Judy Alter on Texas Small Presses

Judy Alter on "Texas' small publishing houses feel the pinch of a slow economy" from the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 2009.  She begins her considerations as below, on three notable publishers:  Wings Press, Cinco Puntos Press, and Blooming Tree Press.   "The drumbeat of bad news from New York publishers, including declining sales and layoffs, has been constant this year. But what about small independent publishers in Texas? For the most part, they feel the pain, too. Wings Press in San Antonio was founded in 1975 by Joanie Whitebird and Joseph F. Lomax. When they died, the mantle of publisher fell on Bryce Milligan, who runs the press as a one-man operation: publisher, editor and designer. The press publishes multicultural books, chapbooks (small book or pamphlets), CDs, DVDs and broadsides." Read more at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-bk_alter_0419gd.State.Edition1.4a63780.html