Otter & Quill Publishings
Stories have the power to inspire, challenge, and connect us. At Otter & Quill Publishings, we help bring compelling stories to life while supporting both readers and independent authors.
Otter & Quill Publishings was founded by T. M. Lentz with a simple mission: to create a home for engaging stories and help independent authors navigate the publishing journey.
From mystery and suspense to romance and fantasy, we believe every story deserves the opportunity to find its audience.
As an independent publisher, we focus on creativity, collaboration, and helping authors bring their vision to life while maintaining ownership of their work and voice.
Our Services
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Need help navigating the publishing process?
Whether you're writing your first book or preparing for publication, our author consultation service provides personalized guidance on publishing options, platforms, marketing strategies, and next steps. We'll help you build a roadmap tailored to your goals and answer the questions that every author encounters along the journey.
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Turn your manuscript into a professional, publication-ready book.
We format manuscripts for print and digital distribution, ensuring your book meets industry standards while providing readers with a polished reading experience. From chapter layouts to front and back matter, we'll prepare your book for publication.
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Make a powerful first impression.
A book cover is often the first thing readers notice, and a professional design can make all the difference. We work with authors to create compelling covers that capture the essence of their story while appealing to their target audience.
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Promote your book with confidence.
From social media graphics and promotional materials to launch assets and branded content, we help authors create professional marketing materials that support their book release and strengthen their author brand.
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From manuscript to marketplace.
Our Publishing Setup Package is designed for authors who have completed their manuscript but need help navigating the technical side of publishing. We'll guide you through the setup process and help prepare your book for distribution on today's leading publishing platforms.
Featured books
A Psychological Thriller
Every year since freshman year, a tight-knit group of high school friends has returned to the same remote cabin deep in the woods-a place they stumbled on by chance, a place that became their tradition. But now, it's senior year. The last trip. The final weekend to make memories before graduation pulls them in different directions.
This time, the forest is waiting.
What begins as laughter around the fire soon warps into something much darker when the group uncovers a body hidden near the cabin. As fear spreads and suspicions rise, they realize something horrifying: they aren't alone. The abandoned cabin isn't abandoned at all. It's been used-repeatedly-as a dumping ground.
Hunted. Haunted by trauma. The friends must confront not just what they've found, but what they've each tried to hide. Because one of them remembers this place all too well. And the truth won't stay buried forever.
Chilling, character-driven, and intensely atmospheric, Let the Forest Keep It is a harrowing story of friendship, memory, and the monsters that thrive in silence.
When their uncle dies under strange and gruesome circumstances, twins Alex and Chester Durham return to their ancestral home in New England-a place steeped in history, secrets, and silence.
But something is waiting for them.
A journal no one remembers writing. A symbol etched in blood. A voice calling from behind the walls. The deeper they dig into their family's past, the more they uncover a truth that was never meant to survive: a witch long thought dead, a demon bound by memory, and a spiral that feeds on guilt.
As reality fractures and friends begin to disappear, the twins must face what their family tried to bury. Because the curse didn't die in the flames.
It just learned how to wait.
In the heart of New York City, Detective Bram Halbrook has built a reputation for solving the unsolvable. Sharp, relentless, and confident to a fault, Bram believes every case has a logical explanation, until families begin vanishing without a trace.
The victims have nothing in common except for one chilling detail: a cryptic spiral symbol left behind at each scene.
What begins as a missing persons case quickly unravels into a twisted pattern of abductions, staged murders, and psychological warfare. Each family is taken for exactly four days. Then, their mutilated bodies are returned, methodically cleaned and posed to reflect the sanitized image they once presented online. The killer follows the routines of his victims, mimicking their influencer lifestyles with brutal precision.
As Bram and his partner Ortiz dig deeper, they uncover a hidden network of clues, spirals carved into playgrounds, riddles hidden in reflections, and victims who may have been chosen not at random, but through curated algorithms. The investigation begins to fracture Bram’s confidence and perception of reality. He starts to see patterns where there are none, shadows where there should be light, and ghosts in the echoes of the crime scenes.
Meanwhile, chilling chapters from the killer’s point of view reveal a man obsessed with perfection, ritual, and judgment. He believes the world needs cleansing, and only he can perform the fold.
But not everything is as it seems.
When a young witness comes forward with information that points to someone close to the case, the detectives follow a trail that leads to a shocking discovery: the killer had help. A manipulative mind operating behind the scenes, grooming an apprentice to carry out the spiral’s legacy. And the apprentice was under their nose the entire time.
As the final family is taken and the four-day clock ticks down, Bram must abandon logic and confront the truth he’s refused to see, not just about the killer, but about himself.
Through the Fold is a gripping psychological thriller layered with dread, method, and misdirection. With haunting detail, sharp dialogue, and a twist that redefines the entire case, it’s a story about obsession, consequence, and the patterns we don’t see, until it’s too late.
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