About

Same message, different stories, new evangelization.

We publish quality books at the unexpected horizons of the New Evangelization. We are a Catholic publisher that believes the Gospel can be incarnated into any genre or sub-genre. Saint John Paul the Great, pray for us!

Our Authors

Brian J. Costello, OT, Kt HRE, OLJ

Brian J. Costello is a lifelong resident of New Roads, Louisiana, USA and an 11th-generation Louisianan. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. An authority on Louisiana and European history, culture, religion, and linguistics, he is, as of 2018, the sole author of 19 books and co-author of seven books, as well as numerous feature articles.

He is one of the last native and most sought-after speakers of the Pointe Coupee Creole dialect. He is the founding and current Historian and Genealogist of the Pointe Coupee Parish Library Historic Materials Collection, former editor of the Pointe Coupee Banner, and has participated in several nationally and internationally broadcast documentaries in his areas of work.

He has been recognized by the Creole Heritage Center of Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, the United States Army Corps of Engineers/Mississippi River Commission, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Woodmen of the World, and the New Orleans Civil War Study Group, among other institutions. He reigned as King of the 2009 New Roads Lions Carnival, received the 2014 Pointe Coupee Humanity Award, and was named Liaison for Louisiana by the Civil War Historical Association of Belgium in 2014.

Scott L. Smith

S. L. Smith is an author, theologian, and attorney from New Roads, Louisiana, where he was born and now lives with his wife and four children.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree in theology from Notre Dame Seminary, and a law degree from Louisiana State University. After leaving seminary with the Jesuits, Smith taught theology and ministered full-time before becoming an attorney.

He has ministered in places such as the Kibera slums of Kenya and Angola maximum security prison. He hopes his writing will inspire others to “put out into the deep.”

Smith is the author of Pray the Rosary with St. John Paul II, Lord of the Rings & the Eucharist, The Seventh Word, What You Need To Know About Mary, The Cajun Zombie Chronicles.

He also regularly contributes to his blog All Roads Lead to Rome.

James E. Michalik

Michalik was born, raised, and educated by three “mothers”: Bernadette, the Church, and the fertile crescent culture of New Orleans.

He began Superhero Surtain: Future President of the United States Combats Katrina as an evacuee after his wife, Lawren, recognized one of her students being rescued during the Katrina floods. The novel was completed to the hum of a generator after his family returned to clear storm debris.

Before writing his first novel, Michalik served as a counselor and teacher for nearly thirty years in New Orleans schools. He is the director of Operation Upgrade, an academic program for gifted, economically disadvantaged middle-school students.

He later began a career in stand-up comedy, eventually running his own club and teaching classes for first-time performers. He continues to write for both himself and other comedians.

Michalik and his wife, Lawren, continue to teach, live, love, laugh, and invest in New Orleans with their children: Robert, Katherine, Dominic, and Therese.