Foghorn
The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire

A “nearly true” memoir that reads like the very best of novels While I find some memoirs dry and didactic, others like overwrought diaries, and still some that bombard with enough minutia to become eye-rolling, the very best of the genre pulls you in, holds you there, and takes you on a roller coaste......more

Foghorn tells the story of the rise and fall of a Bay Area small press in the era when the West Coast decided to take on the East Coast's dominance in the field. It's also the story of a sibling relationship - that hybrid playground/battlefield where our skills for navigating adult relationship are......more

Anyone who thinks publishing won't break your heart must read this memoir. Vicki DeArmon is the real deal, and she opens her heart on these pages, detailing the triumphs and the bigger debacles, the broken hearts, the losers she met, and the good guys. Small business owners will find solace in Vicki......more

Vicki DeArmon, Sibylline Press Publisher, now takes up her pen to write Foghorn, a “nearly true” memoir about starting a publishing business with her two brothers. DeArmon deftly portrays a story of familial love, warts and all. She details the entrepreneurial exhilaration of building a publishing b......more