Hampton Roads Publishing Company, founded in 1989 by Frank DeMarco and Bob Friedman, is a publisher of self-help books, and books on alternative medicine, visionary fiction, New Thought, New Science, Nagualism and psychic realms. Hampton Roads sold Walsch's Conversations with God: Book I to Susan J. Petersen, who published it for Putnam. References Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts Publishing companies established in 1989 New Thought literature Companies based in Newburyport, Massachusetts