Family history preserved, privately.

Family history preserved, privately.

While some of Populore’s authors seek a wide audience and actively promote their books, others offer a book with a more limited audience. This book, aptly titled Some Kin, is a selective family history that uses the lives of the author’s four sets of...
Author writes the story she needed to read when young.

Author writes the story she needed to read when young.

Tess Casher has spoken with a stutter all her life. When she first started working with us, she said, “This is the book I wanted to read when I was eight years old, but it didn’t exist.” Now that Sleuths in Skates is completed, it’s starting to reach young readers; in...
Continued participation with OLLI community

Continued participation with OLLI community

Populore owner Rae Jean teaches book/publishing classes for OLLI nearly every term. This time, mid-February, she’ll be attending a class—“Sharing Our Collections.” No surprise, as she prepared for her fifteen minutes of Show & Tell for the gathering, she got...
Shopping—and selling—local

Shopping—and selling—local

Supporting local businesses is important to us. Appalachian Gallery, where we buy our beautiful Wolf Creek Printery calendar every year, is a favorite. Other than many appealing WV arts and crafts, they carry books, including Populore authors Mary Lucille DeBerry’s...
Family history complete, ready to be shared.

Family history complete, ready to be shared.

A multi-generational team effort by the author and two of her nieces and one nephew resulted in a comprehensive family history, ready in time to share as gifts for the holidays. Populore first prepared a paperback edition, which the team sent to several dozen family...