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High Prairie Press - if you have wanted to write a book, this is for you
- 2025/04/21
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Today I'm talking with Annie at High Prairie Press. You can follow on Facebook as well. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. Muck Boots Calendars.Com If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 Did you know that Muck Boots all started with a universal problem? Muck? And did you know that it's their 25th anniversary this year? Neither did I. But I do know that when you buy boots that don't last, it's really frustrating to have to replace them every couple of months. So check out Muck Boots. The link is in the show notes. The very first thing that got hung in my beautiful kitchen when we moved in here four and a half years ago was a Calendars.com Lang calendar. 00:26 because I needed something familiar in my new house. My mom loves them. We love them. Go check them out. The link is in the show notes. You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform, emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. 00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Annie Toro Lopez again. I just put out the episode with Annie from a week or two ago, sometime in the last six days. can't remember when. And Annie talked to me about her Seeds to Savor page and stuff on the last episode. 01:25 And today she's going to walk us through her process of how she publishes books at High Prairie Press. So welcome back, Annie. How are you? Wonderful. I am well. Thank you so much, Mary, for having me back. I'm very excited about this conversation. I am too, because that got to me like this bug has been kicking me for a week since we talked about doing this episode. You're in Colorado, right? 01:53 That's correct. I'm in Elizabeth, Colorado, and we are at 6,300 feet. That's High Prairie. We're on the Colorado High Prairie, and that was the name for my publishing company, High Prairie Press. Beautiful. the weather nice in Colorado today? Oh my goodness, not today. Everything's covered in ice. How about you up there? It's gray. 02:22 It's gray, it's probably 45 degrees and we actually had kind of nasty thunderstorms yesterday. I believe it. There were tornadoes all across the country. saw, I'm originally from Nebraska. I was born in New Jersey, raised in Nebraska and in an agricultural land, lots of tornadoes across Nebraska. saw a video of someone in their house and all of their windows all the way around them were breaking with hail. Yeah. 02:50 So it was, yeah, it was a rough day yesterday. I'm glad you guys are all okay. Yep. We're fine here. No broken windows. No, no cars got ding. No, no dogs got clunked in the head with hail. We're good. Um, and we're making a very small talk here, but I was, I was also born in New Jersey. I was also born in New Jersey. Where? Fort Dix. Wow. I was born in Plainfield. 03:19 Yeah, I think Fort Dix is in New Jersey. So yeah, we have that in common too. Really weird. Yes, Wonderful. Okay. So what I want to ask you first is you had said back in the other interview, 03:39 that it's always been your dream to be a publisher, but you have also written a cookbook. So were you a publisher before you wrote the cookbook or were you an author before you were a publisher? So I had published three books. I published before my most recent cookbook. So I published four different books. One is a writer's handbook. That was the first book I wrote. It taught me a lot about the process of publishing 04:09 Um, it was something just, just did. I taught my degree is in English and I taught literacy, reading and writing for about 15 years. So professionally and more before that, but I, um, wanted to capture what I had taught as a literacy instructor. so I made, I spent like, I don't know. 04:39 days, just listing words, like words that would come like metaphor and simile and antagonist and protagonist and plot and resolution and just words. so this book is the death, the writer's handbook defines those words and it's, it's people who have it, I think find it valuable. It hasn't sold to many people, but writers, especially for fiction, memoir, 05:08 anything you would have learned in like English 101 is all there and just really concise. So that's that book. Then I did a project in Southern Colorado around green chili because it's an iconic native indigenous, my husband is indigenous and so green chili was just always a part of his life. ...