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Our 2024 in publishing was pretty lit, all things considered:
It's been a heckuva a year! It should be noted that all of this was managed through several cases of COVID, a major move, job changes, health crises, moving my spouse into memory care, then hospice, the death of family, friends and pets, and doubtlessly more horrors than I can recall. Through it all, our authors and cover artists were champs and did a great job. My assistant, Alexa, and the various friends who helped out at events were incredible helpful. And, as always, big shoutout to everyone who hosted us bought books, reviewed our books, pledged our Patreon, requested books at the library, etc. 2024 was our best year of sales to date and we thank you all!
- We were finalists for the Independent Book Publishers Association's Innovative Voices Program, which was pretty cool.
- 3 of our authors were Guest of Honor at Conventions - Melissa Scott at Cleveland Concoction, Michael Merriam at MarsCon Minneapolis and me, Catherine Lundoff, at Capricon 44.
- Death by Silver (Lynes & Mathey #1) by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold was a finalist for the Midwest Book Awards
- We put out 6 books (not the 7 I was aiming for, but close!):
- Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam
- Point of Hopes (Astreiant #1) by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
- Point of Knives (Astreiant #2) by Melissa Scott
- Point of Dreams (Astreiant #3) by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
- Fairs' Points (Astreiant #4) by Melissa Scott
- Point of Sighs (Astreiant #5) by Melissa Scott
- In addition to their other publishing successes, our authors were on programming at Balticon, Glasgow Worldcon, World Fantasy in Saratoga. Minicon, 4th Street Fantasy, Flights of Foundry, Mythcon and Can*Con.
- We also had tables at the Saratoga Book Festival, Queer Writes, GCLS, Twin Cities Book Festival, 13 Gears Steampunk, Carver County Pride, Twin Cities Pride, Rochester Pride, St. Cloud Pride, Columbia Heights Pride and Twin Cities Pagan Pride, along with other venues.
- Our authors were featured at the WROTE Podcast, the Writers Drinking Coffee Podcast, the Story Hour, a PEN online panel on publishing, Madam Askew Sips the Tea, the Temporal Textural Talks Book Club, DreamHaven Books, plus several library and bookstore readings and talks.
- Jennie Goloboy taught a LOT of workshops, including one with me at the Loft Literary Center.
- We helped raise funds for Romancing the Vote, West St. Paul Pride, Telling Queer History, Rainbow Railroad, the Lost-n-Food Youth Shelter in Atlanta, among other events/orgs.
It's been a heckuva a year! It should be noted that all of this was managed through several cases of COVID, a major move, job changes, health crises, moving my spouse into memory care, then hospice, the death of family, friends and pets, and doubtlessly more horrors than I can recall. Through it all, our authors and cover artists were champs and did a great job. My assistant, Alexa, and the various friends who helped out at events were incredible helpful. And, as always, big shoutout to everyone who hosted us bought books, reviewed our books, pledged our Patreon, requested books at the library, etc. 2024 was our best year of sales to date and we thank you all!
