This novelistic memoir relives the never-before-told story of the heyday of small presses in the 80s and 90s in San Francisco with the intimate story of entrepreneur Vicki Morgan DeArmon, publisher of Foghorn Press.
Vicki DeArmon has been in the book industry for forty years as a respected publisher, bookseller, and innovator. She started her San Francisco publishing company Foghorn Press with a small advance on her credit card when she was twenty-five, growing it to a $2 million enterprise before selling it fourteen years later. She worked as the marketing and events director at Copperfield's Books for eight years and as consultant to California's independent bookstores. She's also a writer whose short stories and essays have won awards and appeared online and in print. Vicki is one of the founders of Sibylline Press and serves as its publisher. She lives in California.
