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About Historic Venice Press
Historic Venice Press is a publisher of regional interest books covering:
- Local Florida history (West coast)
- Florida ghost stories
- Florida road trips—featuring sightseeing and travel tips on and off the beaten path
It all began because of a chance meeting at Walt Disney World on Dec. 5, 2001 and a discussion of ghost story books. The following April, Historic Venice Press had its name and Ghost Stories of Venice was coming together.
Since that first tiny tome was published in 2002, the company has produced nine titles relating to the history and mystery of SW Florida and has begun a series of travel books that eventually will encompass the road trip possibilities of the entire state.
Titles include the national award winning Venice History Ilustrated, a hard-cover coffee table book, which is about to go into its second printing and Circus Days in Sarasota and Venice, a look at the impact of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus on the general area of Sarasota and Venice.
Today there are five books of ghost stories, with more on the way. The newest is Ghost Stories of Venice Old & New. In the works are Ghost Stories of Lee County and Haunted Theaters of Southwest Florida.
Excerpts have appeared in Ghost Stories of Florida, Ghost Stories of America, Haunted Baseball and on several Internet sites.
Reviews have appeared in local papers, N Magazine in Naples, Venice Living, Midwest Book Review and on line. Ghost Stories of Sarasota and Cool Road Trips in SW Florida have been listed among the top three in Amazon’s Readers Circles Lists for Florida cities.
While the ghosts protect the history and mystery of Florida, travel is one of the state’s major industries. To that end, there may literally be no end to the state’s road trip possibilities.
Cool Road Trips in Southwest Florida and Cool Road Trips in Central Florida are consistent sellers and soon to be joined by Cool Road Trips in Southeast Florida (late 2009) and Cool Road Trips in the Florida Keys (2010). Research is already underway throughout northern Florida for additional road trip books.
As for additional ghost stories—when the ghosts are ready, so is Historic Venice Press.