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Update: Zio Apollo Press on Indefinite Hiatus

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With regret, Zio Apollo Press is on an indefinite hiatus and will not be publishing new titles for the foreseeable future.

The website (zioapollopress.com) will stay up, book distribution partnerships will remain active, and the website store will be open for book sales. Touching the Elephant and Lies, Fibs, and Fabrications will still be available to buy at independent bookstores and Amazon, as well as Ingram distribution and other national book distributors and sellers.

Thank you to all those who made possible the publication of Touching the Elephant: Values the World’s Religions Share and How They Can Transform Us (2019) by Nancy J. Thompson, and Lies, Fibs, and Fabrications (2023) by William L. Alton. To learn more about the editors and designers who worked on the books, visit zioapollopress.com Independent contractors: Editors, Graphic Designers, & Copyedits).

I’d like to give a special thank you to all the readers who purchased Touching the Elephant by Nancy J. Thompson and Lies, Fibs, and Fabrications by William L. Alton. 5% of your purchases were donated to charities the author supports. And we would like to hear from you. Visit our social media and follow us.

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Kindly,

Cosimo Giovine (he/him)

Publisher / Owner

Zio Apollo Press

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Where to Buy Touching the Elephant

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“Nancy Thompson doesn’t set out to make the book about her, but one can’t help feeling as they progress from chapter to chapter that Thompson has suddenly, yet quietly, become a good friend.” –Telly Halkias, Bennington Banner

Touching the Elephant: Values the World’s Religions Share and How They Can Transform Us is a unifying meditation on common values stemming from the world’s major religions.

Available at an independent bookstore near you and the following online booksellers:

Powells powells.com

Mysterious Galaxy mystgalaxy.com

Zio Apollo Press zioapollopress.com

Bookshop bookshop.org

BCH Distribution bookch.com

Barnes & Nobles barnesandnoble.com

Amazon amazon.com

Book Giveaway: Touching the Elephant

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In 2009, Nancy Thompson and I taught at a community college and shared an office. When she mentioned she was writing a book about shared values of the world’s religions and how they can transform us, I asked to read it.

Over the following 10 years, we edited the book, Touching the Elephant: Values the World’s Religions Share and How They Can Transform Us, and published it in October 2019. Since publication, Nancy spoke at 3 book signing events in early 2020 but had the 11 remaining book signing events canceled since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Because Nancy’s book signing events are canceled, we decided to give away 10 books to continue encouraging us to find the shared values that help us become kind, compassionate, patient, and humble; and to make efforts to internalize them. Send an email to zioapollopress [at] gmail [dot] com with “Book Giveaway” in Subject and your shipping address, then I’ll send the book via USPS Media Mail (5-7 days). Your private information will only be used for shipping purposes only.

And if you email a receipt of a donation to the following *charities Nancy and Zio Apollo Press support, I will ship a second book.

*The American Himalayan Foundation; International Rescue Committee; American Civil Liberties Union; and the American Immigration Council

Also, the book is available for purchase at zioapollopress.com/shop and it’s on sale for $22 through the end of May 2020.

~Cosimo Giovine, Editor & Publisher