Joyland Editions is a nonprofit independent press founded in 2025 by Michelle Lyn King. The press is committed to publishing books that do not fit into the traditional publishing landscape, as well as centering the development process between authors and invested editors. Joyland Editions publishes two novellas every year, one edited by King and one by Madeleine Crum.

Joyland Editions is distributed by Asterism Books. Our first title, Information Age by Cora Lewis, will be published in the summer of 2025.

“How can you stand it?” a man asks a woman, seated on a building’s stoop as I pass by. The air is still and warm, conducting sound.

“First of all,” she says, “I can’t.”

The narrator of Information Age is a journalist at an online news site reporting on technology, the economy, and politics in the late 2010s. The rate of increasingly short news cycles shapes her working life and her personal life, as she assumes the role of reporter while talking with engineers, analysts, wonks, artists, writers, musicians, friends, family, and lovers. Told in vignettes and dialogue—overheard and divulged—Information Age is spare, funny, and attentive, a playful blurring of public and private life.

CORA LEWIS is a writer and reporter whose fiction has appeared at The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York, and she previously worked at BuzzFeed News. She lives in Brooklyn near Sunset Park.