Roberta Roy
Poughkeepsie, NY (USA)
Role(s):
C-Level Executive (CEO, CFO, etc.)
ALVA Press Inc
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Location:
Poughkeepsie
Industry:
Other
Year Founded:
2004
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type:
"C" Corporation
Description:
ALVA Press Inc. edits, designs, and distributes eBooks and books of adult fiction and non-fiction and children’s picture eBooks and books. ALVA Press incorporated as a C-corporation on 10/5/2004. Its Tax ID number is 20-1755864. In 2004 Roberta M Roy successfully incorporated (URL removed). Thereafter, using Bootstrap funding and relying on her many years as a speech language pathologist writing reports daily, her B.A. in English, and her love of literature, Roy was delighted to find editing and coaching other writers and managing contract Book/eBook designers and supervising publication came to her rather naturally. ALVA currently distributes titles through its website at (URL removed) with ALVA eBooks being also distributed through BN and Kobo. While debt free, ALVA lacks funds and seeks to affect a large scale book printing and distribution plan involving libraries and bookstores nationwide. ALVA seeks an investor publicist knowledgeable in how to increase book availability and distribution nationwide as ALVA continues to “Cherish the Writer . . . Enchant the Reader” ALVA has published twenty titles by eight authors and won three internationally recognized Jenkins prizes, one in Inspirational Fiction and two in Poetry. Titles are available through (URL removed) in both book and, with links to (URL removed), in eBook forms. Perhaps Barnes and Noble with its fresh COVID inspired renovations and increased willingness to display titles from earlier years would welcome ALVA titles.