The Small Time.

For small publishers to keep their books in print, they must have both a remarkable loyalty to their writers and a Zen master's inability to imagine doing anything other than what they've been doing. These two qualities stand out in Jim Haining, the proprietor of Salt Lick Press, a man of gentle manners and Gibraltar-like steadfastness. Haining began Salt Lick in 1969, as a student at Quincy College in Illinois and is still running it today from his home in Austin, Texas. Over the next eighteen months, Haining plans to change that statistic by getting his entire list back into print.