In 2015 the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, started planning for their bicentennial celebration in 2018. One of the things they wanted to do was create a bicentennial commemorative coffee table book showing not only the rich history of the city but also what it looks like today. They contacted Barry Levin, the publisher for […]
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Bookhouse recently began editing a 70,000-word manuscript for the University of San Francisco. Entitled A College on the Hill, this is actually a book about the history of Lone Mountain College, a women’s college that was absorbed by the University of San Francisco in 1978. Today, Lone Mountain is co-educational and still maintains its beautiful distinct […]
The EMJ Corporation 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book has now entered the design phase. EMJ’s book is written to capture the unusual and fascinating history of this unique company while using storytelling devices to ensure that readers remain interested and engaged throughout the narrative. For nearly half of its fifty years, EMJ Corporation served a single […]
In 2017, Houchen Industries celebrated its 100-year anniversary and selected Bookhouse to tell its remarkable success story. As with all Bookhouse projects, creating the outline is one of the most important first steps. Houchens Industries began in 1917 with the Houchens Food Group when Ervin G. Houchens opened his first grocery store in a rural […]
Power to the People—50 Years of Innovation and Member Service, NISC’s 50th-anniversary commemorative book has been designed and is now at the printer. National Information Solutions Cooperative (NCIS) is an information technology company that develops and supports software and hardware solutions for its Member-Owners who are primarily utility cooperatives and telecommunications companies across the nation. […]
The outline is a vital editorial step in the creation of a commemorative book. It’s like breathing life into the project. Chapter-by-chapter, our outline lays out the editorial topics, tone, and future content in a way that flows smoothly throughout the book. Themes, sidebars, pull quotes and other components of the book are identified and […]
An energetic group of seven women from Cincinnati had worked together to create the highly successful Cincinnati Room in the Woman’s Building at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The inclusion of the Woman’s Building was a daring, even radical, experiment for its time and it was popular beyond all expectations. When the fair was […]
Published to commemorative Fort Smith’s historic bicentennial and scheduled for release in November 2017, Bridging Borders & Time—A Bicentennial Portrait of Fort Smith is both a history and present-day chronicle of life in this fascinating and historic southwest city. At a whopping 272 pages, this important coffee-table pictorial book is bursting with more than 250 […]
In July 2008 Absopure Water Company published A Century of Quality Refreshment. This is a story of one of the first ice delivery companies providing quality ice from an underwater spring outside of Detroit, then later providing water in five-gallon glass water bottles to home and businesses throughout Detroit. Plastipak’s founding in 1967 began with a need […]
In July of 2015, Bookhouse was contacted by the chief marketing officer for Emory School of Law. The School wished to develop a coffee table book to commemorate its 100th anniversary. It was important to the school that the book convey the law school’s rich heritage. Since the book was also to be pressed into […]
