Origins · Since 2018
Before the novels there were short stories, poems and unedited notebooks. Tim Storrs published his first book, Ripped Pages, in 2018, then kept going: poetry collections, pulp magazines, comics drawn by commissioned artists, and photo books shot in Paris, New York and Rochester.
He wrote, designed, printed, signed and shipped them himself. In 2020 that work became Creative 1 Publishing. Everything in the catalog grew out of it.
Short stories, poetry and pulp: the first books, written fast and printed in small runs.
Written by Tim Storrs, drawn by commissioned artists, printed in limited, signed runs.
The first mark
At the very start of Creative 1 there was STASH. The original pulp magazine and its logo were a nod to the Saturday-morning action cartoons of the 1980s, the M.A.S.K. era, that shaped every comic that came after: fast cars, big explosions, odds you roll for.
Everything on this page traces back to it.
Street photography from Paris, New York, San Francisco and the French countryside, in signed and numbered editions.
Every series got its own mark, drawn and printed in-house. See every object in The Stash Archive (PDF) →
Four lines under one house: comics, mixtapes and limited editions, each with its own identity.
Commissioned one-shots with international artists.
Independent comics outside the usual genre lanes.
Short-run fiction and poetry in mixtape form.
Signed and numbered photo books and first editions.
2018 → 2027
The notebooks, the pulp, the comics, the street photographs. Eight years of building the craft, now in the novels.
The Novels ↓Photograph: Paris, from 31 Days in October · Tim Storrs
The Novels · New release
A Square Circles Story 1B
Four days before Black Monday. Miss the window, and 1987 is where you stay.
Series, Rochester novels and stories from Creative 1 Publishing, in print and ebook worldwide.
Available · Paperback, Kindle & Apple Books
Four parts · The Hit · The File · The Dog · The Pool House
A routine assignment, a coveted career, a broken promise and a privileged household, each brushing against an invisible architecture none of them chose.
Kindle out now · Paperback Nov 10
A Square Circles Story · 1B
October 15, 1987. Four days before the market falls 22 percent in a single afternoon. Miss the window home, and 1987 is where you stay.
Paperback Jan 1 · Kindle Jan 26, 2027
Stories of Rochester, New York · 482 pp
Twelve stories, four seasons, 1982 to 2026. Thrillers, love stories, comedies and tragedies set in the city that taught the world to take pictures.
Paperback Jan 2 · Kindle Jan 26, 2027
A novel · 465 pp
Booker Gibson fixes cars on Lake Avenue. He used to fix other things. Three days, a debt come due, and the iron bridge above High Falls.
Paperback Jan 20 · Ebook Feb 9, 2027
A Jansen Evers Novel · Book 1 · 350 pp
He went quiet. His past didn’t. Twelve years hidden in Rochester end with an explosion on his street, and a run down the length of New York State to the Manhattan tower that watches it.
“The wind came up off the Genesee, turned the corner at Andrews Street, and went looking for anybody who hadn’t zipped their coat.”
Interior design, chapter icons and typesetting by the author.
Ebook pre-order · Paperback Jan 28, 2027
Trois Nouvelles de Paris · Three stories · 289 pp
Three stories. One city. Spoken in American. An anniversary trip thirteen years in the planning, a man off the Marseille train with a case several people would kill to open, and one long night in the eleventh.
Paperback Jan 9, 2027 · Ebook pre-order
Two stories · 311 pp
Manhattan, 2028. Temporal Transit Services sells trips to other decades and bills for everything. A trip to the summer of '69, and a man in the Settlements department with debts of his own.
Rochester, New York
Creative 1 Publishing was founded by Rochester-born author Tim Storrs, who left the city as a teenager for New York and later lived and worked in Paris. He is back, writing the city he grew up in and photographing it for his own covers.
Photograph: the Genesee River, downtown Rochester · Tim Storrs
Founded in the United States, run between Rochester and France. Every photograph on this site was taken by Tim Storrs.
Photographs: Tim Storrs · selected work from Paris and Prayssac, some first published in 31 Days in October (2019)
An independent house for long-form fiction, built outside the gatekeepers and run by the author who writes it.
Creative 1 Publishing is the independent press of Tim Storrs, founded in 2020. It publishes cinematic fiction (espionage, noir, speculative series and dynasty romance) alongside comics, poetry and photography, with every cover designed in-house.
Storrs was born and raised in Rochester, New York. He moved to New York City as a teenager to study film and writing, then lived and worked in Paris and southern France as a writer and editor. His first book, Ripped Pages, appeared in 2018. Today the press operates from Rochester and from France, his second home.
Titles are distributed worldwide through Amazon and Apple Books, with signed editions available from the press.
Portfolio · Selected Work 2017–2026 (PDF)The Stash Archive (PDF)
Press, events, rights, bookstores and libraries: write to the press directly.
creative1publishingbusiness@gmail.com
© 2020–2026 Creative 1 Publishing LLC and Tim Storrs. All rights reserved. Brief quotations with attribution are welcome; all other reproduction requires permission.