THE COMPANY
About Shimmerrock
An independent publishing and intellectual-property development company creating original stories for readers and exploring their potential across screen and other media.
PUBLISHING & IP DEVELOPMENT
Original fiction, developed with care.
Shimmerrock currently publishes original fiction, including the five-book Cole Hardin espionage-thriller series and standalone fiction. Its next strategic objective is to evaluate selected properties for potential film and television adaptation and other appropriate licensing opportunities.
Publishing remains the foundation: it is where these stories are developed and encountered by readers. A broader IP strategy creates a considered way to explore other formats when a story, audience, and verified rights support that next step.
THE AUTHOR
Joshua Jacobson
Joshua Jacobson writes espionage thrillers about the secrets powerful people will kill to protect.
In his Cole Hardin series, intelligence operations collide with geopolitical rivalries, covert agendas, and conspiracies that reach into the highest levels of power. Drawing on the tradition of classic late-twentieth-century spy fiction, Jacobson brings its intricate plotting, moral complexity, and geopolitical intrigue into the modern era, where emerging technologies, shifting alliances, and new centers of power are rewriting the rules of intelligence. His stories unfold in a world where information is power, every alliance has a price, and the truth can get you killed.
An entrepreneur and consultant whose work spans healthcare, carbon fiber composites, robotics, additive manufacturing, and international business, Jacobson has spent his career examining how complex systems operate, where they fail, and how competing incentives can turn those failures into crises. That perspective informs his fiction, where the official version of events rarely tells the whole story, and the most dangerous adversary may be the one no one knows to look for.
For readers who crave intelligent espionage, international intrigue, and relentless suspense, Jacobson delivers classic spy-thriller sophistication for a world in which the stakes are contemporary, the threats are constantly evolving, and survival depends on seeing the danger before it's too late.