I could not be happier to be included among the writers and supporters of IndieBookMan. Brad and I have indeed been talking up a storm of late and late at night so much so that I do not quite calm down enough to get to sleep. But writers and small business owners suffer similar fates, we are full of ideas at the most inopportune times.

Sullivan Street Press and what we call our Itinerant Book Show are on a mission that dovetails well with what goes on here on this site. In fact, I accused Brad during our first talk that he had been listening in on our conference calls.

So, while he may know a good deal about what we do, I would like to introduce us and our partners in this endeavor in this first posting because you will be hearing a good deal about these other two people I am so intimately involved with at Sullivan Street Press (SSP).

First I just want to say that the three of us have a common bond, we are all writers. Both Angela Goldstein and Rob Lebow write separately from their work at the press. This is a good thing to have as a team in a publishing company as they understand only too well what goes into making a writer tick.

Angela is our guiding light. She is the one who dares to ask the difficult questions and to make what she thinks are the most obvious comments that stop the two of us in our tracks. Without her so much of what we value doing would either not get done or would get so obliterated that it would become unrecognizable.

Rob is our mad scientist. He works through every night as our tech genius, putting together our incredibly useful and easily navigable as well as just plain gorgeous website. He is just so valuable a player that when he does not answer his phone, we worry. But his business acumen is also a valued asset as we move forward now with our first biz plan as we call it.

I am the founder of the company but knew I never wanted to do anything alone. Having found two other people who work as well as the three of us do together is a real gift for which I am always very grateful.

So what do we do? We publish e-books only. But we also run a show called the Itinerant Book Show and we are in the process of hiring and training what we have called (thanks to Angela) Bookies to go out and sell independently published as well as self-published books in venues all over the country. We believe that these authors are undersold, undervalued and need as much of a voice in the book world as those who are supported by the major publishers. We give performances where we talk about the strange new world publishing has entered and where we read from the books we carry and sell these books. It is a labor of love but one which we believe (after talking to Brad about some ways to make this happen) can be a money-making venture for SSP and the authors whose books we carry.

That is us in a nutshell. I urge you to go to our website and look at our regular blog postings where we tell more of the stories of who we are, why we do what we do and what we are learning along the way.

Deborah Emin is the Publisher of Sullivan Street Press, www.sullivanstreetpress.com