I don’t know about you, but seeing 2023 in the rearview window is a good thing. Life among my family of elephants was difficult in 2023. Too much illness and stress and death.

But we also published more new titles in one year than in a decade. We launched our new division of children’s stories with Grampa’s Stories, and the first book in our horror series, The Game of Five. We also welcomed baseball back into the mix with our Middle Grade offering Southpaw Sully by Steven Carman. Like Steve’s previous EBP book, Battery Brothers, all the proceeds will be directed to the Sunshine Foundation, which answers the dreams of children facing a wide variety of health and other challenges.

As fate would have it, in 2024, we will be publishing the second book in the Kiya series: Kiya and the Planet of the Fates. And some of the behind-the-scenes opportunities that came up last year should also translate into another new division: EBP Classics! We’ll let you ruminate on what that might mean. Suffice it to say, it will include some of EBP’s history of short story collections with its mission of sharing underappreciated authors to new audiences.

And if things go to plan (though when was the last time that happened?), we may even branch out on TikTok and join the #BookTok universe, instead of merely watching videos about the writing, reading, and publishing communities.

If you’re new to EBP, we are an independent publisher of (mostly) fiction, established in 2012, when we published our first short story anthology, Spring Fevers, and we have now released more than a dozen titles — anthologies, novels, and a nonfiction “verse memoir.”

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