Marcy Hawley and Orange Frazer Editor John Baskin worked at Ohio Magazine in the 1980s. They help poets, artists, and children's authors self-publish, but the press started out slowly.Ĭredit Jason Reynolds / WYSO Orange Frazer Publisher Marcy Hawley holds up a photo of the press's offices before the mural. They make custom books for big companies, and promotional books for arts organizations. We’ve just stayed independent, and we feel like we’re rather hybrid.”īy hybrid, Hawley means that Orange Frazer is both a traditional publisher and a custom publisher. “Most publishers our size don’t exist anymore,” Hawley says, “because they haven’t been able to make it or they’ve been purchased by the larger book publishing companies. These are the offices of Orange Frazer Press and Publisher Marcy Hawley. She has one hand on the railing and the other on the wall, in a way that suggests she’s about to climb over-to escape or elope. On the second floor of the building, there’s a small balcony, and the muralist has painted a woman in a gown on that balcony.
This one looks like a scene from a Shakespeare play. And if you duck down the alley that runs behind Main Street, you’ll stumble upon one of Wilmington’s enormous murals. There’s a beautiful historic theater from the city’s glory days, but there’s also a few empty storefronts downtown.
Main Street in Wilmington, Ohio, looks like Main Street in a lot of midwestern towns. Community Voices Producer Jason Reynolds stopped by their offices to learn how this little press that could continues to thrive after 30 years. In the age of Amazon, e-books, and on-demand publishing, small presses have had to make big changes to stay afloat, and Orange Frazer Press in Wilmington has become one of Ohio’s most versatile small publishers.
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