Rock and a Hard Place Press
@rhp_press
A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
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Jordan Harper 🏴
@jordan_harper
Author of EVERYBODY KNOWS, SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS. Also television.
Duane Swierczynski
@swierczy
NY Times bestselling author of CALIFORNIA BEAR, SECRET DEAD MEN, "The Field Guide to L.A. Pulp," LION & LAMB + more. WGA. Film/TV: @_storydriven.
Bobby Mathews
@bobbymathews
Novelist. 2024 Anthony Award nominee. 2024 Best American Mystery & Suspsense contributor. 2023 Derringer winner. New: NEGATIVE TILT, out now!
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@zerbert
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author of WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO (2025 @crookedlanebks) / FUTURE SKINNY / MY DEAD FRIEND SARAH / rep'd Jake Lovell at SDLA / co-host of WWKWWD on KWVH in CenTex.
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Writer | She/Her | Rep’d @SobelWeber
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Father. Husband. Educator. Author of IT DIES WITH YOU. Rep’d by Ellen Levine/Martha Wydysh @Trident_Media. Film/TV: Judi Farkas. New novel on subs. 👼🏻 👼🏻
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Crime and spy fiction fan in Sydney.
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Writer of dark speculative & crime fiction. Editor at @RHP_Press
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Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing @Derbyuni, freelance tutor and literature professional
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Southern BS artist. Rep: @CBucci_Bookman #godawgs
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Writer, sometime historian and occasional editor (but at this point ya gotta ask nicely). Navy veteran. Lots of other stuff. Bugs Bunny is my spirit animal.
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Shamus winner. BAMS 2022. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Member: MWA, PWA, SIC. Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him
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PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.
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I've written novels, made movies, recorded albums, made TV shows, painted pictures and once met Barry Manilow. I have a very short bucket list
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@shotgunhoney
Noir. Crime. Hardboiled. Flash fiction, 700 words max.
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Screenwriter - Director- published playwright, former 1st AD. Mentors: Alexander Mackendrick & Rudi Fehr. ACS - member. Former Dramatists Guild Ambassador.
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@blacklionking73
Best selling award winning author of RAZORBLADE TEARS,BLACKTOP WASTELAND, ALL THE SINNERS BLEED Fun at parties
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@curtis9980
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UPenn 🏫 MBA. Love Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Artist 🎨 Married. Fighting with my own immune system.😅 Connecting here with the World ❤️
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@bigelowac
Emerging writer of horror fiction & speculative prose poetry. (He/him) So far, I've been published in: @WirewormMag
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@marcocarocari
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Stephen J. Golds
@stevegone58
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@westofcanon
Hark Sailors. Be kind… Or, we’ll feed ye to the resident kraken! Posts by Masthead. Updates and boosts All Inquiries [email protected] Socials=the same.
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@cmattwrite
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@kyletoucher
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the Dingus Press
@thedinguspress
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@borwein_ns
writer PhD HWA Co-EIC @angrygablepress, reads @spaceandtimemag, ed. Global Indigenous Horror @upmiss 2025, words @FictionUtopia, @spaceandtimemag &
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@williamhwalker9
Teacher & Writer. * Ph.D. @ University of Mississippi. * MFA @ UCF. * Rhetoric and Compistion. American Literature. Literary History.
W.B. Zervis
@zervco
Welcome to Zervco. Until the world is a smoldering, uninhabitable wasteland, we vow to deliver horror, humor, and heart to the eager masses.
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@vincentmidgard
Intrepid host of "The Dark Mind Podcast," where we explore the boundless realm of dark literature and film.
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The Ambrosia Literary Agency
@ambrosialagency
ALA is dedicated to all things horror, supernatural, & magical. Enter the darkness if you dare... Website update coming soon! #horror #horrorwriters
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@thewriteranne
Writer and lover of spooky things. Member of HWA @creepypod @shacklebound 7th-Circle Pyrite Horror Over Handlebars Anthology
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@wertenberg30537
Grew up in Ohio making a living in Kentucky.
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@ga_rivers
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@prof_an_smith
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@authjameswatjen
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Beyond the Last Estate
@blastestate
a 48-page print-only literature/arts magazine. Issue 1 out now. To order, contact: [email protected]
Andrew Clark
@theandrewkclark
Author of JESUS IN THE TRAILER (MSR Press), WHERE DARK THINGS GROW (Cowboy Jamboree) - 9/10/24, and WHERE DARK THINGS RISE (Quill and Crow) - Fall 2025.
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@pteratorn
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@elicranor
Edgar-Award-winning author of DON’T KNOW TOUGH, OZARK DOGS, and BROILER (summer 2024)