Now available · Psychological thriller
After All I’ve Done For You
JD Lanter
A psychological thriller about a literature teacher who mistakes a velvet trap for a fresh start.
$16.50
Est. 2026 · Independent publishing · New York
The house
Stories for, from, and of the generation that refuses to be forgotten.
We were raised on Watergate, MTV, and the suspicion that the adults were lying. We grew up anyway. We have things to say.
Now available
After All I’ve Done For You
JD Lanter
$16.50
About the house
We are not a trend.
GenX Press is an independent publisher based in New York, founded to platform the voices of a generation that came of age between analog and digital, between optimism and irony, between one century and another.
We publish literary fiction, psychological thrillers, memoir, nonfiction, and the stories that fall beautifully between genres. Not because our authors write about being Gen X, but because every page bears the imprint of lives fully lived. These are stories written after the lesson, not before it.
The list
What the house is publishing.
List no. 02
Forthcoming
Your Teacher Is Dead
A prequel to After All I’ve Done For You
JD Lanter
GenX Press
Forthcoming · Fiction
Your Teacher Is Dead
JD Lanter
A prequel to After All I’ve Done For You
A prequel to After All I’ve Done For You. The untimely death of Cassandra, by Cassandra, post-mortem.
List no. 03
Forthcoming
Hourglass
JD Lanter
GenX Press
Forthcoming · Fiction
Hourglass
JD Lanter
Life moves in one direction. What if you could decide which one?
List no. 04
Published
Catch Me a Catch
Heddy Abramowitz
GenX Press
Now available · Play
Catch Me a Catch
Heddy Abramowitz
Already published. A play in three acts about dating in the time of Covid.
List no. 09
Published
Closer Encounters
Heddy Abramowitz
GenX Press
Now available · Play
Closer Encounters
Heddy Abramowitz
Already published. The dates happened on a screen, in a closed room, while the city stayed home.
List no. 05
Forthcoming
And Then There Was Manna
Mya Deah
GenX Press
Forthcoming · Mystery / comedy
And Then There Was Manna
Mya Deah
An Agatha Christie inspired mystery/comedy. A Passover program on a secluded island. Santiago Scarlett is running it into the graveyard.
List no. 06
Forthcoming
Still Life
Mya Deah
GenX Press
Forthcoming · Play
Still Life
Mya Deah
A play. Women of a certain age venture into a new business, only to discover what they are capable of.
List no. 07
Forthcoming
The Latchkey Hour
Marla Fenwick
GenX Press
Forthcoming · Fiction
The Latchkey Hour
Marla Fenwick
A novel about the hour a child was trusted with the house, and the adult who still has the key.
List no. 08
Forthcoming
We Kept the Receipts
Denise Pell
GenX Press
Forthcoming · Fiction
We Kept the Receipts
Denise Pell
A novel about a marriage that filed itself, and the second shift that paid for the filing cabinet.
A question from the house
Was your water bottle the garden hose?
Eight questions. No disclaimer. A book at the end, which is the only prize a press should offer.
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Dispatches
Letters, not a content calendar.
A letter from the house
We grew up anyway
On founding a press for a generation that learned not to wait to be asked.
What we publish
After the lesson
Not because the books are about Gen X. Because the pages have already lived.
On the lead title
What the jacket knows
Why the house published After All I’ve Done For You.
Submissions
The door is open. The taste is not vague.
Literary fiction, psychological thrillers, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and the books that fall between. Query the house. We read what arrives.