The people behind the press.
Double Dutch is small on purpose. A short, deliberate list; a reading room built around it; and a handful of people who'd rather hand you the right overlooked book than the obvious one.
Thamer started Double Dutch Publishing after a decades long career in Finance and Trading.I've been writing fiction since I was 8 years old and wanted something to do instead of learning math. Today with the advent of A.I I concluded there's nothing more durable and immune to automation than genuine, human, literary talent. That's what I want to reward and that's what I plan on doing full time for the rest of my life. To me that means highlighting the underread and underappreciated whereever I happen to read it.
When he was born, his mother fitted him with a gas mask and stuck him in a tomato basket in anticipation of a chemical attack that never occured.Since birth he writes the kind of fiction that starts as a joke and ends as a wound. The author of “ Truthing It All Up” — a novel about the art of manufacturing convincing lies in the age of social media and faux celebrity. Hammer lives in a secure compound guarded by an exotic pet and infrared cameras.
Ermelina Hoti was the financial director of a shipping company and a born Human Lie Detector as her husband says. After years steering the books of a freight business, she retrained as a fraud examiner after a stint in Venture Capitalism stumbling upon the many shady practices startups use to inflate valuations and cook the books. “ Perfectly Legal Scams ” distills that double life into a wry, unnervingly practical taxonomy of how people cheat and how, eventually, they get caught.
Our founder is a member of the Authors Guild.