Thrillers from a writer who’s written sixty of them
Imagine Press is a small thriller house founded by bestselling author Jonas Saul.
We publish a handful of books a year, and every one is edited until the tension is impossible to put down.
The founder
Jonas Saul
Founder · Over 2 million copies sold
Jonas is the bestselling author of the Sarah Roberts series and more than sixty thrillers. He founded Imagine Press to publish the kind of suspense he loves to read. He edits every title, teaches our Thriller Retreat Academy masterclasses, and works one-on-one with writers who want to sharpen their manuscripts.
Our authors
Rania Stone
Psychological Suspense from Greece
Rania Stone writes psychological thrillers set in Greece, where sunlit islands hide very dark secrets. Her novels include Zero Trust and What He Didn’t Know, and, co-written with Jonas Saul, A Wife in Ruins and The Truth Is a Lie.
Leslie Johnson
Leslie Johnson has six published books. She writes mostly literary fiction from the perspective of strong female characters, though one is a romantic comedy. She’s a born storyteller who can turn an ordinary event into a tale that leaves listeners unsure where reality ends, and fiction begins. For The Gathering, she brings that gift into darker territory.
Broken Promises tells the story of two vulnerable people who promise to protect each other from their weaknesses. When things go wrong, one of them uses those flaws to destroy the other beyond repair. The damage can’t be undone, and life moves on … for one of them.
Julia Makka
Julia Makka lives by one verb: play. She has played chess at the highest level as a Woman International Master and FIDE Trainer. She was Greek Women’s Champion in 2018, five-time Greek Girls’ Champion, and competed for Greece at the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai.
She plays on stage and screen as an actress in theater, television, and film, and holds a Master’s in Greek and World Theatre. Along the way, she has played music, studied dance, and earned a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Now she has found a new game in writing, and she plays it with the same wit and nerve she brings to the chessboard.
Sylvia Moore
Sylvia Moore has been published twice in Greece. She studied cinematography and is a notorious reader. She is also an impostor in more ways than she cares to admit.
Her favorite author is Marcel Proust, though at night she trades him for Freida McFadden. She loves every living creature and would never willingly hurt a fly. In her dreams, however, people tend to die.
Her story, “Look What You’ve Done,” is about accountability, the masks people wear, and the uncomfortable moment when those masks begin to slip.
Cam Renard
Cam Renard has never stayed with one thing for too long. Writing is the newest step he has taken, and he’s drawn to the worlds of fantasy and the pulse of a good thriller, with a few darker corners along the way
Echoes of the Stone Hound is Cam’s first published short story, leaning more into the horror/mystery atmosphere.
When he’s not writing, Cam plays music in a band, streams video games, and works a rotating cast of odd jobs. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, two cats, and a dog.
Meg Vesper
Meg Vesper is a Massachusetts-based writer with a master’s degree in forensic psychology who is completing graduate training in counseling.
She enjoys exploring complicated motives, unsettling relationships, and the darker possibilities beneath ordinary encounters.
“Three Minutes, Twelve Seconds,” featured in The Gathering, is her first published short story. When she’s not writing, she enjoys crafting, playing video games with her husband, and spending time with her corgi, Bella Luna.
Gideon Burns
There is no such thing as a short conversation with Gideon. Gideon always has a story. He frequently incorporates obscure historical facts or accounts of events from his extensive personal experience into the topic of the moment.
He likes to believe he is adding color or furthering the conversation, but the truth is, he loves telling stories. If there is an opportunity to weave a seemingly ordinary occurrence into a sinister plot or conspiracy theory, Gideon will find it.
His wife of forty years prompted him to join her at a Writing Masterclass hosted by renowned authors Jonas Saul and Rania Stone. The class inspired him to develop his writer’s voice and share his stories beyond his circle of friends and family.
His first offering, Dead to Rights, is a short story highlighting the dangers and ulterior motives present in industrial America. It can be found in The Gathering an anthology of stories by the authors with whom he attended the Writing Masterclass. Published by Imagine Press, it will be available on December 15, 2026.
M. FOSTER BLACK
M. Foster Black is a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a life that rarely went according to plan. A former graphic artist who went back to school while raising a family, she later earned a Master’s degree in Education and spent many years as a high school teacher. There, she worked with underprivileged students and those society had already given up on, helping them discover pathways and purpose through job training and stubborn persistence.
Shaped by the discovery that her entire childhood was built on lies her mother told so well she never thought to question them, Black has learned not to trust easily and to expect that things will usually go wrong. This hard-won perspective fuels her raw, unflinching stories about fractured identities, buried secrets, moral ambiguity, and the quiet resilience it takes to keep moving forward when trust has been shattered. Her writing exposes the lies, the betrayals, and the terrible things people do to each other.
Drawing from real life with some creative liberties, she uses writing to release her demons and dig for the truth of her own life.
Her short stories Three to Five Days and Awake in Silence will be published in the anthology THE GATHERING on December 15, 2026.
Rose Tannin
Rose Tannin/D.C. Ember is a writer and artist from Georgia. She has degrees in theater and advertising, with a Master’s degree in Legal Studies.
She writes fantasy and magical realism narratives that showcase her love of romance, psychological thriller, and action through complex characters who journey both on open roads and in their minds.
Baba’s Door is her first published short story. When she isn’t writing or drawing, she’s either on a plane or frequenting coffee shops, the Atlanta Beltline, and Waffle Houses.
Shawn Punk
Mostly cured of the insanity of growing up in New York City in the late 1970s, Shawn Punk is a longtime television executive who spent her childhood in the back of edit rooms and tagging along on shoots with her producer mother and stepfather. Passionate about storytelling, they taught her how to tell a good story. They also never let her do a half-assed job or take the easy way out, whether that meant cleaning the bathroom or navigating a particularly difficult season of life.
Any mental health professional would have a field day with Shawn’s childhood, particularly her relationship with her father, an addict who often used partying as a way to bond. Those experiences eventually inspired Still, her first published short story.
Shawn lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Dave, their six kids, and the family dog, Charlie. Their house is loud, completely chaotic, and very, very fun.
Small by design
We don’t mass-produce. We publish only a few thrillers a year, so every book gets our full attention, from the first edit to launch day.
Real access
Our readers have spent a week in Greece with Ruth Ware, Clare Mackintosh, J.D. Barker, Liz Nugent and Mark Edwards: dinners, conversations and signed books.
A real community
Over 3,500 readers in our Thriller Book Retreat group read together every month, meet authors on live calls and share their next obsession.
Inside Imagine Press
A Boutique Literary Experience
We believe a great thriller shouldn’t end when you close the book. That’s why our readers meet the authors behind the stories on live calls each month and in person at our reading retreats in Greece.
2024
A sun-drenched week on Amorgos, taking apart a bestseller with the author himself.
2025
Our biggest season yet: a week with Liz Nugent and Robyn Harding, followed straight away by a second with J.D. Barker and Clare Mackintosh..
2026
Our retreats are now held under the auspices of the Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT) and the Municipality of Nafplio, with Ruth Ware and Mark Edwards as our guests.
2027
Seven nights in Tolo with T.M. Logan, ending with the first-ever Homer Awards ceremony.
For writers
Writing a thriller? You can work with us in two ways.
Get published. We acquire a small number of thrillers each year. It’s free to submit, and if we take your book, we cover editing, design, and publishing.
Get edited. Work one-on-one with Jonas Saul, author of more than sixty thrillers, to sharpen your manuscript, whoever ends up publishing it.