Bleak House Books is an imprint of Big Earth Publishing. Before being acquired by Big Earth in 2005, Bleak House began as an independent publisher, releasing its first book in 2001. Bleak House is a publisher of hardboiled/noir books with real type protagonists, focusing more upon the people in them and the way they live in the world.
Bleak House Books also keeps a blog and produces podcasts in which various authors and other members of the publishing community are interviewed.
Apart from publishing the majority of its books simultaneously, available upon publication date in both hardcover and paperback, Bleak House Books also releases a limited collector's edition option called the Evidence Collection which includes:
- a police booking sheet complete with the author’s vital information
- signature
- fingerprint
- date
- colored endsheet
- number (1-100)
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Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)