Black-Owned Book Publisher Launches First Title
The following information comes courtesy of Commodore Books out of BC. If you live in Vancouver you should definitely go check out this event:
Join us in launching and celebrating Fred Booker’s Adventures in Debt Collection, the inaugural edition from Commodore Books. Books will be available for sale and the author will read and sign copies.
Thursday 9 November 2006
The Brickhouse
730 Main Street (@ Union Street)
Vancouver
8PM
Access to a secure parking lot is available on Georgia Street; when you arrive, ask the hostess for the lot code. Free street parking is available on Union Street after 8PM.
The introduction of Commodore Books marks a historical turn in black cultural production in Western Canada. While Canada has had black-owned book publishers before — most significantly, Williams-Wallace and SisterVision– there has never existed a publishing house operating under the control of a black editorial collective west of Ontario — until now.
Our name recalls the paddle steamer The Commodore, which transported thirty-five black migrants from San Francisco to Victoria in 1858, during the Gold Rush. This small pioneer committee became the nucleus of British Columbia’s first black community.
