The Word is Out
Newsletter Issue #3
Posted in Newsletter Archive by People's Press on July 1, 2010
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Phlogs Wins Colorado Book Award!
A little over a month after receiving a prestigious national award for Phlogs: Journey to the Heart of the Human Predicament, authors George Stranahan and Nicole Beinstein Strait accepted the Colorado Book Award in the pictorial category during a ceremony on June 24 at the Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s Summer Words festival in Aspen.
Phlogs was selected over two other finalists – a photo documentary chronicling the lives of men and women with breast cancer and a book about abstract art in Colorado. The Colorado Book Awards are one of the oldest book award programs in the country and this year, 146 books were entered in the 13 categories. By receiving this award, Stranahan and Strait join a select group of talented authors, many of whom will become household names in Colorado and beyond.
The list of awards People’s Press has already won is growing fast. In May, Phlogs won two awards in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: runner-up to the grand-prize winner for Non-Fiction out of 60 categories, and winner in the Coffee Table Book/Photography category. Ironically, Phlogs beat out fellow People’s Press author Doug Rhinehart, whose Desert Adagio was also a finalist in the Coffee Table Book/Photography category. Earlier this year, People’s Press’ identity and website designs won several awards from the American Advertising Association.
In essays and black-and-white photos, Phlogs reveals the inner workings of its primary author, Stranahan, through his photography, storytelling and Beinstein Strait’s biographical sketches. It is a non-linear, impressionistic view of a full and complex life trying to make sense of itself.
Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and bestselling author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, writes, “Phlogs is awesome! The powerful pictures and poignant essays combine to produce an explosion of emotion. On every page there is a visual or verbal delight that will make you think, or bring a lump to your throat, or make your eyes smile—or all three. What a treasure…Thanks so very much for publishing it.”
If you haven’t yet delved into this beautiful and thought-provoking coffee table book, you can find it at several retailers throughout the Roaring Fork Valley or place your order today.
People’s Press Seeks Patron Investors
People’s Press is looking for potential “patron investors” to enter the exciting new world of venture publishing.
Patronage in the arts world is a concept as old as culture. Long before artists could support themselves by selling their work, second jobs or independent wealth, they were supported by kings, popes, Japanese feudal lords and other members of the aristocracy. The pantheon of artists who were sponsored by patrons includes Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare, Mozart and Beethoven. It begs the question: Where would our culture would be without such philanthropy?
People’s Press is reintroducing the patronage concept with a twist. We’re looking for “patron investors” – those who are interested in sponsoring a book or author they believe in and who are willing to see their investment pay off over time. The big publishing houses no longer truly care about quality books – but we do, and we believe they can generate a return - both socially and financially.
By sponsoring a title in the works, you are helping an author tell a good story and preserve a piece of history. But it’s also a venture – you are putting your faith in a good book that you are betting will sell widely. You will realize a percentage of sales, an association with a successful title, and the satisfaction of having a hand in a piece of art.
Titles we are currently seeking patrons for include Answers to Forgotten Questions by Bob Chamberlain and For the Living by Sandy Munro.
Chamberlain’s black and white camera follows his mathematical mind through the last four decades of the twentieth-century West. His sensitive eye catches the sense, nonsense and humor of that important era in American history.
Fifty-five years after his father dies in the battle of the Pacific Sandy Munro reads the letters between his wartime separated parents; letters to and from the father he never knew, until now. Munro who coincidentally also flew from aircraft carriers, understands the technical talk but struggles to comprehend the man and the relationship to his family.
Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a People’s Press patron investor.
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