The Vision of Venture Galleries Publishing

Venture Galleries has been established as a new marketing and publishing house that showcases, promotes, and markets the works of talented Indie authors and artists who are building a niche in the marketplace.

Venture Galleries is intent on providing top-quality Indie authors a venue where the company can work with writers to promote and sell their books in either printed or eBook format. As a publishing house, Venture Galleries produces eBooks – providing such editorial services as editing, book design, and eBook distribution to all major eRetailers. There is no financial participation by any of the authors.

Another major thrust of Venture Galleries is to serve as a marketing and sales arm for books that have already been published. In reality, Venture Galleries has been designed to be another online bookstore for authors who seek further exposure and sales opportunities for their books. Venture Galleries provides authors with a platform where they can produce their own blogs and join in a unified effort to promote the work of every author on the site.

In addition, the company works just as hard through social media to market and promote authors who are not part of the Venture Galleries family. Every week, the Author’s Showcase on the Website features the work of top Indie authors. It is the aim of Venture Galleries to support the eBook and Indie revolution throughout the country.

Venture Galleries is primarily marketing and producing books that cover such genres as mystery, suspense, legal thrillers, espionage, romance, sports, humor, travel, and historical fiction and non-fiction. Venture Galleries is launching a new series of fictional mystery novels set against the backdrop of college football. The first in the new line is “Money Is Thicker Than Blood: Murder in the SEC,” by Stephen Woodfin, a novel that quickly rose to the top of Amazon’s rankings.

These Venture Galleries sports novels will be closely aligned with and linked to our Sports Art Gallery, which features the nationally acclaimed paintings of Rick Rush, the 2011 Sports Artist of the Year.

Venture Galleries is committed to working closely with outstanding indie artists by showcasing individual art galleries – both paintings and photography – that feature the beauty and the heritage of the American landscape.

Headlining our art galleries are such artists as FCEtier, J Gerald Crawford, John Sedgwick, Bill Ervin, John English, Mark DeMoss, Catherine Marshall, Judy Helderman, Annette Hanna, and the award winning Native American artist, Jeanne Bridges.

Caleb Pirtle III is founding partner of Venture Galleries. He is former travel editor for Southern Living Magazine, a screenwriter with three motion picture and TV movie credits, and the author of more than 55 published books.  Attorney and author Stephen Woodfin is in charge of the book division of Venture Galleries and Gallivant Press. Rusty Shelton of Shelton Interactive heads up the promotion, publicity, and marketing arm of the company. Shelton and his firm developed the branding and marketing for the “Chicken Soup for the Soul Series,” as well as 40 other best sellers.