{"id":6,"date":"2009-04-17T22:53:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T22:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/about_us\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T03:46:05","slug":"about_us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/about_us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\">Norton Creek Press<\/a> is a small publishing house in Blodgett Oregon. We (Robert Plamondon and Karen Black) started Norton Creek Press because most of the books we wanted to recommend to people were out of print. This was frustrating! Also, after trying it both ways, Robert prefers self-publishing the books he writes himself, rather than finding a conventional publisher.<\/p>\n<p>We started with poultry books and added some back-to-the-land titles, which go nicely together, but the rest of the catalog is more eclectic. No matter! We publish what we thing ought to be published, and let the categories take care of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Our books are available at Amazon.com and other online resellers, and you can order them at your favorite bookstore. (As a small publisher, our books are unlikely to be on the shelf at a brick-and-mortar bookstore, but you never know.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Resellers<\/b> can get our books from Ingram or directly from us. We offer a 40% reseller discount on cash orders with a $100 minimum purchase.<\/p>\n<h1>Contact Us<\/h1>\n<p>Robert Plamondon<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:nortoncreekpress@plamondon.com\">nortoncreekpress@plamondon.com<\/a><br \/>\nNorton Creek Press<br \/>\n36475 Norton Creek Road<br \/>\nBlodgett, OR 97326<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ <![CDATA[google_ad_client = \"pub-3293481937611199\"; \/* 728x90 TDD *\/ google_ad_slot = \"9474012009\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norton Creek Press is a small publishing house in Blodgett Oregon. We (Robert Plamondon and Karen Black) started Norton Creek Press because most of the books we wanted to recommend to people were out of print. This was frustrating! Also, after trying it both ways, Robert prefers self-publishing the books he writes himself, rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/about_us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P71zFO-6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":291,"url":"https:\/\/www.nortoncreekpress.com\/wordpress\/how-to-order\/","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"How to Order","author":"Robert Plamondon","date":"November 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Order From Us Of the Dynamic Duo who make up Norton Creek Press, the publishing side and this Website are maintained by me, Robert Plamondon. 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