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Purple House Press is proud to have sold over 250,000 quality hardcover books. We have been mentioned or our books have appeared in TIME Magazine, USA Today, CNN.com, Publishers Weekly, Horn Book Guide, BookSense.com, American Way Magazine, Southwest Spirit Magazine, Fortune Small Business, Smithsonian Magazine, Pages, ForeWord Magazine, On Wisconsin, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, Lexington News-Leader, Detroit News, Columbus Dispatch, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Danbury News-Times,
Carnegie Mellon Magazine, D Magazine, DallasChild Magazine, New Hampshire Magazine, N Magazine, Macon Telegraph, Nordstjernan, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, Asbury Park Press,
the Cynthiana Democrat, the Keller Citizen, WCYN and most recently Kentucky's own PBS channel KET TV!
Our mission is to revive long lost, but well loved children's books. Today's children deserve to read wholesome stories from a simpler time and we know grownups want to revisit with old childhood friends too!
Please note that Purple House Press does not accept manuscripts for new books, there are too many old ones out there we want to save! If unsolicited manuscripts or previously published childrens books are submitted for consideration we will not able to return them.
Jill Morgan
Jill started Purple House Press in the year 2000, previously she had specialized in finding sought after, but hard to find used children's books. When prices of her favorite childhood book, Mr. Pine's Purple House, rose to the discouraging price of $300, she decided to do something about it by republishing the book to ensure its message would not be lost to future generations.
In June, 2003, Jill and her husband, Ray Sanders, located their family, company and animals from a suburb of Ft. Worth, Texas to Cynthiana, Kentucky -- wanting to be closer to family and live the country life they had always dreamed of. They now live on an old dairy farm with their three children, four dogs, three cats, some chickens and many computers. A few horses live in their backyard, which was also a childhood dream. Childrens books have made all of this possible.
Ray Sanders
Ray is Director of Operations, he does all of the accounting, invoicing, shipping, organizing and everything else that is not related to book design, production or working with our authors!
Prior to working at Purple House Press, Ray was a Test Engineering Manager with Motorola and worked in the electrical engineering field for nearly thirty years.
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