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Welcome to Dragon Press!

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We are relaunching Dragon Press, founded in 1973, as a Sustainable Family Enterprise which will be headquartered at 10 Champlain Avenue in Westport, New York. Dragon Press, reimagined, will be an AI-driven design and innovation consultancy.

In the 1970s, Dragon Press was a bookselling operation and small press run by science fiction editor David Hartwell and antiquarian bookseller Lloyd Currey. This split into two businesses when David took over as the editor of the Timescape science fiction imprint for Simon & Schuster, with David retaining the Dragon Press name. Dragon Press continued small press publishing, and sold books at science fiction conventions, as well as operating a bookstore in Westport, New York. Dragon Press also published two magazines: The Little Magazine, a poetry magazine which was sold to SUNY Albany in the late 1980s, and The New York Review of Science Fiction, which Dragon Press published monthly for several decades, and which is now operated by Burrowing Wombat Press. David Hartwell died unexpectedly in January 2016 and Dragon Press has been dormant since then. 

We are Kathryn Cramer, David Hartwell’s widow & creative collaborator; David’s children Peter Hartwell and Ratio Hartwell; along with Jasper Young; and Selena Shea. And we look forward to telling you more about this in the near future. Read more about our plans HERE.

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Spotlight Posts

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    I have my first solo art show at ADK ArtRise in Saranac Lake, NY from now until the end of March. The Artist Reception is March 1st from 5 to 7 PM.
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    Stencil experiments
    Experimenting with spray painting posters for three candidates for the Westport, NY Town Council: Jen Williams, Michael Fergot, & Joan Lilly. #westportny #campaignsigns #stencilart #spraypaintart #towncouncil
  • Ratio & Jasper sketching at Jambs in Westport
    Ratio & Jasper sketching at Jambs in Westport
  • Morning Stencil Cutting
    Morning Stencil Cutting
    This morning, I worked on stencil design for yard signs for three Town Council candidates here in Westport, NY: Joan Lilly, Jen Williams, and Michael Fergot. My Cricut Maker has a 12 x 24 inch cutting bed, and I am cutting stencils to be used on signs 24 inches wide....
  • An AI FAQ for Writers
    An AI FAQ for Writers
    Q: Is AI (by which we mean here companies that create and offer commercially available Large Language Model (LLM) services) stealing my published books? A: Mostly not. Books that are included in training data are mostly out of copyright. There is also a corpus of "unpublished" novels that is a...
  • Revived Dragon Press: Coming Soon!
    Revived Dragon Press: Coming Soon!
    We are relaunching Dragon Press as an AI-Driven Design & Innovation Consultancy in the next month or so. My late husband David Hartwell died suddenly in 2016, and Dragon Press has been dormant since then. However, Kevin Maroney's Burrowing Wombat Press has continued to publish The New York Review of...

Dragon Press Team

  • Peter Hartwell
    Creative Design Associate
  • Ratio Hartwell
    Graphic Artist
  • Selena Shea
    Events Coordinator
  • Jasper Young
    Graphic Artist
  • Kathryn Cramer
    Lead Consultant

Workshops

  • Agent-Based Design & AI Autonomy
    October 2023, in Toronto and online at RSD12, a conference of the Systemic Design Association.
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