“We sold 8,000 copies in six months with no publicity, no nothing.”īates decided it was time to branch out. But people were buying stacks of 10 as gifts,” says Bates of a cookbook that would end up winning the nonfiction book prize from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Assn. Campoy, who died when her cookbook was still in the bound galley phase, had a thing against corporate booksellers, and left instructions forbidding sales of “Celebrating with Julienne” via Amazon, Borders and Barnes & Noble. In 2009, during the financial crisis, the tiny Altadena-based independent publishing house Prospect Park Books put out the cookbook “Celebrating with Julienne.” It was written by Susan Campoy, the beloved local chef-owner of Julienne, a French-inspired bistro on Mission Street in nearby San Marino, with Colleen Dunn Bates, Prospect Park’s founder.īates’ only previous experience with cookbooks consisted of, in 2007, distributing Amelia Saltsman’s self-produced “The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook.” But otherwise the titles at her company consisted mainly of regional guide books and fiction penned by Southern California authors.
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