Welcome to the online headquarters of Flinch Books! We’re a small press specializing in tales of adventure written in the spirit of the classic pulp fiction of the early to mid 20th century. Founded in 2015 by Jim Beard and John C. Bruening – two veteran writers and editors from the exotic locale of northern Ohio – Flinch publishes novels and short story anthologies that explore just about every genre imaginable: mystery, science fiction, western, horror, sword and sorcery, occult detective and more. The heroes and villains are bigger than life, the stakes are high, and the next perilous cliffhanger is always just a few pages away.

Come on in and take a look around, and be sure to come back often for news about what’s coming, because we always have new projects in the pipeline.

Get ready for some in-your-face pulp-style adventure, the kind that’ll make ya Flinch!

Latest News

Rick Lai, RIP

Another bit of sad news to share, Flinch fans. We have learned of the recent passing of Rick Lai, a prolific writer and historian, and a widely recognized figure in the pulp fiction community. The Flinch team encountered Rick at Pulpfest nearly every year since the...

Six-Gun Legends:
Ten Rounds of Wild West Action

In the years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century, when much of the American West was still a frontier and word-of-mouth was the primary conduit for information from one territory to the next, the line between fact and legend was hazy at best. Stories of bigger-than-life figures emerged and traveled quickly, spreading across the plains like wildfire and cutting through desert country like a hot wind.