Welcome to Blue Crow Publishing
We are an independent publisher of fiction and nonfiction. We publish fiction of a variety of genres under our Blue Crow Books imprint, and nonfiction, including memoir and social commentary, under our Raven Books imprint.
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Currently, we are accepting submissions by referral only. Thank you.
New Releases and The Blue Crow Dog
We here at Blue Crow Publishing could not operate without three very important things: laptops, coffee, and Corey, the Blue Crow Dog. As you can see, Corey is rare, specialty breed called "Brown Dog," a breed that can only be acquired at your local animal shelter. She...
Fall Call: We’re Looking for One Good Book
We're looking for one good book. Each of our imprints, Raven Books and Blue Crow Books, is looking for one good book to publish in our Spring 2018 lineup. Your book is Polished, full-length (60,000 to 80,000 words or so), and ready to go. BCB publishes popular...
LIFE OF THE MIND INTERRUPTED: Coming 10-16-17
We are pleased to announce a new fall release from Raven Books, an imprint of Blue Crow Publishing. Katie Rose Guest Pryal's Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education will be released in print and eBook on October 16,...
GRACE PERIOD: A Memoir in Pieces, Coming 10-2-17
We are delighted to announce our very first release from Raven Books, an imprint of Blue Crow Publishing. Kelly J. Baker's GRACE PERIOD: A MEMOIR IN PIECES is an eloquent and haunting collection of essays that follows her transition out of academia as she struggles to...
Making Books by Hand
Before Katie and I teamed up to found Blue Crow Publishing, I made books the old-fashioned way: through letterpress printing. I first caught the letterpress bug over fifteen years ago, in a little printing studio in St. Louis. I made my first book by hand there,...
Blue Crow Publishing Statement of Beliefs
Blue Crow Publishing is a brand-new press breaking ground in this brand-new world of publishing. One of the things we're trying to do differently is to take an author-centric approach. Because we're authors ourselves, we know how hard it is to thrive in such a...