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Here is an update on their recent doings: Joanna Biggar has just returned from a visit to Cuba with Wanderland Writers, a writing retreat series that she co-founded and runs with Linda Watanabe McFerrin. They publish annual anthologies of essays and poetry written on these trips. Find out more here. Joanna is also at work on revisions to her sequel to That Paris Year, entitled Melanie’s Song. Grace Cavalieri has recently had new poems published in The Art of Survival: An Anthology, as well as the journals Poets & Artists and the South Florida Poetry Journal, in which she is the … [Read more...]

ASP books make perfect gifts for any time of year! Our boutique approach to book-making means that each title is published on fine deckle-edged paper, with elegant French-fold covers, and exquisite, original interior and exterior design. We want our books to look, feel, and be as artful as stories, poems, or essays they contain. And that makes them perfect holiday gifts. This year, why not give a Legacy gift to the book-lovers on your list? ASP’s Legacy series is devoted to career-spanning collections from writers who meet the following three criteria: The majority of their books have … [Read more...]

We believe that there is no reason a small press can't publish books that compete on the shelf with the best that the big houses have to offer. Welcome to Good Books, Well Made James J. Patterson, Co-Founder, ASP. I suppose the last straw for me was when Eric Foner’s masterpiece, Tom Paine, and Revolutionary America, fell apart in my hands mid-way through reading it. I say last straw because — and every voracious reader has suffered this — books have been falling apart on me for decades. I’ll confess, I’m a bit rough on my books. I break the spines, I scribble in the margins, I … [Read more...]

September 29, 2017 We are happy to announce the publication of Other Voices, Other Lives: A Grace Cavalieri Collection, in October 2017. This is the second volume in the ASP Legacy Series, devoted to career-spanning selections from writers who also give strong and consistent support to other writers. ASP poet and fiction writer Rose Solari edited the volume and wrote the introduction. Here is a sample: Before I met Grace Cavalieri, I had already fallen in love with her voice. I was in my early twenties when I began tuning into her weekly radio show, The Poet and the Poem, broadcast then … [Read more...]

Gabbing With O'Reilly From Bermuda Shorts by James J. Patterson Gabbing With O'Reilly, at the opening of another NFL training camp, a 42 year season ticket holder looks back one last time at the Redskins and RFK Stadium. When O'Reilly was at last awarded his seat at RFK stadium, I had already been sitting in the one next to it for eleven years. He arrived at his first game carrying a seat cushion and blanket, though it was a warm September afternoon. He was in his fifties, if my memory serves, but ruddy-faced and as excited as a little kid. How long he had been on the waiting list for his … [Read more...]