Silent Clamor Press
Illuminating the human experience with excitement, elegance, and unflinching honesty, Silent Clamor publishes books across styles and genres with authentic voices and captivating journeys. Crafted with respect for authors and readers alike, our works are designed to transform how you see yourself and the world.
Where the Light Flickers
by Ryan Burden
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A sweeping, lyrical novel of intersecting lives in a fading Appalachian town, where love, loss, and resilience flicker against the encroaching dark.
“A meditative, spellbinding work about the complicated and often impossible moral dilemmas facing those struggling to survive in a marginalized, forgotten place.”
—Dean Bakopoulos, author of Please Don't Come Back From the Moon
Johnny Payne
A Graveyard of First Chapters
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Once a bestselling author, Jasper Delgado has lost everything except an old laptop filled with unfinished novels. When a letter from a half-sister in Peru he never knew existed arrives, Jasper embarks on an improbable journey of redemption. A literary novel about unfinished stories and the absurd, glorious puzzle that can be made of life's fragments.
Listen to Johnny discuss the origins of the final chapter of his book, inspired by his time and close relationships while living in Peru. Click learn more above.
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Misty Mount
The Shadow Girl
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Thirteen-year-old Zylia Moss has always been invisible—literally. As she fades from reality and discovers a colorless realm called the In Between, she must learn to make her mark on the world before she disappears forever. When she meets her great-aunt Angelica, who vanished decades ago, Zylia realizes that some people are destined to slip through the cracks unless they fight to be seen. A haunting coming-of-age tale about finding your voice in a world that overlooks the quiet ones.
Read Chapter 1 of The Shadow Girl now, and listen to author Misty Mount read an excerpt from her book. Click learn more above.
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Ryan Burden
Where the Light Flickers
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In the coal-dusted valley of Shokten, veterinarian Hem Barry struggles to hold his fractured family together while navigating the dangerous influence of Spoon Sullivan, whose cruelty dominates the mountain community. When Hem's son is injured and a wounded dog appears in their barn, acts of healing become entangled with violence and secrets that threaten to destroy everything. A haunting portrait of a forgotten place where ordinary people must choose between silence and courage, and hope flickers like dying light.
Listen to author Ryan Burden read an excerpt from Chapter 4 of his novel, Where the Light Flickers. Click learn more above.
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Andrew Mondry
The Passion of Saint-Jablonski
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Stosh Saint-Jablonski's failed golf career and crumbling Florida condo association become the least of his problems when wild boars, psychic mediums, and a mysterious algorithm of love turn his world upside down. After reluctantly becoming condo president, he's caught between crypto-mining cults, conspiracy theorists, and his enigmatic neighbor Zyvalia, whose radical ideas about love challenge everything he knows. A darkly comic odyssey through the fever dreams of late-stage capitalism, where truth is just another commodity and everyone's selling their own version of salvation.
COMING OCTOBER 21, 2025
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Vicki Salloum
A Gathering Place
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After Hurricane Katrina, eighty-one-year-old Blue Bechara arrives in New Orleans believing the Virgin Mary has called her to open a café on the city's most dangerous street. Armed with her life savings and unshakeable faith, she buys a crumbling building on desolate Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, determined to bring together the Lebanese, Latino, and African American communities. As her memory fades and her family despairs, Blue's mission becomes a race against time to create something lasting from the ruins. A deeply moving story about faith, courage, and the power of community to heal a broken world.
COMING NOVEMBER 18, 2025
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Jim Roberts
And Your Byrd Can Sing
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In the piney woods of East Texas, one-armed Billy Wayne Bastrop comes of age under the fierce watch of his aunt Sunshine, a chain-smoking, serpent-handling Pentecostal whose love and cruelty are inseparable. Haunted by family loss and the absence of his father, Billy struggles with faith, guilt, and the burden of secrets too heavy for a boy to carry. His restless journey through small-town Texas and beyond becomes a search for belonging and redemption in a world marked by violence, racism, and fractured loyalties. And Your Byrd Can Sing is a Southern Gothic tale of faith and betrayal, love and loss, and the fragile hope that even the most broken lives can be made whole.
COMING JANUARY 2026
Mary Hester
Painting Grace
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Retired art professor Miriam Johnson has spent thirty-three years in near solitude after her husband Tom's suicide. Now, with terminal cancer, she hires nineteen-year-old nursing student Camille Caillouet as her caregiver. What begins as a simple arrangement becomes Miriam's final mission: to encourage the potential she sees in Camille, the same potential she failed to recognize in Tom. As Miriam guides Camille toward medical school dreams, she finds herself painting again and discovering unexpected redemption. But Camille's fierce independence mirrors the ambition that once kept Miriam from leaving Louisiana when Tom needed escape. In their unlikely friendship, both women learn that giving and receiving grace can transform regrets into redemption.
COMING FEBRUARY 2026
Julie Esther Fisher
A Pearl is Just an Accident
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In this haunting novel in stories, Eliza James confronts family secrets and childhood trauma through her work as a paintings conservator. Whether uncovering hidden scars beneath centuries-old portraits or wrestling with the devastating legacy of her parents, Eliza discovers that some damage runs too deep for restoration.
Moving across the Atlantic—from London flats to art studios, from family dining rooms to a brief refuge in the Scottish Highlands—Julie Esther Fisher crafts an unflinching portrait of survival and the weight of inherited pain, tempered with wry humor. Like the irritant that becomes a pearl through protective layers, Fisher reveals how life’s unwanted intrusions can calcify into something harder, stranger, and unexpectedly luminous.