Meet Pleroma Press
Pleroma: noun, /plɪˈroʊmə/
Late Latin, fullness, from Greek plēroma, that which fills, from plēroun, to make full, from plērēs, full.
In Gnostic and Hellenistic thought, the Pleroma was the totality: the fullness from which everything emanates and to which everything eventually returns. Fitting name for a press built on the idea that old stories never really finish. We like to think they just circle back, pick up new voices, names, and faces, and ultimately fill in some of the blanks a little more each time.
Pleroma Press publishes fiction in that spirit: mythic, a little strange, and comfortable blurring the line between ancient story and speculative fiction.
We're building a small, deliberate catalog, from mythic science fantasy to work that leans more literary and philosophical. The through-line is a taste for stories that loop, recur, and reward a second read, much like the ouroboros that marks our name.
Pleroma Press: An imprint devoted to the enduring word.
Founder’s Note
This started on a road trip home, with an idea that wouldn't leave me alone. Pen hit paper not long after, and one thing kept leading to the next: finding designers, editors, typesetters, printers, artists, all the people who turn a manuscript into an actual book. Somewhere in that process, Pleroma Press became the name for what I was building.
The Price of Creation, Book I of The Ouroboros Chronicles, is the first title, with more books and in-universe novellas already underway.
The name came before I fully understood why it fit. Pleroma, the fullness, the totality everything returns to, felt right for a catalog that's still being written one volume at a time. It's stayed the right name every time I've come back to it.
For now, Pleroma Press exists to give this catalog the home it deserves. Where it goes from here, I honestly don't know yet, and I'd rather find that out slowly and for real than promise something today I can't yet back up. Writing the book, making the book, and getting it into readers' hands has turned into a real education, and if that path ever helps me point someone else through the same process, I'd count that as a win.
If you're an indie author figuring out that same road, my inbox is always open, no promises, just a fellow traveler happy to compare notes.
If you're a reader, welcome. This is where the whole series will live as it comes out.