From the Publisher
As a peer-reviewed better-business-accredited publishing house—founded in Ames, Iowa, in 2005—we serve creative writers and their readers with superbly designed books in all available formats (ebook, paperback, hardcover, casewrap, and audio). Our books are available locally through independent bookstores such as Dog-Eared Books, worldwide online, and in other brick-and-mortar stores as well as directly through us.
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New & Noteworthy
Announcing the release of the second edition of our bestseller, Lassi Liikkanen’s The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design, for worldwide availability on 15 December 2025.
A Handbook for Experience-Driven Sauna Design, Second Edition — For Builders of Sauna Cabins and Designers of Contemporary Apartment Saunas — The only sauna book featured on Amazon’s top rated books on Architecture – Methods and Materials.
This new edition contains several pages of new content, over one hundred minor corrections, and several items of new information, including two completely revised reference tables. The update is especially focused on North American audiences to use more consistently compatible terminology. For instance, it examines the specific changes associated with UL 875-compliant electric sauna heaters.
About Us
We do take publishing seriously, but we also have fun designing books, sharing stories with authors, and hearing back from their readers how a particular book changed their life. Such is the power of books…
For us publishing means to make public, to share with the world what you, as author, have created over many months, moons, and sometimes, years. Unlike most publishers, we think of the relationship with you as a partnership in which both of us are equal collaborators who want to share ideas and stories widely, while benefitting equally.
If you are interested in working with us, please drop us a line.
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Authors Laverne Merritt-Gordon and Beau Grosscup, who wrote Tell Them What You Want, give a lecture about what it means to grow up black in a mostly white Ohio town.
Fern Kupfer, author of Leaving Long Island and Other Departures, reads from her book during an author event at Iowa State University.
Rachel Longstaff, author of In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back, gives an interview about her book.
View the animated book trailer created by graphic artist Tyler Gonigam for Eric Walker Williams’ YA novel The Summer of Weird Harold.
