Participating Publishers

Ball Publishing
West Chicago, Illinois

Acquired by Chicago Review Press in 2009, Ball Publishing was begun early in the history of Ball Horticultural Co., which was founded in 1905. George J. Ball, the founder of the company, was a seedsman and flower grower, but also a prolific writer and a proponent of sharing knowledge. Over its long history, the company has published periodicals and books for both commercial and home horticulturalists.

Chicago Review Press
Chicago, Illinois

Since its founding in 1973, Chicago Review Press has grown into a dynamic, mid-size publisher with more than 300 titles of national interest. They publish about 60 new titles each year, under four imprints. Chicago Review Press publishes general nonfiction, including popular science, parenting, biography, and travel. It also publishes under three additional imprints: Lawrence Hill Books, A Capella, and Zephyr Press.

Globe Pequot Press
Guildford, Connecticut

The Globe Pequot Press has a long history, beginning in 1947. It has established an international reputation for publication of outstanding regional guides to myriad travel destinations in the U.S. and around the world; it’s among the top three sources for travel books in the U.S., with an exceptional concentration in the outdoor recreation specialty.

Globe Pequot Press Life
Guildford, Connecticut

Globe Pequot Press Life is the Globe Pequot imprint dedicate to giving women answers they can trust: expert, reassuring advice on relationships, health, parenting, and passions.

Lawrence Hill Books
Chicago, Illinois

Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, specializes in nonfiction on topics of African American and Latino interest, progressive politics, civil and human rights, and feminism. Recent titles are the well-received biography of Florence Ballard, The Lost Supreme, by Peter Benjaminson; The World That Made New Orleans by Ned Sublette; and First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army by Peter Eichstaedt.

Little Pickle Press LLC
Belvedere, California

Little Pickle Press (LPP) is a 21st Century publisher of high-quality, high-impact media for children. LPP serves authors by producing their work as printed books and as digital media, including ebooks, talking ebooks, interactive stories, content for popular children's devices, and animated shorts. The original content LPP produces reflects the LPP mission: helping parents and educators cultivate conscious, responsible young minds by inspiring readers to help children in need, celebrate diversity, and protect the environment. The first book LPP published, What Does It Mean To Be Global? won The National Best Books 2009 Award in the Children's Picture Books: Hardcover, Nonfiction category. Learn more about their engagement in social responsibility at their website.



Lyons Press
Guildford, Connecticut

Lyons Press, begun in 1984 and an imprint of Globe Pequot since 2001, is the publisher of a distinguished list of fishing books, as well as quality works on horses, nature, camping, adventure, gardening, woodworking, travel, the sea, history, food and wine, art and reference, hunting, general sports, and more. The Lyons Press catalog currently contains over 500 titles—some literary and some practical—that appeal to a wide audience. Men’s Journal says, “It’s a list out of the old days, when publishers released books they themselves believed in.”


Orange Avenue Publishing
San Francisco, California

Orange Avenue Publishing is an innovative San Francisco-based company. We make books that make people laugh, learn, and think. We started as a packaging company, writing and designing books for other publishers for six years. Then, in 2006, we decided to publish and distribute our own line of books. We founded Zest Books, our line of smart and edgy nonfiction books for teens, but continue to publish cool, non-teen titles under the label of Orange Avenue.

St. Martin's Press
New York, New York

St. Martin’s Press has a long and respected history of publishing a solid and varied list. We are dedicated to publishing emerging new authors, and offering a fresh perspective on classic genres, while maintaining a diverse and interesting range of books. Our strength is derived from a dedication to solid publishing of many books, while consistently producing the occasional blockbuster. The vast majority of our hardcovers are published in paperback through our internal paperback lines.

St. Martin's imprints include Griffin, Minotaur, St. Martin's Paperbacks, Let's Go, Thomas Dunne Books, and Truman Talley Books.

skirt!
Guildford, Connecticut

A Globe Pequot imprint, skirt! is nonfiction all about women: their work, play, families, creativity, style, health and wealth, bodies and souls. Its attitude is spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, always passionate. skirt! books will publish about a dozen titles each year, sweet and serious, tart and touching, all sharing the spirit of skirt! magazine, which inspired the imprint.



Wilderness Press
Berkeley, California

Wilderness Press is a 40-year publisher of books on hiking, kayaking, climbing, canoeing, surfing, camping, cycling, and other outdoor activities, as well as maps of trails, rivers, parks, and cities.


Zest Books
San Francisco, California

An imprint of Orange Avenue, Zest Books is an exciting new line of smart, edgy, and often humorous books for teens. We cover it all--from getting a date to getting organized to getting… dumped. Want to learn how to start a rock band? Figure out your parents? De-stress or dress to impress? Whatever a teen is into, we’ve got a book for him or her. Our books are like magazines, but bigger. They are current, well-researched, and easy to read.