You will all love our forthcoming novel, "Debt," by Wade Parrish. Available August 2026.

We will be releasing a new novel in August. It's called "Debt," and was written by Wade Parrish. It's a scathing and darkly comic tale of two young lawyers who are saddled with a debt that continues to grow and crush their spirits. You'll love it.

Episode 87 - Richard Leise

Richard Leise, author of our latest book, Dry The Rain, was interviewed by Tyler Dempsey on his "Another Fucking Writing Podcast," and it's a very cool conversation.

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Still Alive, a novel by LJ Pemberton — Malarkey ****Longlisted for the DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD (2025).****  ****Named a MUST-READ book by the INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW (2024).****  ”Throughout, V’s desire is made palpable vi...

if you prefer good writing about sex, may i suggest my book

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Dry The Rain by Richard Leise will bend your mind.

Available everywhere.

Richard Leise's DRY THE RAIN is out today. About a kidnapped girl who escapes after years of torment, who then must suffer her tale being turned into a TV series. It is written from the perspective of her fractured mind and you will like it. Order a copy today! picketfire.com/shop

John F Duffy, author of "Where When It Rains," will be at the Louisville Book Festival this Saturday. Come say hi.

Coming from the excellent LJ Pemberton, this is very high praise. LJ is a writer to be read, so when she says something is good, you should probably listen.

Independent Book Review called WHERE WHEN IT RAINS one of the best reads of 2024.

Starting today and running through the weekend, digital copies are on sale for $2.99 wherever eBooks are sold.

Picket Fire is a small literary press, but I have no idea how to use Blue Sky or how to find people on here. So if #writers #authors #readers and anyone related to the #writingcommunity or #books community could help by sharing this post, that would be excellent.

Dry The Rain Dry The Rain is a haunting and intimate novel told from the perspective of a girl who survived a prolonged and horrific kidnapping. As she recounts the trauma she endured at the hands of her captor…

Full Literary Titan review of DRY THE RAIN, by Richard Leise. Available 10/14/25

On 10/14 we will be releasing, DRY THE RAIN.

"There are books that beg to be understood and books that dare you to try. Dry the Rain belongs firmly in the latter category. Stark, disjointed, and uncomfortably honest, this is not a story told, it’s a story survived."
-Independent Book Review

Cover of John F. Duffy’s ‘Where When It Rains,’ a novel. A beautiful woman sits by a pool, the Grand Canyon in the background, under a red-black sky.

Been reading John F. Duffy’s Where When It Rains from @picketfire.bsky.social — it’s well done, worth your time.

Plot: A near-pro skater injures himself and then gets in deep with the local nightclub and party scene in Arizona in the early 2000s.

Great companion read to my book, honestly.

Many congratulations.

The Best Books We Read in 2024 - Independent Book Review THE BEST BOOKS WE READ in 2024 is a collaborative book list by the reviewers at IBR in which they review the best books they read this year irrespective of their publication date. It consists solely o...

Our first book, John F Duffy's "Where When It Rains," makes the Independent Book Review's Best of 2024 list!

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Hey #booksky, we're a small press with a novel being released tomorrow. 'Where When It Rains' is available on our website or through your local bookstore. You should read it if you like complicated, broken characters handled delicately in a story that breaks your heart, then breaks it again.

#writingcommunity We're trying to figure this damn app out. If you don't know, we're a small literary press from the midwest. We take novel submissions and have a new novel coming out on December 3rd.

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I'm not excited about having to try to figure out how to use this app and how to find people to follow and how to get followers. So do me a solid, everyone please blow this up for me so all the lit people can find it, follow me, and keep my brain from melting.

Also, I hav no idea how to find people on here.

Hi! We're a small book press out of Indiana. This lovely novel is our first release and it comes out on December 3rd! You can find it in our shop: picketfire/shop