FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A New Serial Fiction Series from JM Tangard / Nightwright Files

Tampa— Staunton Press is proud to announce the launch of The Whisper, a new serial short fiction series written by JM Tangard under the Nightwright Files imprint. The series debuts with Episode One, available now, with subsequent episodes releasing on a regular schedule across a complete thirteen-episode run.

Set in Detroit and drawing direct inspiration from the classic The Shadow radio drama, The Whisper follows a compelling vigilante figure operating in the shadows of a contemporary city rendered in deliberate noir atmosphere. Each episode is fully self-contained, a complete case opened, investigated, and resolved, while a cast of recurring characters and an expanding world reward loyal readers across the run. The series is contemporary noir in the television and radio tradition: a new reader may begin anywhere and follow completely; a long-time reader is given a world that deepens with every episode.

“The radio serials understood something novelists sometimes forget: that the pleasure of a recurring world is not resolution. It is return. You come back to the same frequency, the same voice, and the city is a little darker and the characters a little richer and the case is new. That’s what we’re building with The Whisper.”

JM Tangard, Nightwright Files

About the Series

Each episode of The Whisper runs between 7,000 and 15,000 words. The series features a core cast of recurring characters: The Whisper, the vigilante at the center of every episode; Marley, whose perspective grounds the reader and whose relationship with The Whisper serves as the emotional engine of the series; Jackie Rage, gossip columnist by day and information broker by night, whose connection to the city’s shadow economy deepens across the run; and Clara Vestin, whose thread runs quietly beneath every case in the series and whose arc emerges as the story the series was always telling underneath the surface.

The series is contemporary noir: morally complex, atmospherically specific, and committed to the weight of consequence. Justice in this world is not clean. The city is real. The cases are self-contained. And nothing that happens in Episode One is wasted by Episode Thirteen.

About Staunton Press

Staunton Press publishes genre fiction with literary ambition. The Nightwright Files imprint focuses on crime, noir, and the dark intersections of character and consequence. The Firefighter’s Code focuses on the intriguing world of fire crimes and investigations.

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