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Guest Post+Giveaway: The Genes of Isis by Justin Newland

Featuring a guest post by Justin Newland, author of mythological fantasy The Genes of Isis

Akasha is a precocious young woman who lives in a world where oceans circulate in the aquamarine sky waters.

Before she was born, the Helios, a tribe of angels from the sun, came to Earth to deliver the Surge, the next step in the evolution of an embryonic human race. Instead, they left humanity on the brink of extinction and spawned a race of monstrous hybrids.

Horque is a Solarii, anothe...

Author Discovery Project Review: EcoQueen by Joanna Measer Kanow

Devastating wildfires, droughts, and floods. Melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Climate change seems irreversible … The world needs a superhero to step in—NOW.

Following the death of her mother in a horrifying wildfire, seventeen-year-old Kora wants to ensure that not one more child loses a parent to a traumatic climate event. As the most severe possible projected climate change outcomes actually happen in real-time, rapid action is needed. But is it too late? What can a female, bi-r...

Review+Giveaway: She’s the One Who Won’t Behave by S.R. Cronin

Review of historical fantasy She’s the One Who Won’t Behave by S.R. Cronin

Gypsum, the sixth of seven sisters, has always been a rebel. Yet no one thought she would go so far as to join the reczavy, a group living in tents on the edge of the desert and known for their sexual promiscuity and playful ways.

But as the date of the Mongols’ return draws near, Ilarians of all types must work together if they are to have any hope of surviving. And the reczavy, for all of their odd ways, d...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Potion by Dorlana Vann

Featuring YA urban fantasy Potion: A Witchy Fairy Tale by Dorlana Vann

#WitchesBeBitches

A Contemporary Retelling.

Eight years ago, the wicked witch held Hansel Lucas Jaeger and his sister, Melrose, captive. They barely escaped with their lives. Now, with high school, a garage band, and a part time job, Lucas finally feels normal.

But everything changes when Lucas sees his awkward, loner sister, hanging out with Star, one of the hot and hated popular girls known as The Bitche...

Interview+Giveaway: The Chronicles of Antecede: Lost and Found by C.M. Sage

An interview with C.M. Sage, author of fantasy novel The Chronicles of Antecede:  Lost and Found

Sometimes things are lost for a very long time…and then they are found.

Take Gracie for example, a woman who lost everything, her life, her family, even her name, but now she is a Cathalian warrior of Antecede blessed with powers, which aren’t yet fully realized.  Her elder and nemesis, Donavan, finally granted the former professor an opportunity to train a new warrior.  Her joy turns t...

Interview+Giveaway: Alien Plague by Chris Koehler

An interview with Chris Koehler, author of science fiction novel Alien Plague

Dr Avery Hutton lives in good times. All of humanity now lives under the Global republic, a democratic government that works hard to protect the rights of their citizens, expand orbital infrastructure and explore space. The last of which is helped by the relatively new Warp Drive, allowing probes to travel to and from the nearest stars over the course of a few years.

This is part of Avery’s job, helping o...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Within by Peter Gribble

Featuring fantasy novel Within by Peter GribblePurdu, the barbarian invader, has arrived! How can the pacifist, nonviolent City of the Magicians contain him when one faction appeals to his heart, the other to his ambitions?
 
Sas and Lalya are envoys of opposing camps, but Purdu throws them together to isolate them from their enclaves and assert his own authority. Yet two others decide to oppose him their way. Hyur, foremost metallurgist, secretly forges a magical weapon to tempt and subve...

Review+Giveaway: The Story Elsadore Spook Wrote by S W curragh

Review of fantasy novel The Story Elsadore Spook Wrote by S W Curragh

The Story Elsadore Spook Wrote charts two young girls’ lives. They embark on a journey that takes them across a vast land with many obstacles, and many ups and downs. As the generations expand, there is a new light cast across the four states, an invasion that is unprecedented, that would unravel the common ground and the known cosmos.

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Excerpt+Giveaway: Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor

Featuring speculative thriller Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor

Aiden has always felt like an outsider. After the rebel assassin is captured and imprisoned by the world’s galactic overlords, he awaits execution. Then a mole working for the occupying regime alerts him to a plot that could destroy the entire resistance…

Engineering a daring escape, Aiden’s growing feud with the new rebel leader leaves him out in the cold and smouldering with resentment. Faced with deceit and be...

Interview+Giveaway: The Time Traveling Matchmaker by Janie Emaus

Featuring an interview with Janie Emaus, author of time-travel romance The Time Traveling Matchmaker

In The Time Traveling Matchmaker, love takes on a new meaning when soul mates are brought together through time and space.

Like every goal-oriented twenty-something, Jessica Singleton, an aspiring filmmaker, is obsessed with finding her future as quickly as possible. What she doesn’t know is that the future is obsessed with finding her, too. Renn Porter, an agent with Time Traveling Mat...