Mutt Press is an award-winning book imprint. It was founded in 1995 as the imprint for books by award-winning writer Scott Semegran. Mutt Press won the Gold Medal for Humor in the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for Scott Semegran's novel To Squeeze a Prairie Dog. The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards is regarded as one of the highest national honors in independent publishing. Mutt Press focuses primarily on fiction and publishes paperbacks, hardcovers, eBooks, and audiobooks. The Mutt Press logo was illustrated by Scott Semegran and the dog's name is Flaco.
Scott Semegran is an award-winning writer of ten books. BlueInk Review described him best as “a gifted writer, with a wry sense of humor.” His latest book, Starman After Midnight, is a quirky novel-in-stories about two beer-drinking neighbors who team-up to track down a mysterious late-night interloper terrorizing their middle-class neighborhood. His nine previous books include The Codger and the Sparrow, The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island (first-place winner for Middle-Grade/Young Adult fiction in the 2021 Writer’s Digest Book Awards), and To Squeeze a Prairie Dog (winner of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal for Humor and winner of the 2019 Texas Author Project for Adult Fiction). He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife. They have four kids, a cat, and a dog. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English.
