And then refuse to pay them a living wage. "
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Remembering
Photo by Vlad Vasnetsov on Pexels.com I never come around to Remembrance Day without thinking of my ex and the many many cold and rainy parades he has attended. And of course, also the many peaceke…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"I become angry when people say we shouldn’t be funding the Canadian Forces, yet continue to expect our men and women to go and do everything with materials and equipment dating from the Second World War. And then refuse to pay them a living wage. "
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New book from SGP!
Two sisters, 60 and 72, hitchhiked across Newfoundland in 2012. "We winged it one day at a time, depending almost entirely on the goodness of strangers. They did not let us down."
#booksky
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Two sisters, 60 and 72, hitchhiked across Newfoundland in 2012. "We winged it one day at a time, depending almost entirely on the goodness of strangers. They did not let us down."
#booksky
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New Book from Bernadette Shea
It’s been a busy week – this is our third new book annoucement! Somewhat Grumpy Press is proud to announce we’ve signed a publishing contract with Bernadette Shea, for her book Thumbin&…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
New book from SGP!
Two sisters, 60 and 72, hitchhiked across Newfoundland in 2012. "We winged it one day at a time, depending almost entirely on the goodness of strangers. They did not let us down."
#booksky
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Two sisters, 60 and 72, hitchhiked across Newfoundland in 2012. "We winged it one day at a time, depending almost entirely on the goodness of strangers. They did not let us down."
#booksky
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"I’ve been researching nursing education in the 1940’s for the third in my White Stockings series, about Ruth Maclean, nursing student at KGH. I find some things endlessly fascinating – from the pay rate back then (appalling) to the fight over work hours." dorothyanneb.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Oh Nhurse, Nhurse?
Photo by Kampus Production on Pexels.com One of my first year nursing buddies and I used to joke around about being bellowed to by needy patients. It seemed they often added an additional ‘h&…
dorothyanneb.ca
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"I’ve been researching nursing education in the 1940’s for the third in my White Stockings series, about Ruth Maclean, nursing student at KGH. I find some things endlessly fascinating – from the pay rate back then (appalling) to the fight over work hours." dorothyanneb.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Somewhat Grumpy Press proudly announces we’ve signed a contract with Greta Du Bois Cleynhens, for her memoir Farewell, the Beloved Country. The book relates the author’s childhood and teens in the former Belgian Congo, until the post-independence civil wars.
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New Book from Greta Du Bois Cleynhens
Somewhat Grumpy Press is proud to announce we’ve signed a publishing contract with Greta Du Bois Cleynhens, for her memoir Farewell, the Beloved Country. The book covers the period 1951 to 1962, th…
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November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Somewhat Grumpy Press proudly announces we’ve signed a contract with Greta Du Bois Cleynhens, for her memoir Farewell, the Beloved Country. The book relates the author’s childhood and teens in the former Belgian Congo, until the post-independence civil wars.
somewhatgrumpypress.com/2025/11/04/c...
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Somewhat Grumpy Press is proud to announce we’ve signed a publishing contract with New Brunswick author Jennifer McMullin.
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New Book from Jennifer McMullin
Every house has its secrets, some more sinister than others.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Somewhat Grumpy Press is proud to announce we’ve signed a publishing contract with New Brunswick author Jennifer McMullin.
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"It is the willingness of the state to decide something about women’s bodies and their freedom without their consent that seems like a step down a dark path ... That’s scary. If you raise your voice in objection, will you be labeled a witch?"
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Witches
Well, I talked about fairies and now, as it’s almost Hallowe’en, it seems like a good time to talk about witches. Here is a picture of me at my book launch for my book called, The Last Witch on Sky…
carolynnicholson.ca
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"It is the willingness of the state to decide something about women’s bodies and their freedom without their consent that seems like a step down a dark path ... That’s scary. If you raise your voice in objection, will you be labeled a witch?"
carolynnicholson.ca/2025/10/31/w...
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