Attorneys chase literary dreams with Publishing313
The venture aims to publish the work local authors across Detroit and will begin accepting submissions this spring. The founders hope to print those works and make them available in local bookstores by the summer.
Mark Rossman and Brian Saxe are two attorneys who like to joke that they gave up their dream of a creative career to pursue law. That’s changing now that they are launching Publishing313.
“We have been writing together for a number of years,” Rossman says. “We wanted a vehicle to publish. I was talking to Brian and said, ‘Why don’t we create our own?'”
The venture not only aims to publish the work of Rossman and Saxe, but other local authors across Detroit. Publishing313 will be accepting submissions from local writers of poetry and short stories this spring. The founders hope to print those works and make them available in local bookstores by the summer.
“I am envisioning a journal of 75 to 100 pieces of short stories and poetry,” Rossman says.
The partners are inspired by the reinvention of Detroit and believe the work being done to improve the Motor City will produce some classic contemporary literature.
Source: Mark Rossman and Brian Saxe, co-founders of Publishing313
Writer: Jon Zemke
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