An attitude of gratitude isn’t just a holiday message. It’s a company philosophy for Swenson Book Development LLC.
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to affirm our sentiments that we have so much for which to be grateful. We appreciate all the good books our clients have published:
Almost Everything Takes Forever (Antrim House)
Dear Friend Amelia (Six Mile Creek Press)
Drawing Love (Indie Writers Press)
Lincoln’s Gift from Homer (McFarland Press)
Martian Summer (Pegasus)
The Poet’s Daughter (Larson Publishing)
A Professor, A President, and a Meteor (Prometheus)
The Spur and The Sash (Three Towers Press)
Women’s Painted Furniture, 1790-1830: American Schoolgirl Art (University Press of New England)
Swenson Book Development LLC is incredibly grateful to the authors whom we have had the privilege of serving:
Joan Aghevli
Parvaneh Bahar
Robert Grede
Patricia Houser
Juli Jousan
Andrew Kessler
Cathryn Prince
Betsy Krieg Salm
Martin Sweeney
Lynn Trudell
We look forward to serving these new clients:
Ashley Grill
Elaine Mansfield
Tina Peterson
Bob Proehl
Seymour Smidt
Kirsten Wasson
The culture and community of Ithaca contribute greatly to the success of Swenson Book Development, LLC. Ideas and books matter here, a lot. Thank you Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Mariette Geldenhuys, Attorney at law, Tompkins County Public Library, The History Center, Museum of the Earth, The Bookery, Autumn Leaves, and especially Buffalo Street Books. Thank you to Cornell University Press, Six Mile Creek Press, Indie Writers Press, and Larson Publishing for helping to put Ithaca on the book publishing map. You make this a vibrant town in support of writers.
We give thanks for the energy, enthusiasm, intelligence, talents, skills and savvy that our team of independent contractors bring to every Swenson Book Development LLC project. The great logo and artwork by Alice Muhlbach and the website design and development by Julie Sorrell are greatly appreciated. Thank you Angel Lawrence, Ruth Chlebowski, Danielle Sherwood, Bethany Dixon and Lindsay Debach for the many things you do to make Swenson Book Development LLC a success.
To friends and family, colleagues and associates, writers and authors, let us give thanks for the love of books.
Writing and Listening — an Interview with Brooke Randel
As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant memories: baking crescent roll cookies, playing gin rummy, and watching Baywatch. Until an unexpected phone call when Golda said, out of the blue: “You should write about my life. What happened in the war.” What results is a fascinating memoir—about one woman’s harrowing survival, and another’s struggle to excavate theRead more…