I’m an independent press publisher with more than thirty years’ experience in writing, publishing, editing and teaching. My company, Cypress House, is a family-owned, full-service book production and promotion company as well as royalty house which has won national and international awards and grants. Cypress House also provides editorial, marketing, promotion, and subsidiary rights assistance to independent presses and authors around the country. My articles, essays, book reviews and poetry have appeared in books, magazines, newsletters and anthologies. I am co-founder of the Mendocino Women’s Choir, now in its 28th season.