Coming this fall! 

Music the World Makes is a new historical novel from author John P. Loonam. In 1950s New York City, Betty McCready is in love with her best friend, Rose Palermo. But when Rose chooses the safety of convention and marries, Betty is left to build a life in a world that seems to have no space for her.

A story of longing, courage, and the cost of authenticity, this novel follows one woman’s fight to claim her true sense of self in a society not ready to accept her.

Forthcoming in November, 2026, pre-publication sales will start in October.

John P. Loonam lives in Brooklyn and is also the author of The Price of Their Toys (Cornerstone Press, 2026).

For more information, see: https://www.frayededgepress.com/music_the_world_makes.html

Thanks to Kiran Pandey and the Broad Street Review for the careful read and review of Stephen St. Francis Decky's Werewolf Movie.

Pandey calls the book "an engaging treat of a horror novella, propelled by likeable characters and easy prose...[s]et in South Jersey and Philadelphia in the late 1980s..."

The Broad Street Review is "Philly's home for arts, culture, and conversation" and we appreciate their generous consideration of our book titles for review.

To read the full review, go here: ​www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/werewolf-movie-by-stephen-st-francis-decky

For more information about the book, see:
https://www.frayededgepress.com/werewolf_movie.html​

Louise MacGregor's New Adult romance novel, Right Guy, Wrong Time, is now available as an audiobook -- for your listening pleasure!

When the perfect guy turns up at the worst possible time, Edie has to figure out what romance and sex mean to her in the aftermath of rape. This offbeat feminist romance moves beyond “girl meets guy,” dealing empathetically with sexual dysfunction, the ubiquity of rape culture, and what recovery can look like in the #MeToo era.

Audiobooks available in Audible and Apple formats. Learn more here:
​https://www.frayededgepress.com/right_guy.htmlwww.frayededgepress.com/right_guy.html

Werewolf Movie by Stephen St. Francis Decky is named one of Horror DNA's Top Reads of 2025!

"The scenes with Donnie are seriously strange and if this is a werewolf novel, then the rulebook is thrown out the window. These potentially supernatural scenes (because who knows really) are acidy and fractured in style, being beautifully ambiguous. You’ll be thinking, hell, what did I just read? Or maybe I was just having a bad dream about the “werewolf movie” showing in the cinema at the time? There is nothing as cheesy or obvious as silver bullets or full moons in this oddly told and beautifully original tale."

Read Tony's post here:
https://horrordna.com/features/tonys-top-reads-of-2025 

​Learn more & buy your copy here:
https://www.frayededgepress.com/werewolf_movie.html 

Frayed Edge Press author Stephen St. Francis Decky will read from his new novel, Werewolf Movie, at the Philadelphia Small Press Night event on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd.

The event will feature Philadelphia small presses and authors and will take place at the Philadelphia Barnes & Noble store at 1708 Chestnut St., beginning at 6pm

For more information, see: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-write-stuff-small-press-night-on-december-2nd-at-6pm-tickets-1835298560399 

"If the movie Clerks (1994) was a horror story, Decky’s novel might be it." --Kirkus Reviews

Stephen St. Francis Decky's new novel, Werewolf Movie is now available! Light horror meets the 1980s’ underground music scene in South Jersey and Philadelphia. Strange deaths, poltergeist activity, and mysterious wounds evoke a creeping dread—mixed with humor--perfect for fans of Donnie Darko or Twin Peaks.

Get you copy now! There's also a special deal when you purchase Werewolf Movie along with Decky's novella, "Make the Bear Be Nice"! 

See ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/werewolf_movie.html for all the details!

“Silence was her sanctuary—until it became her sentence.”

She stayed silent to protect a friend. Now silence may kill her.

1830s America. One girl. One lie. One prison where silence is weaponized.

Psychological suspense meets historical truth.

E.B. Moore's historical novel Silent Cauldron is now available!

And, if you missed E. B. Moore's other FEP novel, Loose in the Bright Fantastic, there's a bundle deal still available for savings when you order both!

Read more: ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/silent_cauldron.html

Just in time for spooky season!

Werewolf Movie -- light horror fiction from Stephen St. Francis Decky -- launches October 21, 2025. But you can pre-order your copy at a 20% discount NOW!

"Decky weaves a (wildly fun) cautionary tale about what you would do to make your dreams come true."--Molly Pohlig, author of The Unsuitable

"A creepy good read..."--R.A. Bolo, author of Down and Out in Paris, with Cat

Silence her crime, silence her punishment.

A girl mistaken for a boy. A crime she didn’t commit. A prison that speaks only in shadows. Based on true conditions at Eastern State Penitentiary.

E.B. Moore's Silent Cauldron is now available for pre-publication orders at 20% off the list price. Pricing good through Sept. 29, 2025.

And, if you missed E. B. Moore's other FEP novel, Loose in the Bright Fantastic, there's a bundle deal available for savings when you order both!

Read more: ​https://www.frayededgepress.com/silent_cauldron.html

Rife with revolutions and references, Hester L. Furey’s House of Jars stares unflinchingly into the scrying pool of post-modernist exploration. Close examination reveals a time-shy collection that cobbles together unlikely subjects to deliriously incredible effect. As a student of literature looking towards a career as an archivist myself, it’s exciting to see Furey’s “archivally based academic work in literary history” (Furey, v) mesh with poetry in what I feel is an incredibly successful effort to “preserve overlooked nuances of 20th century human experience.” (vi)

From Monica Robinson's review of House of Jars in Compulsive Reader

​"...House of Jars is the work of an intelligent and insightful mind. This collection should be fruitful for anyone searching for their own ecstatic truth in the detritus of the 21st century, especially if they enjoy historical rabbit holes and unexpected connections." -- ​C.M. Crockford, Broad Street Review

Winter in Bellapalma, the comic novel by Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe, is now available as an e-book! 

It follows the exploits of a community of expatriates living off-season in a small Italian fishing village: their lives, loves, and interactions with the locals, including involvement in a dispute between the fishermen and the town fathers who wish to promote the tourist industry.

A shorter, lighter read than most of Bjørneboe's work, it nonetheless invokes social commentary with concise portraits of various personality types and the inevitable collision of values in modern life between greed/progress and traditional ways of life.

​How To Tie & Untie Mist
Price: $14.00 pbk.
Literature, Poetry
​6x9; 73 p.
ISBN: 9781642510638 (pbk.)

Frayed Edge Press was recently featured in a series on independent presses in Philadelphia, appearing in Billy Penn, the online magazine for Philadelphia's Public Broadcasting Station, WHYY.

"Small presses have a long history in Philly. In fact, publishing is one of the city’s oldest industries. Just three years after its founding, the city already had its first printing press. And by the end of the 18th century, Philadelphia had become the center for book printing and publishing in the entire country, surpassing New York and Boston."

Frayed Edge Press Publisher Alison Lewis answers questions about press activities and what it's like to be a small independent press in Philadelphia. 
​https://billypenn.com/2025/03/20/small-publishers-frayed-edge-press-alison-lewis-qa/ 
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Frayed Edge Press is honored to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories is one of only seven books named to Kirkus Reviews' list of Best Indie Literary Fiction of 2024.

Consisting of short stories by Frume Halpern originally published in the mid-20th century New York Yiddish press, the full collection has been gathered here for the first time, translated into English by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, a poet, writer, and Yiddish literary translator.

Learn more about this important title and how to order it at:
​www.frayededgepress.com/blessed_hands.html 

20% Off Pre-Publication Orders!

House of Jars: Poems by Hester L. Furey is now available for pre-publication orders at a 20% discount!

House of Jars weaves together three sequences of poems: the journey of a character called Skeleton Woman through a mental health crisis triggered by menopause and environmental illness, the stories of a pantheon of modernist doctor-writers whose mental health struggles changed their writing, and the Conjuring Moses cycle. 

“The work Furey's doing in her House of Jars poem cycle is her most sophisticated and ambitious yet."--Steve Davenport, author of Bruise Songs

6x9;  vii, 73 p.  ISBN: 9781642510591
Publication date: Dec. 3, 2024 - Pre-order now!​

Frayed Edge Press is pleased to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories by Frume Halpern, translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, has been recognized in two categories at the 2024 CIPA EVVY Awards.

This collection of compassionate and affecting short stories were written by Halpern, an immigrant living in New York in the early to mid-20th century. They first appeared in print in Yiddish-language newspapers and have been thoughtfully translated into English by Taub.

Blessed Hands: Stories has been awarded the GOLD (First Place) medal in the Women's Fiction category, and the SILVER (Second Place) medal in the Religious/Spiritual Fiction category.

​The CIPA EVVYs™ is one of the longest-running book award competitions on the Indie publishing scene, and is sponsored by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA), along with the CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (ELF). The EVVY Awards recognizes excellence in high-quality, independently published books and books from small presses. 

Frayed Edge Press is proud to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories, by Frume Halpern and translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, has been named a finalist in two categories of the CIPA EVVY Awards: Women's Fiction and Spiritual/Religious Fiction. 

The CIPA EVVYs™ is one of the longest-running book award competitions on the Indie publishing scene, and is sponsored by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA), along with the CIPA Education and Literacy Foundation (ELF). The EVVY Awards recognizes excellence in high-quality, independently published books and books from small presses. 

Congratulations to Yermiyahu Ahron Taub for this recognition of his translation work! We're excited to hear the results on September 19th!

"Do Not Misunderstand Me" The Collected Radical Addresses to the Unity Congregation (1888-1891)
by Hugh O. Pentecost; edited by Robert P. Helms

Now available! These politically and socially radical addresses were originally given to Pentecost's Unity Congregation, which he started in late 1887 after breaking with mainstream Christian denominations. The texts of the addresses were subsequently published in Pentecost's journal, Twentieth Century, and are collected here for the first time. They concern social justice issues which are as pertinent today as they were in Pentecost's time: poverty, income inequality, the death penalty, education, child labor, women's rights, and more. ​An introductory essay and extensive footnotes from editor Robert P. Helms add important context for these addresses.​​
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Price: $45.00 (pbk.)
​ISBN: 9781642510560 
​7X10; 833 p. 

"Do Not Misunderstand Me" The Collected Radical Addresses to the Unity Congregation (1888-1891)
Hugh O. Pentecost; edited by Robert P. Helms

These addresses were originally given to Pentecost's Unity Congregation, which he started in 1887 after breaking with mainstream Christian denominations. The text of the addresses were subsequently published in Pentecost's journal, Twentieth Century, and are collected here for the first time. They concern social justice issues which are as pertinent today as they were in Pentecost's time: poverty, income inequality, the death penalty, education, and more.
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Price: $45.00 (pbk.)
Sale - 20% Off Pre-Publication Orders $36.00 
​ISBN: 9781642510560 
​7X10; 833 p. 
Publication date: August 27, 2024