2003 News Archive

Harbor House "Finding Its Way" to Publishers Weekly

Excerpt, about Harbor House, from Publishers Weekly's article:
"Finding Their Way"
by Jim Milliot -- 3/3/2003
Features > Independent publishers take different tacks to succeed in a sluggish market

"The smallest publisher on this year's list is Harbor House, founded By E. Randall Floyd in 1998 to publish his Civil War novel, Deep in the Heart, which has sold nearly 100,000 copies and remains the company's biggest seller. Harbor House's In the Realm of Ghosts and Hauntings produced steady sales last year, and the publisher has sold 10,000 copies of the novel Two Rivers. The company's business breakthrough in 2002 was largely due to the move to National Book Network for distribution in late 2001. "They've done a fantastic job for us," Floyd says. Floyd intends to keep Harbor House's list small; it will likely publish only six books this year, and Floyd says he wants to keep the list to no more than 10 books per year. But he is expecting more sales from each title and thinks he'll have his biggest book ever this year with The Dark Side of Liberalism by Phil Kent, the president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation. Pre-orders have topped 40,000 copies, and a deal is close with the Conservative Book Club. Floyd has also signed a deal with "Friends of Bill" Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason for their edition of The 12 Days of Christmas, due out in 2004."