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“You can’t write fiction if you’re not willing to upset people.” - Christine Merser Most stories don’t start as fiction. They start in lived experience, in observation, in the things you notice and can’t quite let go of. In a recent conversation with Dan Rattiner of Dan’s Papers for his podcast Dan’s Talks, Apricity founder Christine Merser talks about her novel Flight of the Starling and how much of it is pulled from the world around her. The people, the environments, the

Apricity Publishing’s first anthology, America 2026: The Politics We Carry Home, invites writers to explore how politics is shaping everyday life, identity, and relationships.

For a long time, success was measured in visible ways. Houses. Cars. Titles. The outward signs that someone had made it. But something is shifting. People are beginning to ask a different question. Not what do I own, but what will remain of me when I am gone. Personal legacy is quietly becoming the new status symbol, not in a performative way, but in a deeply human one.

For more than a century, publishing has quietly carried an assumption that a “real” book needs to be long. Two hundred pages. Three hundred pages. Sometimes more. The length became a proxy for seriousness, for authority, even for intelligence. But that assumption is beginning to crack. At Apricity Publishing we believe the future of nonfiction is not longer books. It is sharper books. Books that make their point clearly. Tell the story that matters. Provide the context and th

“I resigned from my last board of directors six years ago. I now put my time in bringing my expertise as it's needed to people who are in my circle of collaboration, and that has been a better use of my time. Bottom line? I think there is an inherent conflict of interest in the present board of directors structure, which can't be fixed." - Christine Merser For decades, women have been told that real power comes with a seat on a corporate board. But the data, the history, and

Ok, yes, when you have a book coming out, every single thing you see relates to the book, I know, I know. But this really does, I swear. ...

My book, Circles of Collaboration, has been a long time coming, and it is now available to order. For years I felt uncomfortable...

As featured on @PieLadyBooks ! You can learn more about Flight of the Starling here . Review from Pie Lady Books! Read When You’re Craving: A “Grisham/Patterson style novel, but with a female lead” set in the opulent world of the Hamptons and Palm Beach. A thrilling story about a wealthy divorcee who finds herself caught in a web of intrigue and emotional turmoil.✨ . “I was a courageous woman. A woman who faced fear, and disapproval and rose to listen to the voice inside, reg