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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
The books, under one imprint.
A Fiendish Publishing Co. edits, produces, and keeps the record for the books it issues. The chain stays short. The imprint stays with the work.
The house
An independent imprint. Fiction, in whatever form the book requires.
Editorial, production, and rights stay with the house.
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. Leone15 November 2026
- 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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The author page
Biography, books, and shorter work. The publishing record stays with the house.
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Status is stated
A book in revision is in revision. A book in development is in development. A store is named only after an edition is for sale.