Centro Books I About Us

About Centro Books

Welcome to Centro Books, a new addition to the independent publishing community. Our mission is to reprint the old and import the new—bring readers enjoyment and entertainment unfettered by the passage of time and place—and to share our finds with you in the hope that you will enjoy them as much as we do.

About Lori Zarahn

As an undergraduate at Emerson College in Boston, I wanted to write soap operas. After getting a BA in Mass Communications there, I moved to Los Angeles, where I spent the next 16 years waiting for snow. I studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute, worked on several TV shows, and edited a few low-budget movies. In between film-editing gigs, I worked in my favorite places: bookstores.

I love books. I love everything about them. I have been a bookseller in chain bookstores and independents, a store manager, a national buyer for Barnes & Noble, a National Account Manager for Random House and Holtzbrinck, and I’ve worked for small independent publishers. When the opportunity presented itself to start my own independent publishing company, I jumped at it.