1/30/2024 0 Comments Making strides walking papers![]() I know the mechanics and also know what it takes to put out a legitimate, mainstream, conventional book.” I didn’t realize what a blessing that was because now I can do the whole thing. I had to know whole scope of book publishing. I didn’t take each one from manuscript to bound book, of course, but I might need a new introduction, or I would have to check the copyright. ”That division was pretty much a one-woman show. The Crown/Random House experience prepared her admirably for her current incarnation, she says. She has also edited books and magazines for Viking, Penguin, Time-Life, Watson-Guptill, Times Mirror, Rupert Murdoch, Marshall Cavendish and many others. Horan was the founding editor-in-chief of a longstanding Crown/Random House division. “Forty years of mainstream publishing experience enables me to produce a top-notch book, often through print-on-demand, while Round House’s outlook and size permit us to offer unlimited personal guidance.”ĭuring her long career, Ms. “We fill a need left by the inaccessibility of the corporate publishing houses,” she said. At the same time, she can provide encouragement, coaching and editing services, whether or not the author chooses to publish through her house. She said she can provide top notch on-demand copies or promote the book to mainstream publishers. Her Web site terms Round House Press “a hybrid of old-fashioned, one-on-one publishing support, the latest on-demand digital printing technologies and personally tailored author services.” Horan said books that pass through her hands can be handled in a number of ways. Sometimes people don’t quite recognize the importance of their own stories.” All you have to do is honor it and maybe shine a little light on it. “It’s not hard to bring life to a great story. “Almost everyone has a story to tell,” she said. Tellingly, the last four books are all by Kent residents. Her book is soon to be joined by “A Full Happiness: Love that Broke the Last Taboo” by a Kent man who wishes to remain anonymous until publication “From the Top: The Dolph Traymon Story” “Painting Faces: The Art of Public Relations,” by Fran Friedman, and “Pain. Offenhauser, a resident of Amenia, N.Y., survived the disease and died of cardiac arrest in 2011. Nancy Offenhauser’s candid look at her reaction to her own diagnosis of endometrial cancer. She started in 2009 with “Healing Cancer Peacefully,” Dr. Horan is currently launching four new books. The “plotting and planning” she has done has paid off and Ms. “With print on demand, I thought I could do this.” ![]() “After more than 40 years in book and magazine publishing, I moved into a round house in Kent and started The Round House Press,” she said. Into this expanding world has stepped Patricia Horan, a veteran of many years in mainstream publishing, who moved out of New York City just six weeks before 9/11.
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