About Cat Alley Publications
Cat Alley Publications is an independent press built on a simple idea: great fiction deserves to exist on its own terms.
We publish dark fantasy, noir thrillers, and literary fiction — work that trusts its readers, takes its time, and doesn't apologize for going somewhere difficult.
The name comes from a belief that the most interesting stories happen in the margins — the in-between spaces, the narrow passages, the places most people pass without looking.
We're based wherever our authors are. We believe in independent publishing done with craft and intention.
Dark Fantasy
Magic that costs something. Worlds that feel earned. Characters you actually care about losing.
Noir Thrillers
Atmospheric, tightly plotted crime fiction where the city is always a character and nothing is clean.
Literary Fiction
Stories about real human strangeness — quiet, haunting, and impossible to shake.
Our Authors
J. Calloway
J. Calloway grew up in the hill country of Central Texas with an unhealthy obsession with old maps, stranger folklore, and the kind of libraries that smell like secrets. After years of writing stories in margins and late-night notebooks, the Hollow Road Chronicles became the series Calloway had always wanted to find on a shelf — and couldn't. When not writing, J. Calloway can be found drinking too much coffee, rewatching old detective noir films, and debating the finer points of invented mythology with whoever will listen. The Hollow Road Chronicles is an ongoing series. New installments arrive roughly twice a year.
M. Reyes
M. Reyes is a former journalist who traded deadlines for plot lines and never looked back. The Black Meridian series draws on years of covering crime, politics, and the strange spaces where they overlap. Reyes believes the best mysteries are really questions about identity — who we are when no one's watching, and what we become when someone finally does. The standalone novel "The Cartographer of Lost Things" marks a departure into literary fantasy, though readers of Reyes's thrillers will recognize the same obsession with place, memory, and secrets kept just a little too long.