Last year, with the encouragement of many of my author friends, I started "Stiletto Press Publishing, LLC." I have always loved books, I don't remember a time in my life when I didn't. My love for books was also my inspiration for starting PageTurner.net, a web design and marketing company for literary clients. While I was in graduate school, I also found out that I loved publishing (thanks Professor Anne!) I have always been good at layout and design, but when I added the love of words to the mix, this seemed like a natural progression.
Stiletto Press's first release was "Southern Comfort" by Cynnamon Foster (aka Nina Foxx), published in October 2010. It is a steamy, sexy, story, and the first in a series of a new genre we have titled "erotic espionage." We are happy to announce that our first title was recently nominated for the best erotica category for the African American Literary Awards Show, which will be held in NYC in September of this year. This is quite an accomplishment for a small press, and a debut release!
(Please vote for it for Best Erotica at: http://www.literaryawardshow.com/voting.html.)
I did the cover design using Adobe Illustrator (thanks Professor Stuart) and Adobe Photoshop. I did the inside text formatting using Adobe InDesign, which is also what I used for both the ePub and Kindle formatting. I was able to use all the "prepress" knowledge I gain in Professor Henry's publishing class, and I must say that notebook she made us keep really came in handy.
Stiletto Press recently signed author and poet Van G. Garrett, and his new book (working title -The Unbuckling Days of Stacy Adams) along with the sequel to "Southern Comfort" (Eastern Spice) will be released this Fall/Winter.
If you get a chance, please go vote for Southern Comfort #5 Erotica.
Well, that's all for now (getting ready to go watch Cowboys and Aliens!)
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