Introducing Orange Frazer Custom Books, the
self-publishing division of Orange Frazer Press.

Orange Frazer Custom Books is the new self-publishing division of the Ohio book publisher, Orange Frazer Press. Over the past 22 years, many folks have come to us and asked us to help them publish a book for their special event, company, organization, city, or even just themselves. And because Orange Frazer is a small, attentive book publisher, we invited them into the book producing process by sharing information and expertise about writing, editing, designing, production and marketing. We love to help people make beautiful books just like the ones we have done for the commercial book market, the ones that have won awards for design and editorial excellence.

Orange Frazer Custom Books packages (produces) books by handling all aspects of book production--editing, photo editing, design, printing--and does it by meeting the deadline and the budget. All books, their authors and their owners are important to us, from Entering These Doors of Compassion (for the Ronald McDonald Foundation), to Rags to Riches (for the CINTAS Corporation) to the children's book Cuando Mi Mama Me Lee (for Reading For Life, Inc.), Orange Frazer Press takes its book publishing seriously. You CAN judge a book by its cover, especially if it carries the name Orange Frazer Press.

If you would like us to help you build a book for your special event, corporation, organization, town, city, or even a book of your own, just call or email the publisher, Marcy Hawley. She'll be happy to answer your questions, talk with you about the process, and give you information about the cost, just as she has done with:

...and the many individuals who have come to Orange Frazer Press to have their work made into beautifully designed, successful books.

We can even help you with marketing, distribution, order entry and shipping. If you would like more information, please contact us.

FREE & PUBLIC: One Hundred and Fifty Years at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1853-2003 by John Fleischman. For its 150th birthday, the nation’s third-busiest public library system commissioned Orange Frazer Press to produce a lavish and profusely-illustrated coffeetable book. This year-long project—which involved a team of researchers, photographers, designers, and computer mavens, in addition to nationally-known author John Fleischman—is Orange Frazer’s paean to libraries everywhere, to books, and, of course, to readers themselves.

THE COLOR OF VICTORY: The Extraordinary Story of How Elder Won State by Bill Koch After Cincinnati’s Elder High school won its first state football championship in 2002, they wanted it recorded for posterity as an 8.5 x 11, 180-page, full color glossy photo book. The extraordinary story of how Elder won State was written by Bill Koch. Orange Frazer edited hundreds of photographs and commissioned others to be taken in order to create this handsome soft cover keepsake. The book was sold exclusively in the Elder High School bookstore.

PANTHER TRACKS: The History of Elder High School Through the 1900s by Kim Plagge The first high school established by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has a storied history of more than 75 years. Elder High School commissioned Kim Plagge to document the history after which they came to Orange Frazer Press to edit their archive of photographs, design, print, and smythe-bind this 11 x 8.5 landscape, clothbound, black and white book, jacketed in Elder High School’s colors. The book was sold exclusively in the Elder High School bookstore.

RAGS TO RICHES: How Corporate Culture Spawned A Great Company by Richard T. Farmer. Written by CINTAS CEO Richard T. Farmer, this straightforward autobiography of a dynamic man is also the story of intertwined families---the Farmers’ own rise from obscurity and the complex dynamics of the CINTAS family. Beyond the lessons Dick Farmer brought away from his own parents and grandparents, this 7 x 10, 244-page clothbound book, filled with black and white photographs, is a procedural---an invaluable treatise in which even the armchair entrepreneur may watch the blueprints drawn for an uncommon American business. This book was commissioned by and for Richard Farmer to Orange Frazer Press to finally put to paper the history and story of his company. The book is the exclusively owned by Mr. Farmer.

INGENUITY IN A CAN: The Ralph Stolle Story by Geoff Williams Inventor and philanthropist Ralph Stolle might have gone unnoticed if not for a family member’s desire to find out “the story of my grandfather.” Orange Frazer Press was asked to research, write, edit, photo research, design, format and print this 7 x 10, 122-page black and white clothbound book. This slim volume is an elegant example of Orange Frazer’s skill in book design. Ingenuity in a Can was produced as a fundraiser for local YMCAs (with whom Mr. Stolle was connected) in southwestern Ohio.

DANCING DADS DEFECTIVE PEEPS & BUCKEYE MISADVENTURES by Joe Blundo The Columbus Dispatch commissioned Orange Frazer Press to design, format, print, bind, warehouse and distribute this collection of columns by Dispatch writer, Joe Blundo. This 7.5 x 8.5 paperback, 144-page book collects 56 of his best musings about things like fatherhood, Buckeye football and mulch.

BE IT REMEMBERED: The Story of Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square by Lisa M. Klein Orange Frazer Press has been asked by several religious denominations to design, format, print and bind the recorded history of a church. This one is the story of Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio. Author Lisa Klein brought us a completed manuscript and photographs in black and white as well as a signature of color to showcase Trinity’s beautiful stained glass windows. This 7 x 10 hardcover, 272-page book used a 70# coated matte stock that enhanced the black and white screened images as well as the original photographs.