Scallywag Publishing

An imprint of Scallywag Media · founded 2026

A small press for
mischievous books.

Sharp near-future fiction. Satire with a heart. Stories that are a little too odd for the big houses and exactly odd enough for us. We're a new imprint, and we mean to publish slowly: fewer books, better made, each one given the full lamp-lit treatment.

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A lamp-lit print workshop at dusk: an antique iron press, a wooden cabinet of small drawers, a quill in an inkpot, a ship in a bottle on the windowsill, a harbor with tall ships beyond, and a grey cat asleep on a stack of paper.

House principles

  1. i.Fewer books, better made. A handful a year, each one edited, designed and launched like it matters, because it does.
  2. ii.Mischief with a point. We like books that poke at the world, then quietly make you care about it.
  3. iii.The author's voice stays the author's. We sharpen. We don't sand.
  4. iv.Covers you'd frame. And paper you'd notice. And a typeface somebody argued about.

On our desk

The forthcoming shelf. Pull a spine to see what it is. Some of these are books. Some are not, quite.

Pull a spine

Every book on this shelf is either forthcoming, imaginary or classified. Pull one out to find out which.

Set a line of type

Type a line (up to 36 characters). We'll set it in metal, backwards, the way type has always been set, then you pull the press. Keep the broadside; it's yours.

Scallywag Publishing · pulled by hand

Things we might make

Tell us what you'd actually buy from a small press. Nothing is charged; this tells us what to build.

The imprint list

A short letter when we have something worth saying: new titles, early chapters, first-edition news. Not often. Never filler.

For writers

We are not reading manuscripts yet. When we open a reading window, we'll say so here and email the writers' list. We can't promise when that will be, or that we'll take on any particular book. We can promise we won't spam you.

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