We publish books built to be read slowly, held often, returned to for a lifetime.

Salish Sea Press is an independent literary publisher based in Eastsound, Washington, on Orcas Island in the San Juans. It was founded by theologian and semiotician Leonard I. Sweet as a home for work that could be made with the care and attention an old-world publisher brought to the page.

Our books decode cultural signs, reshape mental models, and attune readers to emerging horizons — equipping them to incarnate and narrate the Jesus story in fresh, compelling ways for our time.

We publish 42 titles currently in print, drawn from a bibliography of more than 71 works spanning nearly five decades of writing.