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visual books with words and photos

Welcome! As an Indie Publisher, we're just getting started. But right out of the gate, we have one award-winning non-fiction preservatioon memoir and a psychological thriller inspired by real events in the 1990s on the Jersey Shore coming to IngramSpark in Spring 2027.
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Preservation Memoir

A Memoir by Jennifer Boyd.
Winner of Preservation New Jersey's 2025 Constance Greiff Writing Award, this unique memoir of a 1980s grassroots battle to save an endangered National Historic District in New Jersey illustrates a success story of our own time with over 115 color photographs. View nine architectural styles of Victorian American architecture and their irreplaceable elements. Plus, dig into the history of this one-of-a-kind 19th-century summer place on the Jersey Shore.

the gingerbread asylum

A Psychological Thriller by Jennifer Boyd
A story inspired by true events during the shutdown of America's psychiatric hospitals and told through multiple unreliable narrators.In the summer of 1992 on the Jersey Shore, a closing state asylum has discharged hundreds of patients into the fire-prone Victorian-age hotels and boarding houses of a seaside boardwalk resort, while locals cry NIMBY and unthinkable crimes take place as the Asylum Age careens to an end.