Leverage Factory
Leverage Factory is an independent American publisher based in Bend, Oregon. It is a book and online publisher focused on supplemental education materials. The company's first two titles Be a Writer and Be a Better Writer were written by Steve Peha, President of Teaching That Makes Sense.
Be a Writeris a based on the foundations of writing that Steve Peha has been teaching to school districts around the country. The companion book Be a Better Writer offers more advanced techniques and a number of exercises.
"Be a Better Writer" won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Juvenile-Teen-Young Adult Non-Fiction. 1
Founded in 2005 and launched in 2006 by Publisher Joel Bush, Leverage Factory began as a custom project publisher by creating coffee table style books for large corporate clients. Soon after their first custom projects, the company changed its business model to focus on creating trade books and developing a distribution channel for its supplemental education products.
Leverage Factory is a privately held company.