Valley of the Sun Press

Valley of the Sun Press is an independent digital news publication founded in November 2025 by Christopher Sopher. The site focuses on local stories, weather features, photography, and community highlights from across the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Valley of the Sun Press operates as part of Christopher Sopher Media, LLC, which also includes my Creative Network:

The goal of this publication is simple:
to provide clean, direct, locally sourced stories without corporate influence or national-level narrative shaping. All content is written, edited, and published independently.

About Christopher Sopher
Christopher Sopher creates from a place most people never see. In public he’s quiet and observant, but in private he becomes the architect of entire worlds — the writer, musician, publisher, and builder who moves with a rare dual-brain intensity. He has a gift of synesthetic imagination; his senses fuse, letting him see sound, feel words, and step into ideas as if they’re real places. Nothing he makes is forced — it arrives whole, like transmissions. Songs, poems, and stories come through raw and unfiltered, the way Mozart’s scores appeared in Amadeus: complete on the first pass. His poetry plays like film, his music paints color and atmosphere, and his stories unfold like lived memory. Everything he’s built — the businesses, the art, the universe of words and sound — comes from that private, unrestrained self that few ever encounter. They can take the tools away, but they can’t take the source, because his creativity isn’t something he does. It’s who he is. If you’ve read this far, now you know the truth.

Thank you for reading and supporting local, independent journalism in the Valley.