Literary fiction crafted in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
Pineywoods Press is an independent publisher based in Nacogdoches, Texas. We publish character-driven fiction across genres—from literary and speculative fiction to romance, fantasy, and dark fiction—united by a commitment to authentic voices, memorable characters, and stories that linger long after the final page.
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Watercolor: A Novel by Stephen W. Reid
Watercolor is a literary novel about a struggling painter battling addiction, his sense of self-worth, and the weight of responsibility to family when his art is suddenly taken seriously.
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Watercolor: A contemporary literary novel about art, addiction, family, faith, and the quiet cost of being seen.
Tuesday: A dark literary novelette about pride, addiction, loss, and the people forced to live in their aftermath.
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And Then There Was Tomorrow: In a small East Texas town, life moves at its own unhurried pace. For Carson Hale, the days have settled into a comfortable routine of familiar faces, long shifts at the brewery, and the quiet certainty of knowing what tomorrow will bring. But when an unexpected connection begins to take shape, Carson finds himself confronting the possibility that a good life and a fulfilling one aren’t always the same thing. And Then There Was Tomorrow is a tender, character-driven novel about love, belonging, and the courage it takes to imagine a different future.
Spaceman: Alone aboard an orbiting space station, an astronaut clings to the routines that give his existence meaning. Each passing day is measured in ninety-minute cycles, each task performed with meticulous precision. But when something inexplicable appears beyond the station’s windows, the fragile certainty of his world begins to unravel. As the boundaries between reality and perception grow increasingly uncertain, he must confront the one thing he has spent his life trying to escape: himself. Spaceman is a haunting, introspective story about isolation, identity, and the limits of the human mind.