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The house keeps the record
ISBN, imprint, rights, and what is actually for sale live here. An author page does not have to repeat the colophon.
Publisher · New Mexico, United States · 2026
A house for the books, not a brochure for one name.
A Fiendish Publishing Co. publishes fiction with the chain kept short. Writers have pages here. The imprint record stays with the house. The list is able to hold more than one author, and more than one kind of book.
The house
An independent publisher. Fiction, in whatever form the book requires.
Editorial, production, and rights stay with the house. The writer keeps a page.
The roster
All author pagesThe writer page
Nicholas P. Leone
Fate treated as engineering. Systems that comply, and still arrive at the wrong human conclusion.
The ledger
Layout sample
John Q. Public
Land, water, and the sentence a deed refuses to say out loud.
The gallery
Layout sample
Jane A. Doe
Houses that keep a weather of their own, and the women who notice first.
On the record
Layout sample
Richard Roe
A river that has been measured, and the watch that still gets it wrong.
John Q. Public (the ledger), Jane A. Doe (the gallery), and Richard Roe (On the record) are layout specimens, with invented books. Roe’s page is the house author layout. The writer sheet, with the portrait and the drop cap, is Nicholas P. Leone’s. None of the three specimens is on the publishing record.
A margin of error is not a boundary. It is the distance a careful man can die inside.
Nick always swore he would live to 105. He survives something absurd in his own bathroom — a mouse, a heated bidet seat hot enough to fuse to skin, and a standby generator that does everything right. Fourteen weeks later he dies on an operating table during a power failure in which nine of the hospital’s ten transfer switches do exactly what they were built to do.
On the record
- No. 001Margin of ErrorNicholas P. LeoneIn revision
- No. 002Standing InstructionNicholas P. LeoneIn revision
- No. 003ConcurrenceNicholas P. LeoneIn development
- No. 004Light Under the DoorNicholas P. LeoneIn development
- No. 005KickNicholas P. LeoneIn development
- No. 006The Prayer ListNicholas P. LeoneIn development
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A writer keeps a page
Biography, books, and shorter work. The same address pattern for every author the house takes on.
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The list can grow
Adding a writer is another page and another set of titles. It is not a new website, and it is not a promise that every manuscript will be read.