is a small publishing house specializing in nonfiction history
about North Carolina, especially the Cape Fear region and the
Tar Heel coast. We tell true, factually accurate stories that
entertain as well as inform and educate. Dram Tree Books is
also the parent company of Whittler’s Bench Press and Old
Inlet Trading Company. Whittler’s Bench Press publishes titles
with a North Carolina tie-in in the genres of historical fiction,
regional mystery, and humorous novels. Click here for writer’s
submission guidelines. Old Inlet Trading Company sells nonbook
items related to North Carolina history, like t-shirts, coffee
mugs and historical map sets, to gift shops and museums.

With over four centuries of great stories to tell, North Carolina
is a special place, where who we were is a big part of who we
are. For native Tar Heels, our past is a big part of our identity.
For newcomers to the state, learning about that rich heritage is
part of the assimilation process in becoming Tar Heels themselves.

For tourists, North Carolina’s fascinating history has
everything they could ever want. Pirates,plantations, Indians,
Civil War battlefields and heroes, spies, redcoats and patriots, a
Lost Colony - North Carolina has all of these and more. At
Dram Tree Books, we’re in the business of telling those stories,
to preserve our past and protect our identity for the future.