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Picket Fire
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Independent press. Publisher of novels of high literary value.

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Full Literary Titan review of DRY THE RAIN, by Richard Leise. Available 10/14/25
Dry The Rain
Dry The Rain is a haunting and intimate novel told from the perspective of a girl who survived a prolonged and horrific kidnapping. As she recounts the trauma she endured at the hands of her captor…
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Dry The Rain by Richard Leise will bend your mind.

Available everywhere.
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Richard Leise's DRY THE RAIN is out today. About a kidnapped girl who escapes after years of torment, who then must suffer her tale being turned into a TV series. It is written from the perspective of her fractured mind and you will like it. Order a copy today! picketfire.com/shop
October 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
John F Duffy, author of "Where When It Rains," will be at the Louisville Book Festival this Saturday. Come say hi.
October 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Coming from the excellent LJ Pemberton, this is very high praise. LJ is a writer to be read, so when she says something is good, you should probably listen.
READ. THIS. BOOK.

The protagonist is a close-to-pro skater who gets a traumatic brain injury and has to give it up. He takes up his camera and enters the Arizona party scene, where he semi-makes it, while also getting embroiled in a love quadrangle that ends very badly. Really thoughtfully done.
Hey #booksky, we're a small press with a novel being released tomorrow. 'Where When It Rains' is available on our website or through your local bookstore. You should read it if you like complicated, broken characters handled delicately in a story that breaks your heart, then breaks it again.
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Independent Book Review called WHERE WHEN IT RAINS one of the best reads of 2024.

Starting today and running through the weekend, digital copies are on sale for $2.99 wherever eBooks are sold.
September 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Picket Fire is a small literary press, but I have no idea how to use Blue Sky or how to find people on here. So if #writers #authors #readers and anyone related to the #writingcommunity or #books community could help by sharing this post, that would be excellent.
September 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Full Literary Titan review of DRY THE RAIN, by Richard Leise. Available 10/14/25
Dry The Rain
Dry The Rain is a haunting and intimate novel told from the perspective of a girl who survived a prolonged and horrific kidnapping. As she recounts the trauma she endured at the hands of her captor…
literarytitan.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
On 10/14 we will be releasing, DRY THE RAIN.

"There are books that beg to be understood and books that dare you to try. Dry the Rain belongs firmly in the latter category. Stark, disjointed, and uncomfortably honest, this is not a story told, it’s a story survived."
-Independent Book Review
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Picket Fire
Been reading John F. Duffy’s Where When It Rains from @picketfire.bsky.social — it’s well done, worth your time.

Plot: A near-pro skater injures himself and then gets in deep with the local nightclub and party scene in Arizona in the early 2000s.

Great companion read to my book, honestly.
May 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Our first book, John F Duffy's "Where When It Rains," makes the Independent Book Review's Best of 2024 list!

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The Best Books We Read in 2024 - Independent Book Review
THE BEST BOOKS WE READ in 2024 is a collaborative book list by the reviewers at IBR in which they review the best books they read this year irrespective of their publication date. It consists solely o...
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December 6, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Hey #booksky, we're a small press with a novel being released tomorrow. 'Where When It Rains' is available on our website or through your local bookstore. You should read it if you like complicated, broken characters handled delicately in a story that breaks your heart, then breaks it again.
December 2, 2024 at 8:04 PM
#writingcommunity We're trying to figure this damn app out. If you don't know, we're a small literary press from the midwest. We take novel submissions and have a new novel coming out on December 3rd.

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November 15, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I'm not excited about having to try to figure out how to use this app and how to find people to follow and how to get followers. So do me a solid, everyone please blow this up for me so all the lit people can find it, follow me, and keep my brain from melting.
November 12, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Also, I hav no idea how to find people on here.
November 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Hi! We're a small book press out of Indiana. This lovely novel is our first release and it comes out on December 3rd! You can find it in our shop: picketfire/shop
November 10, 2024 at 10:06 PM