About Us

IML’s Beginnings

After the birth of her first book, Why Ostriches Don’t Fly and Other Tales from the African Bush, (Libraries Unlimited, 1997), I. Murphy Lewis felt the pleasures of a book in hand! Encouraged by her grandmother, she began her first venture in conjunction with Shank Painter, a republication from the 1928 original copper plates of Lysbeth Boyd Borie’s Poems for Peter, Murphy’s childhood favorite. In 2002, stimulated by the readings of the poet Gail Segal, heartened by her “angel” mother to continue, Murphy created IML Publications, LLC producing novels, poetry and film by various females and now, with indigenous authors (in conjunction with Global Voice Foundation), first introducing Segal’s poetry, In Gravity’s Pull (2002), and Gay Walley’s novel The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Aphorisms on Art, Love and the Vicissitudes of Life (2007), which resold to Skyhorse Publishing (2015). The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable successfully catapulted The Unattainable Story (2016) featured at Mostra, the São Paulo International Film Festival, acquiring Brazilian distribution Europa Films and Random Media at Cinequest in 2017, (IML is an Associate Producer); stimulating another film Erotic Fire of the Unattainable (2020) by Frank Vitale, written by Gay Walley. Sequestered during Covid and recognizing our success, (through the aid of more angel funders) in 2021, from the streets of Paris, IML Publications ambitiously launched Venus as She Ages a 6 novel collection spanning the lifetime of the writer Jacqueline Gay Walley. In 2024, IML, with wild acclaim, introduced Claudia Rosenhouse Raiken’s Messages from the Womb: Baby’s Talk Through Guided Visualizations Expanding Our Hearts and Minds; as well as Mahdi’s Khaak: The Message and I. Murphy Lewis’ Across the Divide to the Divine: An African Initiation. (In 2025, IML became a hybrid publisher.)