Who we are

Sky Blue Press was founded by Paul Herron in 1996 when no academic or commercial publisher would accept his first book (Anaïs Nin: A Book of Mirrors) without censoring significant content. Like Nin before him, he decided to form his own publishing company as a result and follow his vision. Since then, Sky Blue Press has not only resurrected Nin’s unexpurgated diary series after a seventeen-year-long refusal by commercial firms to publish these essential titles, but also fought and won against censorship by America’s largest book distributor of Nin’s long-lost erotica, Auletris. It has also published a fifteen-issue annual literary journal dedicated to Nin, all of Nin’s fiction in digital format, books about Nin by Benjamin Franklin V, Britt Arenander and Barbara Kraft, as well as a 17-chapter book by Japanese Nin scholars. We do not compromise; we do not censor; and we never quit striving for literary excellence.