ECS Publishing

Hope everyone is having a beautiful weekend! For all of you readers, here is a novel I'd like to share today:

The scene is nighttime in San Miguel de Allende. Día de los Mu***os.

Santiago is moving through the packed square when someone spills a drink all over him. He looks up, irritated, and finds himself staring into the eyes of a pale British man standing in the middle of the crowd, horrified and speechless.

Neither knows it yet, but the moment will alter both of their lives.
This image was inspired by that scene from The Tour Guide, my novel based on a true story.

It feels alive: music, mariachi bands, mojigangas weaving through the crowd, candlelight, summer heat, and that ethereal feeling when a single moment suddenly separates itself from all the others around it.

The Tour Guide
By Harrison Rose Tate

The book is available to check out at your local library. If you don't see it on the shelf at your location, you can request it for free and they'll get it for you.

Or you can pick up a copy pretty much anywhere online that books are sold.

https://www.amazon.com/Tour-Guide-Based-True-Story/dp/B0F9X8Q8H6

Elsewhere is a Place in Central Park by Harrison Rose Tate is a literal work of art. Midwest Book Review called it “Original, exceptional, and a fascinating read from cover to cover… an impressive level of literary excellence.”

They, and we, highly recommend this novel.

https://a.co/d/06R2uyIB

Now you can follow The Proxy Condition on X: https://x.com/proxycondition

I know its owner is very polarizing, and I'm certainly not endorsing the platform, but it is still relevant. So, if you are a formerly-Twitter user, we'd appreciate the follow and support. Thank you!

Heavy Metal is a Sin (this is a novel, it's not about metal music or sins - lol) - check it out!
https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Metal-Sin-Based-Story/dp/B0FDCR3H82/

A little bit about ECS Publishing, and what makes us different.

The owner of ECS Publishing has spent his career as a consultant, and his business has done well. He says he won't be "quitting my day job" anytime soon 😅

However, he has always had a love for literature. So, at the same time, he started a little hobby business, and called it ECS Publishing.

ECS is selective. When we first read the manuscripts of the writers in our publishing family, we believed they had incredible potential as authors. It turned out to be true. It is incredibly rare to land an overwhelmingly positive Publishers Weekly, BookLife or Kirkus review. Their reviewers are notorious for being brutally objective. Yet our writers got glowing reviews in every case. That, not big profits, is what "success" means to us.

Although we do love book sales, if purchasing a copy is not in your budget, we're just as happy if you head down to your local library and check out a copy. If you don't find it on the shelf, you can put in a request for any of our titles.

Thanks for your support 🎉

From Midwest Book Review: Original, exceptional, and an fascinating read from cover to cover, Tate as raised her entertaining and thought-provoking novel to an impressive level of literary excellence. While an especially and unreservedly recommended pick for community and college/university library Contemporary American Literary Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that this hardcover edition of "Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park" from ECS Publishing is also available in a paperback format.

Look for Elsewhere is a Place in Central park in the May 2026 edition of Library Bookwatch!

Harrison Rose Tate's Publisher's Weekly/Booklife review of The Proxy Condition is IN! And... it's exceptional.

https://booklife.com/project/the-proxy-condition-106235

“For the first time in human history, we have two presences. One is the physical body we occupy. The other is digital,” Tate writes at the outset of this intellectually charged debut about how life online reshapes not just what we do, but who we are. From that opening note, the book gazes toward a world where identity is no longer wholly our own making, but something filtered and subtly molded by the digital systems we move through each day. Rather than rehearse familiar warnings about screen addiction, Tate takes a more measured path, tracing how constant digital immersion fractures attention and presence.

At the heart of the book lies the notion of the “proxy,” the idea that stands in for the systems, platforms, and online habits that begin, almost imperceptibly, to live on our behalf. In Tate’s telling, digital convenience comes at a quiet cost: agency softens, experience is pre-filtered, and authenticity risks becoming an afterthought. There is a reflective steadiness to her voice, a sense that she is not condemning the digital world so much as carefully mapping how algorithms are shaping our experience of the world and, in turn, how we understand ourselves. This argument is supported by theoretical discourse and accessible analogies, particularly in discussions of attention as a commodified resource.

Tate’s prose, both precise and accessible, is punctuated by sharp observations on the "representational burden" of digital life and the "temporal jet lag" caused by asynchronous existence. The abstraction can occasionally distance, but well-placed figures and tables keep the discussions grounded. Structured in three parts, from the emergence of the “dual self” to the long arc of digital transformation, The Proxy Condition leaves readers with a sobering realization: the digital age has not merely altered our habits—it has quietly redefined what it means to be present, and, perhaps, what it means to be human.

Takeaway: Sharp, cerebral examination of how digital culture reshapes identity and presence.

One of the greatest experiencing in supporting talented authors is being a part of events like the local author fair yesterday at the Grace Mellman Community Library.

https://www.facebook.com/harrisonrosetate/posts/pfbid0iXAZy7tAy4yBCGo4drztfvWT2y6bLEuBxfc2ANP86NRYGmS8facsst8mdjyeqUZEl

Harrison Rose Tate is in her element here. We can tell this is exactly the type of community event she enjoys the most.