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, under our Raven Books imprint.
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Currently, we are accepting submissions by referral only. Thank you.
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...