Emporium Press is the Emporium's publishing imprint. Later imprints may be added for graphics and movie work. Intrepid Force, Tim's first novel, was released in May 2003 and three new novels were published in 2005. Revisions of some of those earlier novels, a third Intrepid Force novel, and two new novels are on the way. There's also an Intrepid Force graphic novel in the works.
Emporium Graphics is the studio's graphic design imprint and the movie studio is still under construction.
The Emporium of Imagination sits on the border of intersecting realms. It is, in one sense, a Christian company, reflecting the values and beliefs of its founder. On the other hand, the literary tastes and interests of the founder are not limited only to those works bearing exclusively Christian labels. There is much that is noble and praiseworthy in classical and mainstream media, and some things that are just good, clean (albeit sometimes weird and scary) fun.
Tim chose the metaphor of a Victorian era village to capture the spirit of the company. Each feature of the village symbolizes some aspect of the studio.
The bookstore, naturally, represents Emporium Press. The art gallery represents the graphic design aspects of the operation. The cafe represents the soul of the enterprise, the community of
Emporia USA is the kind of place where you'd find Holmes and Watson working with the local police department, Professor Challenger (from Doyle's The Lost World) lecturing on dinosaurs at the local university, and Dr. Jekyll practicing medicine. George McDonald or one of his characters could be found lecturing at the chapel. If you had a powerful enough telescope, you might see canals on Mars or prehistoric jungles on Venus. We'd like to think C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Ray Bradbury would enjoy spending time in the cafe--and we hope you will too.
Tim's Times:
February 2012: A new semester is well underway, and I've been chisling away on finish up my first non-fiction book, Genesis and the Thoughtful Christian (working title) and putting the finishing touches on my "haunted house" adventure, Haunted Summer. The Intrepid Force graphic novel, the third Intrepid Force novel, and an adventure novel are "in line" after those, and I'm adding to those projects as inspiration strikes also. A few weeks ago my artistic inspiration received a major "shot in the arm" when I visited Moonbot Studios, an animation/illustration/app development studio in Shreveport, Louisiana, to write a case study on them. Moonbot is like Disney or Pixar Studios on a Shreveport scale, and I'm trying to create Moonbot on a Magnolia scale. I'm thrilled to announce that Moonbot has been nominated for an Oscar for their animated short, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
