JACK CHASE
Founder | Novelist | Filmmaker
Jack Chase is an American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and graphic designer. He is the founder of Abbycat Group & Publishing Brands, an independent publishing and intellectual-property studio established in 2025.
Chase is the author of “Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis” (Abbycat Group, 2025), “The Bastard of Taylor’s End” (Abbycat Group, 2025), “Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester” (Abbycat Black, 2025), “Jokes About Suicide” (Abbycat Black, 2026), “Overtime: The Ballad of Marcus Graves” (Abbycat Black, 2025) and “Overtime 2: Buenos Aires” (Abbycat Black, 2026), and “The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga” (Abbycat Group, 2026), among numerous other works spanning crime fiction, psychological drama, horror, black comedy, and historical fiction.
His writing is characterized by a unique cinema-oriented approach to literary fiction, or “Cinematic Literary” style, combining atmospheric, dense prose, sophisticated psychological interiority, and traditional literary elements with the pacing, blocking, and visual construction of screen drama. His background in screenwriting has informed both his fiction and his development of original material across publishing, film, and television.
After an initial four-month sprint over spring of 2025 comprised of two short stories, a novella, the forming of Abbycat Group LLC, and culminating. finally, with his debut novel “Violent Crimes: The Butcher of Westchester,” Chase disappeared for three months in his Palm Desert apartment to pen “Made in America: or The Tragedy of Billy Castle and Unexpected Absolution of Dean Willis,” which was submitted for Pulitzer® Prize consideration by Abbycat Group LLC in the fall. The sprawling 552-page epic, fusing elements of ancient Greek tragedy with a unique supernatural undercurrent within the surface framework of a grounded East Coast crime drama, followed the intersecting lives of struggling Queens kid Billy Castle, ruthless nightclub entrepreneur and contrabandist Archer Stone, and tortured FBI agent Dean Willis through a multigenerational crime story centered on power, ambition, inheritance, and trauma, jumping between the years 1999, 2000, 2014, 2015, and 2017. It was published on October 13th, 2025.
Within two months, Chase subsequently turned to historical fiction with “The Bastard of Taylor’s End,” an alternate-history revenge epic set in seventeenth-century England structured around “The Dragon & The Prince,” a play-within-a-play written in period-accurate diction that ran parallel to the novel’s five-act narrative. It was published on December 31st, 2025, just eight days after the birth of his daughter.
In January 2026, Chase published three short stories digitally in under two weeks across major retailers — “Kill the Bartender!” (Abbycat Black, 2026) “Dreidel Theory” (Abbycat Liminal, 2026) and “Switch” (Abbycat Liminal, 2026) — as a preventative maintenance exercise to fend off New Year stagnation and clear the deck of long-incubated ideas. On March 12th, 2026, he released “Jokes About Suicide: The Man Who Sang With No Strings,” a black comedy-drama about a self-destructive female New York comedian confronting a terminal diagnosis, which was his twelfth title released in twelve months — and which fell, coincidentally, on the exact calendar day as his debut publication. On July 2nd, 2026, it was followed by the 656-page L.A. crime epic “The Schultz Brothers: An American Crime Saga,” the first novel in a planned four-volume series about New York bank robbers hiding out in Los Angeles whose attempt at a fresh start collapses after they rob a Beverly Hills jewelry store connected to the New Jersey mob, putting them back on the radar of both organized crime and federal law enforcement. Chase had come up with the characters as a freshman in high school and spent the following eleven years working and re-working the story.
On October 4th, 2026, Chase broke a three-month hiatus with the release of the long-anticipated “Overtime 2: Buenos Aires,” a direct sequel to the 2025 crime novella “Overtime: The Ballad of Marcus Graves.” This kicks off a run of fall releases including “Bears in Winter” (Abbycat Group, 2026) the explosive second installment in the Schultz saga, “Violent Crimes 2: Black Butterfly” (Abbycat Black, 2026) and “Day of the Scorpion” (Abbycat Group, STC), the third and penultimate Schultz entry.
Chase develops his novels, screenplays, treatments, and related properties through AGP with an emphasis on author-owned intellectual property conceived for both literary and screen formats. His forthcoming novels in 2027 and 2028 include “Blood Moon” (Abbycat Group), the fourth and final Schultz entry; “American Neon: The Ballad of Reggie Goldman and the Kingmaker” (Abbycat Group), a crime drama set in 2018 Los Angeles following a drifter’s rise to mentorship under a billionaire socialite with a dark streak; “She’s Still Here” (Abbycat Group), a psychological drama spanning several decades described as an “anti-romance”; “Citizen Unknown” (Abbycat Black), a darkly humorous satire following a masked vigilante with delusions of grandeur in present-day Los Angeles; “Twenty-Five Thousand” (Abbycat Black), a small-town satire; “Cyber City” (Abbycat Group); and “The Forge” (Abbycat Group).
On the filmmaking side, Chase is currently developing a director’s treatment and producer’s treatment for “Camp Doom,” a psychological horror film adapted from a vignette originally published pseudonymously as Julian Mercer in the short story collection “Bad Times with Julian Mercer” (Abbycat Liminal, 2026) before being substantially expanded and re-released in July 2026 alongside “Moonlight Jazz.” He has also completed a 110-page screenplay adaptation of “Jokes About Suicide,” as well as a 24-page four-season show bible for “The Schultz Brothers”; a pilot and miniseries treatment for “Violent Crimes,” based off the 2025 debut novel; and a pilot and four-season treatment for a half-hour dark comedy entitled “Room for Improvement.”
Chase lives in Southern California with his tortoiseshell cat, Mulan. He welcomed a daughter in December 2025.