Independent dark-fiction press · Tampa, Florida

Nightgrave Publishing

Nightgrave Publishing is an independent home for horror, gothic fiction, supernatural suspense, psychological thrillers, dark crime, hip-hop crime fiction, Italian fiction, and carefully selected romance. The press was founded in 2026 by Tampa author and publisher Brandon Burnside.

Nightgrave builds focused, professional editions while protecting each author’s voice through collaborative editing, transparent terms, and written publishing agreements.

As both an American and Italian citizen, Burnside brings a cross-cultural perspective to the press. Nightgrave’s Italian-language line extends that vision by supporting distinctive Italian voices and introducing their work to a wider readership.

Founder: Brandon Burnside
Established: 2026
Location: Tampa, Florida
Primary line: Nightgrave Originals
International line: Italian-language fiction
Selected expansion: Romance fiction

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Brandon Burnside catalog

Thirteen Nightgrave titles

Brandon Burnside’s catalog includes 15 books acquired by Nightgrave Publishing, including Tampa Italiano: Welcome Home, Family, I’ll Sign Your Name When You’re Dead, and the REVENGE series. All 13 titles are unavailable for agent representation.

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For writers

Traditional submissions are open.

Nightgrave is considering complete, original manuscripts in its core dark-fiction categories. There are no reading fees or pay-to-publish packages, and manuscripts written or rewritten by generative AI are not accepted.

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Founder & Co-CEO · Editorial & Production Leadership

Brandon Burnside

Brandon Burnside leads each Nightgrave title from its first review to the finished edition. He evaluates submissions and acquisitions, works directly with authors to strengthen their manuscripts, and protects the individual voice and identity of every book.

Performs developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and final proofreading.
Prepares print interiors, eBooks, metadata, copyright pages, and publication-ready files.
Directs cover concepts, book branding, author pages, marketing graphics, and release materials.
Oversees KDP and IngramSpark production, catalog decisions, contracts, and final approval for every Nightgrave edition.

His role combines an author’s understanding of story with hands-on publishing production, giving Nightgrave writers a clear path from manuscript to professionally prepared book.

Meet Brandon Burnside Visit Brandon’s author website

Nightgrave house team · Co-Owner & Co-CEO · Director of Author Relations and Marketing · Author

MieMie Hsu

Equal partner and Co-CEO alongside founder Brandon Burnside since October 6, 2026.

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MieMie Hsu serves as Nightgrave Publishing’s Co-Owner & Co-CEO · Director of Author Relations and Marketing, coordinating author information, approved promotional materials, launch updates, and reader communications.

Coordinates author profiles, bios, approved graphics, and book information.
Supports author launches, events, publicity, and social media updates.
Works with Nightgrave authors and supports professional reader communication.
Routes rights, contracts, submissions, and publishing decisions to Brandon Burnside for final approval.

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Available on Amazon · Tampa psychological horror

Suite 813

At Tampa’s Halcyon House, Suite 813 opens onto lives its guest never lived—and a way out that keeps moving farther away.

Different doors. Different lives. Same price.

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Our authors

Voices from the grave.

Nightgrave brings distinctive storytellers together across dark fiction, Italian fiction, and selected romance.

Founder · Publisher · Editor · Author

Brandon Burnside

Brandon Burnside founded Nightgrave Publishing in Tampa, Florida, and personally guides its editorial, production, and publishing work from manuscript to release.

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Nightgrave Publishing Author

Jesse Mann

Jesse Mann writes horror that remembers how enormous the world feels to a child. His debut, Before They Grow Up, turns a 1994 small town into a moral pressure chamber of buried truths, difficult choices, and hard-won courage.

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Nightgrave Author · Italian Fiction

Piero Fiorentini

Piero Fiorentini brings the stone villages and chestnut forests of Tuscia into a family noir where landscape carries memory. Il Sangue tra i Castagni joins Nightgrave’s Italian-language line with loyalty, silence, and blood at its center.

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Nightgrave Author · Italian Fiction

Marco Fiorentini

Marco Fiorentini is an Italian author connected to San Martino al Cimino and the heart of Lazio. His debut, Il Patto di San Martino, explores family, courage, and a community’s resistance.

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Nightgrave Author · Italian Fiction

Paolo Fiorentini

Paolo Fiorentini writes stories of courage, family, identity, and resistance. His debut, I Lupi di San Martino, is a 1994-set thriller about four brothers and a town united against the Mafia.

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Author · Co-Owner & Co-CEO · Director of Author Relations and Marketing

MieMie Hsu

MieMie Hsu writes across romance and psychological horror, with Suite 813 now available on Amazon and The Next Flight to Happiness and Until the Night Takes Us forthcoming. She also coordinates author relations and approved communications for Nightgrave.

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Newly signed · Three-book crime saga

Alex “Lex Rugger” Rivera

Alex Rivera brings hip-hop culture, ambition, loyalty, family, and survival to Blood Money ’95, the opening novel in his three-book Blood Money Saga.

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Forthcoming · Supernatural romance & horror

Until the Night Takes Us

Tampa, 1985. At forty, a Japanese American beauty consultant arriving from New York has almost stopped believing in love. Then a mysterious stranger saves her life. Handsome, gentle, and only ever present after dark, he has been dead since 1935. As their love deepens, she follows the secrets of his murder into a city haunted by stolen lives. Someone is still protecting the truth—and freeing the man she loves may mean losing him forever.

Target: approximately 100,000 words. Release date to be announced.

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