A Manitowoc-based publisher is celebrating two years of bringing local authors’ visions to life.
Peggy Turnbull, co-owner and senior editor of Fresh Water Press, recalled a day in 2024 when she was invited by Tara Huck and Tracey Koach to join them in starting the brand-new company.
She tells SeehaferNews.com, “That first year, the three of us met weekly for intense discussions about our new company. We were committed to publishing local authors and/or manuscripts on topics relating to the northwest Lake Michigan shoreline and its environs.”
By December, they were ready to accept submissions. The first three titles they published were, as Turnbull recalled, “Emilie Lindemann’s transcendent book of poetry, Ghost(ed) Woman & the Electric Purple Pants; Raquel Durden’s Dial Down: Holistic Strategies to Move from Chaos to Calm, a guide to personal well-being helpful to all but intended for combat veterans and first responders; and Lisa Lehmann’s RADIO STARR, a career novel about a female radio DJ in the 1980s.”
In total, five books have been published under the Fresh Water Press banner, and several more are planned for the next couple of years.
For more information on the company, visit FreshWaterPressLLC.com.
