Some of you may have noticed that over the weekend the Canon Press images on my bookrack off to the right went blank. This little glitch on my blog was the result of a major renovation, overhaul and upgrade of the Canon Press web site. I would strongly encourage all of you (and your sisters and your cousins and your aunts) to go and have a look at it now.
Canon Press is a small publishing house, but the good news is that its influence has been far greater than its size or the volumne of its sales (compared to the big boys at Random House) might indicate. At any rate, I have become convinced that the influential nature of this publishing venture is one of the reasons for the attacks on us over the course of the last several years. The goal has been to get the average customer to think twice before giving somebody a birthday gift written by a “crazed heretical slave-owner.”
The point has been to get us to spike our guns and depart the field. And the controversy has had some effect in that we don’t have as many guns as we would have liked to have had by this point. But of those we do have, none of them are spiked, and all of them are still smoking.
All this is to say that things are rocking and rolling down at Canon Press. They have a lot of new things going on, a web site that is far easier to navigate, slick graphics, a burgeoning audio department, and many resources for those who believe, as we do, that publishing is warfare.