An Independent Publishing House
An Independent Publishing House
Fantasy · Speculative · Memoir · Poetry
Pontus House publishes literature drawn from the deep waters of time, memory, creativity.
Forthcoming · Debut Title
The Salt & Stone Chronicles · Book One
The inaugural volume of a new fantasy saga, and the first book to carry the Pontus House colophon. An unexpected story of magic, inheritance, self-discovery, and deep love.
Register your interest Final cover to be revealed · Presale opening soon More from Jaymes Wade at jaymeswade.comThe House
We are a small, independent press for readers who want a book to weigh something: stories with the craft of the old world and the reach of the new, from new voices.
Every title is edited with patience and made as a lasting object, considered on the page and in the hand. We publish fewer books, and stand behind each one.
Fantasy and speculative fiction, memoir and poetry. Books that borrow the grammar of legend to ask distinctly modern questions.
Independently founded and owned. We keep the writer close to every decision, from first edit to final imprint.
On the Name
Pontus was the primordial sea of Greek myth, the deep that came before the gods. Our mark is the hippocampus, the sea-horse of antiquity that drew the chariots of the tide.
Together they name what we publish: stories that rise from old, deep water and carry the reader somewhere new.