Diane Reeves
title and firm: Owner, Bright Futures Press
services: Author, Publisher and Book Producer
location: Designbox, Raleigh, NC
website: Bright Futures Press            
email: dreeves at bright futures press dot com

Bright Futures Press produces books for children and young adults. For the first ten years, the company's work focused on a single question: "What do people do?" Some forty books later--including two editions of the internationally published Career Ideas for Kids series, a companion series for teens called Career Ideas for Teens, a new 12-title series called Virtual Apprentice: What's It Really Like to Be a..., and a forthcoming 6-title series featuring full-color titles about weird jobs, scary jobs, germy jobs, diva jobs, etc.—the company is taking things in a new direction.

With a new focus on positioning itself as the book producer where "nonfiction goes for fun," the company is exploring new genres and subject matter and looking for ways to create truly innovative and fully interactive book-plus products. On the drawing board are a book on environmental awareness for kids, a ground-breaking original paperback series featuring a colorful cast of tech-savvy trouble-makers who encounter the real world on their own terms, and a series of madcap adventure stories where readers explore some of their favorite destinations.

Founded by author, Diane Lindsey Reeves the company has expanded from simply providing a structure for Reeves' writing endeavors to providing full book production services for publishing partners that include Facts On File, Ferguson Books, Films for the Humanities, Zondervan, and Prentice Hall. The company has also provided publication development services for clients that include the National Association of Manufacturing, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Education, Nova Southeastern University, and Associated General Contractors.

When she's not producing books, Reeves keeps the roads hot traveling to visit her daughter and the world's cutest grandson in Asheville and her other daughter in Charleston.