Heroides and Joshua Tree Publishing would love to hear from you if you do. We are looking for stories which will inspire others to reach greater heights. Everyday we hear about how bad things are in this world. And yet, everyday we meet people who have done courageous things. We want to hear their story. Pleae email your stories to info@JoshuaTreePublishing.com and let's see if we can change the world one step at a time.
Founded in 1977 in Illinois as The Owl Network, Inc., Joshua Tree Publishing has been in the media and publishing field for 25 years. With the first edition of the Nevada Media Directory in 1985, Publisher John Paul Owles embarked on a career providing updated, comprehensive media information in the state of Nevada.
In 1999, the company began offering its Nevada Media Directory as a searchable database over the Internet for subscribers. With nearly 1,600 media contacts online, the online version of the directory keeps subscribers up-to-date with the ever changing Nevada media.
As technology became innovation in the book publishing field, Joshua Tree Publishing in 1999 started to help authors publish their books. Today the company has over 60 titles in print and has helped countless others start their own publishing companies.
In 2002, the company began providing website design, development, and hosting services to clients. Offering major hosting platforms including team collaboration sites, Joshua Tree Publishing's Owl Network offers a one stop solution for companies. In 2003, the company became a domain registration company so that clients could keep control of the domain registration all in one place.
In 2004, Joshua Tree Publishing returned to its root with the opening of a corporate headquarters in the northwest Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois. Down the street from Motorola and surrounded by Fortune 500 companies, Joshua Tree Publishing has been able to offer authors and clients true national coverage for the books and services.
In 2008, Joshua Tree Publishing moved to Chicago. With its downtown presence, Joshua Tree Publishing is able to offer state of the art technology and distribution.
Specializing in Mystery and Suspense
Centaur Books, an independent imprint of Joshua Tree Publishing. specializes in mystery and suspense, Centaur Books is dedicated to helping first-time and seasoned authors in their writing careers.
If you ever wrote a book, you know that getting published is very difficult. In today's marketplace, authors, especially first-time ones, are confronted with "self-publishing" companies that are really vanity presses in disguise. While choosing that route may very well be a means to getting published, a writer's reputation is tarnished by association with companies whose main goal is to charge your credit card rather than read your book. That is why Joshua Tree Publishing
started a new imprint called Centaur Books.
Centaur Books has 25 years of expertise and experience in publishing books. We
offer authors access to our experts—while our authors concentrate on
writing books. Publishing a book is a process. We guide our authors
through that process: from the initial preparation of their manuscript,
editing the book, designing the cover, formatting the text and cover for
the printer, printing the galley proof, and printing the finished book.
Centaur Books are available through the Ingram Book Group in the United States and internationally. Centaur Books are on Amazon with Search Inside, BN.com and major online retailers. With the emerging eBook market, we convert our books into Kindle and ePub formats with distribution through Amazon, Google Books, and major eBook wholesalers.
But we do not stop there. We help the authors with promoting their
books. We give our authors access to media lists which specialize in
book promotion. We provide information on book
stores, direct mail outlets, and alternative sources where authors can
market their books. We design and host websites for authors and their books. We offer training seminars throughout the year which
focus on writing, editing, and marketing books. We remain committed to our authors and their success. Because if they
aren't successful, we aren't.
Dedicated to Transforming Writers into Published Authors.
Chiral House is an indepedent imprint of Joshua Tree Publishing, a traditional publisher dedicated to making your dreams of being a published author a reality. Not tomorrow. Not next year. But today.
"When I first started Joshua Tree Publishing, I received calls from first-time authors seeking help getting their books published. While I helped many self-publish their books, there were several I worked with to help them get their book ready...and published them. But our emphasis was not there. We were looking for authors whose manuscripts were ready to publish."
"As years went on, I became concerned how authors were being taken advantage of—dare I say, ripped off—by the vanity presses. Today of course, they disguise themselves as helping authors "self-publish" their books...while attaching their ISBN numbers to those books, which in reality makes them the publisher. So much for honesty in business. And yet, these presses are honest. They tell you to pick your package, provide your financial information (credit card preferred), and pay them. Oh yeah, send in your book...if the card is approved. The goal is not to help the author, rather it is to prey on authors who have a genuine desire to express themselves in words.
"We decided to use Chiral House to help writers become published authors. During the selection process for Joshua Tree Publishing, Heroides Publishing, and Centaur Books, we found many excellent books which needed editing beyond what we offered as traditional publishers. We believed in the books but could not offer the author a solution. Today we can.
"Today, if we find a book we want to publish, we will offer the author two contracts: one for editing by an approved freelance editor guaranteeing our purpose in publishing the book and the second a publishing contract. Rather than a rejection letter, the writer has an opportunity to be published...once the book is ready for prime time. So how many times do we offer this opportunity? At this point, about one time in every ten submissions. Yes, that is only 10% but we value those authors and their work. We want to make their dream of being a published author a reality."
Specializing in Heroes of our Time
"We are pleased to announce that Heroides Publishing, LLC, has become an imprint of Joshua Tree Publishing," John Paul Owles, President & CEO of Joshua Tree Global announced today. "I was instrumental in establishing Heroides and was very flattered when Ruchel Louis Coetzee expressed her desire to be part of our company. Her book, PULANI A memoir of a young woman in apartheid South Africa, has been very well received.
"What impressed me the most was that Heroides was dedicated to telling the Stories of the Heroes of our Times. Heroides will continue that pursuit by combining traditional book publishing with new technology, to create an innovative multimedia platform for writers. Each year Heroides will take to market a select group of stories that capture heroic journeys. Heroides produces books in every available print and digital format. Heroides Publishing and Joshua Tree Global offer a unique combination of expertise in the fields of publishing, film, video, music, and marketing that will position Heroides to "command the space" across a variety of formats, supported with multimedia marketing."
Do you have a story of a Hero of our Time?