Publishing is often a pain and a drain, but it is not without a
few pleasures. When I started ACS Books as an arm of the American
Chesterton Society, it was fun to bring some titles into print that
did not fall into any known category, which meant that nobody else
was likely to publish them anyway. In general, writers are creative;
publishers are not. Being a writer myself, I probably don’t think
enough like a publisher. Which is why my publishing arm is part of a
non-profit organization. And so I have had the privilege of
publishing the
firstever biography of Frances (Mrs. Gilbert) Chesterton, an
annotated version of Hilaire Belloc’s oddball masterpiece
TheFour Men (with notes provided by Deacon Nathan Allen,
who along with three others, recreated Belloc’s famous
fictional-factional walk across Sussex), a creative and unexpected
explanation of the Catholic faith under the cover of
TheCatechism of Hockey, and a hilarious piece of crime fiction
called
GetLouie Stigs about a low-level mob figure who gets
convicted of fraud and sentenced to … a monastery. You should read
them all.
