By Annie Carmitchell

$16.99 print, $6.99 ebook

Who Knew Tarot Could Be This Funny?  

Part tarot primer, part memoir, this illustrated collection of humorous essays takes the reader on an unexpectedly funny and fearlessly frank journey through the tarot deck.

Annie Carmitchell often uses her tarot decks as a tool for spiritual guidance, and during a late-night chat with her sister it occurred to her that almost every shared memory reminded her of a particular tarot card. Friends had long urged Carmitchell to write a book, and she had finally found her hook. Two years and many sisterly conversations later, the 310-page, illustrated book of 58 “fun-sized” chapters, each relating a tarot card to a story from her own life, is ready for publication.

Few topics are off limits. Carmitchell tackles IBS in the “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” (Four of Wands card), recalls an embarrassing doctor visit in “My, How You’ve Grown” (the Lovers card), and recounts a brush with danger in “The Sky Ride” (the Hanged Man card). Though most chapters are light-hearted, some of the book’s more reflective passages touch upon her sister’s coming out, their parents’ deaths, and an experience with past life regression.

Conversations With My Sister: A Fool's Journey Through the Tarotwill be available in both paperback and ebook editions through Amazon, Barnes and Noble (online), and IndieBound.

36 illustrations (color in ebook, black and white in print edition)
310 pages

Print ISBN: 978-1-7329826-2-8
eISBN: 978-1-7329826-3-5

Conversations With My Sister: A Fool’s Journey Through the Tarot is published by Sweetspire Press, an imprint of Carter Publishing Studio. Copyright © 2019 by Annie Carmitchell.

By Heather Erickson, Tim Erickson, and Laura Erickson Carter

Do you remember in sights or sounds? For one family, the 1970s and 80s were filled with small moments in and around the farm that will never be forgotten. Waking to piano notes lilting from the music room and the sizzle of fresh eggs in the kitchen . . . scanning the horizon for a hint of rain or waiting for the first bean seedlings to pop through the soil . . . listening for the rumbling of tractors in spring or the gentle lowing of mama cows as they get their sunrise bucket of feed . . . tasting the bitter salt of sweat from hauling hay or the cooling breezes of a picnic under the trees . . . these everyday events in those simpler days seem more welcome than ever today. A labor of love for siblings Heather Erickson, Tim Erickson, and Laura Erickson Carter, The Stillmeadow Years: The Rhythm of Life on One Family Farm is a collection of family history, childhood memoirs, and biographical poetry that paint a picture of how a Midwestern family gave their all to one family farm.

The Stillmeadow Years: The Rhythm of Life on One Family Farm is published by Sweetspire Press, an imprint of Carter Publishing Studio.

A few excerpts from the book are shown at left.

Books can be purchased through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and many other retailers. $15.95 print, $9.99 ebook.

Print ISBN: 978-1-7329826-0-4
eISBN: 978-1-7329826-1-1

When old friend and incredibly talented photographer Notley Hawkins asked me to help him create his first book, commissioned and funded by the Kingdom of Callaway Chamber of Commerce, I knew it would be no ordinary project. Notley handed me a few DVDs of his photos—hundreds of shots taken all around Callaway County, Missouri, one more dazzling than the next—and I went to work turning it all into a book, from concept to copywriting to design and layout. 

Photos by Notley Hawkins. Written, edited & designed by Laura Carter. Copyright 2007 by the Kingdom of Callaway Chamber of Commerce. www.notleyhawkins.com

School Business Affairs (SBA) is the monthly magazine of the Association of School Business Officials International. This full-color 40-page glossy magazine, a benefit for the association’s 5,000 members, makes good use of stock art within a clean, crisp template that features the association’s branded colors. Since signing on to design and compose SBA at the beginning of the millennium, Carter Publishing Studio has kept SBA looking fresh with two major redesigns and periodic style tweaks. We work closely with editor Pat George (of Communications By George), and our editing/design/production team has developed a smooth and seamless workflow that allows the busy ASBO staff to focus on other things—we’ve got publications covered. 

School Business Leader, ASBO International’s member-exclusive full-color bimonthly newsletter, features practical tips, case studies, tools, and leadership advice for school district leaders. The design, developed hand in hand with ASBO’s communication team, incorporates the ASBO brand’s color palette, font, use of curved shapes, and repeating logo graphics.

Establishing, Managing, and Protecting Your Online Reputation: A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices, by Kevin Pho, MD, and Susan Gay. Copyright 2013 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover photo © Shutterstock.

The Patient-Centered Payoff: Driving Practice Growth Through Image, Culture, and Patient Experience, by Judy Capko and Cheryl Bisera. Copyright 2014 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover photo design by Tim Schmidt.

Social Media for the Health Care Profession: The New Shingle for Today’s Medical Practices, by Neil Baum, MD, Catherine Maley, MBA, and Andrew Schneider, DPM. Copyright © 2011 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover photo © Shutterstock.

Secrets of the Best-Run Practices, 2nd Edition, by Judy Capko. Copyright © 2010 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. 

Physician Alignment: Ensuring Success with Negotiations, Payment Systems, and Education of Stakeholders, by Max Reiboldt, CPA (Coker Group). Copyright © 2015 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover photo © Shutterstock.

Sour Beef and Cheesecake: A Food and Family Memoir, by Grace Kenneth Collins. Copyright © 2011 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover image © Shutterstock.

The Blue Pencil Career Success Monographs™ are small print books, e-books, and downloadable pdfs that can be read quickly and easily but that are chock full of how-to-do-it, do-it-now strategies that really work. Each Blue Pencil Career Success Monograph™ focuses on one topic that supports The 6D Framework for Career Success™, the underlying structure that guides Blue Pencil Institute’s products, programs, and coaching services (www.bluepencilinstitute.com).

Climbing Out of a Rut: Four Steps and 101 Secrets to Supercharging Your Career and Finding Greater Fulfillment and Reward in What You Do Every Day, by Dr. Laura Hills. Copyright © 2012 by Blue Pencil Institute. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover image © Shutterstock.

They’ll Eat Out of Your Hand If You Know What to Feed Them: The 30 Essential Communication Skills that Give Highly Successful Career Professionals Their Edge, by Dr. Laura Hills. Copyright © 2014 by Blue Pencil Institute. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover image © Shutterstock.

The Handbook for Credentialing Healthcare Providers, by Ellis M. “Mac” Knight, MD, MBA, FACP, FACHE, FHM (Coker Group). Copyright © 2016 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter. Cover image © Adobe Stock.

The Field Guide to Physician Coding, Third Edition, by Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC. Copyright © 2015 by Greenbranch Publishing LLC. Cover and interior design by Laura Carter.