Welcome to Sugar Grove Press
A Personalized Author's Services Company
Sugar Grove Press is an author-friendly publishing and marketing company. We combine a low tech personal approach with a high tech offering of services for each stage of the book publishing and book marketing process. Whether you are an established writer who wants to increase your reader base or a new author who wants to bring your first book to market, Sugar Grove can provide specialized services every step of the way.
Books Published by Sugar Grove Press
God is a Mortician
Finn Briscoe
This absurdist alien romance is full of irreverent political, religious, and sexual satire. Told as a history lesson to the narrator’s son, there’s sex with Jesus, a strong white president who happens to be an albino gorilla, and three aliens from the planet Mortice who extract energy from the semi-intelligent Earthlings through religious worship. A sci-fi adventure full of political and religious humor, God Is a Mortician is as metaphysical and visionary as the Bible or any other work of fiction.
Bricked (A Pat Riodan Story Book 1)
J. Michael McGee
★★★ A triumphant story of the spirit ★★★
This is for anyone who thinks teaching's a cushy job, who thinks teachers are only in it for the money. Pat Riordan's in it for the kids.
Can Pat Riordan put aside his own sense of loss to inspire his students to rise above theirs?
Together with other school staff, Riordan works to bring structure and inspire hope, unraveling the troubles and trauma behind disruptive behaviors and learning delays. When their emotionally-responsive tactics are criticized by district leaders for being too gentle, the school is threatened with closure.
Riordan builds a deep bond with his student Bobby. When the boy and his mother are abused by her boyfriend, will Riordan overcome his own troubles and risk all to help his student?
Can Riordan prove that these young adults are worth investing in, despite troubled behaviors, in order to save the school from closure
Doug Donovan, the school´s principal, agrees with Riodan that gentle, but firm teaching strategies are the best way for their kids to learn. But ego-driven administrators, who want the school location for more promising students, feel otherwise and start a campaign to discredit the school staff and curriculum.
As the school year unwinds, Riodan finds his way into the personal life of one of his students, Bobby, and gets thrust into the role of rescuer when Bobby's mother is abused by her live-in boyfriend.
Bricked follows Riordan, the students, and staff, in what might be the school´s final year.
Our Authors
We Proudly Present
J. Michael McGee
Literary Fiction and Mystery
The author is a former schoolteacher and newspaper reporter. He lives in the American Midwest with his wife and cattle dog, in a neighborhood where a creek flows, the deer roam, and fox raise their pups.
Bricked is the first novel in the Pat Riordan Series. Upcoming books, The Slip Swing, The Cues and Franklin's Bennies are pending publication.
“Writing is the geometry of the soul”
Plato
Services
Editing
Every book needs another pair of trained eyes before it´s published. We provide editing services for every stage from line editing and copy editing to final proofreading.
Formatting
Professional formatting services with many design options for eBook and paperback in formats for all major retailer platforms.
Cover Design
For this most important element of your book´s presentation, we´ll take the time to design the cover you envision.
Beta Readers and Launch Team
Help assure your book more success by enlisting early readers to provide valuable feedback. Then let us put together an action ready team of allies to help energize your launch
ISBN and Copyright services
Assure the widest distribution of your work online and off and around the world. Protect your intellectual property by copyrighting
Author Platform Development
How will you reach your audience? We´ll help you build a platform that´s right for your personal style with the maximum reach.
Book Promotion and Advertising Services
Find new readers by digital advertising on Amazon, BookBub, Facebook, Google.
Category and Keyword Optimization
These two elements are key to success. We´ll take the time to find the best categories and keywords for your book to assure it gets in front of the right audience.
