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About Fireship Press

Fireship Press is a bright, shiny, new publishing company. By "new" I mean as in... only about one year old. (We were thinking of adding "Est. 2007" to our logo but decided that it would not be all that impressive.) It specializes in the following kinds of books (in this order of priority):

Nautical Fiction and Non-fiction
Historical Fiction and Non-fiction (other than nautical)
Golf Books (It's a long story)
Other stuff we think is good.

Many of our nautical and historical line-up (and even some of our “Other” books) will be based around what we call Contemporized Classics™

For these books we will be taking works that were written (mostly) in the Victorian era but, unlike a lot of small publishers, we will NOT just be re-packaging them. Each book will be line-edited so that they “read right” to the modern eye. The content will not be changed; but half-page run-on sentences, massive two-page paragraphs and so forth, will be altered. The closest analogy is probably to the “colorization” and re-release of old movies that has been done in recent years.

In any event, that’s our angle and we hope to be successful with it. I mean—terrific unabridged books, modern readability—what’s not to like about THAT.

Our “Other” line-up is just that. They are books that we think are great but do not fit into the nautical/historical category. In this you could find almost anything, but all of them will have one characteristic. They are wonderful books. We’re not going to NOT publish them just because they don’t fall into the nautical or historical category.

So that’s what we’re about. As mentioned above, we're a small and very new company. You won't confuse the size of our title list with Simeon and Schuster, but in our first year we averaged over four books a month. That's not bad and we hope to be adding two to four titles a month for the foreseeable future.

We hope you will come back to this website often. We think you will be glad you did.

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