HYT Publishing
Harvey Arden and I created HYT Publishing in 2004 to publish a book we had been working on for a couple years, titled, Have You Thought Of Leonard Peltier Lately? Harvey was the editor of Leonard's first book, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, which chronicled Peltier's life in prison and his fight for justice - to be freed of a crime he didn't commit. As you can imagine, many publishers did not want to take the risk of publishing such a controversial book. After an exhaustive search, the 23rd publisher took on the project. From the way Harvey described it, they were thrilled to have a publisher, but it came with its own set of headaches and frustrations. He felt the publishers changed things up a bit much and didn't support the book all too well once it had been printed. He decided he didn't want to go down that road again, and he called me up and said, "George, let's forget about working with other people who want to tell us what we can or can't do. Think we can pull this off, ourselves? Think we can publish this thing on our own? Let's try it!" And so, we did! We spent two years working tirelessly on it. Since we held the reins, we decided to format it in a unique way, and we called it a Living Memoir with Artifacts. It was After we put out our first book, we decided to keep the wheel in motion and set sights on a second.
We then set out to accomplish two goals for ourselves with our work. The first was to get our books and recordings out to the world that might not otherwise see the light of day. The second goal was to try and get as many projects done as we possibly could, by taking any profits we made from one project and immediately putting them towards the production of the next project. We put out the following 3 books and 2 Spoken Word CDs ourselves, while contributing towards a few other projects.
We then set out to accomplish two goals for ourselves with our work. The first was to get our books and recordings out to the world that might not otherwise see the light of day. The second goal was to try and get as many projects done as we possibly could, by taking any profits we made from one project and immediately putting them towards the production of the next project. We put out the following 3 books and 2 Spoken Word CDs ourselves, while contributing towards a few other projects.
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately?
White Buffalo Teachings
Voice of the Hawk Elder
Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King (Spoken Word)
My Life Is My Sun Dance: Leonard Peltier (Spoken Word)
White Buffalo Teachings
Voice of the Hawk Elder
Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King (Spoken Word)
My Life Is My Sun Dance: Leonard Peltier (Spoken Word)
I want to thank everyone that has supported HYT Publishing over the years! Even though Harvey is no longer with us, his spirit is alive and kicking in every page he wrote. and every recording he ever made. I know Harvey loved working on our projects and it meant the world to him to be able to share them with the world. He appreciated ever kind word or fan he gained along his storied career. It was a joy to join him along to the way, to support him, to learn from him.
~George Bowe Blitch
~George Bowe Blitch
HYT Books
HYT Spoken Word Albums
George Blitch & Harvey Arden - HYT founders