Established 2026IndependentFour books planned, one published
Books about what people do with what happened to them.
One Flame Press is an independent publisher. It was founded in 2026 to put out a single book properly rather than quickly, and it has published one author since. That is the whole of it.
The list will stay small. A press this size has one real advantage over a large one, which is that it can take as long as a book needs and answer to nobody about it. Spending that advantage would be the only reason to regret being small.
The list
Sit With It
David P. Cook · First edition
A practical guide to the emotional patterns you keep repeating: why understanding where they came from does not stop them, and how to meet what is underneath instead of running from it.
Part memoir, part method. The technique it teaches runs to nine questions and a few minutes, and the book spends 289 pages explaining why that is harder than it sounds.
Editions
| Paperback | 979-8-9825314-0-7$18.99 |
| Hardcover, jacketed | 979-8-9825314-1-4$28.99 |
| Ebook | 979-8-9825314-2-1$9.99 |
| Audiobook, read by the author | 979-8-9825314-3-8— |
Specification
| Publication | 1 January 2027 |
| Extent | 289 pages |
| Trim | 5.5 × 8.5 in |
| Text | 12 pt Garamond on 19 pt |
| Paper | 55# cream |
| Spine | 0.7150 in |
The Sit With It Workbook
A standalone practice manual. Three weeks of guided days, then session pages for as long as they are wanted. It assumes the book has been read and does not re-teach it.
| Paperback | 979-8-9825314-4-5$19.99 |
| Publication | 1 January 2027 |
| Extent | 160 pages |
| Trim | 7 × 10 in |
| Interior | Black ink throughout |
| Paper | 55# cream |
The sequence
Four books. The sequence is the method, and each title is a posture. Sitting, standing, walking, lying down.
The posture changes and It stays constant, until the fourth, which lets go of It at the exact point the book asks you to let go of everything else. No publication date is announced until a manuscript is finished.
- I
Sit With It
Sitting · Published 1 January 2027To stay with what is here instead of leaving it. The book introduces the technique and asks the reader to take an honest inventory of where they actually are.
- II
Stand In It
Standing · In progressWhat staying is not enough for. The work of coming to neutrality on what the inventory turned up, carried across the eight areas of a life.
- III
Walk As It
Walking · UnwrittenMoving from it rather than carrying it. What changes when the thing you worked on stops being something you manage and starts being how you go.
- IV
Surrender
Lying down · UnwrittenLaying all of it down, including every method in the three books before it. The title lets go of It at the point the book asks you to let go of everything else.
Making the books
Set, not formatted
Every interior is composed by hand, a page at a time. Garamond at 12 pt on 19 pt exact leading, flush left, no first-line indents. The margins are mirrored so the gutter is wider than the outer edge and a spine does not swallow a word.
Printed to order
Both books print on demand through two partners, which means no warehouse, no pulping and no edition going out of print because a quantity ran out. A reader in 2035 gets the same book.
Paper chosen for a pen
55# cream throughout. The workbook is written in, so the stock was picked for show-through and for how a ballpoint behaves on it, not for what photographs well.
Its own numbers
The press holds its own ISBN prefix, 979-8-9825314, registered to One Flame Press. That makes it the publisher of record rather than a retailer standing in as one, and it is why these books can be sold anywhere.
The press
An imprint is the name a book is published under and the party answerable for it. One Flame Press holds its own ISBN prefix, which means it is the publisher of record rather than a retailer acting as one.
The device is a colophon. Printers have put marks in roundels since the 1500s: Aldus Manutius used an anchor and a dolphin, the Estiennes an olive tree. It is a maker’s stamp, nothing more, and it appears once on this page for the same reason it appears once on a title page.
The name is not a metaphor anybody needs to decode. One flame, one press, one book at a time, and a list short enough to read in an afternoon.
Trade
Booksellers and libraries
Available to the trade through IngramSpark at standard discount, returns enabled. Orderable by ISBN from any account.
Review copies
Requests from reviewers, booksellers and festival programmers are read and answered. Finished copies from December 2026.
Rights and permissions
Translation, serial, audio and territorial rights are unencumbered and held by the press. Enquiries welcome.
Readers
Nothing is sold here. The books are at the usual places, and the author writes at davidpcook.com.