Independent fiction
Stories built
to hold weight.
Pick One Press publishes tightly plotted, character-driven novels — books you start on a Friday night and finish before Sunday.
The list
Available now · Thriller
Load Bearing
by J.G. Nash
Structural engineer Sloane Hollis trusts one thing: concrete doesn’t lie.
Days before a condemned Las Vegas courthouse comes down, she finds a sealed cavity in its foundation that no blueprint can explain, and a secret the city’s most powerful family has kept buried since 1981. Worse, her own father’s name is part of it.
Cassidy Ashby, heir to the empire, ordered the audit, and she knows exactly where the fractures are hidden. Now the two women are forced into an alliance neither of them trusts. Both are daughters of the men who poured that foundation.
- Format
- Paperback $14.99 · eBook $2.99
- Trim
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- ISBN
- 979-8-9824107-0-2
Coming soon · Thriller
8 Cents
by J.G. Nash
Eight cents in his pocket. A cartel on his trail.
Rope is a former Army sniper living in the shadows beneath Chicago's Union Station. When he opens a lost letter and makes one phone call, he wakes up a cartel that has been waiting twenty years for someone to find what was hidden in the North Woods.
For young readers · Picture books, ages 4–8
Nature’s Kind Ways
by Tanner B. Elloway
True stories from nature. Kind lessons for life.
Each book pairs one real wonder of the natural world with one way to be kind. Every science fact is checked against published research, and every book ends with its sources, so grown-ups can check them too.
Middle Cover art coming soon
Coming soon · Picture book
The Warm Middle
On the coldest nights in Antarctica, emperor penguins huddle together by the thousands.
Ty has found the warmest spot in the middle, and he never wants to leave. Then he spots his friend Pell out at the windy edge. A story about making room for each other, and the real science of how penguin huddles share warmth.
- Ages
- 4–8
- Length
- 44 pages
- Teaches
- Fairness · Antarctic science
Why
“Pick One”
Every story is a series of choices — which door, which lie, which side. Pick One Press is a small independent publisher focused on fiction that keeps those choices sharp and the stakes high.
For younger readers, our Nature’s Kind Ways picture books by Tanner B. Elloway take the same idea somewhere gentler: true stories from nature about the choice to be kind.
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Reach J.G. Nash and Pick One Press at contactus@pickonepress.com.