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Fennix Forge Press

Stories with warmth in their hands and a spine of steel.

See what we've made

Fennix Forge Press publishes books for the people the world tried to throw away, and the readers who recognize them.

We're a small, independent house with a simple belief: a story can be tender and unbreakable at once. Cozy doesn't mean soft on the inside. Warmth is not the absence of teeth.

We make books with care in every seam. The kind you press to your chest at the last page. Found family, hard-won kindness, people building lives out of what others discarded.

We publish trauma-informed fiction.

Hard things happen in our books. We handle them with intention and care, never for shock.

Every book here was forged, not stamped out. That difference is the whole point.

Our Books

CLANG! by Ember Ashworth. A red-haired smith at her anvil, hammer raised, a dragon of fire and stone looming behind her.
Available now

The Phoenix Forge

by Ember Ashworth

Magic swords gotta come from somewhere. Someone's gotta make them. Fen runs Phoenix Forge, crafting enchanted blades for people who actually deserve them, and collecting strays nobody else would take. Cozy fantasy with teeth.

  • CLANG!, Book One · out now
  • Days of Our Guilds, Book Two · September 2026

New titles announced soon.

Get in touch

Rights, foreign editions, and general inquiries:
info@fennixforgepress.com

For readers: the best place to find us is alongside our authors. Start with emberashworth.com.