What we publish

Offbeat, daring, and willing to question the way things are. We want voice-forward, character-driven stories that interrogate the status quo through wit, satire, or an unusual form. Epistolary novels and other inventive structures are very welcome.

Character first, worldbuilding second. We want to meet a person before we meet a map. If your opening pages are mostly exposition or lore, it won’t be for us. If a voice and a want pull us in, the world can unfold as we go.

Dystopian fiction, and stories that show the world through non-human eyes: animals, machines, and stranger things. We love speculative work that turns a mirror on our own world.

Horror that is genuinely creepy and leaves you unsettled. We like psychological dread that digs into the human condition, and we also like a real threat out there in the dark: an unseen presence, a haunted house, a gothic hush that gets under your skin.

Retellings that pose a different question and hand the story to someone the original left in the margins, especially underrepresented characters. We like to see what changes when the myth is told from somewhere new.

It’s our favorite genre, so here’s what we mean by it.

Dark academia is a closed world of devotion: a college, a department, a house of study, where a circle of brilliant people gives itself over to knowledge, beauty, and each other. The atmosphere is lush, with old stone, candlelight, libraries, and dead languages, and underneath it something is rotting. Ambition, obsession, and the need to belong carry characters across lines they can’t uncross, and the book is honest about what that costs.

We’re especially drawn to the character-driven and psychological: stories that run on who these people are and what they do to one another. We also love books that turn on the genre itself, asking who the ivory tower serves and what it takes.

Your story doesn’t need a campus. If it has the devotion, the beauty, and the rot, we want to read it. Dark academia, dark academia-adjacent, and dark academia with fantasy elements are all welcome.

Historical fiction is welcome when it does any of the above: a fresh perspective, a voice left out of the record, or a story that questions how history gets told. We especially love it gritty.

Genre-bending, hybrid, and experimental work: books that cross boundaries and break the rules. Archival, surreal, whimsical, formally strange. If it’s a novel made of footnotes, letters, field guides, or something we haven’t named yet, we’d love to see it.