Red Wheel Weiser Conari, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser, LLC and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

with three imprints: Red Wheel, Weiser Books and Conari Books. It is America's second-largest

of occult and

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books, behind

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, and is also one of the oldest American publishers to concentrate exclusively on that

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. It publishes on average 60-75 new titles per year and maintains a large

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, partly of books that it originally published, and partly of older

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rare occult books.

Imprints

Weiser Books

This main imprint is also the oldest. It was founded as ''Samuel Weiser, Inc.'' in 1956, a time when few other publishers were willing to tackle occult subjects, and was originally an offshoot of the New York City retailer, Weiser Antiquarian Books. This imprint publishes the backlist and continues to acquire books on occultism,

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subjects, Eastern religions,

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and related topics.

Red Wheel

Red Wheel was founded in 2000 as an imprint for spiritually oriented or occult self-help and

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books, and at that time the company name was changed from Samuel Weiser, Inc. to RedWheel/Weiser, with several other variations being commonly seen, including Weiser, Inc.

Conari Books

This imprint was acquired in 2002. Before this, Conari Books had been a separate publisher, based in

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, dating back to 1989. This imprint focuses on books that view

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and

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issues through a spiritual or New Age perspective.

Turning Stone Press

Turning Stone was founded in 2012. It is a self-publishing imprint in collaboration with

Hampton Roads Publishing Company Hampton Roads Publishing Company, founded in 1989 by Frank DeMarco and Bob Friedman, is a publisher of self-help books, and books on alternative medicine, visionary fiction, New Thought, New Science, Nagualism and psychic realms. Hampton R ...

and Hierophant Publishing.

Disinformation Books

Disinformation Books was founded in 1997 as the publishing division of

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. It was acquired by Red Wheel/Weiser in 2012.

Career Press

Career Press was founded in 1985 by Ron Fry and is focused on business books. Red Wheel/Weiser acquired Career Press in 2017.

New Page Books

New Page Books was founded in 1999 as the general nonfiction imprint of Career Press.

Location

The company has been previously located in

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and in

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for most of its history. In 2006, the editorial department moved to

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and the sales and marketing department moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Famous authors

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pr ...

Dion Fortune Dion Fortune (born Violet Mary Firth, 6 December 1890 – 6 January 1946) was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organisation that promoted ph ...

Eliphas Levi Eliphaz is one of Esau's sons in the Bible. Eliphaz or Eliphas is also the given name of: * Eliphaz (Job), another person in the Bible * Eliphaz Dow (1705-1755), the first male executed in New Hampshire, for murder * Eliphaz Fay (1797–1854), fo ...

S.L. MacGregor Mathers Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor Mathers (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), born Samuel Liddell Mathers, was a British occultist. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a cerem ...

Arthur Edward Waite Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942) was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith ...

Notes

References

*''2007 Writer's Market'', Robert Lee Brewer & Joanna Masterson. (2006) *''Jeff Herman's Guide To Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents 2007'', Jeff Herman. (2006)

External links

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