Author · Rochester · New York City · Paris

Tim Storrs

Crime, speculative and Rochester fiction. Seven books out now and coming through 2027. Read a free sample of any of them below.

Pre-order · I Only Speak American

Out now · Square Circles

Out now · The Return Window

Jan 1 · Twelve Exposures

Jan 2 · No Easy Wins

Jan 9 · Closed Temporal Cases

Jan 20 · State Streets

The Books

Newest pre-order first, then in release order. Every Amazon and Apple Books page lets you read a free sample before you buy.

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I Only Speak American

Trois Nouvelles de Paris · Three stories · 289 pages

Three stories. One city. Spoken in American.

A couple from Rye, New York, finally takes the Paris anniversary trip she has planned for thirteen years. A man steps off the train from Marseille with cracked ribs and a small black case several people would kill to open. And one long night in the eleventh, a Rochester writer tells the funniest story he knows. It is not the last story of the night.

Amazon · Kindle pre-order Apple Books Paperback · Jan 28, 2027

Paperback Jan 28, 2027 · Ebook Feb 23, 2027

Out nowPaperback · Ebook

Square Circles

Book One · Speculative fiction · Four parts

Four lives. One hidden system.

A routine hit, a coveted career inside an unnamed institution, a broken promise and a privileged household. Each life brushes against an invisible architecture none of them chose. Parts I–IV: The Hit, The File, The Dog, The Pool House.

Amazon · Paperback Amazon · Kindle $12.99 Apple Books · Ebook

Kindle out nowPaperback Nov 10

The Return Window

A Square Circles Story · 1B

Four days before Black Monday.

October 15, 1987. Four days before the market falls 22 percent in a single afternoon. Go back, get what you came for, and make the window home. Miss it, and 1987 is where you stay.

Amazon · Kindle $2.99 Paperback · Nov 10

Kindle out now · Paperback Nov 10, 2026 · ISBN 979-8-16-501023-1

Pre-orderRochester

Twelve Exposures

Stories of Rochester, New York · 482 pages

Twelve stories. Four seasons. One city.

From opening day at Marketplace Mall in 1982 to a lake-effect night in 2026. Thrillers, love stories, comedies and tragedies set in the city that gave the world the snapshot.

Paperback · Jan 1, 2027 Amazon · Kindle Apple Books

Paperback Jan 1, 2027 · Ebook Jan 26, 2027

Read the first 119 pages free on Apple Books.

Pre-orderRochester

No Easy Wins in Rochester

A novel · 465 pages

He fixes cars on Lake Avenue. He used to fix other things.

Booker Gibson built a quiet life. Then his oldest friend comes to collect, and a glass photographic plate made in a Rochester basement in 1988 puts a buried secret in play. Three days, from the rail yards to the iron bridge above High Falls.

Paperback · Jan 2, 2027 Amazon · Kindle Apple Books

Paperback Jan 2, 2027 · Ebook Jan 26, 2027

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Closed Temporal Cases

Two stories · 311 pages

Manhattan, 2028. Time travel is a service, and it bills for everything.

In “Summer of ’69,” two friends book a trip back, and only one reads the contract. In “The Settlement,” a man in the company’s Settlements department faces a failing marriage, mounting debts and a federal agent’s questions.

Paperback · Jan 9, 2027 Amazon · Kindle Apple Books

Paperback Jan 9, 2027

Pre-orderRochester

State Streets

A Jansen Evers Novel · Book 1 · 350 pages

He went quiet. His past didn’t.

Twelve years hidden in a Rochester penthouse end when a contractor’s pickup explodes on his street. To outrun a private network that watches the state’s faces, plates and roads, Jan Evers runs the length of New York, from the Finger Lakes to Albany and down the Hudson to the Manhattan tower where it all is controlled.

Paperback · Jan 20, 2027 Apple Books

Paperback Jan 20, 2027 · Ebook Feb 9, 2027

The Work So Far

Before the novels: short stories, poetry, pulp magazines, commissioned comics and limited-edition photo books, all written, designed and published by Tim Storrs.

2018Ripped Pages, the first book. Stories, poems and the first Preacher Hustler.
201931 Days in October, a signed Paris photodiary in 25 copies.
2020Creative 1 Publishing founded. STASH, Harlem 1940, Reconstruction.
2021–22Preacher Hustler, Revolver, Affordable Shotguns 2, Summer Falls.
NowSeries fiction: Square Circles, Jansen Evers, the Rochester books.

Harlem 1940 comic cover — Harlem 1940 · comic

STASH · the first mark

The first three books, framed — The first three books

Reconstruction comic cover — Reconstruction · comic

Preacher Hustler comics, color and black-and-white covers — Preacher Hustler · comic

Literary Alchemy print — Literary Alchemy · print

31 Days in October, signed and numbered — 31 Days in October · #23/25

Summer Falls hardcover — Summer Falls · 150 copies

The full archive · Creative 1 Publishing → Portfolio (PDF)

Essays

Nonfiction on the city, on writing and on the writers who shaped the work.

Rochester

Rochester Is Not a Small Subject

Why the city deserves its own literature, and why the people with generations here should be the ones writing it.

Read on Medium → Influences

The Outsider Is Richard Wright’s Greatest Novel

On the novel Wright wrote in Paris, and the case for putting it first.

Read on Medium →

About

Tim Storrs in a white shirt, seated against a wall — Tim Storrs

Born in Rochester. Built in New York and Paris. Writing from home.

Tim Storrs grew up in Rochester, New York, and left as a teenager for New York City to study film and writing. He later lived and worked in Paris and southern France as a writer and editor.

In 2020 he founded Creative 1 Publishing, where he writes, designs and publishes his own work, from commissioned comics and photo books to the novels. He shoots his own covers.

Back in Rochester, he now writes the city he grew up in, alongside the Square Circles and Jansen Evers series.

Storrs Literary Mixtape sticker on a Paris street — Paris · STORRS

Press

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Tim Storrs at Richard Wright's grave, Paris — At Richard Wright’s grave, ParisDownload

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Bio

Tim Storrs is a Rochester-born author and the founder of Creative 1 Publishing (USA · France). Shaped by New York City and Paris, he writes noir, espionage and speculative fiction. His books include Square Circles and The Return Window.

Press contact: creative1publishingbusiness@gmail.com

Contact

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