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April 16, 2025
Changing Lanes
For fifty-something Roxy Adams, the days are drenched in
sunshine and a passion for her boyfriend, Sam Reyes. That is until he turns up
dead in the trunk of Roxy’s limo and she’s arrested for his murder.
Changing Lanes
A Roxy Adams Mystery Book 1
by Claire Yezbak Fadden
Genre: Humorous Cozy Mystery, Romantic Suspense
For fifty-something Roxy Adams, life is simple and
beautiful. Her days are drenched in southern California sunshine and passion
for Sam Reyes, the man she loves and shares a business with.
When Sam vanishes with their savings, leaving only a note behind, Roxy is faced
with a harsh reality. Broke and confused, she learns they never owned the
business. The actual owner will let her keep her job if she provides him
with benefits.
Convinced there’s no knight in shining armor riding to her rescue, Roxy dusts
off her chauffeur’s hat and returns to the career she trailblazed twenty years
earlier.
With a steady income, new friends, and the possibility of romance, joy slowly
replaces insecurity. Foxy Roxy is back. Life is wonderful and exciting once
again. Until Sam turns up dead in the trunk of her limo. And Roxy is arrested
for his murder.
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County, California with her husband and two spoiled dogs. She spends her spare
time playing with her four grandchildren and immersing herself in the words of
other authors.
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SMOKE And MIRRORS
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Searching for an answer to a question you haven’t asked yet? You are not alone. One small realization and a whole world unravels.
Woven through these pages are a series of my most significant life events relating to narcissistic victim/survivor syndrome. Inside are keys unlocking mysteries of complex PTSD, compounded through various forms of abuse.
A journey of highs, like the Freedom Convoy, and the lows of a failed longtime marriage. With spiritual forces at work behind the scenes, could a Christian home have so many secrets? The smoke will clear to reveal our true mirrored self.
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I was paralyzed, not just by fear but by dread and over exhaustion. It felt as though given the opportunity I could sleep for days, yet struggled to find rest. I relied on prescribed meds, and the morning was showing the outcome of dependence. Irish cream was a favorite to put in my first cups of coffee for added motivation. As nice as this hotel was, there was no minibar to ease the angst.
I was immobilized, unable to move, begging God to take me. How can I do this? How can I manage the full brunt of this day without any of the vices that helped me survive for some time?
I turned on the TV, made some hotel room coffee and laid there motionless, praying for the Lord to take me home. A text came in from my office manager, Sharon, a reserved woman who I had a sincere bond with. She encouraged me daily, and I valued her advice.
“Hey girlie, how are you doing over there?”
My response was as she suspected. She knew how hard the meetings were for me. She was my closest confidant, a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Such a blessing to me, she was gifted with an ear to listen, non-judgmental and caring. She loved me and I loved her right back.
I told her about forgetting my pills and couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t do anything. Her response was comforting. She said, “Then don’t, don’t go. Do what you need to do. Take care of yourself and don’t worry about the rest.” Her approval in this seemed to sooth my soul. She made me self-aware that I DID have the power to not go if I didn’t want to. I could just say I wasn’t feeling well, but something inside me won’t give up. I can’t give in to negative, intrusive thoughts just waiting for my demise.
About the Author: Joanie was raised on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. Life revolved around chores, school and church. Six older siblings and all the nieces and nephews added up to a large family.
Strong in doctrine and armed with a passion for truth, she’s walked the walk of faith, facing challenges to overcome. She was married at 19, became a mother to a stepdaughter, and later birthed two children. Following years of turmoil in her marriage, she hit the inevitable breaking point.
Starting life over, she attended broadcasting college, going on to anchor morning news for the airwaves. Feeling isolated and rejected, her drive to help others who have gone through similar circumstances inspired this book. Through the Refiners fire, she’s ready to share tools required to escape the fake and embrace the truth.
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April 14, 2025
Imaginary Heroes
His friends
may be IMAGINARY… but the danger is REAL!
Imaginary Heroes
by Michael Seidelman
Genre: Middle
Grade Fantasy Adventure
His friends
may be IMAGINARY… but the danger is REAL!
Twelve-year-old Matthew’s life has been incredibly challenging because of his
Tourette Syndrome, a disorder which causes uncontrollable movements and sounds.
Isolated and tormented by bullies at school, Matthew finds solace in the
company of his lifelong imaginary friends, a lovable green monster and a
tough-as-nails little girl.
On his way home from school one day, as Matthew is pursued by his relentless
tormentors, they all crash into a mysterious underground lair. At first, it
seems that being trapped with the bullies who make his life miserable is his
biggest problem. That is, until he and the others discover that they are not
alone.
Hunted by a menacing presence lurking in the depths, Matthew and the bullies
must confront a threat to their very existence. Their desperate mission becomes
clear: put their differences aside and work together to find a way to safety
before they are all consumed by the darkness.
Although
fictional, the book is inspired by the author’s own childhood experiences with
bullying, loneliness, and Tourette Syndrome. He set out to craft an engaging
story while exploring issues many kids can relate to—told from the perspective
of someone who has lived them firsthand.
When Michael
Seidelman was growing up, his passions were reading, watching movies, enjoying
nature and creative writing. Not much has changed since then.
Working in
Online Marketing for over ten years, Michael felt it was time to pursue his
passion and began writing The Garden of Syn trilogy.
His latest
Middle Grade book, Imaginary Heroes, is personal for Michael. While fiction,
the book is inspired by his own childhood experiences with bullying,
loneliness, and Tourette’s Syndrome. He set out to tell an entertaining story
while delving into issues many kids can relate to, told by someone who has
experienced them firsthand.
Michael was born in Vancouver, BC Canada where he continues to reside.
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Cowboy Watch
Someone—or something—wants Kellen out of town . . .
Kellen Brand’s inheritance comes as a monumental shock—
a
rundown farm she doesn’t want and one paroled Watcher all her own.
Cowboy Watch
The Watchers Book 1
by Petie McCarty
Genre: Paranormal Small-Town Romantic Suspense
The Watchers
Series—
Fallen angels cast out of heaven by the archangel Michael for coercing
with Satan to gain control. Some of these turncoats—duped late in the game by
Satan’s lies—doubled back to seek redemption for their unwitting
betrayal. Offered parole in exchange for penance,
these Watchers are given the toughest bodyguard missions with little
leeway for success.
One last chance.
These are their stories . . .
Someone—or something—wants Kellen out of town . . .
Kellen Brand’s inheritance comes as a monumental shock—a rundown farm she
doesn’t want and one paroled Watcher all her own. Kellen’s
eccentric mother believed Watchers to be fallen angels seeking
penance by guarding individuals who had lost their way. Seriously? A Watcher?
Only her mother . . .
Since Kellen vows no sane woman would choose to live in
Riverside, she’s on a mission to dump the old farm fast and to the first buyer
who comes along. Unfortunately for her, the only buyer is a
resort developer, spurned by a townful of objectors and one handsome cowboy—her
neighbor, Luke Thornton. Luke must block Kellen’s farm sale or risk exposure of
his own family’s secrets. He can ill afford his immediate and compelling attraction
to his new neighbor.
Someone is watching Kellen, but not who she thinks. Someone
deadly and intent on scaring her out of town. Or worse. Luke has a
hellish choice to make—step in and rescue Kellen from her threats, or to
protect his family, stand by and watch . . .
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Disney World—”The Most Magical
Place on Earth”—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by
day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her
new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to
her “day” job to write her stories full-time.
These days Petie spends her time writing new Cinderella
series tales, her new The Watchers series, sequels to her regency
time-travel series, Lords in Time, and more contemporary romance standalones to
go along with her two previous releases—Any Fin For Love and Ambush
in the Everglades.
Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee
with her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy
who will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming Book 2 of The Watchers series,
Christmas Watch.
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A young woman dies alone in a hotel room, her fentanyl-poisoned cocaine still on the desk. She had been missing for nearly 2 weeks. Social Services had been trying to find a place for her to live with her 3-year-old son, whom she had left with her parents. Six months later her father fights for his life in intensive care, but succumbs to his illness because of a lifelong use of alcohol and tobacco. A month after his death her mother is assessed by doctors to be unable to care for herself because of her Alzheimer’s and mental health issues brought on by benzodiazepine and alcohol addiction.
The son, brother, stepson is the only one left to pick up the pieces. He begins a journey of the self and finds out the truth of his family. After going over letters, notes, emails, videos, and text messages, he uncovers a disturbing picture of the abuse his sister suffered at the hands of their parents. He also begins to better understand his own struggles with mental health and substance addiction because of the trauma and abuse he also suffered from their parents.
Follow the son as he looks through his family history to discover the generational abuse that trickled down through the years. Learn about how parents who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder emotionally abuse and manipulate their children. See how the abuse and trauma becomes mental illness in the abused, and how they fall into vicious traps of addiction, eating disorders, self-harm, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Witness the transformational change of the son as he works on the recovery of his inner child and tries to become the man he was meant to be.
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Essay: Fault vs. Responsibility and Blame
Before I continue, I wanted to interject a discussion on fault versus responsibility and blame. My ability to have forgiven my father all came down to a discussion with my therapist on whether they were at fault for my trauma, or if they were responsible or to blame for that trauma.
Human beings are not born with instincts. A baby left on its own will die. It will not search for food, it will not try to move or walk, and its only means of communication are cries. Many animals are born with instincts, such as marsupials or rodents that instinctively move to a mammary gland or an ungulate that will attempt to get up and walk or move, as soon as it is able, to find food.
With this truth in mind, the conclusion is that all human behaviour is learned from our caretakers, then our peers as we get older. Early childhood development dictates that children learn behavioural responses as soon as they are engaged by a caregiver. If we give them love and support, they develop healthy adaptations to the world around them. If their cries are unheeded and we leave them abandoned and rejected, a myriad of mental health issues will emerge as they get older.
This leads to how we apply fault vs. blame to behaviour and choices people make as they get older. We can’t fault a child for being racist if that is what their caregiver taught them; however, we can blame them for their actions if they are cruel and make the choice to harm others because of what they learned.
Further, we cannot fault an individual that suffers from a serious mental health issue if they have learned that adaptive behaviour due to not being provided with the proper love and support as they were developing. Again, however, we can blame them for making choices that cause harm to others. It is not their fault that their learned behaviours condition them to make poor choices, but they are still choices that have consequences.
This is a key factor in generational abuse and trauma. A child that grows up in an abusive home develops poor adaptive skills and behaviours. This can lead to all kinds of poor coping skills such as abusive behaviour towards others, self-harm, eating disorders, Substance Use Disorders, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and an array of other mental health issues.
However, these disorders are treatable. It is critical that once we identify these types of behaviours, the individual begins a process of treatment and therapy to unlearn them and develop healthy ones instead. This took me years, and it is a lot of work. Many cannot do so without the proper support structures to allow it to happen. It is vital that treatment happens to end the generational cycle of abuse.
About the Author: Geoffrey is a first-time author. He lives peacefully by a lake, spending his time writing, painting, gardening, and woodworking. His recovery is ongoing, and he enjoys his privacy and seclusion.
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April 13, 2025
HALL OF SHADOWS
HALL OF SHADOWS
Mariah Stillbrook
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GENRE: Horror
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BLURB:
In the quiet life of Tess Moreau lies a remarkable power-her touch revives ashes, defying nature’s laws. When she uncovers a mysterious book linked to her grandmother and a witch’s coven, her journey begins. Guided by a cursed deck of oracle cards, Tess delves into The Hall of Shadows, a realm crafted by her ancestors. With each dimension traversed, she uncovers her true lineage-a descendant of mythical beings. As Tess’s humanity wanes, her destiny beckons. At journey’s end, she faces a choice: preserve or destroy the hall. In a tale of magic and identity, Tess’s odyssey may end, but her legacy is just beginning-a testament to the power within us all.
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EXCERPT
The thing about being a smudge of darkness against a black backdrop is that no one ever sees you. That is until there’s smoke. I’ve always been a creature of the night. Not like a vamp—although that would be kind of badass. I wouldn’t ever want to be like the sparkly ones, but I wouldn’t have an aversion to the cult classic: razor sharp fangs with no morals kind. Like They Thirst or Salem’s Lot, but maybe with a little more humanity left inside the creatures. I could totally rock alongside The Lost Boys.
I’ve always clung to the shadows. It’s safe there. You know, like the night sky, or the stars. The twinkle of just that small bit of light breaking through this world. It knows me, unlike this place. This place is crawling with filters that no one else seems to notice—colored lenses that sharpen the edges of what most people, if given the chance, wouldn’t want to see. My Grandma Reanin used to say the same things. I guess that’s why I make so many people uncomfortable. I look for the details most people find cringy. Imagine if they knew the truth about me.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Mariah Stillbrook is the witchy author of In the Pines, Hall of Shadows, and The Lost Erwain. Originally from Iowa, she lives in Colorado with her white German shepherd, husband, and little girl. She spends most of her days writing, reading, and enjoying the occasional hike. In her late twenties she realized that her writing was missing something, magic. She now focuses her writing on urban fantasy and horror in both adult and young adult genres.
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Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (Hex Publishers), “Observer
Dependent Universe” in the Chiral Mad 5 anthology (Written Backwards), and “The
Oasis” selected for the Chromophobia anthology (Strangehouse Books).
Christa Wojciechowski is an active member of the Horror
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April 11, 2025
Revary
What if we
could be the heroes we pretend to be?
Revary
by Abigail Linhardt
Genre: YA Epic
Fantasy Adventure
In a small Midwestern town, Celeste and her friends find escape from the pressures of
senior year through their tabletop roleplaying games. But when Celeste stumbles
upon a way to actually enter their imagined realm, fantasy becomes a reality.
Suddenly, the friends find themselves living out their greatest adventure. In Revary, they
can be anyone they want: brave warriors, powerful mages, or cunning rogues. But
as they explore this magical world of their own creation, they discover it is
threatened by a mysterious force that is causing the fantastic world to vanish
into darkness.
With Revary in peril and tensions rising in their world, Celeste and her friends must
navigate the blurring lines between imagination and reality. As they fight to
save their creation, they’ll confront fantastical dangers and the real-life
issues they’ve been avoiding.
“Revary is a spellbinding journey that explores the power of
friendship, the courage to face reality, and the magic of storytelling.”
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Abi works part-time as a
freelance ghostwriter, editor, audiobook narrator, and is one half of the
partnership that owns Altered Reality Magazine. She hopes to one day make these
passions her full-time job while she hunts for the next bohemian adventure.
She has published works of fiction, poetry, academia, and even won awards for
her short stories in science fiction and horror. Her novel, The Trial of Two,
was named an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest 2021 self-publishing
awards and won first place in the dark fantasy category in The BookFest Awards.
Abi is also a proud mom of ferrets. She currently resides in Kansas.
She is one of nine children–all of whom share the creative spark.
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April 10, 2025
Beyond the Realms
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their greatest strengths and weaknesses and possibly lead to their deaths. Can
two brothers survive the challenge of the GrandMaster to become the next
generation of SwordMasters? Only through overcoming their greatest fears can
they change their destinies forever.
K.M. Jenkins is a published international bestselling author that
writes epic battles, forbidden romance, and tales of fantasy and adventure. She
has a big love for the fantasy genre and loves dragons above all creatures.
When she is not writing, you will find her chasing her twin boys around
the house. Between the three she has epic battles throughout the day and
nothing ever gets boring.
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April 9, 2025
Call Forth the Moonlight
Standing up for magíq means the
world stands against you.
Call Forth the Moonlight:
A Magíqon’s Guide to Gryphon Liberation
by Z.M. Celestaire
Genre: LGBTQ Ecopunk Fantasy Romance
Deubrise is a land blessed by the breath of the slumbering gods. Magíq
lives within nature, powerful and beautiful. Few else can harness it besides
the gryphons that reside in the mountains near Nico De Falco’s home, and the
rare magíqon like Nico’s little sister. But magíqon are shunned and feared by
modern society.
To protect himself from such treatment, Dr. Ackerleigh Sebring keeps
his magíq a secret. Yet his “radical” teachings of magíqal history
gets him fired from Ravensbourne University. Desperate, he finds a gamekeeper
job caring for an imprisoned gryphon. Finally, he can be his whole self.
That is, until Nico follows a misguided impulse and frees the gryphon,
injuring Ackerleigh accidentally.
Their fates—and feelings—become entangled in their determination to
protect the sacred magíq of the gryphon. Ackerleigh and Nico will stop at
nothing for the sake of liberation.
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