
To catch you up if you mainly know me for my writing, I also co-founded a small publishing company called Thinking Ink Press. We publish one or two books each year.
We applied for the Innovative Voices program last June. We are so excited that we were selected as one of five publishers for a grant and mentoring!
When I found out, I was in a zoom call with Keiko--one of the members of Thinking Ink Press. I saw the email telling us we were selected. I said, "ohmygod, ohmygod, Keiko, look at your email!"
Then her face looked like the surprised emoji and I could see in my zoom square that my face turned red because my heart was beating so fast with joy. And then we got Liza and Anthony to join us in the zoom too, so we could tell them. It was a really big moment for our press!
To read the announcement from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) , click here.