2021 marks our tenth year as a publisher, and every month we’ll be dipping into the archives to celebrate that anniversary. February has typically been a busy month at Eckhartz Press. For instance, check out some of these February moments from our authors Rick Kaempfer, Brent Petersen, Pat Colander, Dobie Maxwell, John Landecker, Joel Daly, Roger Badesch, Beth Jacobellis, Chet Coppock, Randy Richardson, Becky Sarwate-Maxwell, and Chuck Quinzio.
This week in 2015, Rick Kaempfer appeared on WBEZ Radio to promote his book Father Knows Nothing. You can listen to that interview here.
Brent Petersen wrote a great novel in 2015 about truffles, and in so doing became an expert on the subject. Just two years after his novel was published (this week in 2017), he discovered a whole new kind of truffle. Would you believe they are radioactive? Read Brent’s radioactive truffle story here.
This week in 2017, Eckhartz Press author Pat Colander was on WGN Radio to promote her award winning book Hugh Hefner’s First Funeral. Dave Hoekstra interviewed Pat. Pat left us in 2019, but you can hear her forever in this interview with Dave. After her death, Dave also did a beautiful tribute to her. You can listen to that here.
This week in 2016, Dobie Maxwell was making the rounds promoting his tremendously exciting memoir Monkey in the Middle. Tom Taylor from NOW did a great write up about this book. Once you read the premise behind Dobie’s book, you will want to get your hands on a copy. You can read Taylor’s article here.
This week in 2016, three Eckhartz Press authors appeared on stage together, performing an old-time radio program…The Lone Ranger! Among the stars of the broadcast…Records Truly Is My Middle Name author John Landecker (as the narrator), The Unplanned Life author Roger Badesch (as Tonto), and The Daly News author Joel Daly (as the yodeling cowboy). It was so much fun watching them perform it live, complete with handmade sound effects, and the original commercials.
This week in 2018, author Beth Jacobellis released her debut novel, Cameo. There’s nothing like that moment, holding your book in your hand for the first time. Beth is shown here moments after Eckhartz Press publisher Rick Kaempfer gave that first copy to her.
One of the strangest stories in Chet Coppock’s book is the tale of the day Chet wrestled a real live bear. This week in 2014, he told that story to Deadspin as part of their expose into the life of Viktor the Bear. You can read that story here. Of course, Chet digs much deeper into that event in his Eckhartz Press book Your Dime, My Dance Floor.
Randy Richardson and Becky Sarwate are the authors of the Eckhartz Press book Cubsessions, but they also write for the website Wrigleyville Nation. This week in 2018, WN did a great interview of the pair about the behind the scenes machinations that led to this memorable book. You can read that here.
Eckhartz Press author Chuck Quinzio is a member of Local 41 of NABET (National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians.) The union publishes a slickly produced quarterly newsletter, and they did an extensive story about Chuck this week in 2014 as Chuck was making the rounds promoting his memoir Life Behind the Camera. You can read it here.
