A family press — memoirs kept in print, stories kept in the family, and a steady hand for authors publishing their own.
Four generations of one family's books, restored, typeset, and kept in print. Choose a spine to read about it.
The memoir of a Belgian-Jewish girl and her family, hidden from the Nazis during the Second World War by French peasants in the village of Soleyrol in southern France. France Pruitt survived, and went on to a life devoted to international education and to people in need around the world. The book has been featured by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Anna Seward Pruitt's account of the early years of her mission to North China with her husband, C. W. Pruitt. She was among the earliest women sent to China by the Southern Baptist Convention — a colleague of Lottie Moon, who appears throughout these pages — and she spent nearly five decades in Shandong province, founding a school for boys in Huangxian.
The second of Anna Seward Pruitt's two memoirs of missionary life, carrying the story of the North China mission forward through decades of upheaval — famine, revolution, and war — as seen from the small station at Huangxian where the Pruitts lived, taught, and raised their family.
Five short stories of adventure, adversity, and perseverance among young Christians in rural China of the late 1880s through the early 1900s, written for young readers and graced with Mathilda Keller's original illustrations, faithfully reproduced in this edition.
Two sisters set out to rescue their kidnapped mother — and the world itself — from the grip of a plague that has killed off all the men and every woman over fifty. A fast-moving adventure for readers between children's books and adult fiction.
The story of Sylvette, a fairy, and a lost pearl of great price — a French family fairy tale adapted for English readers, presented with a recorded audio version for listening along.
The real tale behind Santa Claus — a story involving submarines and talking animals, told and illustrated for young children at Christmastime.
A homeless man finds the match to an expensive astronaut sock accidentally thrown away — and the discovery changes more than his feet. A gentle story about luck, kindness, and looking twice at what other people discard.
Two rogue monkeys steal coconuts from a famished explorer in this brightly illustrated story about mischief, greed, and getting what's coming to you — written for a three-year-old niece and enjoyed by small children ever since.
S2 Press prepared the complete print-ready files for a new printing of this standard academic text on conflict theory: interior PDF/A conversion, cover production with barcode, and print-on-demand setup — the kind of end-to-end production work we offer to authors and estates keeping important books available.
Full digital restoration of this classic work of American electoral analysis: OCR cleanup of the scanned text, repair of hyphenation and tables, rebuilt table of contents, and conversion to clean EPUB and DOCX editions — preserving a landmark book for modern readers and devices.
A book shepherd walks an author's manuscript through every gate between the desk drawer and the printed page. S2 Press has carried its own books — new works, family memoirs, and century-old restorations — through that entire path, and offers the same hands-on guidance to self-publishing authors.
Cleanup and structuring of your manuscript in Word or other formats: styles, front matter, chapters, and consistent formatting ready for typesetting.
Scanning and OCR of out-of-print family or heritage books, with careful correction of the recognized text, repair of tables and illustrations, and reconstruction of the original layout.
Interior layout and cover files built to printer specifications for Lulu, Amazon KDP, and similar print-on-demand services — including PDF/A conversion and barcode placement.
Clean EPUB and Kindle editions converted from your finished book, with working tables of contents and properly handled images and special characters.
Guidance through ISBN assignment, keyword and category selection, and getting your book listed and discoverable on Amazon and other retailers.
A simple, fast website for your book or your writing life — built as self-contained pages you can maintain yourself, with no monthly platform lock-in.
Every book on the shelf above passed through these same hands. Yours can too.
S2 Press began as a family undertaking: children's stories written for nieces at Christmas, a mother's wartime memoir that deserved better than a desk drawer, and two remarkable books by a great-grandmother that had been out of print for the better part of a century.
Bringing those books into the world — restoring old texts, drawing and preparing illustrations, building print files, and navigating CafePress, Lulu, CreateSpace, and Kindle publishing — turned into a body of practical experience that S2 Press now offers to other authors as a book shepherd service.
The press is run by Paul D. Pruitt, a retired IT professional, author, illustrator, and independent researcher. Bound copies of S2 Press titles are available through our Lulu and CafePress stores, and several titles are offered as free PDFs at socrtwo.info.