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May 23, 2023
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May 15, 2023
Do you love coffee?
How about caffeine induced stories? Here you’ll discover vastly different tastes, styles and forms of story telling. Why not try something different today.
There are six coffee-themed narratives in this anthology. The first tale is a speculative fiction with a twilight essence. The next one is a fable. The third addition tells the readers a love story between a man and his wife. The fourth contribution describes a dream that changed the main character’s relationship with someone who truly cares for her. The fifth account depicts the protagonist’s work abroad and homesickness. And the last but not the least is a flashback. Everything is borne from the contributors’ imaginations.
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May 13, 2023
Free YA paranormal / mystery May 13 -17
My best friend Carly went missing, and I was frantic. When twenty-four hours later, her spirit entered my body, it devastated me. How did she die and why did no one know about it?
Unable to tell anyone Carly was dead; I went on a mission to find out what happened and learned secrets that made me question our friendship.
Can Carly’s ghost help me find out what happened to her?
What will happen to me if we don’t? But what will happen to her spirit if we do?
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April 27, 2023
Theresa Jacobs
Fantastic interview via Mary Deal
A multi-genre author who writes seven different genres at last count.
Please, introduce yourself. Tell us about your personal life, family, education.
I’m another lost soul searching for meaning in this crazy world. I’m Canadian and I’ve been working for a local office supply company for twenty years—crazy! But I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was too young to even read. In 2015, I hit my mid-life crisis and realized I’d wasted half my life on nothing, so I began self-publishing. Now I have fifteen books and I am in many anthologies with famous authors.
What do you like doing in your spare time?
I am a sun worshiper and I spend as much time in my yard, gardening, tanning, reading and floating in the pool. During the winter months, I read and binge tv shows. I love stupid comedy, horror and some reality tv. Anything that takes…
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March 27, 2023
Rejection, Religious Intolerance, Greed…
In Victorian England, estranged sisters, Annie and Mary Ellen Underwood, fight for the love of one man, Edwin West. Their rivalry ignites passions, jealousies, family feuds, and deep hatreds already sparked by religious intolerance. Edwin loves them both, but both are forbidden fruit. Who will be the winners in this three-sided game, and what will be the price of a second chance at love for the losers?
Redundancy gives Richard, a talented musician, the chance to pursue
his dreams, but his fiancée, Bridget, publicly ditches him, making enemies of his friends. Next. his ex-wife, Naomi, dumps teenage Maria on his doorstep, claiming she’s his daughter. Scrapping freedom and dreams, Richard moves from the town where he’s lived all his…
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March 20, 2023
Short Stories and Flash Fiction
I love writing and reading short stories. I also love reading and writing novels, but sometimes you just want to read something short before you go to sleep, and I always find if you’re travelling it’s harder to concentrate on a novel. With short stories you have to capture the people and places quickly and get on with the plot. Often magazines and competitions have word limits and that’s an added challenge but helps keep brain cells working.
The other day I realized I was working on my sixth book of short stories. My first book was Missing. It raised lots of money for Wateraid through the Soroptomists, when it was first published and will always have a special place in my heart.
My second book is Pebble on the Beach I enjoyed writing these stories and have been back to them and rewritten some of them and changed…
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December 17, 2022
Do you enjoy a holiday scare? The selection is horrifying
December 11, 2022
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The Omega Sci-Fi Awards from Light Bringer Project
27 Calls for Pitches Directly from Editors
November 12, 2022
While we await the end of times…
The Day We Ate Grandad, is a dysfunctional family horror novel for fans of The Magnus Archives, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, and The Call of Cthuluh.
Unspoken is a short, but well-paced and compelling exploration of the themes of unrequited love and the insanity that accompanies it in the midst of a world sliding into madness. A story of love, regret, and the end of the world expressed with a poetic voice and postmodern sensibilities; it could be described as being a combination between George A. Romero’s The Crazies and an amalgam of The Notebook and Love In the Time of Cholera.
Innocence Ends. Six friends meet together in an isolated mountain town in Northern Idaho to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a close friend’s suicide. A week of hiking, spending time in nature, and bittersweet reunion soon takes a sinister turn as the friends find themselves fighting for their lives and struggling to survive. A seemingly tranquil community bombarded by late spring storms becomes a trap filled with monsters and threats everywhere they turn. Terrifying secrets are revealed and the survivors are left to wonder what will be left of the world outside if they can find a way to come through the gauntlet alive. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FS43NDB
On the eve of humanity’s end, those left on the island fought to protect its shores—only to fail. Two thousand kilometres away, Jack emerges from a month-long stupor to find he is alone—again. As the depth of the devastation sinks in, Jack realizes that losing his wife to cancer months earlier, was just a taste of what fate had in store.
After earth’s population is decimated by an unknown threat, a handful of survivors wander the desolate countryside, alone and hunted. For them, time is running out. Churches and places of worship no longer provide sanctuary from those who come in the night—deceased loved ones, resurrected from the dead, abominations of humanity.
Science Fiction is the great cosmos governed only by the power of What If…The more you can imagine and wonder at, the better we all will be…the book is definitely worth reading.“
Bruce Blanchard, Book Reviewer
Soul Collector by T. GillmoreUS: A world where one’s man imagination is another man’s fate
Star Crossed by Tom Howard
US: Visitor from a strange planet, hero or harbinger?
Degrees of Life by Theresa Jacobs
CANADA: People: The ultimate post-apocalyptic monsters
Soloman’s Key by Jason J. McCuiston
US: A futuristic, noir detective story of magic and demons
The Traveler by J. McBrearty
US: Other worldly strangers unravel a mystery and their pasts
Jaws of the Jabberwock by Kevin Singer
US: Planetary colonists unearth more than a new place to live
Last Sub to Tel-K by Joachim Heijndermans
NETHERLANDS: Futuristic tale of prisoners, personalities & perfidy
Under Vlacq by F. J. Robledano-Espín
SPAIN: Rethinking your place in the universe far below the lunar surface
Looking Into A Dream World by Ken Grant
US: Hell hath no fury like a daughter scorned
Sickly Sweet by Mike Hultquist
US: Post-apocalyptic survival unlike any imagined
Alien Ways by Stephanie Barr
US: Extra-terrestrial science from a different point of view
Her Right-Hand Man by Teresa Twomey
US: Planetary ambassadors handle prejudice and civil upheaval
Brinkman’s War by Marie D. Jones
US: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Space Junk by Andrea L. Staum
US: Galactic scavengers salvage their origins
All Because of the Bees by Theresa Jacobs
CANADA: The sting of surviving the end of the world
What Goes Around… by C. R. Downing
US: Cosmic karma for a world under siege or alien manifest destiny?
The Other Fellow’s Shoes by G. Lloyd Helm
US: A remote world: Freaky Friday vs. insectophobia
Zeroth Iteration by Flemming Lord
UK: Quantum computing, a new universe, or an experiment gone right?
The Gasher by T. Gillmore
US: A family’s struggle to conquer their differences and a hostile planet
45 Degrees North, 123 Degrees West by Dave Steinman
CANADA: One great mystery explained, then lost in time
November 6, 2022
Audio books for less than a cup of coffee!
Did you know that you can find many audio books under $3.00?
You can!
Read by google voice narrators, and they sound near perfect, listen to some samples and see for yourself. Support indie and grab a book or two or four.
A few of my offerings: Children’s Chapter Book (ages 4 – up) YA (ages 12 – up) Horror (ages 14 -up) Crime (ages 18 -up) Sci-fi (ages 14 – up)
Though, if you are an Audible subscriber, you may want to try these for free under your plan
Thanks for your continued support!
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