Jayadvaita Swami, a Gaudiya Vaishnava swami, is an editor, publisher, and teacher and a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He has been the seniormost editor for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for more than forty years. He served as a trustee for the Book Trust from 1988 through 2017. He has been described as "one of ISKCON's most independent-minded and respected thinkers." He is the author of Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gita, and the meaning of life, a cross-cultural commentary on the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. The book won the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Book Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association as the best book in the "religion" category.
Barefoot Books is a publisher of children's books based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Batton Lash was an American comics creator who came to prominence as part of the 1990s self-publishing boom. He is best known for the series Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, a comedic series about law partners specializing in cases dealing with archetypes from the horror genre, which ran as a strip in The National Law Journal, and as a stand-alone series of comic books and graphic novels. He received several awards for his work, including an Inkpot Award, an Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award, an Eisner Award, and nominations for two Harvey Awards.
Random House of Canada was the Canadian distributor for Random House, Inc. from 1944 until 2013. On July 1, 2013, it amalgamated with Penguin Canada to become Penguin Random House Canada.
Woodhead Publishing Limited was established in 1989 as an independent international publishing company of science and technical books. The company publishes books in association with The Textile Institute, Cambridge International Science Publishing. They have previously published books in association with The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM³) and the European Federation of Corrosion.
Fitzhenry & Whiteside is a Canadian book publishing and distribution company, located in Markham, Ontario. It publishes trade titles in children's and young adult fiction, textbooks, reference, history, biography, photography, sports and poetry.
Turner Publishing Company is an American independent book publisher based in Nashville, Tennessee. The company is in the top 101 independent publishing companies in the U.S. as compiled by Bookmarket.com and has been named four times to Publishers Weekly 's Fastest Growing Publishers List.
Ronald Malfi is an American novelist whose genres include horror, thrillers, mainstream, and literary fiction. Malfi is also a musician, having fronted the Baltimore-based alternative rock band Nellie Blide as well as his current project, Veer. He currently lives in Maryland.
Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg is an artist, photographer, author, and certified nurse-midwife. Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg is well known in midwifery circles as the author of the award-winning book Birth Emergency Skills Training. Born in Rhode Island in 1963, she was raised in Southington, Connecticut, and later worked as a paramedic in central Connecticut. After attending the University of Pennsylvania to obtain a MSN in midwifery, she authored two books on managing childbirth emergencies: Essentials of Prehospital Maternity Care for EMS providers, and Birth Emergency Skills Training for out-of-hospital midwives. Since 1994, Gruenberg has researched and photographed, and written about the wild horse herds which inhabit certain Atlantic Coast barrier islands. The Wild Horse Dilemma: Conflicts and Controversies of the Atlantic Coast Herds, is her most comprehensive book on the topic. She resides in south-central Pennsylvania where she is in practice as a certified nurse-midwife.
Larry Correia is an American fantasy novelist, known for his Monster Hunter and Grimnoir Chronicles series. In 2014 and 2015 Correia was one of the leaders of the Sad Puppies campaign to nominate works for the Hugo Award that he believed were more popular but often unfairly passed over by voters in favor of more literary works or stories with progressive political themes.
Dragon Moon Press is an independent publishing company, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and cross-genre novels. It was founded in 1993 by Gwen Gades, and released its first book in 1998.
Epigram Books is an independent publishing company in Singapore. It is known for publishing works of Singapore-based writers, poets and playwrights.
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is a literary awards program that recognizes and honors authors and publishers of exceptional independently published books in 70 different categories. "Indies" include small presses, larger independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors.
Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a writing teacher.
Kids Can Press is a Canadian owned publisher of children's books, with a list of over 500 picture books, non-fiction and fiction titles for toddlers to young adults. The Kids Can Press list includes characters such as Franklin the Turtle—the single most successful publishing franchise in the history of Canadian publishing, which has sold over 65 million books in over 30 languages around the world.
Coffee House Press is a nonprofit independent press based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The press’s goal is to "produce books that celebrate imagination, innovation in the craft of writing, and the many authentic voices of the American experience." It is widely considered to be among the top five independent presses in the United States and has been called a national treasure. The press publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor’s Story is a book by Lou Kasischke that details his experiences as a client on Rob Hall’s expedition during the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy. The accident killed eight climbers—including four from the Hall expedition—and remained the worst climbing accident on Everest until the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche. The book features 55 illustrations by Jane Cardinal and was published in 2014 by Good Hart Publishing.
Koa Books is a publishing company based in Kihei, Hawaii. It was founded in 2005 by Arnie Kotler. The company was named after the native hardwood tree. Koa Books gives its goal as publishing works that foster "a deeper understanding of personal transformation, social justice, and Hawaiʻi".
Angela Halgrimson is an American children's writer from Minneapolis, MN. She was inspired to pursue writing after surviving a traumatic brain injury. Lenny the Crow is her first book, which was the winner of a Mom’s Choice Award and an Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) in the Best Children’s Book category. Her second book Nobody Likes a Booger was published July 25, 2017 and has already won numerous awards including a Mom’s Choice Award, Benjamin Franklin Award and it is a finalist for a MIPA Award. Halgrimson is busy visiting schools and traveling around the United States with her book signings. She also interviews upcoming and best-selling authors on her radio show, The NOT Boring Book Show, a MyTalk 107.1 Radio/PodcastOneMN production.
