1517 Media creates resources that communicate the gospel, enhance faith, and enrich the life of the Christian church and the communities it serves. 1517 Media designs and develops innovative resources for churches, higher education, and the home — all delivered in a wide range of media including print and digital formats, videos, apps, and online subscription offerings.
As a small hybrid publisher, Amaranth Press is nimble and responsive with impeccable attention to detail. With more than 20 years in the publishing business, we have the tools and talent to provide everything an author needs for their book to succeed.
Key Personnel: Kathryn Lloyd, Publisher
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Provides freelance editorial services, including but not limited to developmental editing, line editing, writing, copy editing, and proofreading. Primary expertise in K-12 nonfiction (both trade and educational) and experience with middle-grade fiction.
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Ashley Kuehl
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Bearport Publishing specializes in creating high-interest, visually appealing books that focus on fun and unusual topics that young readers love. Trade-like design, using a combination of both photographs and illustrations, and playful titling are what distinguish us in the K-8 educational market. For over 15 years Bearport has been creating books that feel less like supplemental texts and more like the books children really want to read.
Key Personnel: Allison Juda, Editor; Spencer Brinker, Director of Product Development; Jennifer Jenson, President
Our mission is to create lifelong readers through an innovative nonfiction library. All of our books are carefully designed to spark curiosity and promote valuable literacy skills in beginning and reluctant readers. Through our high-interest subjects, industry-leading design, and compelling narratives, all of our nonfiction imprints stand out from the rest of the flock.
Imprints: Blastoff! Readers, Blastoff! Beginners, Blastoff! Discovery, Torque, Epic, Black Sheep, Express, Pilot
Button Poetry seeks to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach, and to develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.
Imprints: Exploding Pinecone Press
Key Personnel: Sam Van Cook, President; Hanif Abdurraqib, Poetry Editor; Dylan Garity, Vice President; Alyssa Fabia, Publishing Operations; Neno Grae, Public Relations
Helping children develop a love of reading and learning is at the heart of what we do at Capstone. We believe that #ReadingIsForEveryone! Our goal is to provide boundless opportunities for children to access books and online resources and we are dedicated to the belief that all kids are readers when matched with the right book. By piquing their curiosity through positive early literacy experiences, we can help create a lifetime love of reading and learning.
Capstone believes in kids: their dreams and their success. We believe curiosity should be encouraged, imaginations should be unencumbered and all kids should find themselves represented in books. Our passion for creating inspired learning has made us the most trusted publisher of K-5 children’s books and digital media solutions, including the award-winning PebbleGo K-2 research database, for libraries, classrooms, and consumers for 30 years.
Imprints: Capstone Editions, Capstone Press, Pebble, Picture Window Books, and Stone Arch Books
Key Personnel: Scott Sustacek, President; Beth Brezenoff, Associate Publisher; Steve Robinson, Chief Financial Officer; John Maketa, Chief Revenue Officer; Judy Chartrand, Chief People Officer; Mick Demkaos, Chief Digital Officer; Matt Keller, VP Business Development
Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum and professional learning solutions. With the highest quality offerings for K-12 math, literacy and ELA, world languages, professional learning and more, Carnegie Learning is changing the way we think about learning and creating powerful results for teachers and students alike.
Key Personnel: Justin Roth, VP of People; Brenda Owens, Senior Manager of Editorial, Literacy; Kristin Hoffman, Director of Editorial, World Languages; Bob Dreas, Production Manager
Coffee House Press is an internationally renowned independent book publisher and arts nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN; through their literary publications and Books in Action program, CHP acts as a catalyst and connector — between authors and readers, ideas and resources, creativity and community, inspiration and action.
Home to a community of over 125 award-winning independent publishers, Consortium is a highly regarded distribution company. Consortium grew out of a regional book wholesaling cooperative in 1985 to become a full-service distributor. Our current list of publishers illustrates our continued commitment to our literary roots. In addition, we continue to nurture key subject areas such as politics, popular culture, fiction, poetry, books in translation, comics, and distinctive children’s books, along with a wide variety of other categories.
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Erin Kottke
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Legal counsel for publishers, writers, illustrators, and agents. Practice areas include publishing agreements, copyrights, trademarks, film and TV options, distribution agreements, merchandise license agreements, and general business law.
Flexible Press is dedicated to supporting authors, communities, and mission-driven non-profits through story. Flexible Press strives to be a boutique publisher of excellent, well-crafted literature. Along the way, we have focused on supporting a variety of causes and under-represented voices, in the belief that at it’s best literature is often a catalyst for change. For us, this means bringing forward both topics that need to be aired and voices that need to be heard.
Free Spirit is the leading publisher of learning tools that support young people’s social-emotional health and educational needs. We help children and teens think for themselves, overcome challenges, and make a difference in the world.
Key Personnel: Judy Galbraith, President and Owner; Kyra Ostendorf, Publisher
The mission of Hazelden Publishing is to provide products and services to help people recognize, understand, and overcome addiction and closely related problems.
I Libri provides custom design and production services for print and digital media. Specializing in book design & production and author websites, I Libri works closely with clients, whether individual authors or entire publishing and marketing teams.
Design studio specializing in book design and other information design projects, including cover design and marketing, layout, composition and typesetting, and production assistance in both print and electronic/eBook formats.
ImageSmythe is a publishing services company for the publishing and advertising fields. ImageSmythe provides a complete range of full-service management programs down through the individual tasks required in magazine publishing, textbook publishing, internet, and eBook/tablet device publishing.
ImageSmythe specializes in writing, editing, copyediting, design and art direction, creating more than 800 products in the past 30 years. We are experienced in designing books, eBooks, interactive presentations, and DVDs in such diverse disciplines as Economics, Computers/Data Processing, Computer Languages, American Government, Sociology, Nutrition, Psychology, Philosophy, Business Law, Biology, Engineering, Child Care, and Pet Nutrition.
Key Personnel: David Farr: Principal — Graphic Design and Print & eBook Production;
Jean Cook, ELS: Editorial Manager
Founded in 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jump! publishes children’s nonfiction with a focus on curriculum-aligned subjects for emergent through early-fluent readers. Our books combine vibrant colors with captivating photography and corresponding text to draw readers into the subject and encourage reading success
Imprints: Bullfrog Books; Blue Owl Books, Pogo; Tadpole
Key Personnel: Jenna Gleisner, Managing Editor; Anna Peterson, Art Director; Sally Harfiel, Sales and Marketing Specialist
Independent author and editor. I write and edit books for children and young adults on a freelance basis in addition to editing professional books about healthcare and corporate compliance.
At Kind World Publishing, we connect the world through stories—stories that express kids’ big feelings, big questions, and big dreams, stories that celebrate curiosity and build bridges. Our goal is to start conversations that create a kinder world.
KMH Editing provides freelance and contract book editing services for publishers and writers, drawing on one decade of in-house work and another decade of experience in freelance project management and developmental, substantive, and copy editing.
Laurie Ingram is the principal, art director and designer of Laurie Ingram Art + Design, an independent art design studio in St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in book cover design, book design, print, and branding. Laurie currently serves on Board of Directors for Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable and Irish Network Minnesota.
Lerner Publishing Group is one of the nation’s largest independently owned children’s publishers with more than 10,000 books in print. For more than 50 years, we’ve created nonfiction and fiction books for preschool to young adult readers and for libraries, classrooms, and homes across the country.
Imprints: Lerner Publications, Millbrook Press, Carolrhoda Books, Carolrhoda Lab, Darby Creek, Graphic Universe, Twenty-First Century Books, ediciones Lerner, LernerClassroom, Kar-Ben Publishing, Hungry Tomato, Lerner Digital, and First Avenue Classics
Key Personnel: Adam Lerner, CEO and Publisher; Andy Cummings, VP and Editor in Chief
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Andy Cummings
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Self-employed writer and editor for various projects, including writing academic books and articles, travel blog posts, film reviews, ghost writing memoirs, and articles for various publications; editing projects including doctoral dissertations, non-fiction books, young adult novels, and personal and business documents for individuals; working on personal projects including non-fiction and fiction projects.
Page layout, production and design of books and long documents. Extensive experience in educational publishing. Experience with creating accessible documents and captioning media.
Llewellyn is the oldest and largest independent mind/body/spirit publisher in the United States, celebrating over a century of leadership in the industry on such subjects as self-help, metaphysical studies, mysticism, alternative health, divination, astrology, tarot, the paranormal, witchcraft, paganism, Wicca, magick, goddess lore, and garden witchery.
Llewellyn is the exclusive North American distributor of Lo Scarabeo tarot and oracle products as well as a distributor of Blue Angel products.
Key Personnel: Sandra Weschcke, President & Secretary/Treasurer; Gabe Weschcke, Vice President; Bill Krause, Publisher, Acquisitions Manager, Publicity Manager; Tom Lund, Director of Sales & Marketing; Nanette Stearns, Editorial Director
Copyeditor, proofreader, developmental editor, and writer with a focus on trade nonfiction. I am also the co-head and senior editor of Twin Cities Geek (twincitiesgeek.com) and the marketing and social media liaison for the Professional Editors Network (pensite.org).
Mighty Media Press delivers captivating books and media that ignite a child’s curiosity, imagination, social awareness, and sense of adventure. Through our partnership with PGW/Perseus, we are part of the largest independent distribution group in the U.S. Discover why our books are mighty.
Imprints: Mighty Media Kids, Mighty Media Junior Readers
The Minnesota Historical Society Press is a leading publisher of the history and culture of Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. The Press advances research, supports education, serves the local community, and expands the reputation of the MBHS through the publication of books and e-products, the Minnesota History journal, and the free, digital encyclopedia, MNopedia.
Key Personnel: Josh Leventhal, Director; Ann Regan, Editor in Chief; Shannon Pennefeather, Managing Editor; Mary Poggione, Sales and Marketing Director; Serenity Shanklin, Sales Manager; Dan Leary, Design and Production Manager; Matt Horstman, Educational Sales and Service; Alison Aten, Publicity and Promotions Manager
Nate has been helping people fix broken tech since 2010. He builds and repairs Wordpress sites, and acts as a virtual IT department for authors. He also blogs about the Kindle and indie publishing. His site, The Digital Reader, has been mentioned on news sites such as the New York Times and Forbes.
Nate is the president of the Riverside Writers Club in Fredericksburg VA, and is on the board of the Florida Writers Foundation. When he’s not volunteering, he spends his time working on projects such as The Speaker Bureau, Simple Author Websites, and Author Website in a Box.
As an author and publishing consultant, Patti Frazee has worked on hundreds of books over the years. She guides authors through the self-publishing process, as well as does typesetting and book design.
Imprints: Lynxgazer Publishing
Key Personnel: Patti Frazee, Author and Freelance Publishing Consultant
The Quarto Group publishes illustrated non-fiction meant to educate and entertain its readers.
Imprints: Burgess Lea Press, Cool Springs Press, Motorbooks, and Voyageur Press. Imprints: becker&mayer!, Cool Springs Press, Fair Winds Press, Harvard Common Press, Motorbooks, Quarry Books, Quiver, Rock Point Gift & Stationery, Rockport Publishers, Walter Foster
Key Personnel: Erik Gilg, Group Publisher; Laura Drew, Creative Director; Zack Miller, Publisher; Hollie Kilroy, Production Editor and Managing Editor; Nichole Schiele, Manager and Special Market Sales
Queen of Swords Press is a small woman-owned genre fiction publisher. We publish novels, short story collections and anthologies, many with LGBTQ protagonists. Our books are available at all major outlets in ebook and print formats.
Red Line Editorial is a book development company that produces primarily K-12 nonfiction in partnership with publishing houses across the US and Canada.
Key Personnel: Bob Temple, President; Elizabeth Dingmann Schneider, Director of Operations, Book Packaging; Laura Kruse, Director of Operations, Special Projects; Mari Kesselring, Managing Editor, Fiction
Tandem Books is a packager that works with publishers to produce books from the development stage through production or any part of the process as needed.
Key Personnel: Ashley Prine, Director
Kari Cornell, Editor
I'm a full-service, nonfiction bilingual editor (English, Spanish) with a high-level knowledge of Italian language and culture. I specialize in memoir, cooking, and gardening books, as well as authenticity reads for Spanish or Italian characters and settings.
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Our process relies on a lot of human interaction, judgment calls, and tough love. We know that no two authors and no two books are the same, so that’s how we roll. We’ve been doing this since before Facebook, and before PayPal. Heck, back when our company first started, you could board an airplane without picture ID. Now that we’ve got over 900 books to our name, it stands to reason that we’d have this whole publishing thing down to a science. But you know what? We don’t. Because this is not a science. It’s an art. Specializing in children’s books, family heirloom editions, memoirs, business books, and literary publications, The Publishing Pond provides a wealth of experience to authors from all walks of life. The Publishing Pond is respected in the industry for exacting standards in all the publishing disciplines, including writing, editing, design, typesetting, printing, binding, distribution, marketing, and fulfillment.
Imprints: Beaver's Pond Press, Legacy Pond Press, Pond Reeds Press, and The Drama Pond
The University of Minnesota Press is recognized internationally for its innovative, boundary-breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences and as publisher of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the most widely used objective tests of personality in the world. Minnesota also maintains as part of its mission a strong commitment to publishing books on the people, history, and natural environment of Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.
Key Personnel: Douglas Armato, Director; Susan Doerr, Associate Director
Vaerden & Co. collaborates with individuals and organizations to thoughtfully develop, design, and publish memorable books. We also partner with traditional publishers on special projects, from complex series to new imprints.
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Ann Delgehausen
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