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The Catalog

Small, on purpose.

Front cover of Bespoke by David J. Colón: a deep green cloth-textured field, the title in widely spaced brass capitals at the upper third, the author's name in small brass capitals at the foot.

The first title

Bespoke

a novel by David J. Colón

For readers of Piranesi and A Gentleman in Moscow.

Every building has a maintenance department. Most of them fix boilers. One of them keeps eternity in working order — the doors, especially, since everything that matters arrives through a door and most of it leaves the same way.

Bespoke is literary fiction with a speculative hinge. It is about devotion measured in small repairs, about the doors we choose to open slowly, and about the one order that cannot be filled no matter how well the work is done. It is a quiet book. Quiet books keep.

  • Hardcoverjacketed
  • Paperback
  • Ebookset with care

Hardcover 979-8-9822085-0-7 · Paperback 979-8-9822085-1-4 · Ebook 979-8-9822085-2-1 · 197 pp. · November 13, 2026

Purchase links will follow when the listings exist. The press takes no position on prices.

A reading guide for book clubs will follow the launch.

At the door

Forthcoming

A music memoir

A working title, and it knows it. A working life spent in other people's recordings, by an author whose name is being kept until the ink is dry.

Expected 2026

Expected

A third title

By Barbara Lamb. It arrived the way the best ones do. No announcement will precede it.

Date unannounced