Fiction Scribe

In a surprise turn of events, Lou Aronica, one half of the new publishing company The Story Plant, has decided to join us here at Fiction Scribe. He will be talking about himself, his partner Peter Miller, their publishing company The Story Plant and much more. Please join me in welcoming him to Fiction Scribe.

I’d like to thank Fiction Scribe for allowing me this forum over the past few days. It’s a thrilling and terrifying time for us as we launch The Story Plant. We don’t have a huge margin for error, but we have a list of books of which we are very proud and endless enthusiasm for creating a great next-generation publisher.

I already told you about our first two books, Sienna Skyy’s American Quest (www.americanquestbook.com) and Jonathan Javitt’s Capitol Reflections (www.capitolreflections.com). We’re taking a little time after these first two books to ramp up our spring list. Then, we’re going to present three new writers, all of whom we think will have long, successful careers and will connect strongly with readers.

James LePore writes atmospheric, intelligent novels of suspense with sensational characters. We will publish his first novel, A World I Never Made, in April, but you’ll be able to get a taste for his writing in the coming months as we release three of his short stories related to the novel on the web.

Laurel Dewey writes gritty, unforgiving mysteries with a tremendous level of humanity. Her series character, Jane Perry is a one-of-a-kind figure both vulnerable and impenetrable. Her first novel, Protector came from a small press and received rhapsodic reader comments (you can read some of them at www.laureldewey.com). We’ll publish Protector in mass market in May and then Laurel’s new Jane Perry novel, Redemption in June.

Emily Sue Harvey loves stories of renewal and revival. She believes strongly in the human spirit’s ability to heal itself and grow from its trials. In fact, she’s recently launched a website dedicated to such true stories, www.renewalstories.com. In July, we’ll publish her first novel, Song of Renewal, a beautiful little novel about three people who must discover who they really are when they face tragedy.

Our role as publisher of these books is to help the writers find their audiences and to grow those audiences with each successive book. As our program develops, I hope we’ll come to be known as innovators. I’ll be very interested in hearing your thoughts about what we’re doing.