Black Irish Books

Black Irish Books was launched by author Steven Pressfield and author/agent/publisher Shawn Coyne, and named in honor of Shawn. 

Black Irishmen are famous for being pugnacious and confrontational. Great bar-room brawlers. Boxing champs of the early 20th Century (Jim Fitzsimmons, Gene Tunney) were often black Irish. Hence our boxing glove logo. (We originally had a shot glass on a bar with a tear tracking down one side, but we decided that was a tad melodramatic.)

The motto of Black Irish Books (yes, we have one) is "Get in the ring." The titles we intend to bring out will be steak-and-potatoes types, whose aim is to inspire, encourage and fortify those artists, entrepreneurs and athletes whose ambition is not to stand on the sidelines, waiting for permission from others, but to take their destiny in their own fists—to pursue their heart's calling and make it work.