Running a small press

This week, Peace Hill Press has a booth at BEA, inside the Norton space. I’m here along with Pattie, my intrepid executive assistant, and John, the PHP Director of Marketing and online [...]

Much to my surprise, the History of the Renaissance World popped up on Amazon this week. So I guess it’s real… (Incidentally, the second level of Writing With Skill, our new [...]

This past week, we’ve been wrestling with the next Peace Hill Press catalog–the one that lists books which will come out between September 2011 and February 2012. When I write a book [...]

What an odd show this year. We had a number of good conversations, but although Peace Hill Press is having its best year ever, BookExpo was sloooowww. (If you’re interested in comparisons, [...]

Yesterday was sales conference day for Peace Hill Press, which means that I’m in New York. I don’t have any great photos this trip, but here’s the view out my window this [...]

Mollie, who’s the marketing director at Peace Hill Press (the small press I run in Charles City), has a multimedia experiment in the works: populating the Peace Hill Press Youtube channel. [...]

Those of you who follow my blog know that I have a double identity. (Not THAT kind of double identity–although if I had a cape and a secret weapon I wouldn’t tell you.) I’m a [...]

My good friend Justin, editor extraordinaire at Peace Hill Press, has practically photographic recollection of historical facts. He also proofs my manuscripts for me and keeps me from making [...]

I owe the blog an update on last week’s “52 Books” title (Andrew Ross’s The Celebration Chronicles) and I’ll get to it shortly…I keep finding other things to [...]