Cover reveal and preorder details for Rot Contracts

Pending further revisions (always a danger in this business), we have a cover design for Rot Contracts, Jessica Lawson‘s poetry chapbook due out August 11th! The design is every bit as understated […]

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Announcing Our Final Forthcoming Title for 2020

Rounding out our 2020 list, Trouble Department will publish Blake Johnson’s novella Prodigal: An American Parable on November 10th. Fans of authors like Stephen Graham Jones, Kyle Minor, and Bennett Sims will […]

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Announcing this summer’s forthcoming title

Trouble Department will publish Rot Contracts, a poetry chapbook by Jessica Lawson, on August 11th, 2020 in print and ebook editions. This will be our first title published entirely in-house (all previous […]

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“Trouble Department” is an anagram of “Embattled Retro Pun”

Trouble Department is what happens when a Clarion grad who is also a poetry slam master spends a few years helping friends put together zines and tour books, until they realize they’ve […]

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