Welcome to Impolitic Press

Has it been a while since you’ve had a good laugh while strolling through the minefield of modern-day political correctness? We know. That’s a hard thing to do, and yet we now endeavor to help you accomplish that perilous feat by publishing daring voices adept at helping you pick your way, one chuckle at a time. These authors might be finding it hard to get themselves published in the current political climate, regardless of their track records in that realm, but we’re still determined to give them all the munitions-strewn dirt they’d care to plow. We’re new, underfunded, and likely insane, so there is some risk inherent in this for us, too, but armed with a deep appreciation for irony and a flask full of irreverence, we venture forth one step behind them, risking life and wallet, keen to explore too-long neglected realms. We’re willing to bet you’ve missed them, too, and invite you to come join in our literary adventure.

Chris Newman has lost several fortunes on entrepreneurial ventures like this one,

yet persists in beating his head against any similarly unforgiving wall that

happens to be handy. A former Graduate Editor of Fiction International, he

studied Form in the Novel with David Lodge at Birmingham University in England,

holds a degree in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and

an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. New to the actual publishing end of things himself, he has sold over two million novels of his own, published by various major houses. This has somehow managed to convince him that he might know what he’s doing here. Silly man.

Pete O’Brien is an old white guy who resides somewhere in the state of California, where

the mostly sunny weather helps bolster his mostly sunny disposition. In recent years it has been

explained to him that he is no longer allowed to employ an entire litany of once oft-used words

or to “appropriate” characters of any gender experience outside his own. This sometimes seems

unreasonable and even unjust to him and so his writing often soldiers into those forbidden

realms, forever in pursuit of truth and an authenticity of voice.