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The Parliament House curates voicey upmarket urban fantasy and paranormal fiction with an emphasis on uplifting marginalized voices and unconventional narratives. We strive to inscribe magic onto every page and to capture our passionate readership with the enduring power of storytelling. Our mission is not only to offer readers fantastical escapes, to make the impossible possible, but to share stories that are thought-provoking, evocative, and speak to the complexities of our lived reality.
08/18/2025
🏹🐅🌳QOTD: How far would you go to protect a village threatening exile?🌳🐅🏹
Els never wanted to marry. Her purpose was to protect her village from the feline beasts that prowled the forest at night, and love had no part in it. But after a fever stole much of her hearing she was forced to choose between exile and marrying a stranger.
The girl Samuel loved abandoned him when an injury left him with a mangled foot. He fled from his village across the island to escape living under his father's unreasonable expectations. Never again would Samuel be the great hunter and leader that his father wanted.
Before they can adapt to their new life as a married couple, the very beasts from which Els used to protect the village kill her friend, sending everyone flurrying with fear.
Now, there's only one choice: Hunt the beasts and kill every last one. And do it together.
Learning to adapt to their new disabilities, Els, Samuel, and their rag-tag team must learn to listen with their hearts--or die trying.
See what happens next in Annie Lisenby's A THREE-LETTER NAME!!
The time is here! The cover for PETRICHOR, the final installment of E. M. Wright's The Children of Erikkson trilogy, has arrived. Are you ready to see how Taryn's journey ends?
Swipe through for a short story from E. M. Wright set in The Children of Erikkson's universe!
After facing charges of treason and the threat of hanging, Taryn is gravely injured, and the biomatons narrowly escape with their lives. With the biomaton rebellion officially declared, Elmhurst is preparing for war.
Freshly awakened from a weeks-long coma, Taryn must battle not only the outside forces that want to subdue her, but her own internal strife as she realizes the full cost of war. She's learning new things about her past, losing friends, and worst of all, she's afraid she might be losing herself.
Yet more pressing conflicts vie for her attention. While she's trying to run a rebellion and get her strength back, Erikkson insists an important player is missing—his third and most volatile construction: a clockwork assassin known as Petrichor, freshly returned after years in the United States. Taryn not only has to grapple with her own role and tenuous humanity in this war; she'll also have to face a new threat from inside her own army.
Is freedom finally within reach, or will the biomatons find themselves in chains once again?
Petrichor is the heart-pounding conclusion to the Children of Erikkson trilogy.
08/11/2025
🕰️⛓️💀QOTD: What price would you pay for freedom for you and those like you?💀⛓️🕰️
In E. M. Wright's The Children of Erikkson trilogy, Taryn Roft will find out just how steep the price of freedom is. From attending classes at Grafton’s School of Mechanicks to leading an entire biomaton rebellion, Taryn will also have to learn who she is and what she's capable of if she wants to achieve her goals.
Will Taryn be able to save not only herself, but her friends and every biomaton possible? Find out in SEDITION and SERAPHIM! And get ready for the cover reveal of the third and final installment in the trilogy: PETRICHOR!
In an alternate Victorian England, clockwork cyborgs provide the primary source of labor for the upper class. Known as biomatons, they are property by law and have been manipulated and mind-controlled into subservience.
Taryn Roft, a 17-year-old girl, attending classes at Grafton’s School of Mechanicks in London has a secret. What’s even worse—she cannot remember anything before her twelfth birthday.
When a mysterious privateer discovers her secret, he offers her an ultimatum: accompany him to his airship, or her secret will be revealed to everyone. For Taryn, it’s not much of a choice. Facing prejudice and cruelty may be nothing new to the only girl at an all-boys’ school, but the further from home she gets, the darker her situation becomes.
08/05/2025
🌙💀☁️QOTD: Would you ever post your dreams for the world to see?☁️💀🌙
Maeve and Peri are creators who record and publish their dreams for others to enjoy. But when Maeve's dreams start to reflect reality and the same woman appears over and over in Peri's, the line between what's real and what's illusion grows dangerously thin. The two dreamers will have to find each other if they want to learn the truth of their dreams before it's too late.
Find out happens when reality begins to unravel Wren Handman's A MIDNIGHT SO DEADLY!
Maeve and Peri are ‘dreamers,’ creators who record their dreams and publish them to the delight of their fans. When Maeve dreams of the murder of her friend’s abusive ex—and then he’s killed in the real world—her ‘dream’ job becomes terrifying. At the same time, Peri is losing their grip on reality as they search for a woman who keeps appearing in their dreams. Who is this enticing stranger? How does she keep finding Peri, night after night? And what will it cost to hunt her down?
To find the answers to their questions, Maeve and Peri will first have to find each other. As their dreams begin to bleed into the real world, and the borders between reality and illusion come unstuck, reality itself faces deadly collapse.
08/04/2025
🐉💀📜QOTD: What's your class favorite class to play? A rogue? A bard?📜💀🐉
Heloise is a Bard who's ready to rewrite the story. She's ready to share the reality behind the myth (that she wrote) of the band of heroes who defeated the fearsome Dragonia and saved the village of Skendrick.
Find out what really happened in Sean Gibson's THE PART ABOUT THE DRAGON WAS (MOSTLY) TRUE today!
How it terrorized the village of Skendrick until a brave band of heroes answered the noble villagers’ call for aid. How nothing could stop those courageous souls from facing down the dragon. How they emerged victorious and laden with treasure.
But, even in a world filled with epic adventures and tales of derring-do, where dragons, goblins, and unlicensed prestidigitators run amok, legendary heroes don’t always know what they’re doing. Sometimes they’re clueless. Sometimes beleaguered townsfolk are more hapless than helpless. And orcs? They’re not always as****es, and sometimes they don’t actually want to eat your children.
Heloise the Bard, Erithea’s most renowned storyteller (at least, to hear her tell it), is here to set the record straight. See, it turns out adventuring isn’t easy, and true heroism is as rare as an articulate villager.
Having spent decades propagating this particular myth (which, incidentally, she wrote), she’s finally able to tell the real story—for which she just so happened to have a front-row seat.
Welcome to Erithea. I hope you brought a change of undergarments—things are going to get messy.
07/29/2025
🗝️💀🏚️QOTD: What secrets would you expect a haunted mansion to hold?🏚️💀🗝️
Morgan House has its secrets and Rachel will have to uncover them if she wants to find the source of the harrowing visions she's been having. Ever since her family moved in, something dark has been haunting her and calling her into the cellar of Morgan House. The problem is...her mother's boyfriend has declared the cellar off-limits.
Will Rachel find out the truth before it's too late? Find out in Nicole Wilson's THE KEEPER OF THE KEY!
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There are a thousand things sixteen-year-old Rachel would rather do than upend her life to move into Morgan House, an old, run-down mansion owned by her mom’s boyfriend, Geoff.
But when her mother announces they’re relocating to St. Mary, Virginia to live with him, Rachel’s cut off from her friends and life as she knows it. St. Mary is a remote, lonely place, and the best thing about it is Nick, a guy she knows is worth keeping when he takes her to a cemetery on their first date.
Rachel struggles to get along with Geoff and his mile-long list of annoying house rules—in particular, his bizarre insistence that she stay out of the basement. But something in Morgan House plays by its own rules. At night, an unknown force pulls Rachel down to that forbidden cellar, showing her harrowing visions of a strangely familiar man lurking in the shadows. When a sudden tragedy strikes her family, those visions become more frequent—and more violent.
The dead issue urgent warnings, and if Rachel doesn’t heed them, she’ll become part of Morgan House forever.
07/28/2025
🌟💀👑QOTD: How far would you go to save your kingdom?👑💀🌟
Princess Isabelle of the New Kingdom has lived her entire life in the confines of her palace. In her spare time, she hunts and feeds the poverty-stricken Voiceless—people of the Old Kingdom who warred with the New Kingdom and lost. Yet she remains unfulfilled; she dreams of a world beyond the walls of her home. As the only remaining child of the king and queen, she is to be married off by her eighteenth birthday—a prospect she’d rather not think about.
When Izzy witnesses the use of forbidden magic in the woods outside the palace, she is attacked and saved by Fray, a Voiceless servant from the castle. As the two become friends, they seek out the magic users who tried to kill her, determined to get to uncover the truth. Little does Isabelle know, the servant boy harbors a secret about his people that the king has tried to bury—a dark ability that the Voiceless can no longer evoke.
Yet something more sinister is brewing, and to save her family, Izzy must reverse what was done to Fray and his people. She must give them their voices back, even if it unleashes a terrifying power.
Get Celia McMahon's UNSPOKEN today and start Izzy's journey!
Arthur Crazy is back in A. B. Finlayson's newest novel THE SAINT AND THE SHADOWMAN! This is the third novel in Arthur's story and things are heating up! Grab your copy today and follow Arthur as he faces not only the ghosts of his past, but the ghosts brought into York by the Shadowman. Will our washed-up hero manage to push through his troubles and save the day yet again? Find out in THE SAINT AND THE SHADOWMAN!
Swipe on through to each slide for an exclusive interview with Arthur Crazy himself, courtesy of A. B. Finlayson!
The city of York is teetering on the edge of disaster. During a rare eclipse, the Shadowman casts a spell atop the Minster, trapping the city between the realm of the living and the dead. Ghosts flood the streets, and Arthur, with his best friend Steve, is the only one who can stop the chaos.
But Arthur’s not exactly in hero shape. Haunted by his past and drowning his sorrows in the nearest pint, he’s barely keeping it together. That is, until he meets Nae—a beautiful stranger who might just hold the key to helping him feel normal again.
Now, with the Shadowman’s spell tearing the veil between worlds, the city’s only hope rests on a washed-up hero, a saint from the Shambles, and a dog who won’t stop talking.
York needs a miracle. Arthur needs another drink.
Or maybe a Panadol and a panini.
07/21/2025
Tomorrow is the big day! The Saint and the Shadowman is published. The completion of the Arthur Crazy trilogy!
For those in Australia, Amazon has done it's usual thing of jacking up the prices to an extortionate amount so please hit up your local bookshop or check Booktopia!
I'm so excited for you to see what is in store for Arthur and Steve!
07/21/2025
🍺💀👻QOTD: What's the first thing you would do after discovering you can see ghosts??👻💀🍺
Arthur Crazy would probably get another drink...though that might make the ghosts more visible. The dead can see Arthur and now he can see them. What's a guy to do when they pull him into a mystery that's unraveling more with every second? Have a kebab...hopefully.
Make sure you check out the first two novels in A. B. Finlayson's Arthur Crazy series and get ready for THE SAINT AND THE SHADOWMAN when it releases tomorrow!!
This is not a metaphor. The dead are walking and talking, and it doesn’t matter that Arthur doesn’t believe in them. They believe in him.
Too drunk to recall how he stumbled upon his nascent power, Arthur is burdened with newfound responsibility: he’s the only one who can hear the unfinished business of every dead guy in York, and he’s the only one who can help.
As forgotten legends and lost demons stir all over the cobbled streets and snickelways, Arthur finds himself at the centre of an unfolding mystery—a light in the desert, a fart at a funeral—and he is about to discover that an unfortunate surname isn’t the only thing that makes him stand out.
Arthur just wants to sober up, have a kebab, and go home, but his conscience is knocking loud and clear, demanding he open the damn door. He may not be the hero the dead need, but he’s the one they’re stuck with. Besides, one of those ghosts seems kind of cute.
07/15/2025
👾💀🚪QOTD: Have you ever been obsessed with a video game?🚪💀👾
Paul Prentice may as well be obsessed with The Between. Ever since the battle with Koŝmaro, he's done almost nothing but play the game in search for answers. Unfortunately for Paul, the answers he seeks don't lie in a computer. They're in the real Between. And he'll have to go back to find them.
Will Paul survive this round in the Between? Or will he lose his final life? Pre-order Ryan Leslie's () THE GARDEN OF BEFORE today and find out this September!
For Paul Prentice things have gotten much worse. His house was destroyed in the battle with the Koŝmaro. He’s on thin ice at his job, where instead of working he loses himself in the Between’s computer game, trying in vain to find explanations. His best friend Jay has transformed into a shadowy killer. Corinne and Supriya have vanished. And it appears his wife, Julie, has finally had enough and left him.
Alone and near ruin, Paul receives a familiar visitor with a dire message: they are all back in the Between. Hunted, captured, doomed. For Paul, still wearing the serĉilo’s artifact on his wrist, escape was never an option. The game must be played until the end.
In the harrowing conclusion to The Between, Leslie once again invites readers into a mind-twisting world where the most terrifying monsters are the ones let loose inside of us.
07/14/2025
🥀💀QOTD: Who are you surviving the apocalypse with?💀🥀
Civilization is ending, but at least Lilly and Quincy not alone. As they form unlikely alliances, the Swansong twins will have to unravel mysteries and uncover truths in order to, well, save the world.
Will Lilly and Quincy Swansong defeat the doomsday cult destroying society? Or will they die trying? Find out in Nick Vossen's THE APOCALYPSE REBELLION today!
Now when they are needed most, Lilly and Quincy Swansong are worlds apart—both physically and mentally. However, they must set aside their personal struggles for one last time to deal with an ancient evil corrupting the hearts of mankind. Or they’ll die trying.
Luckily, the twins are not alone. Across the entire globe, those too strong for Haven’s brainwashing and too fond of the Earth are stoking the flames of rebellion. Unlikely alliances are made, and help arrives from distant places: from beneath the sea, from inside the earth, from the afterlife, and from the spaces between worlds.
As Lilly, Quincy, and their friends dive into Europe’s darkest corners in search of answers, four individuals rise to lead the Apocalypse Rebellion. But who are these mysterious four, and can they be trusted?
Yet even greater mysteries are afoot. Why is the resurrected co**se of Witchfynder General Matthew Hopkins possessed? And what supernatural event did the late Emily and Tobias Swansong really experience years ago?
Lilly and Quincy must piece the puzzle together before it’s too late.
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At The Parliament House, we believe that pen and ink is as good as magic and spell, and we strive to provide a good home for those stories with a little extra dazzle. We work with our writers every step of the way on their literary journey, helping to bring out the most from their work. From multiple rounds of editing to unique, individualized marketing outreach, The Parliament House helps our authors produce brilliantly bizarre, original, and moving stories with some edge.
Why Parliament House? Though we are new on the block in the publishing community, our team has a combined twenty-plus years experience in editing, marketing, and design. We bring a Manhattan quality aesthetic to small-press, offering author-friendly publishing to both new and seasoned voices.. We specialize in a niche market and are very selective about the sorts of titles we accept, because we want to ensure each of our projects gets the attention it deserves. Every title is selected specifically because we believe in its ability to succeed.
Striving to be the Guillermo del Toro of the indie publishing world, The Parliament House was founded by Shayne Leighton, bestselling author and marketing professional. The Parliament House curates fantasy of every scope with a specific taste for the weird, dark, and quirky. Be it contemporary, steampunk, paranormal, urban, or otherwise, it has to be the sort of magic that captures our attention and leaves a lasting impression.
Our mission is not only to provide the world with fantastic escapes into the impossible, but also to create a publishing home for the author, and more importantly, a family. Navigating through the business of publishing can feel daunting without the right support system and group of knowledgable experts. The Parliament House prides itself on being a supportive place for new and seasoned authors alike to thrive.
Stories contracted by The Parliament House are treated the same (as best we can) as novels produced via the major five houses. Each book goes through extensive rounds of content & line edits, artwork, and packaging to ensure the highest quality possible as well as personalized three-month marketing plans assigned to every project including cover reveals, book trailer production, chapter sneak peeks and more. We help authors post-release too with reviews, physical signings, brick & mortar placement, and the immediate availability of all formats including digital, paperback, hardcover, and audio.
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