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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Find your next read by looking through our whole catalog…

…or check out our Readers’ Favorites and New & Noteworthy sections below.

Readers' Favorites

book cover of second edition of Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design
Liikkanen - Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design, Second Edition US $43.95
Book cover for a novel titled Rule of Odds: Fresh Cut. The design features a close-up photograph of a person holding a Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera directly toward the viewer. The camera dominates the center of the image. Reflected or composited inside the camera lens is a small orange flower, sharply contrasted against the dark lens. The person's hands, hair, and part of the face are partially visible behind the camera. At the top, large blue text reads “RULE OF ODDS.” At the bottom, large bold red text reads “FRESH CUT,” with smaller white text below stating “A Modern Crime Novel by Kris Abel-Helwig.” The overall tone is dramatic and photographic, suggesting a crime story linked to photography.
Abel-Helwig - Rule of Odds - Fresh Cut, US $19.95
book cover for Luke Pittaway's Yamacraw Bluff
Pittaway - Yamacraw Bluff US$18.95
book cover for Jenkins' Ear showing aerial view of Castillo de San Marcos fort in St. Augustine overlaid on a 1700s map of Florida
Pittaway - Jenkins' Ear, US$22.95

New & Noteworthy

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A sunlit scene shows a silver BMW sedan parked on grass in front of a small beige mobile home, with an older rust-colored vehicle partially visible beside it. Warm golden-hour light illuminates trees and a partly cloudy sky in the background. Large white text overlaid across the image reads “DOGS IS GOOD PEOPLE,” with “Barbara S. Rusiecki” in smaller text at the bottom. A small porch with a railing and household items sits to the right of the trailer.
Rusiecki - Dogs is Good People US $17.95
Illustrated book cover showing a stylized, fantasy character standing in front of an industrial brick building with a smokestack and water tower. The character is seen from behind, with pointed ears, shaggy hair, and a partially mechanical-looking arm raised overhead, emitting jagged streaks of energy. Purple rays radiate outward across an orange and pink sky, creating a dramatic glow. The title text at the top reads “Hudsonville Rise Again!” in bold, jagged, yellow and purple lettering. At the bottom, the author’s name, “Stewart Chisham,” appears in large white capital letters.
Chisham - Hudsonville - Rise Again!

US $17.95

A book cover showing a pair of bare feet standing at the edge of ocean waves on wet sand. Foam from the surf spreads around the feet. Scattered vintage black‑and‑white photographs lie across the left side of the image, partially overlapping the sandy background. The title “What Ruth Learned” appears in large white script across the center, with the subtitle “A Novel” beneath it. At the bottom, the author’s name, “Alexandra Hayne,” is printed in white text.
Hayne - What Ruth Learned,

US $18.95

Osterberg - Impressions Incomplete...Volume 1,

US $38.95

A book cover featuring a photograph of a street in Oaxaca, Mexico, lined with colorful low-rise buildings. Orange papel picado banners stretch across the street. Numerous power lines crisscross the sky overhead. In the background, dark, heavy storm clouds gather above a silhouette of distant mountains. The title text reads “Brooding with Storm Clouds: Return to Oaxaca,” and the author’s name, “Donna Lauren Gold,” appears below.
Gold - Brooding with Storm Clouds, US $19.95
Howard - The Man in the Bed

US$17.95

Illustrated children’s book cover titled “Itsy Bitsy Betsy,” with the title written in curved yellow letters at the top. In the center, a cartoon child with bright curly red hair and large green eyes jumps joyfully with arms stretched wide. The child wears blue denim overalls, a yellow shirt, and red high-top sneakers. The child appears to be stepping or bouncing on a large yellow flower in the foreground. The background is a softly blurred green field filled with additional yellow flowers, creating a warm, playful outdoor scene. At the bottom, curved white text reads, “Written and illustrated by Julie Bishop.”
Bishop - Itsy Bitsy Betsy US$12.95
The image is a book cover featuring a house with the title "The House Next Door" and the author's name "Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb" at the bottom.
Hamilton - The House Next Door US$17.95
A book cover features a woman in a red dress looking over her shoulder, with a vintage airplane flying in the sky above her and a cityscape in the background. The title, The Orinoco Gambit, is prominently displayed. Text on the cover identifies it as a World War II Thriller about love, loyalty, and espionage involving OSS agents in South America by author J.K. Barclay.
Barclay - The Orinoco Gambit US$17.95
a winding dirt road recedes into the distance in an Iowa landscape, with farm houses near the horizon on a cloudy day
Hamilton - Jared's Daughter US$19.95
A boy with red hair, wearing short gray pants and a short-sleeved white shirt is running down the street in 1950s Ames, Iowa
Bilingual English and Norwegian by Lind - Ode to/til Billy Buck US$22.95
widow book cover
Kazdan - Oh. I'm a Widow US$16.95
little tryceratops cover
Petersen - TryCeratops Tries Soccer, US$13.95
book cover for Fern Kupfer's Strong Women in Chicago
Kupfer - Strong Women US$18.95
book cover for twelve dreams of Rome
Engel - Twelve Dreams US$17.95

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.

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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.

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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.

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