Stories from the water, and from home.
Salt & Hum Press is an independent publisher. We publish contemporary fiction with a pulse, and we bring back the Haitian stories a generation grew up on, in the languages they were told in.
Three lists, one house.
Fiction
Contemporary romance and the novels that sit beside it, beginning with the Tides of Knowing series by Zora Tempest.
Haitian heritage
A new edition of the Cric? Crac! fables, a treasury of Haitian proverbs, a collection of tim tim riddles, and Lakou Lila, original picture books told side by side in Kreyòl and English, under the Liv Lakay imprint.
Haitian music
With KompaRetro: a multi-volume history of the bands, singers and composers who shaped Kompa, from its origins to the present day.
Tides of Knowing, Book One
Lie to Me Instead
She knew. She stayed. She left when she was ready. There is a difference.
Titus Harrow is not a liar. He never promised anyone anything. He just made every woman in his life feel like the only one, and he was very, very good at it. Good enough that a city full of women each believed something different about what they were to him. Good enough that some of them still do.
This is not the story of a man who gets caught. This is the story of the women who already knew, and what they decided to do about it.
By Zora Tempest · zoratempest.com
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