Sandstone Press has an internship available! If you'd like some hands-on publishing experience check out the details here: bit.ly/2y0QK90 #publishing #publishingjobs

Off on our summer holidays! A rare thing indeed.... Thanks for all your support in the first half of this year - we've been involved in some great publications, had some brilliant feedback, and are the busiest we've ever been. Onwards and upwards - see you in a few weeks!

I've worked with lots of great poetry editors and teams, including Duncan of Tapsalteerie, Tom Chivers of Penned in the Margins , James T. Harding of Stewed Rhubarb Press , Prole & plenty in mags/anthologies. Thanks to all of them, who show you can be decent people & good book makers!

Well, we've let the Twitter side of Lumphanan Press slip over the last wee while... mostly through being packed out with work. But the new year's resolution is finally kicking in - expect regular tweets forthwith!

Today's tasks - finish new artwork for our Mslexia ✨ advert (& a fine magazine it is too) and complete not one but two proofreading jobs... all before picking up the kids from nursery. Time to get back to the grindstone me thinks #freelancelife

Working on two ebooks today - sometimes they can be so easy to format and make, but other times... ouch, they just don't do what you want, no matter how much you grumble at your computer screen. Grumble grumble.

Nice to see a wee mention of us here on the Scottish Book Trust blog; pleased to have had a small part to play in the long road to republication for Kate Tough & her excellent book! scottishbooktrust.com/blog/writing/2…

Brexit blues getting you down? Rees-mogg's repose haunting your waking hours? Why not pre-order some poetry! Twelve of Scotland's finest poets may just be the tonic you need: tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/makar-…

Hey folks, we're looking for an illustrator to work on a self-publishing project - sort-of vaguely fantasy-style character drawings. Preferrably Scotland-based but no disaster if not. There will be money involved! Any interest/recommendations?

Network member of the day is back! Today Duncan, est.2009 who offer a full range of publishing services incl. editing, proofing, sales, design & production. Visit lumphananpress.co.uk

Counted it up and we're currently working on 16 different books, all in various degrees of completion. Just dug out the A3 paper to write my to do list on. Phew!

That's us fully booked up till Christmas folks, and now even a considerable part of January too! Get in touch if you want to get your book project moving in the new year though, we're happy to help.

Being involved with this project has been a real privilege - it's a deeply moving book & a truly collective response to the historic event of the pandemic. Alec has done a great job putting it all together: stewedrhubarb.org/product/i-reme…

So I now have fully 5 different versions of Garamond installed on my computer...

Proofreading pitfalls: Nine tips to improve your proofreading strategy ow.ly/cm2G30iUItL

First few hours this morning has been spent sorting the to-do list for this month.... busy busy here at LP Towers, loads of great projects, books and authors crossing the desk this month :)

Don't think I'll ever tire of getting sent plant lists from printing companies, feels like the real sharp end of publishing/printing geekery. Now trying desperately to avoid spending time on youtube watching all these machines at work...