The Mission of Brick Cave Media

Brick Cave Media is a 21st century book publisher blending traditional publishing acumen with tried and true relationship building to create books that are professionally crafted, fun to read, and impactful to our communities.

Our Story

The Brick Cave story starts as far back as 1994, when Bob Nelson and J.A. Giunta met and they worked together to reinvent a literary magazine that Joe had founded while in college called Anthology. Joe eventually went off to launch a LAN Cafe (old school DOOM anyone?) and Bob carried forward with the magazine, adding author Sharon Skinner to staff and publishing until 2004 (the Anthology story goes on, here).

Brick Cave was started by Bob in 2006 as a spoken word record company (see our albums here). In 2008, Brick Cave added "Film Studio" to its repertoire with the shooting of the movie Sacrifice. In 2010, Joe called up Bob and said, "Hey, I have these stories and I don't want to publish them. Will you?"

After a healthy dose of "huh?", Bob did indeed publish those stories (They make up the first Knights of Virtue book, by the way) and many more, growing to 10 authors and dozens of titles in 2024. The best is yet to come.

Our Team

Some of our Authors. . .

(click for their profiles)

The best way to meet our authors is to actually see them (in action). Here's a recent video from the launch of the second Futurewords collection (Futurewords II, available here). This video features Bob Nelson, Marcus Campbell, Sharon Skinner, J.A. Giunta and Bruce Davis)

Staff


Bob Nelson Publisher	Sharon Skinner Editorial Chief	Ben Manning Principal Editor	Lucy Hanne Author Promotion & Engagement

What We Believe

We believe in not taking anything for granted
We believe that hustle is critical to our success
We believe in creatively solving challenges and that we have the ability to circumvent any obstacle
We believe in the philosophy of being proactive
We believe it’s ok to take a risk and fail
We succeed or we fail together as a team

Why Choose Brick Cave?

Authors have more choice then ever. We saw an estimate that as many as 22,000 fantasy books are published each year, and there are some that estimate as many as 4 million books are published each year. While there is NOTHING about what Brick Cave does that cannot be done independently, we offer a rewarding and energetic partnership designed to make your author experience better.

How You Can Support Brick Cave

As a small press, Brick Cave is not without the constant need for the support of readers and those that love great books. How can you help?

Buy a Book. The quickest way to impact Brick Cave is the buy and read the books.
Join the BC Book Club. As little as $5/month helps us promote and expand our ability to support authors and readers.
Subscribe to our email list. Scroll down and enter your info for monthly updates.
Read a Book? Leave a review- they matter.
Find us at an event (check the calendar). Relationships are at the core of our business model. Events are where you find us.
Share our website. Help others find us.

Connect with Brick Cave

Our Community

Brick Cave maintains its own user community, the BC Book Club, where we provide exclusive content and access to programming to those that support the press and its authors. Joining is easy, either by purchasing a book or by a subscription. Details on the BC Book Club Page.

Our Sites

BrickCave.media (where you are now) is our primary site, and also home to our BC Book Club for our financial supporters to receive exclusive content. We are, obviously, most active here.

Brick Cave Square Store, http://brickcavestore.com or https://brickcavemedia.square.site, is the address of our official online store. Hard copies for most of our catalogue are available there as well as our "side line" items list t-shirts, bags, blank books and more.

BrickCaveLibrary.com is our Brick Cave Wiki. All of our authors have access to update the data within, and it serves as our historical archive for all things Brick Cave.

Email List, Brick Cave Dispatch

Our monthly email list, The Brick Cave Dispatch, keeps you up to date on things happening at the press, and it's creators. Join via the form on this page or read back issues on our Archive Page.

Socials

Brick Cave maintains accounts on the following social platforms. Generally speaking, this list is most active to least active:

FYI: Brick Cave generally does not message through any of our social platforms. Manuscript submissions are handled via our online process here.