A Bit of Our History in 2000
Today is January 4 2025 and LeRue Press will celebrate 25 years as publishers in October!
The first few years as a publisher, we primarily edited books (and not a lot at that time) and worked on distributing a magazine we had started. Unfortunately, it did not get traction, but it gave us the experience and knowledge to know the marketplace a little better and the mechanics of creating a publication for print.
I had only been in Reno since 1994, just 6 years, and Lenore had just moved from the Bay area in 1998, only 2 years. Not sure if she was prepared for the desert environment after living so long in the Bay area. And on the beach no less! She had a good entrepreneurial sense from her time working in her own small art gallery in Pacifica, California. But who knew her crazy sister would want to start a publishing company!
In 2000, we were still a “home based” business, just getting our feet wet and still having to work at other jobs to fund our project. It wasn’t until 2007 that we established ourselves as a brick and mortar business and got into PRINTING as well! I forgot to mention that we were called PUBLISHING FROM THE HEART. It was a great name but someone else was using a similar one and “they won”! Ha Ha! It was all for the best in the long run since we adopted our Mom & Dad’s business name of LeRue. They were LeRue Enterprises in Southern California. We chose LeRue Press and made it official in 2006! And why LeRue? Because Dad’s name was LEonard and Mom was Ruby. Voila! Add an E and you have LeRue!
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