Brick Tower Press: Our Story
Brick Tower Press was founded in 1993 in Manhattan by publisher John T. Colby Jr. Before founding the press, Colby was a business associate at Doubleday & Company, Inc., working within each of its major divisions, and then built the reporting and financial systems for Doubleday Book Shops as its chief financial officer and secretary. Brick Tower Press is a trade publisher of quality nonfiction (cookery, gardening, autobiography and biography, maritime and military history, and financial guides), and it has ranked among the top one hundred independent book publishers in the United States.
In October 2008 Brick Tower Press published its first literary fiction title, Norman Bogner’s 99 Sycamore Place, and it has published selected fiction alongside its nonfiction list ever since. Brick Tower Press is now based on Shelter Island, New York, and its printed books are distributed by Ingram.