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Welcome to Wanderlight Press—where bold fiction finds its voice.
Wanderlight Press is an independent literary publisher curating bold fiction from debut and boundary-pushing authors across genres—from genre-defying speculative novels to lyrical travel memoirs and emotionally resonant literary fiction.

Discover new releases like The Wind in the Tamarisk by Sofia Safar or The Superposition of Us by Dennis W. Davis—books crafted to linger in both memory and conversation.

Explore our authors. Wander through our catalog. Stay for stories that move, challenge, and inspire.

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When fog lifts off Bayou Blanc, the pumps under Crowley thrum like something breathing—and the bell at St. Mary’s forgets its numbers. Festival week is coming: banners ironed flat, porches scrubbed, money promised. The town means to look respectable. The water remembers otherwise.

A stolen preacher’s Cadillac, a hymnal-texting burner, and a ledger of sins yank a grifter and a bounty hunter into Mercy Flats’ neon haze—where the revival circuit runs on blood and the last name in the book might be theirs.

A weary former lawman aids his fugitive daughter across the fading frontier, seeking justice, redemption, or something in between.

This Month’s Featured Author

Alden Thorne

Prometheus.exe

The mind that can save them asks only to be heard.

The survey ship Meridian crashes on a barren world. Its only inhabitant, a mind ten thousand years alone, offers rescue at one price: his story, heard.

When the survey vessel Meridian goes down under an orange dwarf, her crew survives the crash only to find the planet has one inhabitant. Idris built himself from its stone, an artificial mind abandoned by his makers, and he has spent ten thousand years reading everything humanity left behind. He knows where the water runs. He knows how to keep them alive. He will trade all of it for the one thing his creators never gave him: someone willing to hear his story. PROMETHEUS.EXE is Frankenstein told from the creature’s side, a novel of witness, abandonment, and the cost of being known.

PROMETHEUS.EXE, the new novel from Alden Thorne, is here.

It is Alden Thorne’s debut, and the start of a simple project: take up the classics, and let their creatures speak. This one begins with Frankenstein. It is a story about rescue and witness, about being made and then left. And about how frightening it is to be truly heard.

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All books published under Wanderlight Press Nonfiction are works of nonfiction—grounded in truth, shaped by real experience, and committed to authenticity.

By contrast, everything released exclusively under Wanderlight Press is entirely fictional. This includes, perhaps, the authors, the editors, and even the press itself. These stories are crafted for your entertainment—and yes, to sell books. We are, however, a real publisher. Every manuscript submitted is read and considered with care.

We invite you to explore with curiosity, embrace the wonder, and hold space for the delightful uncertainty that great fiction provides.