[Publisher] Counterpoint (formerly Shoemaker & Hoard)

Jack Shoemaker and Trish Hoard have joined together with their colleagues and partners at the Avalon Publishing Group to found a new company based in California. Shoemaker & Hoard, Publishers, is a company devoted to the publication of literary work in finely made editions. They will publish about thirty titles a year over three seasons. They describe themselves as "a traditional, small, author-driven publishing house," and writers already pledged to support their efforts include Robert Aitken, Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Michael Downing, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anne Lamott, Romulus Linney, David Markson, W. S. Merwin, Mary Rakow, James Salter, Richard Selzer, Gary Snyder and Jane Vandenburgh. Jack Shoemaker was the co-founder, editor and publisher of two significant independent publishers, North Point Press and Counterpoint Press. A bookseller and small press publisher for many years before North Point, his career began in central California in 1963. Trish Hoard left New Scientist magazine ten years ago to join Mr. Shoemaker at the beginning of Counterpoint Press. Combining her work as an editor, production manager, and business manager, she today serves as Associate Publisher of Shoemaker & Hoard.

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