Samantha Kolber is the New Owner of Rootstock Publishing!
New owner Samantha Kolber (left) and founding publisher Stephen McArthur (right). Photo by Bear Pond Books.
The Montpelier company was sold to Kolber during National Women’s Small Business Month
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Rootstock Publishing, a Vermont-based book publisher, announces the transfer of ownership from founding co-publishers Stephen McArthur and Rickey Gard Diamond to Samantha Kolber of Montpelier, Vermont.
Kolber is the company’s former marketing director and poetry editor, and has previously worked for Bear Pond Books of Montpelier, Goddard College in Plainfield, and Tupelo Press in North Adams, Massachusetts. She has extensive experience in book publicity, editing, sales and marketing, customer relations, and publishing.
“Samantha is a fantastic resource for Rootstock,” said McArthur and Diamond. “We are both convinced Samantha will take Rootstock in very creative and exciting directions in the future. She is a book person of the highest order and brings a wide book business experience to the task,” they said.
“I am thrilled to take the lead role at Rootstock Publishing to continue and build on our success of publishing fine books by talented authors,” said Kolber. “Vermont is a hub for both writers and small business owners, so it seems a natural fit for Rootstock to remain a local, Montpelier publisher. I am grateful for the support of Stephen and Rickey, my attorney at Hatch Law & Consulting, PLC, and the Center for Women & Enterprise, for helping me become a small business owner, especially during National Women’s Small Business Month,” she said.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s website (www.sba.gov), October is when SBA celebrates women-owned businesses and their lasting impact on the economy.
Rootstock Publishing is a hybrid publisher founded in Montpelier, Vermont, in 2017. Their books have won multiple awards such as the IPPY, Foreword INDIES, the IBPA Ben Franklin Award, and Independent Book Publishers of New England awards, among others. They publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and picture book manuscripts by authors from Vermont and from all over the globe. Their 43rd book will be published in January!
Read the Times Argus article ‘Rootstock Publishing changes hands’ by Peter Cobb HERE.