Loxley Literary was born in February 2026 from a simple realisation: sometimes the best person to champion your story is you.
Founder Katharine O'Brien spent years in the querying trenches, sending her manuscript out into the world and waiting for someone to say yes. The rejection letters piled up. The silence stretched on. But the story she'd written never stopped burning inside her.
So she stopped waiting.
In March 2026, Katharine self-published HEL, the first book in her Norse myth retelling duology, The Children of Loki. What started as one author refusing to let her work gather dust on a hard drive became something bigger: Loxley Literary.
We know what it feels like to pour your heart into a manuscript and wonder if anyone will ever read it. We know the doubt, the late nights, and the quiet fear that maybe your story isn't good enough. We also know that it is.
Loxley Literary exists because great books deserve to find their readers, with or without a gatekeeper's permission. We've never looked back, and we're just getting started.