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Dallas
Business Journal
August 25-31
DBJ Confidential Column, page 74
By Glenda Vosburgh
Did
you have a favorite book as a child? Jill Morgan did. The Keller
resident, banking on her belief that others did as well, in June
launched a new publishing business and related Web site, Purple House
Press. Morgan is republishing those out-of-print classics and offering
them for sale on her site (www.purplehousepress.com). Initially, she
features two books, "Mr. Pine's Purple House" by Leonard
Kessler, and "David and the Phoenix", by Edward Ormondroyd.
The soon-to-be-available "Mr. Bear Squash You Flat," is a
favorite of "Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson and he's written
a foreword for the reprinted version. Orders on the site clipped along
at a respectable, manageable pace until a couple of weeks ago when
Purple House Press was mentioned in USA Today. Orders tripled, and
Morgan flew her parents in from Ohio to help fill 750 orders for the
first two books. She's a little frantic these days, but say she is
"very, very happy."
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