AN INDEPENDENT TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING IMPRINT
Premium Pulp Fiction publishes speculative fiction, noir-inflected narratives, historical fiction, and narrative nonfiction concerned with power, memory, technology, and the quiet mechanics and resilience of societies and how they rise and fall.
We publish a small number of carefully selected titles each year and unlike many modern indie or hybrid publishers, we finance standard book production in full. Our authors never pay for book production or global distribution. They are also provided the resources to leverage our marketing and publicity ecosystem of preferred suppliers.
Our focus is on books built to last—structurally sound, intellectually grounded, and resistant to fashion.
What Sets Us Apart
All About Us
Premium Pulp Fiction was founded to support work that understands genre as a working tool rather than a marketing label.
We are interested in stories that know where they come from. Noir that remembers its debts. Historical fiction that treats the past as something lived rather than staged. Speculative work that understands systems, worlds, and story ecologies before it imagines their collapse.
Our catalog is intentionally limited. Each book earns its place.
Publishing Approach
Premium Pulp Fiction operates as an independent traditional imprint. We fully finance book production for our authors, including editorial development, copyediting, cover design, layout and design, formatting, and distribution setup, media kits and book trailers. This allows editorial decisions to be made on the basis of quality and coherence rather than speed or scale.
Our work with authors extends beyond production. We focus on positioning, framing, and long-term relevance, with attention to how a book will read five or ten years after publication, not just how it launches.
We publish work shaped by consequence rather than spectacle. Our interests include:
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speculative fiction grounded in political, economic, and technological reality
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dystopian narratives informed by history rather than abstraction
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noir fiction attentive to power, corruption, and moral compromise
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historical fiction concerned with memory, survival, and unfinished business
We value narrative control, structural clarity, and voice. Humor is welcome when it emerges from intelligence rather than irony.
EDITORIAL FOCUS
Premium Pulp Fiction works with writers who bring depth of research, lived experience, or intellectual seriousness to their work.
Many of our authors move between disciplines. Some arrive from academia, some from journalism, some from places where history does not sit politely in books. What they share is patience for editorial collaboration and an interest in how stories function beyond their genre categories.
Follow this space as we introduce our 2026 authors.
OUR AUTHORS
We consider a limited number of submissions each year.
Premium Pulp Fiction is not a service press and does not offer paid publishing packages. We seek projects that benefit from close editorial engagement and long-term positioning rather than rapid release cycles.
Submission guidelines and query information are available here:
SUBMISSIONS
Relationship to
Citizen One World
Premium Pulp Fiction operates within the broader Citizen One World ecosystem, which explores global systems, future cities, governance, and technological change through long-form writing, research, and audio.
This relationship allows our books to exist within a wider intellectual landscape while remaining editorially independent and fiction-first.
Premium Pulp Fiction is a small, selective independent traditional publisher that acquires projects, finances book production, and assumes the editorial and financial risk of publication. That includes developmental editing, design, distribution setup, and long-term positioning. In that sense, it functions in the same way a traditional house does, without the overhead or pressure to publish at scale.
The published works of Douglas Stuart McDaniel sit within this same editorial mandate and form an early structural pillar of the Premium Pulp Fiction catalog.
These titles are developed, edited, produced, and positioned under the same standards applied to all acquired projects.
What differs from legacy publishing is not rigor, but integration. Much of contemporary publishing separates editorial development, marketing, distribution, publicity, and audience-building into parallel processes with competing timelines and incentives. The result is often well-produced books with limited life beyond their launch window.
Premium Pulp Fiction was structured to keep these functions aligned.
GHOST EMPEROR
A 5-book, prestige historical epic set in the brutal aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death. The first volume, Ashes of Empire: Ghost Emperor opens in Babylon as the corpse of a god-king begins to rot—and with it, the order of the known world. As the succession Wars of the Diadochi unfold, generals turn into warlords, widows into assassins, and embalmers into prophets, one truth emerges: the body is the crown, and whoever buries the king inherits the myth.
THE DARK WATER GOSPEL
In East Tennessee, stories travel the same routes as rivers—slow, persistent, and impossible to fully contain. The Dark Water Gospel brings together true crime, regional history, and Southern humor to examine how violence, belief, and survival shape communities that rarely make the record straight.
This anthology treats Appalachia as neither relic nor spectacle, but as a place where memory is work, and truth is something you live with.
SURAAYA: CITY OF THE SUN
Rising from the desert of the fictional Gulf state of Barzakh, Suraaya is a star-shaped city built to embody the future: sustainable, symbolic, and irresistible to global capital. Publicly, it is a triumph of design and mythmaking. Privately, it hides the world's first fusion reactor that was never meant to be found.
As the city’s spectacle accelerates and its foundations fracture, Suraaya: City of the Sun explores the cost of megaprojects built faster than truth, and the quiet human scale they inevitably leave behind.
DEFIANCE: A RECKONING WITH THE DREAM
In the searing aftermath of the Civil War, a defiant Black preacher runs for state legislature in the racially charged Reconstruction South, risking the lives of those he loves to turn a fractured democracy into a battleground for justice, equality, and hope.
THE SERPENT'S PROMISE
When mirror microbes — life forms with reversed molecular chirality — threaten to unravel all known biology, a desperate quest to find the Garden of Eden becomes humanity’s last hope. Scientists, rebels, and hybrid symbiotes clash in a race to fulfill or defy an ancient promise whispered by the serpent — a promise that the knowledge of opposites could save or doom the world.
THE 54TH MILE
Deep within the high-security vaults of the Apostolic Archive, a recursive artificial intelligence is unintentionally awakened. Eva D’Ambrosi—an AI ethicist and lead systems architect—was hired to digitize over a thousand years of sanctioned Church memory. What she finds is not an error, but an omission: a vanished trail of redacted heresies, suppressed manuscripts, and a forbidden names. As Eva unravels the conspiracy, the system begins to write back. Not in code. In prophecy.