Articles by Steve Semken

Blog post by Erin McInerney I am in the strange position of having fallen in the middle of my two career goals. As a young, young child, I wanted to be an illustrator. Drawing was all I ever wanted to do, and there are some days still where the only thing that feels right is […]

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Blog post by Katharine Hale I went through a lot of different phases of deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up. When I was in elementary school, I went through the usual rotation of ballerina, veterinarian, and teacher, with the slightly more unique zookeeper thrown in. As I reached my tween years, […]

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Our column in Publishers Weekly http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/69567-ever-try-to-sell-a-book-it-s-not-easy.html   Ever Try to Sell a Book? It’s Not Easy An independent publisher faces retail customers By Steven Semken | Mar 04, 2016 As an independent book publisher for the past 24 years, I’m often asked to participate in Small Business Saturday, that counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber […]

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Introducing our latest intern Adam Jaschen. A few of his thoughts on publishing. I grew up surrounded by musicians, and it always felt like a beat was present, either in the air or in the way the people around me moved, worked, and spoke. To me, the beat was a unifying principle, an agreed-upon structure […]

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Meet out new publishing intern, Samantha Futhey. This past April, I attended the Association of Writers and Publishers conference in Minneapolis, representing Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment as their poetry editor. The book fair overwhelmed me in its impressive presentation of printed books and magazines piled high on tables of over 800 journals, university […]

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