Our Mission and Vision
MKZ Books, Inc. is an Independent publisher developing books that educate, inspire, and inform. Our non-fiction imprint Calling Card Books publishes experts in their field or people whose stories will inspire others. Our Vision is that Calling Card’s books make a difference in the lives of those who read them.
Z Girls Press, our fiction imprint, publishes books that will inspire and delight readers. Our Vision is that Z Girls Press books are so engaging that readers will enjoy them again and again.
Perdisco Press is an academic imprint established to bring books and a related learning platform to support educators in their mission to educate. Our Vision is that Perdisco Press books, written by educators for use in their classrooms, will benefit students through easy access to the educator, their lessons, and additional instructional content.
Our intake process selects authors committed to their chosen field or have magical imaginations that take us away or mastery of a subject that brings joy to their students. MKZ Books’ three imprints are passionate about bringing these talented authors’ work to the reading public.
Marta Zarrella
Founder
During her “late-in-life” career as an award winning Freelance Writer and Journalist, Marta wrote for newspapers and magazines, did web and marketing content, as well as writing and editing training material for small businesses and non-profits. Calling Card Books was born as an imprint to publish business books, but demand grew and so did the imprint. We now publish memoirs and other non-fiction that fit our Mission and Vision.
Z Girls Press was born from Marta’s lifelong dream of writing a children’s book. Though that has yet to happen, we have published a few beloved children’s, middle-grade, young adult, and adult fiction titles including our Creative Director’s own coloring book series, Color Lit.
Kate Zarrella
Creative Director
Kate Zarrella is a 2012 University of California Davis double honors graduate in English and Psychology. She interned at Reaktion Books, a non-fiction publisher in London, England.
Now she’s joined the team at Calling Card Books as the Creative Director. She specializes in book design, cover design, web design and e-book conversion. She as also illustrated two literary themed coloring books, A Quick Succession of Busy Nothings and Color The Bard.
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