Nancy Stouffer's publisher

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 14436

Articles about Nancy Stouffer's reissue if "Rah and Muggles" call her 
publisher "Thurman House" from Owings Mills, Md. (suburb of 
Baltimore). No internet search turns up a hit on "Thurman House," but 
a reverse phone number search shows the number belongs to a "Book 
Producer" called Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., with the same phone 
number and address as given for Thurman.

According to the American Book Producers Association website, a book 
producer puts together "complicated books" and can present them to 
publishers or be publishers themselves. go 
to  http://www.abpaonline.org/what.html to see their description of 
what book producers do. Ottenheimer's listing is on that site also.

"Thurman House," or Ottenheimer, or whoever, can produce books for 
"nontraditional" markets like mail order or door-to-door.  They don't 
call themselves a vanity press, or "subsidy publisher" (the  
industry euphemism) but they aren't a traditional house either.

So who knows? I'd be surprised to see this thing on the feature table 
at Border's, but maybe you have a Rite-Aid near you. That's one of the 
places that carried the book before. Too bad Rite-Aid nearly went 
bankrupt and had to close a lot of  their stores. Something about bad 
buying decisions.