The Original 6 - Origin Stories

Get Down and Dirty

Michelle's Story

It started with the classics. The Bronte Sisters, Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Hardy were the lullabies of my chi...

Andi's Story

I’ve harbored a love of publishing since my grad school days and through working on my Ph.D. in history. I spent maybe fifteen years work...

Blythe's Story

Small business ownership runs in my family. My grandparents owned a restaurant, and my dad grew up bussing tables there. When he got old ...

R.G.'s Story

Forming a publishing company was something that had teased the back of my mind throughout my years in publishing. I think most people in ...

Gill's Story

When I was five years old I wrote a book. Six pages in all with a few crayon pictures. I wrote it for my mother as she was always reading...

Jove's Story

Is there anything cooler than picking up a book and finding yourself represented within? As a reader, my first glimpse at lesbian fictio...

DRB’s Story

Are you curious about Dirt Road Books? If so, you’re not the only one. Over the last few days we’ve had hundreds of e-mails, texts, socia...

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