Privately commissioned histories
A legacy preserved, a history revealed, a precious gift for family, colleagues or friends.
Karin Winegar creates luxury biographies that ensure that your story lives on in a volume that you will be eager to share. Her vast research and interview experience distill your life into a compelling and accurate narrative, and, in cooperation with superb designers and photographers, she produces a work of beauty as well as a fine read.
High Expectations, The Doug Leatherdale Story
Never Stop Dreaming, The Gus Schickedanz Story
“NICK LEGEROS, Sculpting a Life” now available
If you live in Minnesota, you probably have seen Nick Legeros’ work.
As arguably the state’s most prolific, creative and sought-after bronze sculptor, his art is displayed in parks, in places of worship and cemeteries. It adorns hospitals, decorates libraries, colleges and the University of Minnesota. It provides grand entrances to service organizations, enlivens corporate lobbies and presents peaceful enhancement to apartment complexes and condominium gardens. From children to whimsical animals to winning athletic icons, from saints to monsignors to CEOs, his work stands for those beloved, those lost and great and good things imagined.
Horse Feed Press
Horse Feed Press provides custom writing, editing, design, printing and marketing services to those with a story to tell, a history to preserve or a joy to share. It is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
(It takes its name from the fact that profits go to the author’s horse feed bill.)
Now Available
Lost Man Found is now available at bookstores and through Amazon. It has its own site: www.lostmanfound.org
Can a man without conscience ever really change?
Sam tells it straight about killing, love, prison, practicing recovery, the possibility of genuine friendship and the purpose of life. In doing so, he saves his own lost self and shows the way to others.
"What a story! It was compelling from beginning to end. I do think it's a page turner. And his recovery is powerfully conveyed. It serves as a great example to all of us that lives can be turned around."Karen Casey, author of Each Day a New Beginning
““What a moving account, unsparingly candid, of a man turning from darkness to light. May Sam’s story help those also struggling to know that love and peace are possible, even for the very lost.” ”
“A remarkable book. As a veteran from the Vietnam era and a recovering alcoholic, I easily related to the man’s agonizing journey from hell back to a full and productive life. If ever one needed proof that God is alive and well and acting in our lives, and that Alcoholics Anonymous works if you work it, it’s here in these pages. He should have died many times over, and yet here he is in full recovery because of his brutal honesty about himself and his faith in a higher power. And I admire how Karin Winegar has expertly woven his story together and placed it in historical context. A great book! This one’s a keeper.”
Peter Converse McDonald, MDiv.
More books by Karin
What is it humans receive in return for cherishing and caring for needy animals?
SAVED is a coast to coast journey about the relationship between the saved and the saviors and how the lives of people are forever changed for the best by saving the lives of animals.
Who is actually a rescuer when a human saves a dog from death on the highway, a castaway cat from starvation in the woods, a tropical bird from a tiny cage in a dark, lonely room, a horse from the meat market auction and takes the animal home?
People who take in injured or lost animals certainly save lives, but it is the animals that make their rescuers' lives worthwhile by their devotion, their sense of joy in the moment, their quirks and their kindness.
SAVED is available in bookstores and on Amazon.
"SAVED is an extraordinarily poignant book. Unfortunately, we tend to treat animals even worse than we treat ourselves or others socially, emotionally, and politically. Redemption comes from changing our behavior toward animals which then spreads to the rest of our lives. They try their best to help us in this process. This book is a roadmap for our possible redemption."
Novelist Jim Harrison, author of "Legends of the Fall"
““Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful stuff. These are beautiful tales told beautifully. Karin has poured her intense love of animals into every sentence. That love and her considerable genius at writing come through in ways that cannot but touch and uplift any reader still possessed of an immortal soul. And as for Judy’s photos, the woman is amazing. I LOVED them. My God.” ”
"Saved: Rescued Animals and the Lives They Transform," is nearly unbearable The book is also absolutely riveting, but I wasn't about to crack this one without knowing, going in, that each of these tales has a happy ending.
Amy Goetzman, MinnPost.com review
““SAVED proves once again that love rescues us all.”
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