Pocol Press is a publishing firm dedicated to producing high-quality books from first-time, non-agented authors. However, all submissions are welcome. We're dedicated to good storytellers and to the written word, specializing in short fiction and baseball. Pocol Press does not publish children's books or romance novels.

We're also a "home" for aficionados of Nineteenth Century Baseball, maintaining an extensive listing of more than one hundred books about the subject. We greatly look forward to interested parties emailing us with questions about 19th century ball.

Pocol Press encourages reader reviews of our books on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble web sites.

Pocol Press is a member of the Small Press Publishers Association of America and is listed in the International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses, 37th Edition, edited by Len Fulton and Literary Market Place.

My father, Joseph Streamer Hetrick, a career soldier, died of cancer in 1998. A dedicated family man, he passed along a gift to me, far more valuable than any amount of money. That gift was the love of reading. In memory of, and to honor him, I started Pocol Press.

As our firm is often asked, we're named after a mountain in Italy in the Dolomites range. On that mountain is Hotel Pocol. Our press publishes only the highest quality writing. We're not exactly beach reading.

-J. Thomas Hetrick, Owner, Operator