About
Running Meter Press is a Denver-based book publisher dedicated to serving our readers compelling and entertaining material, both fiction and non-fiction.
Books
The Asphalt Warrior - A series of 11 comic novels by the late Gary Reilly
The Asphalt Warrior
by Gary Reilly (Published June 2012)
Introducing Denverite Brendan Murphy… or "Murph" as he's known to the rest of the world.
Ticket to Hollywood
by Gary Reilly (Published December 2012)
Murph's second adventure leads to Tinsel Town.
Finalist, 2013 Colorado Book Award
The Heart of Darkness Club
by Gary Reilly (Available Spring 2013)
Launch Event:
MAY 28, 2013 7:30 PM
Tattered Cover Bookstore (LODO, Denver)
Pepperland – by Barry Wightman (Available Spring 2013)
Starred review from Booklist: "Wightman’s first novel is a riotous, occasionally electrifying celebration of love and music, capturing the turmoil of its times with a touch of otherworldliness that seems right in sync with rock ’n’ roll...."
Pepperland is a noir love letter to the magic of music, the talismanic powers of new-fangled computers and a generational urge to change the world. It's one big, historical, multi-track concept album. Funny and satirical, told in fast-moving rock 'n roll riffs and rhythms by the noted Music and Cultural Authority, Martin Alan "Pepper" Porter, Pepperland is about missing information, missing people, missing guitars, paranoia, Q & A, brothers, revolution, Agents of the Federal Government, IBM, interviews in Rolling Stone (real, imagined, or otherwise), Hugh Hefner, the birth of the Internet, a talking bear, the 18 minute Watergate tape gap, a Dark Stranger, love, death and the search for it amidst the wreckage of recession-wracked, entropically rundown mid-seventies America. Think the Ramones meet Jane Fonda meets Bill Gates. More: http://www.barrywightman.com/