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Colleen Dunn Bates

Colleen Dunn Bates
Colleen Dunn Bates is the founder and publisher of Prospect Park Books, one of Southern California’s leading trade publishers. Distributed by Consortium/Ingram, Prospect Park focuses on fiction (literary, popular, mystery/crime), cookbooks, regional, and humor/gift titles. A sixth-generation Southern Californian, Bates was a magazine journalist and nonfiction book editor and author before founding Prospect Park.


10 Lessons from 10 Years Running a Small Press

Colleen Dunn Bates on a Decade of Prospect Park Books
November 8, 2016  By Colleen Dunn Bates
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