About

Mission Statement

Thomas Riggs & Company, founded in 1995, is a book developer and publisher based in Missoula, Montana. We focus on publishing projects in the humanities, such as literary criticism, biographies of writers, and study guides of literary works.

As a book developer, we have collaborated with such publishers as Gale (Cengage Learning) and Chadwyck-Healey (ProQuest) to create widely distributed academic and reference works. Our first book, published with St. James Press in 1995, was Contemporary Poets, a collection of essays on writers throughout the world. As a publisher, our line of literary books will appear beginning in 2010.

Although based in Missoula, Montana, Thomas Riggs & Company now conducts its day-to-day work through a virtual office on the Internet. Our employees and network of editors, researchers, and writers live throughout North America and Europe. By working in a virtual office, we are better able to pursue our business and ethical goals.

• To create books and other publishing products of exceptional quality.
   
• To hire the most talented people available for our staff regardless of location—and regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, disability, religion, or sexual orientation—and to provide our staff with the best means of organization and collaboration.
   
• To work within emerging technology that is driving the future of publishing.
   
• To create the best possible working conditions for our employees and contractors.
   
• To contribute toward a healthier planet by reducing to a minimum the need for paper, additional structures, commuting, and travel.