The Holland Press

A bookbinder’s bench under a lamp: loose pages, a book being stitched, finished volumes beside it
The Holland Press

Books in the making.

The Holland Press publishes books in progress — novels, short stories, and family writing — in episodes, in text and audio, as they are written. Finished works stand alongside them. Here, a reader follows a book while it is being made, not only after.

The Press

The Holland Press is the publishing home of Victor Holland of Bryant, Arkansas — and a home for writers with unfinished books and no wish to walk the conventional road.

Here, a book does not wait until it is finished to be read. Works in progress appear in episodes as the writing continues; finished works are published whole. Each stands on its own.

The Works

Carbonari

Northern Italy · 1858–59 · A novel in progress

A farmer’s wife in occupied Lombardy, and a girlhood training that begins to wake. Published in episodes while it is still being written — read or listen on its own page.

Short Stories

Short fiction

Short stories by Victor Holland — Our Man Jack, and Moon Stone, a story still being written — and open to other writers with a finished story.

Holland Family Legacy

Family writing · First piece complete

Writing from the Holland family, kept in one place. First: Geneva Maxson Holland’s letter-journal of a childhood in the 1900’s — And All the Days Were Bright — in episodes, read and listened to.

The Workshop

For books still becoming, readers are more than an audience. Through the Workshop they offer characters, complications, and historical detail, and the Contributors’ Ledger records the ideas that make it into the book. The author keeps the pen.

Readers can influence the journey without being promised control of the destination.

For Authors

If you have a book — finished, or far enough along that its shape is real — there may be a place for it here. The Press brings the format and the machinery; you bring the book and your readers.

For Authors

Follow the story as it is written

New episodes, in text and audio, plus occasional notes from the Author’s Desk. No noise — the story, when there is story.