The home of absurdist, outsider, and experimental writing.
Paragraph Line Books is a small press that caters to absurdist, outsider, experimental, and bizarro writing. Most small presses are pretty monstrous when compared to us, but that doesn't mean we don't have an important mission: to provide you the reader with great writing that's good to read without taking too much of your wallet.
It all started in 1996 with Air in the Paragraph Line, a zine produced by Jon Konrath as a newsletter to document his writing exploits and mail to his friends. After six issues and an extended hiatus, the format expanded in 2005 to a small literary journal of writing by Konrath and several other writers. He published work he enjoyed reading, the kind of fiction and fact that kept him glued to the pages, in hopes that others would like it, too.
In 2007, Paragraph Line Books was formed to serve as a parent to the journal and future book projects. And in 2008, Paragraph Line Books published their first book, John Sheppard's Tales of the Peacetime Army.