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In 2011, at the behest of others who had read his original manuscript for Patriots of Treason, David Thomas Roberts sent out inquiries to numerous publishers. Most of the publishers never even acknowledged receiving them, and enlisting a literary agent to assist in finding a publisher was nearly as difficult.

Finally, a small Midwest publishing firm made an offer to publish the title, and six months later, Dave had launched his first book. As he began to tour the country promoting Patriots of Treason, he learned many things the hard way. First, he seldom met another author who had anything nice to say about their publisher or publishing experience. Secondly, because his fictional story, based on current political events from a conservative point of view, "branded" his book in the very liberal and progressive world of publishing and book retailers, it ultimately limited exposure of his title on retail bookshelves.

Despite these difficulties, as Dave was traveling through a North Carolina airport, he stopped into an airport bookstore and there, to his amazement, was his book prominently displayed with a healthy inventory in a very good location. He naturally figured that if this could happen in this major airport bookstore, why couldn't it happen everywhere? When inquiring how this had occurred, his publisher had no definitive answers.

When it came time for Dave to start realizing royalty payments from the publisher months later, and despite healthy book sales, he always seemed to be in a negative royalty scenario with the publisher. The final domino fell when the publisher had a major publishing event at the University of Missouri, with all of their titles displayed and promoted, except his. His title was deemed "too conservative" to expose at a public university by his own publisher, despite being one of their bestsellers.

During the period in which this publisher had his publishing rights, Dave dove deeply into the publishing business, learning how books end up on retail bookshelves and understanding online book sales. Being an entrepreneur, he figured he could take his own title and have better success than his original publishing company, not as a self-published work, but by becoming an independent publisher. Because he kept his rights to the title, he terminated the publishing contract and re-released Patriots of Treason with a new cover and his own marketing.

Later would come the sequel, A State of Treason, which was even more successful than the first. Now Dave was ready to take on other authors and give conservative and libertarian authors an alternative to the East Coast and West Coast publishing houses.