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Pumpjack Press High-octane fiction with a social justice edge. Founded and co-owned by Kathleen McFall and Clark Hays. High-octane genre fiction with a social justice edge.

Clark and Kathleen run Pumpjack Press. Through it, they've published 13 award-winning books. "Kitchen Heat" is the latest, the first in the Restaurantland Romance series. Please query with your submission or for advice about indie publishing. Please check out the Pumpjack Press store at: https://www.pumpjackpress.com/pumpjackstore

In our three-book sci-fi series, beginning with Gates of Mars, a lone thistle found growing hidden deep in the all-but-u...
19/07/2025

In our three-book sci-fi series, beginning with Gates of Mars, a lone thistle found growing hidden deep in the all-but-uninhabitable sunbelt is a symbol of hope for a planet ravaged by environmental collapse and the oligarchs’ devastating Consolidation Wars. No doubt shaping our choice, the thistle — prickly, resilient, unassuming — is the national flower of Scotland, where Clark spent part of his childhood. No one know exactly why it’s been so important to the Scots for the last 500 years or so. According to legend, Norse invaders stepped on thistles and their shouts woke up the sleeping Scots who drove them off. Whatever the reason, we’re equally inspired and enchanted by the humble thistle.

It was a scorcher in Portland yesterday but we survived. It was ten degrees cooler today, and even cooler in Forest Park...
18/07/2025

It was a scorcher in Portland yesterday but we survived. It was ten degrees cooler today, and even cooler in Forest Park. And the Witch’s Castle was about 10% witchier than usual. Pretty sure witches don’t like the heat either.

In our latest Pumpjack Press newsletter, we spotlight Lara Messersmith-Glavin, a talented writer (and fellow Portlander)...
12/07/2025

In our latest Pumpjack Press newsletter, we spotlight Lara Messersmith-Glavin, a talented writer (and fellow Portlander). Lara's book, Spirit Things, is a moving and lyrical meditation on her youth spent on an Alaskan fishing boat. Check out her low-key amazing interview to learn more about her books, her "mystical" writing process, the mermaid horror genre and more.

Pumpjack Press is delighted to welcome author Lara Messersmith-Glavin to the Blowout blog. Lara first came to our attention after reading Spirit Things (UA Press, 2022), a collection of essays that describe her life growing up in an Alaskan fishing community. We agree with author Liz Prato, who ca

Nature has the best fireworks. 🎆 This is from our hike up Angels Rest in the Columbia river gorge.
05/07/2025

Nature has the best fireworks. 🎆 This is from our hike up Angels Rest in the Columbia river gorge.

Sent the intern (Clark) to the warehouse (our garage) to move our books to the conference room (the dining table) for an...
24/06/2025

Sent the intern (Clark) to the warehouse (our garage) to move our books to the conference room (the dining table) for an inventory audit to get ready for some upcoming in-person book events. Writing is such a glamorous life.

"Poetically gruesome, I could not put it down." Horror has never been hotter. Or more hilarious. The cult classic now av...
23/06/2025

"Poetically gruesome, I could not put it down." Horror has never been hotter. Or more hilarious. The cult classic now available on KU. Read now for free >>>
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" unremitting fun and a damn good read." " A gripping story line that's unpredictable and hard to put down. I nearly laughed my pants off." A thrilling page-turner...an outstandingly entertaining series." Welcome to LonePine, Wyoming, population 438, where the best of th...

Nice to see “Welcome to Far Point, Rookie,” by Fio, on the shelves at our local library today. The book came out from Pu...
12/06/2025

Nice to see “Welcome to Far Point, Rookie,” by Fio, on the shelves at our local library today. The book came out from Pumpjack Press earlier this year. If you like inter-dimensional hive minds and death cults and nonstop buddy cop action and humor, don’t sleep on this book. It’s the perfect summer read.

Hot deal alert! Slow-burn, friends-to-lovers, found family rom-com (half open-door). Welcome to the Rose and Thorn resta...
05/06/2025

Hot deal alert! Slow-burn, friends-to-lovers, found family rom-com (half open-door). Welcome to the Rose and Thorn restaurant, where steamy romance is always on the menu. (eBook $0.99 for a limited time). Wherever books are sold!

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Kitchen Heat: A Restaurantland Romance

Along with Memorial Day, today is also Dracula Day. Bram Stoker's famous novel was published May 26, 1876, forever eleva...
26/05/2025

Along with Memorial Day, today is also Dracula Day. Bram Stoker's famous novel was published May 26, 1876, forever elevating vampires into the popular imagination. We drew from his novel and other classics for our four-book series about cowboys and vampires, moving the action to the modern west and giving the myth of the undead a metaphysical twist. It seems vampires are once again having their day in the sun ... errrrr, shadows. The popularity of movies like Nosferatu and Sinners shows the lasting power of the undead. Happy Dracula (and Memorial) Day.

" —unremitting fun and a damn good read." " " " A gripping story line that's unpredictable and hard to put down. I nearly laughed my pants off." " in the modern West. A thrilling page-turner...an series." An incredible value, the four books of the award-winning now ...

Bonnie & Clyde were gunned down on this day 91 years ago. We wrote a three-book alt history series imagining the ambush ...
24/05/2025

Bonnie & Clyde were gunned down on this day 91 years ago. We wrote a three-book alt history series imagining the ambush was faked and the outlaw lovers were forced to atone for their crimes by helping protect the New Deal from greedy robber barons. In reality, they were the products of abject poverty in the shadow of the dustbowl and in an economic system on the edge of collapse. We talk more about why it seems society is doomed to repeat that cycle of despair and violence in our latest newsletter. Check it out to learn more, including a great interview with Dan Armstrong, one of our favorite authors, as well as more fun stuff. Link to newsletter in the comments.

May 23, 1934. The shootout that killed Bonnie and Clyde. Or did it? To mark the "death" anniversary, Resurrection Road e...
20/05/2025

May 23, 1934. The shootout that killed Bonnie and Clyde. Or did it? To mark the "death" anniversary, Resurrection Road eBook is on sale for $0.99 across all platforms.

THE RETURN OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Saving democracy, one bank robbery at a time. In the provocative "what-if" novel Resurrection Road, legendary outlaw lovers Bonnie and Clyde are given one last shot at redemption, when a shadowy organization forces the notorious duo to put their "skills" to u...

Book cover ideas? We're thinking of updating the covers of the Cowboy and Vampire series. (Rumour has it vampires are po...
20/04/2025

Book cover ideas? We're thinking of updating the covers of the Cowboy and Vampire series. (Rumour has it vampires are poised to become hot again.) The current cover is below with the gunbelt, along with two covers from earlier editions. What do you think? Stick with the classic or shake it up? What should the new cover look like?

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We’ve written eight books together so far. Our newest series kicks off in June with the Gates of Mars, book one in the Halo Trilogy. It’s a hard-boiled detective series set in a future in which a few families control all the wealth and leave Earth — overcrowded, and crippled by poverty, disease and environmental catastrophes — for luxury domes on Mars. And yes, there are giraffes.

And don’t forget about our other books:

The four-book Cowboy and the Vampire Collection — Love, lust, action and humor as the worst of the undead collide with the best of the West.

The three-book Bonnie and Clyde series — It’s a high-octane what-if story of love and redemption, using the the forgotten lessons of the past to highlight the economic challenges of the present as the infamous outlaws battle the forces of greed.