Heavy Crown Press

More than a substack.

More than a publishing outlet.

Heavy Crown Press is about creativity, curiosity, expanding consciousness.

Heavy Crown Press is the publisher of Heavy Crown Voices, an annual literary magazine. Submission guidelines: https://heavycrownpress.wordpress.com

It is also the publisher of the Signal Series, co-authored by Ashley Rovira and

Griffin Wells

Heavy Crown Press is owned and operated by Ashley Rovira.

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Books, theatre, film, philosophy, spirituality, and the signal in the static. I’m Ashley Rovira—MLIS by training, co-author of The Signal Series, and the one behind Heavy Crown Press. Where I share what moves me, what unsettles me, what signifies.

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Ashley Rovira

@heavycrownpress

Heavy Crown Press is the writing/podcasting/publishing platform of Ashley Rovira, a Navy veteran & neurodivergent author. Out now: VOICES, fall 2025. Upcoming VOICES annual magazine, Spring 2026.

Zoe Griffin Mackenzie

@zoegriffinmac

Tell Salinger it's Zoe not Zooey. I'm just a fictional character too. Dad and I are the principals in The Signal Between Us: A Father/Daughter Discovery Story by Ashley Rovira and Griffin Wells.

Griffin Wells

@jeffgriffinstory

Griffin Wells is the co-author with Ashley Rovira of the Signal Series (first book, The Signal Between Us, a Novel)