August Publications was formed in 2003 with the launch of Ballpark Digest. Since that time the company has grown from a single employee working out of a home to a diversified publishing firm featuring Websites, books and other merchandise.

Our motto is simple: We enjoy doing cool things and are overjoyed we can make a living doing so.

Our company's offerings are broken along three lines:

Our sports sites include Ballpark Digest, Arena Digest, Soccer Stadium Digest, Football Stadium Digest and Spring Training Online. Our first four books, The Complete Guide to Spring Training,  The Complete Guide to Big League Ballparks, Homer: The Small-Town Baseball Odyssey, and Cradle of the Game: Baseball and Ballparks in North Carolina, are geared toward sports fans as well.

We've recently entered the outdoors market. Our first outdoors site is Yellowstone Insider, a complete guide to America's first national park. We have several other outdoors sites in the works.

Our third line is in development. We promise you'll be surprised.

Our Staff

Senior Editor Dave Wright has been at August Publications since April 2007. He oversees the Arena Digest website and contributes as well to Ballpark Digest, Football Stadium Digest, College Football  Digest and Soccer Stadium Digest sites. He has reviewed several stadiums and arenas for the websites and is currently assisting on a book about Midwestern ballparks that will come out in 2009.

The Detroit native attended Assumption High School in Windsor, Ontario and moved to St. Paul to attend St. Thomas College. He received a B.A. in Journalism in 1976 and still is involved there as the school’s public address announcer for football, basketball and hockey home games. (He also has the same role at the Minnesota state high school basketball and hockey tournaments.)

A veteran freelance writer, he covered many different sporting events for Associated Press and United Press International, ranging from the old North American Soccer League to Minnesota Twins game at the Metrodome. His freelance credits include such diverse newspapers as the Toronto Star, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Oxford (MI) Leader and the Orillia (ON) Packet & Times. He also contributed a chapter to Little Moments, Big Magic, a book about the 100 years of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America and has spoken to several groups about that organization.

Dave, his wife and Pete, the family dog, live a mostly peaceful existence in St. Paul.

Creative director Natalie Nowytski joined our team as Creative Director in January 2007 via craigslist, which proves that advertising really does work.  Having been raised by artists, Natalie’s design chops were developed before she could even pronounce the phrase street cred. Peers have described her as a well-rounded and brand-smart creative who tackles even the most challenging projects with integrity and optimism. Colleagues and clients know her as “the one who is on-target.” Friends and relatives know her as "the one who gets to color all day."

Her professional life has included an eight-year tenure with Fairview Health Services, in which she served in several marketing and communications capacities while launching Renaissance Jane—a creative agency she owns with her sister, Olenka. Before coming to August Publications, Natalie knew next to nothing about sports. As the creative lead, she is not only learning more about what a good batting average is, but she is also expanding the company brand across various media, including websites, books, advertising, apparel, podcasts and more. She is particularly excited about developing the look and feel of August’s new lifestyle-related websites and books, including those on Yellowstone National Park.

Senior Editor Nelson King is a resident of Cooke City, Montana, where he spends his time following the ins and outs of Yellowstone National Park. Whether it's explaining microbes in the geysers or the migratory patterns of bison in the Lamar Valley, King knows the ins and outs of the nation's first national park.

Publisher Kevin Reichard founded August Publications in 2003. (The company is named for his grandfather, August Reichard.) After graduating from Hamline University in 1983, Reichard was an editor at Minneapolis's MSP Publications before embarking on a freelance career that ended up with a multiyear gig as executive editor at internet.com/Jupitermedia. He rode the Internet wave from bottom to top to bottom.