Arizona Book Publishing Association

Bloomfield Press and gunlaws.com are owned and operated by Alan Korwin. This is the largest publisher and distributor of gun-law books in America, nationally recognized as an expert resource in this narrowly focused niche. Alan works with the publishing community as a consultant on book development, design, marketing and sales.

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Alan Korwin, author of four books and co-author of eight others, is a full-time freelance writer, consultant and entrepreneur with a twenty-five-year track record. He is a founder and two-term past president of the Arizona Book Publishing Association, which has presented him with its Visionary Leadership award, named in his honor, the Korwin Award. He has received national awards for his publicity work as a member of the Society for Technical Communication, and is a past board member of the Arizona chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is active with the speaker’s bureau for the non-profit, Wash., D.C.-based news-media watchdog, Accuracy In Media.

Mr. Korwin wrote the business plan that raised $5 million in venture capital and launched the in-flight catalog SkyMall; working with American Express, he wrote the executive-level strategic plan that defined that firm’s worldwide telecommunications strategy for the 1990s; he did the publicity for Pulitzer Prize cartoonist Steve Benson’s fourth book; and he had a hand in developing ASPED, Arizona’s economic strategic plan. Korwin’s writing appears often in a wide spectrum of local and national publications.

Korwin turned his first book, The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide, into a self-published best-seller, now in its 24th edition. With his wife Cheryl he operates Bloomfield Press, which has grown into the largest producer and distributor of gun-law books in the country. It is built around eight books he has completed on the subject, including the unabridged federal guide Gun Laws of America, and a rapidly growing line of related books and DVDs. Supreme Court Gun Cases was his 10th book and landed him on the cover of the 600,000-circulation magazine America’s First Freedom. Alan is widely recognized as a leading expert on America’s gun laws, and has made nearly 1,000 radio and TV appearances.

Alan Korwin is originally from New York City, where his clients included IBM, AT&T, NYNEX and others, many with real names. He is a pretty good guitarist and singer, with a penchant for parody (his current band is The Cartridge Family). In 1986, finally married, he moved to the Valley of the Sun. It was a joyful and successful move.



NOTES: Korwin’s first book, The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide, came out in 1989. It explains the state’s gun laws in plain-English and has spawned a series of guides that includes California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, and an unabridged edition of the federal gun laws, Gun Laws of America, with more on the way. His book, Wickenburg! The ultimate guide to the ultimate western town, features a foreword by Barry Goldwater, and his full-color book Scottsdale came out in 1995. In 1997, HarperCollins released Safe Not Sorry, by Tanya Metaksa, which features three supplements Korwin wrote on national firearms law. His co-written book, Supreme Court Gun Cases, released at the end of 2003 after six years of effort, chronicles the entire High Court jurisprudence on guns. That book is in the High Court library, which helped him secure a reserved seat for oral argument in the D.C. v. Heller gun-ban case, which became his 11th book, The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!

A partial list of Mr. Korwin’s clients includes: American Express, SkyMall, ITT, Intel, IBM, AT&T, MicroAge, Wide World of Maps, Kroy, Three-Five Systems, NYNEX and The Mesa Varmint Callers.

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Current Titles:
Gun Laws Of America

Supreme Court Gun Cases

The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed

The Arizona Gun Owner’s Guide

The California Gun Owner’s Guide

The Florida Gun Owner’s Guide

The Texas Gun Owner’s Guide

The Virginia Gun Owner’s Guide

More than 180 related titles and DVDs

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Vendor Classifications:
Marketing and Sales Services
Publishing Consultation

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akorwin - Updated: March 12, 2010