It’s the writers, it’s the publishers, and it’s the bookstore owners that come together to give us the books we read. Over the years publishers and publishing, both in big and small houses, has grown and changed how a book gets into our hands and our hearts. It is not often that one gets to sit down with a working  publisher who is willing to talk about the ups and downs of the publishing business today.

But at the beginning of March, Vicki DeArmon, the publisher of Sibylline Press, along with Christine Walker, one of Sibylline’s authors joined me at KWMR.org radio in Point Reyes Station. We had a grand conversation, learning about Vicki’s experiences in the dynamic publishing and bookselling worlds in the heyday of small presses in the 1980s and 1990s in San Francisco, when Bay Area presses and book stores each relied on the other for their livelihood, while harvesting authors for their successes. Vicki talks about the history of the Bay Area’s publishing houses, sharing information as to how they work and helpful information about how to get your book published. Christine talks about writing memoir, where memories come, from and the importance of all art in the creation of story and books. So sit back maybe with a glass of “Mortal Zin” (another title from Sibylline) and enjoy.