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Navigating life and everything it throws your way
The latest review from READER VIEWS (10/02/2026): “…Candyland is binge-able and binge-worthy; it keeps you on your toes through its unpredictability and situations that may
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – Candyland (2026)
CANDYLAND is noir fiction and follows the merrymaking of a close-knit group of friends through the pool halls and night clubs of the thriving music
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – Bullets for Silverware (2020)
A young pharmacist takes a job in a small rural town and is quickly introduced to a world of drugs, sex, guns, and deceit. Unexpectedly,
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – Sometime Orange is Almost Gold (2025)
An anthology of the colorful and hilarious exploits of a group of orange-clad outcasts on their futile two-decade quest for softball glory. Part softball team.
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – The Hot Dog Diaries: Stories from Morgantown’s Oldest and Most Beloved Bar (2024)
This book is for everyone who has stepped through the front door of Morgantown’s oldest and most beloved neighborhood bar—Gene’s Beer Garden. Over the past
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – Like Falling from an Airplane (2022)
After a social misfit and small-time criminal unexpectedly falls in love with his successful brother’s sophisticated new bride, he sets out to prove his worth
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – The Butcher and the Butterfly (2025)
Mostly written in New Orleans – A wearied boxer turns his back on a chance at a world championship to search for his estranged brother
Pump Fake Press Book Spotlight – Wild Bill Rides Again (2023)
Highlights – 2026 Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Legacy Book Award and 2026 Finalist for the Kirkus Reviews Indie Book Award for Thrillers and Mystery
Read CANDYLAND – the new Pump Fake Press book by Jim Antonini
What others are saying about CANDYLAND: “… Few writers manage to make setting feel like a character, but Antonini pulls it off here…” “… dialogue
What Others are Saying about CANDYLAND – the New Novel from Pump Fake Press
From BookTrib – August 17, 2026 “…a novel that captures a very specific time and place with such vivid detail that readers will feel like
Wild Bill Rides Again named a finalist for the Kirkus Indie Book Award
Pump Fake Press is excited to announce that WILD BILL RIDES AGAIN by Jim Antonini was named a finalist for the Kirkus Indie Book Award
New Book Alert – Coming later this summer – CANDYLAND – the new book from Jim Antonini
CANDYLAND is noir fiction and follows the merrymaking of a close-knit group of friends through the pool halls and night clubs of the thriving music