Lamplit Press

An independent queer studio in Belgium

Ordinary lives, written true.

We write queer fiction about how people actually live: simply, specifically, without a spotlight on. Our first book is a sapphic novel set in Ghent, released chapter by chapter.

Read the first 7 chapters free

Vision

Stories about people. They happen to be queer.

Most queer stories are built around coming out, crisis or a lesson for someone else. We write and publish the other kind: stories about work, friendship, love and bad weeks, where the characters happen to be queer and the story is about everything else.

Simple on purpose

Specific places, specific people, plain language. We trust small moments to carry a story.

Author-led

The story, characters and settings come from the author's own imagination. We say how we use AI.

Readers first

We build with the people who read us. Early readers shape what we make next.

First book

Warm Days Are Coming Back

A sapphic novel in 29 chapters, set in Ghent. A work of fiction: Ghent is real; the people in it are not.

Three people, Lex, Lin and Nat, take turns carrying the story in close third person. It is literary fiction about a city at night and the people who keep each other company in it.

The first seven chapters are free. After that, chapters arrive on a fixed schedule for early-access readers, ahead of the ebook and paperback.

Language
English
Chapters
29
Perspective
Rotating, close third
Setting
Ghent, Belgium
Where to read
Substack
7 chapters free22 chapters in early access

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