Traverse City–Foreword Magazine is pleased to announce that Jennifer M. Champagne will join the company as Associate Publisher on June 1, bringing a wide-ranging background in independent publishing, literary editorial leadership,... Read More

A Note from the Editor of Foreword Reviews / As we wrap this issue, it marks the last few days of Foreword’s silver anniversary and I can’t let that pass without expressing my immense gratitude to the Foreword team and the... Read More

Has this ever happened to you? I was on a cross country car trip over the Thanksgiving holiday to visit some of the most important women in my life (daughter Vanessa and two granddaughters, Rosemary and Corrine) when I had an... Read More

Building Up Our Independent Publishing Community / We are back from the Frankfurt Book Fair and I’m still processing (and will be for many months) the ideas, leads, and deals made with our publishing colleagues from around the world,... Read More

How to Heal / I’m certain that I am not alone in thinking that things could not possibly get any worse than the year we had in 2020, when, quite impossibly, they just did. Last week’s introduction to 2021 was a stark reminder that... Read More

As a small business, we’ve been very fortunate (so far) to have been able to weather the Covid-19 pandemic without horrific consequences. Like you, we’ve had to be light on our feet and roll with some unexpected challenges. But a... Read More

My new granddaughter from Park City, Utah, left last night after a week long staycation with us, meeting her extended family at our cottage. In her eleventh week, Rosemary is heart stoppingly precious, but what I grew to find most... Read More

Now that the third month of the world being upside down is almost behind us, it’s time to focus on recalibration of our “future normal” and embrace the fact that things may never be quite the same again. The devil on one of my... Read More