Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC

Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC, provides a variety of services to help you meet your publishing goal In the publishing world, smaller can be better. We don’t.

At Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC, we want to publish books that give children and teenagers—as well as the adults who read to them, mentor them, guide them, and teach them—the kinds of books that will influence them to make a positive difference in our world and to be successful, well-rounded, compassionate human beings. Yes, Paws and Claws Publishing is a small company. We accept books from firs

t-time authors as well as established authors. We don’t expect every author to write sequels. We work one-on-one with each author from the time we first contact him or her. We don’t create cookie-cutter books. Every book is unique, tailored to the author’s story and message and desires, and enticing to readers and book buyers alike. Every author earns membership to an exclusive club: the Paws and Claws Publishing family. You see, once we commit to an author, we remain committed to him or her. We promote and market every author and their book(s) in perpetuity. Our books won’t go out of print. Each author’s family membership won’t expire. We have several advantages over large publishing houses. We care passionately about books. We always have, and we always will. We grew up reading, reading, and reading. We couldn’t devour enough books. All kinds of books. That’s why we want to publish books we believe in. Then we do our best to sell them. Naturally, we have to try to make a profit. Otherwise we’ll be out of business. Large publishers insist that every book make a profit. Some books make money immediately. Some don’t. We aren’t upset if a book is slower to sell than others. We think that’s fine. Every book we create is one of our children, and we love all of our children equally. We will always love them, no matter what. We’re a small, independent, privately owned publishing house. We publish books we believe in with our whole hearts. Books we want to publish and that we hope our readers will want to read. We have no hierarchical organization of men or women in suits to tell us what to do. We do what we believe is right. We have years of experience in all aspects of publishing, the drive to continue to grow Paws and Claws, and the desire to promote all of our books by all of our authors to sell as well as they possibly can in an ever-changing publishing landscape. We publish books the old-fashioned way. Books that have a classically published look. That’s what we think publishing is all about. That’s what we think readers and book lovers want.

09/14/2025

Newsflash from Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC!
Soon Pamela Wrenn Wood’s first book “Raising Flag” will debut from Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC. This children’s picture book for children in Grades 2‒4 tells the engaging story of Mimi Liz and her parents. The author incorporated the use and care of the U.S. flag into its patriotic messages. It will inspire readers and listeners to feel proud of our country, flag, and Pledge of Allegiance.
Mimi Liz and her parents live on a small farm where they grow vegetables and goats. Each morning they raise their U.S. flag. At sunset, they respectfully lower it.
For the girl’s birthday, her parents and she chose a dapple-gray miniature horse for her to own. She was thrilled the day it was delivered. As she’d promised her parents, each day she fed, watered, walked, and groomed Flag, so named because he reared when he saw the U.S. flag.
For an upcoming local Fourth-of-July parade, the girl trained Flag to walk with her lead. On that day, she and her miniature horse decked out in red, white, and blue to celebrate the patriotic holiday. During the parade, Flag reared to salute the U.S. flag to the crowd’s delight.
Pamela’s story will spark your interest in patriotism through the eyes of Mimi Liz and her parents.
Will Mimi Liz enjoy caring for and training Flag? Will they enjoy the patriotic parade with all the red, white, and blue? Will she learn even more about patriotism by taking care of Flag? Read this book to find out.
As soon as the book has debuted on Amazon.com, we’ll let you know. Shortly after that, it will appear on Barnesandnoble.com as well.
Congratulations to Pamela Wrenn Wood on the soon-to-come premiere of her exciting book!

09/12/2025

Jennifer Tipton Cappoen and I are very proud to introduce our newest Paws and Claws Publishing author to you.
Pamela Wrenn Wood lives in a small town near the Virginia border in the north central Piedmont of North Carolina. She was a social worker for 31 years. For ten years, she worked at Duke University Medical Center.
She enjoys riding around the Virginia and North Carolina countryside to visit area historical sites and serving as a board member and volunteer, trained docent for the local Person County Museum of History.
She and her husband of 48 years, Ernie, share their joy of caring for animals and flower gardening. They have two horses, two cats, and a dog. They planted a pollinator flower garden for the honeybees they’re keeping. For five years, they primarily sold blueberries, blackberries, and gladiolus at the Durham Farmers’ Market.
Like Pamela, her daughter Miriam loves horses. For nine years, Pamela enjoyed performing the activities of a horse-show mom. This provided opportunities for Pamela to teach her daughter the values of respect, responsibility, healthy competition, commitment, hard work, motivation, and grace.
Pamela is a Daughter in the local Thomas Person Chapter of the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NCSDAR). The DAR’s mission is to promote patriotism, education, and historical preservation in personal activities.
In her picture book, she shares her deep respect for the U.S. flag. Her desire is to share her devotion to the United States by teaching children practices to demonstrate love and honor for their country. Soon her patriotic, insightful picture book Raising Flag will debut. It’s a compelling read that will spark your patriotic interests and beliefs through Mimi, Liz, her miniature horse Flag, and her parents.
Welcome to the Paws and Claws Publishing family, Pamela.

06/18/2025

Newsflash!—“Beachy Countdown” available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com

Hope Taylor Spencer’s third book “Beachy Countdown” published by Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC, has debuted on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. This rhyming children’s picture book for children in Grades 1‒3 tells the engaging story of playing children and energetic ocean animals enjoying a sunny day at the beach and in the ocean. Counting and numbers have never been so much fun! Whether you prefer pelicans, dolphins, sharks, sea stars, crabs, fish, sea turtles, or jellyfish, there’s something for you in this captivating book. And you’ll see turreted, splendid sandcastles to boot.

After you've bought, received, and read her book, please return to the book’s page on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com to fill out a review of it. This will be helpful to other potential book buyers and readers as they browse books they’re considering buying. The author and those of us at her publishing company really appreciate all your reviews. Thank you to each and every one of you!

Congratulations to Hope Taylor Spencer who has now published her third book!

06/11/2025

Newsflash!

Soon Hope Taylor Spencer’s third book “Beachy Countdown” will debut from Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC. This lively rhyming picture book for children in Grades 1‒3 will be the third achievement of her lifelong dream of publishing a children’s book “that children would want to explore over and over.”
Counting, numbers, and number words have never been so much fun! Life at the beach for all kinds of marine animals and laughing children having bushels of fun in the gentle waves and in the sand fill this energetic tale. Whether you prefer pelicans, dolphins, sharks, sea stars, crabs, fish, sea turtles, or jellyfish, there’s something for you in this captivating book. And you’ll see turreted, splendid sandcastles to boot.
The cheerful children who jump in the foam and dig in the sand are ringed with multicolored floats They’ll make you wish you could join them at the beach. Their fun day starts with a happy sun and closes with a winking moon saying, “Good night.”
On each page, lively, colorful, entertaining artwork will engage readers, oral readers, and listeners alike.
When you read this appealing story, you’ll want to wear flipflops, a swimsuit, a beach hat, and sunglasses and further create the mood with colorful beach towels, intriguing shells, various styles of floats, sand pails and shovels, and a large beach umbrella to enjoy the allure of the beach even more.

As soon as the book has debuted on Amazon.com, we’ll let you know. Shortly after that, it will appear on Barnesandnoble.com as well.

Congratulations to Hope Taylor Spencer on the soon-to-come premiere of her rhyming book filled with lots of beach and counting fun!

Due to a crashed server and loss of some data...it has been a slow recovery at P&C. We are getting all the kinks worked ...
06/09/2025

Due to a crashed server and loss of some data...it has been a slow recovery at P&C.

We are getting all the kinks worked out and getting additional backups in place to make P&C better.

Look forward to a new website (in the process of learning a new web design program). Also look for several new books we're working on now.

Will keep you posted on progress.
Here are the covers of 2 of our newest books.

04/24/2025

April 23, 2025—Paws and Claws Publishing is proud to announce that Cameron Pendergraft’s new and seventh picture book “The Tale of the Fairy Tree” is now available on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. Her first rhyming book begins “Oh, to whisper. / Oh, to wonder. / Oh, to wait and see.” This magical refrain repeats endearingly and is easy to remember and chant along with the reader. Fairies live in “an aged oak tree in [their] grandmother’s yard.” Charming details about the fairies’ home are woven throughout the book. Each night, fairies leave gifts for people: coins, rings, necklaces, ribbons, a sparkling wand, pieces of lace, tiny seashells, and an ancient brass bell. At night in bed, the children wonder if they should sneak out and get close to the tree. During messy or windy weather, fairies stay indoors to keep dry, so they don’t leave gifts. Eventually the author asks readers if they’ve ever found a fairy tree and then suggests looking for gifts on the morning dew. You’ll be enchanted by pixie dust. Sparkling, golden stars that encircle the stanzas light up readers’ and listeners’ eyes. Cameron’s timeless, classic tale will encourage your little ones to watch for fairies, their homes, and their gifts left during the night. Congratulations, Cameron, on your seventh charming book!

04/23/2025

Today is World Book Day. 📚📖📚📖📚🖊🖋🖌✏️📚📖📚
It’s time to celebrate books, writing books, publishing books, buying books, enjoying time in bookstores and libraries and classrooms, reading books, reading books aloud to little ones and older ones and students, and always finding more books to enjoy. Alone or with others, may you do something today and every day to enjoy books, appreciate books, give books, share books, learn from books, or help create more books by writing them, creating the artwork for them, printing them, or publishing them. Let’s relish all the books in this world and continue to search for more. From all of us in the Paws and Claws Publishing family to you, happy World Book Day.—Lynn Bemer Coble—editor, copy editor, and writer and Jennifer Tipton Cappoen—owner, publisher, book designer, artist, and Web guru

04/13/2025

April 13, 2025—Paws and Claws Publishing is proud to announce that Cameron Pendergraft’s new and seventh picture book “The Tale of the Fairy Tree” will debut soon. Her first rhyming book begins “Oh, to whisper. / Oh, to wonder. / Oh, to wait and see.” This magical refrain repeats endearingly and is easy to remember and chant along with the reader. Fairies live in “an aged oak tree in [their] grandmother’s yard.” Charming details about the fairies’ home are woven throughout the book. Each night, fairies leave gifts for people: coins, rings, necklaces, ribbons, a sparkling wand, pieces of lace, tiny seashells, and an ancient brass bell. At night in bed, the children wonder if they should sneak out and get close to the tree. During messy or windy weather, fairies stay indoors to keep dry, so they don’t leave gifts. Eventually the author asks readers if they’ve ever found a fairy tree and then suggests looking for gifts on the morning dew. You’ll be enchanted by pixie dust. Sparkling, golden stars that encircle the stanzas light up readers’ and listeners’ eyes. Cameron’s timeless, classic tale will encourage your little ones to watch for fairies, their homes, and their gifts left during the night. This book will soon be available on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. Congratulations, Cameron, on your seventh charming book!

04/12/2025

Wishing a happy belated Hug Your Dog Day to all of my dog-loving friends, family members, and authors of the below Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC, books about dogs. It was on Friday, April 11. Indeed, hug your dog.

"Susie's Miracle--The Inspiration Behind Susie's Law" by Donna Smith Lawrence
"Susie's Tale--Hand With Paw We Changed the Law" by Donna Smith Lawrence
"The Miracle of Susie--The Puppy That Changed the Law" by Donna Smith Lawrence
"Westie Tails--Meet Two Little Westies" by Cindy W. Hollingsworth
"Westie Tails--The Great Possum War" by Cindy W. Hollingsworth
"The Story About Tigger" by Cameron Pendergraft
"The Story About Tigger and Elsa" by Cameron Pendergraft
"Jack and Rebie" by Cameron Pendergraft
"Losing Titus" by Cameron Pendergraft
"Pepé's Place" by Michael Allen Roche
"Hero to the Rescue--The Memoir of an Unlikely Hero" by Heddie Wittlin-Leger
"Sofa Dog" by Heddie Wittlin-Leger

03/22/2024

Newsflash!
Soon Hope Taylor Spencer’s first book “Rainy Days at the Beach” will debut from Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC. This lively rhyming children’s picture book for children in Grades K‒2 will be the first achievement of her lifelong dream of publishing a children’s book “that children would want to explore over and over.”
Each set of two stanzas starts with one that tells what the children would be doing on a sunny day at the beach. The second stanza asserts that “nobody plays on rainy days,” and this refrain repeats throughout the book. The repetition will delight readers and listeners who will certainly chime in on those stanzas about nobody playing on rainy days. The energetic, colorful artwork shows lots of animals that live on the beach and in the ocean doing all that they do, no matter what the weather.
The author has included a wide variety of fun activities that children playing on the beach love to do in the sand and in the surf. On rainy days, the youngsters sadly try to replicate those activities indoors. It’s just not the same. Readers will laugh along as they read the book and will understand as the youngsters miss all the fun they have on the beach when it’s raining.
As Hope dreamed, children will want to read this over and over to get tickled by the rhymes and enjoy all the fun to be had on the beach.
As soon as the book has debuted on Amazon.com, we’ll let you know. Shortly after that, it will appear on Barnesandnoble.com as well.
Congratulations to Hope Taylor Spencer on the soon-to-come premiere of her rhyming book filled with lots of beach fun!

03/21/2024

Newsflash!
Jennifer Tipton Cappoen and I are very proud to introduce our newest Paws and Claws publishing author to you.
Hope Taylor Spencer grew up in a military family and has lived in 11 states and Puerto Rico. As she moved, she learned that she found great friends in books. She read about the world and dreamed of someday writing her own book for children.
As an elementary teacher, Hope had her happiest classroom moments when she read aloud. She enjoyed seeing one of her students reading a book independently. Hope still longed to write a story of her own.
The beach was another constant in her life. She visited beaches on the shores of Lake Huron in Michigan and on the coasts of California, Alabama, Florida, and Texas. Every summer her grandparents took her to beaches in North Carolina, which were her favorites. She was fascinated by the water, sand, seashells, culture, and sea life. She knew she’d write a story about the beach one day.
Today Hope lives in a small town near the North Carolina coast. She lives with her husband, Brent, and their two small dogs, Joey and Sandy. She loves reading, gardening, spending time with family, and visiting the beach.
Soon Hope’s first book, Rainy Days at the Beach, will debut. It’s a rhyming children’s picture book for children in Grades K‒2. Hope will be seeing her longtime dream come true. Watch for more soon.
Welcome to the Paws and Claws Publishing family, Hope.

03/16/2024

Newsflash!
C.L. Stilwill’s first book “The Great Lilac Forest” published by Paws and Claws Publishing, LLC, has debuted on both Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. This fantasy-adventure book for Middle Grades children tells the engaging story of the Green family. The children—Kat, Donnie, and Nate—don’t know that their parents were born in the inner worlds, not in the outer world where they live. They also don’t know that their parents have chosen their animal forms and that they will be able to change into these animals in the inner worlds.
After you have bought her book from either site and have received and read your book, please return to the book’s page on the site to fill out an evaluation of the book. This will be helpful to other potential book buyers and readers as they browse books they’re considering buying. The author and those of us at her publishing company really appreciate all your evaluations. Thank you to each and every one of you!
Congratulations to C.L. Stilwill who is now officially a published author!

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