Our 2026 Authors
Maksym Van Shamrai was born in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, and completed his thesis for his PhD in Culturology from the National Academy of Culture and Arts Management of Kyiv. He has lived in Spain since 2011, where he writes science fiction that draws on Eastern European literary tradition, philosophical anthropology, and the experience of displacement. Scions of the Last Hope is his debut novel.
Douglas Stuart McDaniel is a writer of historical, speculative, and Southern noir fiction rooted in place, power, and moral consequence. His work examines how communities remember, what they choose to bury, and what eventually surfaces despite their efforts to contain it. His fiction is concerned less with redemption than with reckoning: the cost of belonging, the price of silence, and the truths cities and towns depend on but refuse to name.
McDaniel splits his time between Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and his studio in Barcelona, Spain.
Our Catalog
Our Method
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.
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.
AN INDEPENDENT TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING IMPRINT
Editorial Focus
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.
We work with writers who bring depth of research, lived experience, or intellectual seriousness to their work.
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.
Image: Café Baba, Tangier. One of our authors is currently researching a climate fiction novel set in Tangier.
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:
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.
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.
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PUBLICIST: Kelly Teemer www.teemspr.com