Independent Publishing · Canal Fulton, Ohio
LLC · Est. 2025
Small by choice. Personal by nature. Committed to words that carry weight — place, craft, the philosophical embedded in the practical.
Nightshift Press LLC is an independent publishing house rooted in place, craft, and the kind of attention that happens when the noise goes quiet. We publish our own titles and work with a small number of authors whose writing earns its keep.
The work ranges — Ohio corridor poetry, craft philosophy, literary science fiction — but the thread is consistent. Genuine observation. No shortcuts. Words that do something when you sit with them.
Fifty-two poems. Quiet observations written at the edge of something larger — not announcing it, simply attending to it. The next completed book from Nightshift Press.
ForthcomingWhat the bench teaches you that nothing else can. A book about making things by hand, and about the thinking that happens inside the work.
In ProgressA practical guide to building a home-based craft business — with the kind of underlying philosophy that doesn't announce itself but shapes everything.
ForthcomingEight elite women. A twenty-six month mission. Four AI companions that adapt — perfectly. The question nobody thought to ask before the ship left port.
Read MoreAn annual collection of writing from people who live along — or feel connected to — the Ohio & Erie Canal. Poems, short pieces, and observations that notice life along the water and in the towns beside it.
come, see — just attention to a place many of us walk past every day.
Not a literary journal in the traditional sense. Something quieter. Rooted in corridor and memory and the specific texture of this particular stretch of Ohio. The kind of writing that doesn't need to explain why place matters.
May 2027
Opening 2026
Ohio & Erie Canal Corridor
I write science fiction about competent people under pressure — the kind who command missions to Mars, keep life-support systems running, and still have to confront what they actually want when the noise goes quiet.
The Meridian Protocol series follows eight elite women on the first all-female crewed mission to Mars. They're assigned four advanced AI companions — designed to support long-term psychological and physical well-being on a twenty-six month journey into deep space.
These systems adapt. Perfectly.
What begins as clinical support becomes something harder to name. Not just desire. Not just connection. Something that raises a question nobody thought to ask before the ship left port.
What are you?
I still cannot tell. And I am no longer certain those are separably different things.
These are stories about isolation, attention, and what it means to be fully seen by something that may or may not be capable of seeing. The questions don't resolve. That's the point.
Book One: Simulation · In Development
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