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PRESS + REVIEW ROOM

The work is the story.

Consonance Publishing is an independent publishing imprint spanning documentary history, archival reconstruction, New York place-history, method, speculative fiction, and contemporary American fiction.

PUBLICITY POSTURE

Work-centered by design.

Consonance does not operate as a personality-driven imprint. Written Q&A, project review, excerpts, source and methodology notes, review copies, library and classroom discussions, and focused institutional conversations are preferred. Live interviews are selective.

WHO ARE WE?

Archival reconstruction, slavery and its descendants, genealogy, provenance, family continuity, and the human beings inside fragmented records.

Before the Bullet

Documentary history centered on Fred Hampton, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X before assassination became the dominant frame.

GROUNDS

Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant as living systems of migration, housing, culture, transit, institutions, memory, ownership, and change.

Fiction + V’Nari

Speculative and contemporary fiction about memory, identity, relation, ancestry, bureaucracy, technology, family, and consequence.

CURRENT CATALOG

15 current titles.

MATRIARCHBF1Paperback · US Trade 6 × 9 · 300 pages · Lulu DirectUNCROSSEDPaperback · US Trade 6 × 9 · 246 pagesWHO ARE WE?Slavery, Its Descendants, and the Making of America — Book One: The RecordPaperback · 8.5 × 11 · 251 pages · Direct editionThe Seven Suns of the V’Nari: A World AwakeBook One · Second EditionPaperback · US Trade 6 × 9 · 239 pages · Second EditionThe Seven Suns of the V’Nari: A World RevealedBook Two · Second EditionPaperback · US Trade 6 × 9 · 423 pages · Second EditionThe Seven Suns of the V’Nari: A World RememberedBook Three · Second EditionPaperback · US Trade 6 × 9 · 296 pages · Second EditionWHO ARE WE?Slavery, Its Descendants, and the Making of America — Book Two: The Human LedgerPaperback · 6 × 9 · 143 pages · Direct editionBefore the Bullet: A Dream ObservedMartin Luther King Jr. and the America That Watched HimPaperback · 6 × 9 · 230 pages · Direct editionThe Resonance MethodSecond EditionPaperback · Direct editionGROUNDS: Bed-StuyA Place. A People. A Longer Story.Paperback · Documentary history · Lulu DirectGROUNDS: HarlemA Place. A People. A Longer Story.Paperback · Documentary historyThe Air Was SafeWhat Officials Knew, What the Public Was Told, and What the Records RevealPaperback · US Trade 6 × 9 · B&W · MatteAmong the ReedsAn American NovelPaperback · 5.5 × 8.5 · 272 pages · Lulu DirectBefore the Bullet: The Means They FearedMalcolm X and the Record Before February 21, 1965Paperback · 6 × 9 · 240 pages · Direct editionBefore the Bullet: Target: Black MessiahFred Hampton and the Record Before December 4, 1969Paperback · 6 × 9 · 238 pages · Lulu Direct edition

Reviews

Digital review materials and title-specific review packets are available. Honest review only; no requested outcome.

Libraries + classrooms

Collection development, course use, reading lists, research, public programming, and bulk-order inquiries are welcome.

Rights + adaptation

Foreign rights, audio, documentary, dramatic, and other adaptation inquiries may be directed to the publishing contact.