Chesterton Press's ecommerce site is shutting down January 12, 2020.
Dear friends,
After over ten years of running an online shopping site, we are closing down this aspect of our business. The last day to buy from Chesterton Press will be on January 12, 2020.
How publishing has changed since I first opened a fledgling ecommerce site back in 2009! There used to be multiple sites willing to take a risk on Catholic fiction or indie-published books. But consolidation has been going on relentlessly, and so many sites serving Catholic families and teens have shut down. Searching this morning, I could not find a single Catholic retailer selling the Fairy Tale Novels and John Paul 2 High whom I could direct you to! Of course, it is ALWAYS best to order through your local Catholic bookstore, who can easily order my books through Ingrams or Spring Arbor. My books will still be available on Amazon, Walmart, and other online retailers, and Sophia Institute still has Angel in the Waters, while TAN/St. Benedict's Press will keep selling our Chesterton books and children's titles.
I will try to find a place for our non-traditional products, such as the scripts for The Shadow of the Bear and The Midnight Dancers (I have a script for Black as Night, but it's yet to be performed or put up on sale) and our talks and writings on grieving, which many people have benefitted from downloading. Some of them will be on my blog.
So... what lies ahead for me? Well, I am searching for a large Catholic publisher willing to invest in teen fiction, which I still believe is earnestly needed more than ever, to take over my series and ideally help create new ones. Together with my husband I celebrated 25 years of marriage this past summer and look forward to celebrating my 50th birthday tomorrow. We are heavily involved with raising our ten children and assisting in our parish, St. John the Baptist in Front Royal, Virginia. I have been doing some yeoman work in Catholic education, figuring out how to best pass on the faith to our young people. Those of you who have been reading me over the years know how important this has been to me, and the cruciality of this endeavor in my heart has only increased. I would like to write more fiction, but as I've joked, it became much harder once my children stopped going to bed at 8 PM, and I still have little ones at home. It's still hard now.
It looks as though most of 2020 will be a sabbatical for me. As some of you know, our family friend, Ben Hatke, my illustrator for Angel in the Waters and The Story of Job as well as my partner in creating an illustrated version of The Ball and the Cross, lost his youngest daughter in a tragic accident this past fall. This loss has been very hard on our families and we are still in mourning. It is one of the reasons why we decided the time had come to close up our ecommerce shop.
Chesterton Press will redirect to my blog, reginadoman.blogspot.com. We will retain our email list, so be sure to sign up for it if you want to be alerted to any future books or projects. I am praying that as this chapter of my life closes, the Lord will make known His plans for my creative life. I welcome your prayers. Thank you again for reading my books and recommending them to others, and I thank you for all your prayers for us.
Peace and good
Regina
PS: As a special farewell gift, we are giving out free signed copies of my manga comic on Pope Francis's early life and pontificate, I Believe In Mercy to purchases of non-digital in-stock products while supplies last. If you want it signed to a particular person, let me know in the notes section during checkout. Thanks!
|
