LO SIENTO, an excerpt - Lake Markham (lake) "What had begun for him as delight at the horizon up ahead had long turned to distress under any consideration." apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/10/21/lo-…

Very special APCON today, as we celebrate the release of lake's West Texas meisterwerk LO SIENTO. Click to buy your copy below: bit.ly/4oz7NDD

The best book and the best cover of 2026 is already available.

"Dryback takes an unflinching look at what it means to be an aging millennial male with creative pursuits, high aesthetic standards, and raging sexual energies in a world with fewer and fewer good uses for any of it."

Many people are calling “Dryback” a “Latino NUTCRANKR” . Muy caliente !!!

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New Ritual Press, we’re the best! Thank you so much to our amazing authors and friends, we are so thankful to work with all of you. Thank you for your incredible writing and contribution to literature as a whole! A New Ritual awaits! Yippee! AHS IN THE BLACK LODGE (MR. OMAR KING) Cairo Smith

"I’d left my book at work, and my battery had died mid-scroll while waiting for the train. No phone left me with the unpleasant options of engaging with my thoughts and surroundings."

Read the first chapter of DRYBACK over at the New Ritual Press Substack. Out Jan. 20th 2026  While you're there, listen to "Dryback" and "Nike Pro Set" off the the 71 track 2 Vol score I composed for the novel. Out Dec. 15th 2025 on New Ritual Records.

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New Ritual Press now has a music arm, New Ritual Records. More to come. Enjoy our first record, an ambient album to accompany DRYBACK, composed by author Juan Ecchi Juan Ecchi. Give it a listen while you’re walking your dog, reading Dryback, maybe while you’re cooking!

The four horsemen.

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GRINGO GO HOME - John Yohe "…watching all the cars heading back into town so many cars why did I think an island would have less cars..." apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/11/07/gri…

Great great great novel

My first book, DOE, is out today. Never forget death.

‘Paradise Lost’, painting by Alexey Linkov Art. We’re thankful this beautiful painting serves as the cover for New Ritual Press’s newest novel, DRYBACK by Juan Ecchi. (Juan Ecchi) Dryback will be available in paperback and hardcover 1/20/2026. Links below!