New York (AP) – With deep knowledge Stephen King’s Book And with their curiosity about inspiration, author Sharon Kitchen began his journey through Maine. When she learned about the real-life setting and the people behind fiction such as “It” and “The Lot of Salem,” she placed them on an online map and storyline called “Stephen King’s Maine.”
“In a way, it was amateur time,” she says. “But after about 27,000 people visited the site, one of my friends said to me, ‘You should do something more with this.’ ”
The resulting book-length edition of “Stephen Kings Main” published in 2024 is one of hundreds released each year History Press. The 20-year-old imprint, now part of Arcadia Publishing, is dedicated to local, statewide and locally focused works for sale in bookstores, museums, hotels and other tourist destinations. Historical reporting mission is to explore and unearth the “story of America, a town, and a community.”
King’s book stands out when it focuses on international celebrities. Most history releases arise from more ambiguous passion and expertise, regardless of the shooting of grand life of Michael C. Gabriele’s “The History of the Diners in New Jersey,” Thomas Dresser’s “African Americans in Martha’s Vineyards,” or the author of Clem C. Pellet’s “The Murder at the High Line of Montana.”
Home for History Enthusiasts
Like the kitchen, authors of historical reporting tend to be local or local experts, such as history enthusiasts, academics, retirees, and enthusiasts. The kitchen background includes writing a film press release, blogging by the Portland Press Herald, and contributions to the Huffington Post. Pellet is a former surgeon who was forced to do so Due to the murder of his grandfather He switched his career and became a private investigator. Nancy K. Williams of Boulder, Colorado is a self-proclaimed “western history writer” that includes “the Buffalo Soldier of the Colorado Frontier” and “the Ghost Hotel in Southern Colorado.”
History Press has published a very specific piece, “Crusading Iowa Journalist Verne Marshall,” including a tribute to Jerry Harrington’s tribute to Pulitzer Award-winning editors in the 1930s. They also publish a variety of series. In particular, it also publishes a “ghost” guide, which publishing director Kate Jenkins calls the “highly localized version” of the ghost story genre. History Press has long been recruiting potential writers through the field varsity team, but now writers like Kitchen may attract publishers’ attention through a national network of previously collaborated authors.
“Our ideal author is not someone with a national reach,” says Jenkins. “But whether it’s an ethnic community or a local community, we are a member of the community and are passionate about maintaining the history of that community. We are partners that make that history accessible to a wide audience.”
History Press is a prolific and low-cost operation. Books tend to be shorter than 200 pages, and are described with photographs drawn from local archives and photographs taken by the author himself. The printing run is small, and authors are usually paid through royalties from the sale rather than moving forward. Historical press books are rarely a major hit, but they still can attract considerable attention for their works. For a specific area, And they tend to continue selling over time. The edition, which sells over 15,000 copies, includes Lloyd Arnetci and Alfonso Brown’s “Galla Guide to Charleston,” Gale Sousek’s “Marshall Field,” and “The Eastern Cherokee’s Long Ago Story,” a tribute to Chicago department stores.
The King Guide, which has sold around 8,500 copies so far, has received an unexpected lift. I was shown the book in my main Bridgeton Book, posted my Instagram and gave a thumbs up.
“I was really shocked in the best possible way,” says Kitchens. “I made all the choices I made while writing the book and I made it with him in mind.”
Make the story right
The History Press author says he likes the opportunity to tell stories that they believe they are not heard or are thought to have been misrepresented.
Rory O’Neal Schmidt is an Arizona-based researcher, lecturer and author. New Orleans from her It is often “drawn in a way that feels wrong or emphasizes the tourist element.” She responded with books such as “Ghost Guide to New Orleans” and “Kate Chopin of New Orleans.”
Brianne Turczynski is a freelance writer, a “permanent seeker of the human condition” who lives outside of Detroit, and a “permanent seeker of the human condition” who acknowledges his obsession with “Poletown,” a Polish ethnic community. It was uprooted and dismantled in the 1980s. General Motors decided to build a new plant there and successfully insisted on a prominent domain. In 2021, History Press announced Turczynski’s “Lost Paultown in Detroit: A Little Neighborhood that Touches the Country.”
“All the work of journalists that followed the story seemed lacking a sense of closure for those who suffered,” she said. “So my book is a love letter to that community and an attempt to close it.”
The Kitchen follows her King’s book with an unsolved murder story, “The Murder of Dorothy Milkin, the Cold Case of Maine.” One of her early boosters, Michelle Soulyale, is the owner of Green Hand Bookstore in Portland, and she herself is the president of the history press. Her publishing career, like a lifelong enthusiast in main history, began with an online post. She maintained a blog of local lore “Strange Main.”
“Strange Main: A True Story from the Pine Tree State” was published in 2010.
“My blog has been around for about four years and has grown from a short, speculative and expressive post to a longer, original research article,” she wrote in an email. “How did you do that? I wrote the book like I had a green handwritten bookstore open. Madness!!! Or lots of coffee or both!!”
