Paperclip Bookshelf

Rows of books we're publishing:
Collected curiosities, lyrical rebellions, and literary misfits.
Half dreams, half detonations, wholly unputdownable.

From strange obsessions to stories that stuck like burrs.
Each one is an idea we couldn’t walk away from.

Pick one up. Submit one in.
Or stand back and admire the unfolding chaos.
Paperclip Atlas - Front Cover v1
Paperclip Atlas:
The Curious Book of Places
Vol. 1: How to Fold a Country
A glorious mess of misplaced luggage, mistaken identities, ancestral ghosts, and one border disaster involving a goat and a man named Pavel. These stories trace cities we left, countries we never quite fit into, and the blurry terrain between departure and return. Told by storytellers over 40, each piece unfolds a place that defies neat geography — imagined or remembered, vanished or invented. Together, they form a living atlas of emotion, dislocation, and belonging that can't be pinned down but refuses to be forgotten.
Paperback $20
e-Book $12
Bundle $28
All proceeds support World Central Kitchen.
Release Date: 2026
Paperclip Kitchen Vol 1 - Front Cover
Paperclip Kitchen:
The Curious Book of Taste
Vol. 1: The Forgotten Recipes
Simply not your regular cookbook. It’s an act of preservation. Home cooks in their 40s, 50s, and 60s share generational recipes on the brink of disappearance. From coastal villages to city flats, these dishes carry forgotten flavors and untold family rituals — each recipe wrapped in the story that kept it alive. Part oral history, part culinary time capsule, this collection invites you into heritage kitchens where ingredients and techniques were whispered down. A celebration of dishes nearly lost, and the people who remember them.
Paperback $28
e-Book $14
Bundle $35
All proceeds support World Central Kitchen.
Release Date: 2026
Paperclip
An observant and psychologically probing work that unsettles the boundary between personal truth and universal ache. It offers an honest lens for solo aging that is neither tragic nor tidy nor transcendent. Just a real, raw, relevant slow rupture that peels back myths. This book is where it all began, the first spark of what would become the Paperclip effect: a movement, a mindset, a shift, and a community for those going through life solo with pride, not apology. A map for one, that quickly became a map for many.
Paperback $20
e-Book $12
Bundle $28
Release Date: Spring 2026
The Red Dots
A flash fiction collection where ordinary days take a sharp, uncanny turn, each marked ceremoniously by something red. From an ordinary red umbrella to burning cars, these crimson clues spark tales of rupture, revelation, and euphoric chaos. Twenty-eight stories. Twenty-eight red disruptions. Nothing, and no one, stays ordinary for long.
Paperback $15
e-Book $8
Bundle $18
Release Date: Winter 2025
White Seoul Winter Kassel
Mystery unfolds in hushed snowfall and frozen streets. From Seoul’s white stillness to Kassel’s icy corners, eight chilling tales unravel secrets buried under frost. Silent tensions, sudden reckonings, startling revelations echo  footsteps in fresh snow. A companion to The Red Dots, WSWK trades crimson heat for hushed frost, leaving a chill forever.
Paperback $15
e-Book $8
Bundle $18
Release Date: Spring 2026
White Seoul Winter Kassel
Mystery unfolds in hushed snowfall and frozen streets. From Seoul’s white stillness to Kassel’s icy corners, eight chilling tales unravel secrets buried under frost. Silent tensions, sudden reckonings, startling revelations echo  footsteps in fresh snow. A companion to The Red Dots, WSWK trades crimson heat for hushed frost, leaving a chill forever.
Paperback $15
e-Book $8
Bundle $18
Release Date: Spring 2026