Bone orchard (see also bone yard) (noun): a cemetery, graveyard, burial place. Earliest known use of 'bone orchard' is from 1861 within the writing of F. B. Goodrich.
Background
Bone Orchard Books is a small (small may be an understatement, seeing as B.O.B. is the brain child of one insane author) publishing house dedicated to becoming an all-you-can-read buffet of books. The founder tried to settle on one main genre and create a cohesive branding, but unfortunately she watched The Road to El Dorado one too many times and 'both! both is good' became her unwavering mantra. Much like the awakening that occurred in her youth while watching The Mummy, Eli realized that she couldn't settle on fantasy, apocalypse, science-fiction, romance, horror, Et al. If she tried to focus on only one, she'd get bored... and for someone like her, boredom equals quitting. And quitting writing... seemed like an impossible possibility.
So Eli Constant, Ellie Meadows, Gracie Storm, and more were created to facilitate the genre-jumping heart at the core of B.O.B. It's a 'fake it until you make it' situation, with each pseudonym having a path all their own. Honestly, Eli doesn't know if every pen will survive, or if a new pen might be birthed after reading a book that scratches an itch she didn't know she had. Sometimes, she wonders if storylines don't stalk her the way Lothos stalked Buffy... appearing in her dreams as she gathered her hair in a red satin ribbon, watching & waiting for the best time to seduce. And when that happens, how does one resist a centuries-old vampire master who is particularly skilled at preying on writers? Not writers. We mean slayers, obviously.
From shifters to zombies to alien dragons. From small town love to big city enemies. From serial killers to F.B.I. agents to even a woman starting her life over, who simply wants to run her grandmother's antique shop... not solve local murders. Bone Orchard Books plans to have it all. We hope, someday, that there'll be a plot for every reader. The future of the Bone Orchard is seeded with wild imagination (we do think of at least 6 impossible plots before breakfast, after all). Happy reading!
-Bone Orchard Books
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