Suitcase Books

Suitcase Books

Post Office Box 888167

Grand Rapids, MI 49588

Email suitcase@mich.com

Suitcase Books is a small company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In fact, we are so small, our physical plant is a geranium. We are so small all our full time employees can chew the same stick of gum. Ugh! That sounds gross, doesn't it? But the way we do it, it's very sanitary.

We've been in business about fifteen years, we think. We don't know exactly when the business started because it evolved from Pat Gundry's writing career. She got tired of being mistreated by the Big Publisher she was dealing with at the time, got the rights back to her cookbook, bought the remaining 6,000 copies from the second printing, and sold them all. Rather than try to find another publisher for a cookbook with the name of its previous publisher in the title--especially when it had just received national publicity on TV and in a major magazine--she decided to reprint it herself.

After reprinting the first book, it occurred to her that she would probably do a better job of promoting her other books than their present publisher was doing. So she asked for the rights back for the two titles still at another house, buying all copies in stock to close the deal.

Over time, she learned how to do the publishing business right by doing it wrong several ways. Now she's reprinting additional titles of her own books and, so far, a reprint of a long out of print book about how to make a violin.

Pat Gundry runs the business, helped by outsourcing to capable people who do the designing, printing, and other good stuff for Suitcase Books. She would love to have two excellent and devoted employees who are good at everything she doesn't want to do and who need no instruction and no supervision. She suspects people like that would probably rather work for themselves than for her, but she's still looking and hoping.

The owner has one basic rule for the business: she has to be having a good time. Fortunately, she is only having a really good time when quality is absolutely the best and customers are having a good time too.

Suitcase Books is committed to providing top quality information, in an attractive and easily accessible form, to everyone on Earth who would like to have it.

Whenever possible, the owner would also like to make a profit in the process. Not the most important thing, but essential to staying in business.

Although we've titled this page Authors, at the moment, it's author, singular. We do have two authors,  but we don't know who the second one is. That's because our reprint of the classic book The Violin: How To Make It was authored simply by "A Master of the Instrument, " a long time ago.

Suitcase Books was established to function as a reprint house for Pat Gundry's books that were either no longer available from their originating "big" publishers, or the rights had been obtained from them, with all existing copies purchased as condition of reversion of rights.

If you'd like to visit our author Pat Gundry's site, and she would love for you to, go to http://www.patriciagundry.com.  Pat is also an enthusiastic blogger with several blogs (web logs). If you'd like to visit them, start at http://www.noodlefactory.net and visit the links in the sidebar for the rest of her public blogs and web sites. If you don't know what a blog is, then start at her Blog Nanny site where you can read all about them.

Retail Sales: Amazon.com

Wholesale Orders: Direct from Suitcase Books, prepaid.

Volume Discount Sales: Contact Suitcase Books by  Email suitcase@mich.com 

More Volume Discount Information

Some of our books are particularly suitable for fundraising, gift giving, outreach, and donations to libraries and other institutions. To make it easier for you to use them that way, we provide the incentive of a good discount for buying multiple copies.

The Zondervan Family Cookbook is a great fundraiser for churches and schools. Order one or more copies to show and take orders. Then order additional copies to fill the orders you've received, add a few extras for reorders. Be sure to tuck an order sheet into the books before delivering them to make reordering easy for your customers.

Churches can also use The Zondervan Family Cookbook as a visitation gift for new families or at the birth of a child.

Realtors give our cookbook to home buyers as a closing gift.

Individuals like to keep a few copies on their gift shelf at home to have available for showers, weddings, graduations, Mother's Day, and unexpected gift occasions.

Counselors, pastors, and others give Heirs Together to their clients and brides and grooms.

Study groups use Heirs Together, The Complete Woman, Neither Slave Nor Free, and Woman Be Free.

Individuals buy multiple copies of any of the above to donate to libraries and give to their pastors and others.

Booksellers and web site owners can also make an easy profit by featuring our books.

Discount Units

Zondervan Family Cookbook
12 copies 50% discount off retail price of $22.50

Woman Be Free
10 copies 50% discount off retail price of $6.95

Heirs Together
10 copies 50% discount off retail price of $12.95

Free shipping within USA. Email suitcase@mich.com for international shipping costs.

To Order

Write down how many discount units you'd like of each title ordered and where to send the books, include your check or money order, and mail to:

Suitcase Books
P.O. Box 888167
Grand Rapids, MI 49588

Include your email address and we will email you when your books have been shipped. We will send them via USPS Media Mail.

If you are interested in larger amounts of our books, one person bought 500 copies of Heirs Together to donate to an egalitarian organization, email us at
suitcase@mich.com

Suitcaselogo_2     We produce books for people interested in making their marriage more satisfying, equality for women in the church, encouraging and inspiring women, violin making, and cooking. At this time all our titles are reprints of books originally published by other publishers, including the "biggies."

Our objective is to make make good books continually available for those who want them.

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