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SUMMARY:Vicki DeArmon Talks About her Memoir and the Heyday of Small Presses at Book Passage in Corte Madera
DESCRIPTION:The heyday of small press publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area lives again!\nJoin Vicki DeArmon, author of Foghorn: The Nearly True Story a Small Publishing Empire at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, CA on April 6th at 1pm. Her new memoir is set during the publishing renaissance of the 80s in the Bay Area and tells the personal story of starting and growing Foghorn Press.\nBook Passage’s Elaine and Bill Petrocelli were part of this amazing era where booksellers and small presses collaborated to create the first San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival.\nEVENT INFORMATION\nApril 6th, 2025 at 1pm\nBook Passage Corte Madera\n51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\nCorte Madera, CA  94925\nFor more information, please visit Book Passage’s event calendar here!\nAbout Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire:\nThis is the never-before-told story of a unique time in San Francisco as well as in book industry history, when Bay Area small presses—armed with arrogance and personal computers—took the publishing field. At Foghorn Press, Vicki Morgan was an ambitious woman publisher, young and brash, coming-of-age while quixotically building a book publishing company from scratch with her eccentric brother to help.\nAs part of their optimistic Morgan heritage, the siblings strive to grow Foghorn Press with no capital, 100-hour work weeks, cheap beer, irrepressible belly laughs, and no book publishing experience. They assemble a cast of preposterous authors and resistant staff while surviving a drunken ex-husband, a con artist, calculating distributors, a fleet of good ol’ boys, terrible cash flow, and their own differing aspirations. Books are brought to market and miraculously sell from their offices in the Boiler Room. Foghorn is soon a resounding success with sales, media, acclaim. But in the end, there are costs, to relationships, to family, and maybe even to the truth.\nAbout Vicki DeArmon:\nVicki 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.\n
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