CELEBRATE GREAT WRITING During National Small Press Month

March is National Small Press Month, now in its 12th year, a nationwide promotion highlighting the valuable work produced by independent publishers. An annual celebration of the independent spirit of small publishers, Small Press Month is an effort to showcase the diverse, unique, and often most significant voices being published today. The Overlook Press, honored by the New York Center for Independent Publishing in December 2007, and recently profiled in Publishers Weekly, is a small press in its 37th year! Celebrate great writing this month with these new releases: The Wentworths by Katie Arnoldi; Song of the North by Jules Watson, Courting Shadows by Jem Poster, Funny Boys by Warren Adler, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte by Laura Joh Rowland, and The Better Angels by Charles McCarry.

Support INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING at the NYCIP Winter Benefit Gala in NYC on December 13

The New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP) will hold its Winter Benefit Gala on Thursday, December 13. This year, our own Peter Mayer, publisher of Overlook Press, will be the recipient of NYCIP's Poor Richard Award for outstanding contributions to independent book publishing. The award will be presented to Mr. Mayer by special guest presenter Ed Victor, the internationally renowned literary agent. Tickets are available for purchase through the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesman, 20 W.44th Street, in New York City.

Come to the INDEPENDENT AND SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR in NYC, December 1-2

Join us on Saturday and Sunday, December 1-2, at the 20th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair in New York City! The Overlook Press will be exhibiting on the Library Floor at the New York Center for Independent Publishing in the landmark building of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesman in midtown Manhattan. We'll show off the best of 2007, in hardback and paperback, and preview some of our new titles that are coming in January 2008. See you there!

Hail to the Chief! PETER MAYER to Receive 2007 Poor Richard Award

Peter Mayer, President and Publisher of The Overlook Press, will be this year’s recipient of the New York Center for Independent Publishing’s (NYCIP) Poor Richard Award for outstanding contributions to independent book publishing. The award will be presented to Mr. Mayer by special guest presenter Ed Victor, the internationally renowned literary agent, at the NYCIP’s Winter Benefit. The Center is an educational program of the non-profit organization, The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen (GSMT). The Benefit will be held on Thursday, December 13, 2007, at The General Society’s literary landmark building at 20 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

“We feel privileged to be honoring an independent publisher of Peter’s stature,” said Karin Taylor, the NYCIP’s Executive Director. “The Poor Richard Award is a way of recognizing the importance of independent publishers to our society. Peter’s decision to leave the corporate publishing world and enter the field of independent publishing full-time is an inspiration to our publisher members. Most important, in this era of thinning mid-lists, Overlook is a refuge for meritorious books that might otherwise go unpublished.”

Benefit tickets are available by calling the NYCIP headquarters (212.764.7021) or by emailing Christopher de la Torre (christopher@nycip.org). All proceeds will benefit the Center for Independent Publishing, a non-profit cultural and educational program of the GSMT, serving the independent publishing community.