Welcome to Azenphony Press
Azenphony Press was founded in 1987 by Ken Wachsberger to self-publish his first novel, Beercans on the Side of the Road: The Story of Henry the Hitchhiker. A country that had strayed so far to the right as to elect Ronald Reagan was not in the mood to publish a book that celebrated freedom through hitchhiking and the counterculture of the sixties and seventies.
But new technology was making independent publishing feasible. Ken embraced the new publishing landscape and typeset Beercans himself on WordPerfect 4.2.
Since then, Azenphony Press has continued to publish books written and edited by Ken. Other books by Ken have been published by “traditional,” corporate, or academic publishing houses.
Those that are still in print may be found here.
Titles cover a broad, eclectic range of topics, including
- the First Amendment
- the underground press of the Vietnam era
- censorship
- the Holocaust and Jewish resistance
- the I-Search paper (a first-of-its-kind textbook)
- writing for healing and self-discovery
- how to keep sane as a support person when your partner has breast cancer, and
- puns for the job seeker