We Publish books that are beyond words. Every letter a story, every space a voice, every book a universe. You are the story, the voice, the universe. You are beyond words. The story that is written. The book to be read. The one revealed.

I gave my love a cherry, That had no stone 

I gave my love a chicken, That had no bone

I gave my love a baby, With no crying 

I told my love a story, That had no end 

How can there be a cherry, That has no stone? 

And how can there be a chicken, That has no bone? 

And how can there be a baby, With no crying?

And how can there be a story, That has no end?

From The Riddle Song, a folk ballad originating in Britain. 500 years ago. 

Playing this song on my guitar, I realized truth is what survives. The rest of the song provides an answer that is the basis for my writing, and life, as a chance to share such inspiration.

A cherry when it’s blooming, It has no stone 

A chicken when in the shell, It has no bone 

A baby when it’s sleeping, It’s no crying

‘The story of how I love you, It has no end

Writing and publishing books, magazines and newspapers since I was 13,  even that young when starting Renegade Company I understood books were powerful magic. Igniting imaginations, they touch people with messages and images. Writing fiction, I gravitated to novels based in human experience; powerful and compelling. Writing how-to and self-help books, I learned an author doesn’t enlighten anyone. The reader, looking for a way to make life better searches for answers, finding them in a book. Readers are the true how-to, and the real self-help. Seeking answers, they change their life, not the author.

Publishing fiction is much the same. The reader is the story. Novels are a road, the reader is the driver. Readers discover their own story in a novel. A person reads into a book. They put themselves in the story. Always. The book is the house, the reader the occupant. A house without someone living there? Not a home.

From the pure sweetness of two enchanting faeries in Wild Mountain Thyme, to the enduring nature of real love in The Faire, to the dark fantasy of Dream Traveler, I publish what real books must be. Truth that last  forever. They will be a riddle like the one above. the stories  are about you. They have no end as your story is eternal.

Terry Ulick

Author and Publisher

Wherever Books