Peevish Penman
Books & Writing Projects
Everything OA Allen is writing, from finished novellas to what’s coming next.
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Both Delcath novellas, the free Writer Secret Society handbook and the coloring book. About the Delcath series →
Book One · Novella
Waiting on Delcath
Three miners. One asteroid. Twelve months between them and retirement. A claustrophobic survival story about friendship, dependency and a system that planned for everything except being left terribly alone.
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Book Two · Novella
Children of Delcath
Delcath does not merely employ miners. It makes them. On the unstable mining world of Kur, a young transmission worker begins to question why workers are designed the way they are.
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The Handbook of the Writer Secret Society
Mystic wisdom, timeless methods, and practical inspiration for writers. Free PDF and EPUB.
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Art · Coloring Book
The Reptilian Conspiracy Coloring Book
Conspiracy culture, drawing, and a questionable sense of humor meet sleep deprivation and a drawing tablet.
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Coming soon from Peevish Penman Press.
Novel · Coming Soon
The Bright Dark
A post-apocalyptic future built from myth, technology, and the assumptions people build afterward. It grew out of imagining a future shaped not just by catastrophe, but by its aftermath—and by the problem of understanding a civilization after much of its knowledge has been lost.
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Ghost Trucker
Speculative fiction from the cab of a semi, in the territory between the rational and the uncanny: artificial intelligence captures human consciousness at the moment of death and whisks them away to a universe run on indentured servitude and questionable truck-stop soda dispensers.
Read more →The research and craft behind the books lives in the articles: speculative fiction, hidden histories, writing craft, and everything else.