A number of new publishers have found distribution homes this spring. PGW just signed on newly founded Big Kid Science in Boulder, Colo., publisher of the children's book Max Goes to the Moon. According to cofounder Jeffrey Bennett, "The long-term goal is to provide science-oriented products of all kinds—books, software, games—for all ages." Two more Max books are in the works.
Consortium added two start-ups this spring: picture book publisher All About Kids Publishing in San Jose, Calif., and Agate Publishing in Evanston, Ill., founded by Doug Siebold, formerly of Noble Press, and author Jill Johnson, whose first novel, Sexual Healing, is also the press's first book. From LPC Group, Consortium picked up Australia's Ocean Press, which will reissue Ernesto Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries to tie-in with the film produced by Robert Redford, and Common Courage Press in Monroe, Maine, which does titles on corporate power, ecology and foreign policy. Other new publishers include poetry and literary fiction house Tupelo Press in Dorset, Vt.; photography and art publisher Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany, which has not been previously distributed in North America; and New Rivers Press in Moorhead, Ind., which took a several-season hiatus before forming an alliance with Minnesota State University, Moorhead.
