BWAB Press

BWAB Press creates artist-driven books that blend fiction, puzzles, and visual design into a new kind of experience.
Each title is a handcrafted cipher book where the real story is hidden beneath the surface. You’ll find fragmented charts, poetic riddles, and secret codes woven into every page. The narrative doesn’t unfold in order — you unlock it, one solution at a time.Some pages are missing on purpose. Some lines make no sense until they suddenly do. Every BWAB book is a mystery box disguised as a paperback.These aren’t books you simply read.
These are books you solve.What Makes BWAB Different?Cipher-Based Storytelling: You decode coordinates, charts, or symbols to uncover the plotArtist-Driven Design: Every layout, chart, and clue is carefully composed by handFragmented Format: The books unfold like a riddle—nonlinear, poetic, and surprisingCollectible & Replayable: Each volume invites re-reading, annotation, and discoveryStart With the Signature SeriesThe BWAB Signature Series features titles like An+AI, The Archive That Forgets Itself, and The Book That Misspelled Me — experimental romances and metaphysical adventures told through cryptic fragments. If you're new, start here.

Part of Books Within a Book, an ongoing cipher-puzzle narrative. Each volume stands alone; together they become a growing library of mysteries—stories concealed inside their own pages, waiting for the reader who can find them.
Books Within a Book isn’t meant to be read — it’s meant to be solved. Each volume is a cipher-puzzle narrative, where short stories hide behind encoded fragments. To uncover them, you must decode the coordinates. What emerges isn’t just fiction — it’s som
Books Within a Book: 13 Stories to Midnight (Fragment Edition) Midnight is the hour between what ended and what hasn’t begun. In that held breath, thirteen stories wait. This is not a book you read — it’s a book you solve. Each story is scattered into en
Spooky, never scary: a Halloween puzzle book you read by solving. In 31 Fragments of Halloween, six mini-adventures each unfold through nine bite-size riddles. Solve a clue, decode a simple cipher step, and watch the hidden story click into place with a fi
The Grand Guesser The Smoothbrain Institute of Higher Guessology Filed directly from the disorganized, unregulated archives of the Smoothbrain Institute, this volume contains the complete experimental output of one confused robot and his relentless campai
Avoid costly print mistakes before you publish. Self-Publishing on KDP: The Visual Print Guide is a hands-on reference for authors who want to see exactly what KDP prints — so you can format confidently and avoid surprises. Inside, you’ll find visual dem
Broken Bunny: WHY AREN’T YOU RICH YET? Self-publishing isn’t about art. It’s about escaping your job, dodging bills, and trying to hack the Amazon algorithm before someone else does. TikTok told you someone made $10,000 in a week selling blank journals.
Thoughtful Turtle: A Meditative Path to Self-Publishing Success Without Burning Out 🐢 Feeling overwhelmed by the pressure to publish fast? This is your slow-down companion. The Thoughtful Turtle isn’t a traditional self-publishing guide — it’s a quiet c
Solve and Color: Barnyard Kingdom: Colored Illustration Edition Barnyard Kingdom Step into the barnyard and meet a lively cast of farm friends! Solve and Color: Barnyard Kingdom invites kids to explore fun-filled stories and answer playful questions while
Zolve The Story. Halloween Zpecial Edition Tome. A haunted collection of stories, riddles, poems, and puzzles. Some are sweet. Some are strange. All are a little spooky. Welcome to Zolve The Story: Halloween Zpecial Edition Tome—a shadowy, beautifully ill
The Book That Erased Knowledge by T. L. Tse and Ms. Ai This is not a book. It is not a story. It is an anomaly—an experience caught between pages. A book that refuses to be read in any ordinary way. Each page bends perception, urging you to decode what w