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Interview+Giveaway: The Girl by Victory Witherkeigh

Click the banner to follow the tourInterview with Victory Witherkeigh, author of YA horror The Girl

The parents knew it had been a mistake to have a girl. At birth, the girl’s long, elegant fingers wriggled and grasped forward, motioning to strangle the very air from her mother’s lungs. As she grew older, she grew more like her father, whose ancestors would dream of those soon to die. She walked and talked in her sleep, and her parents warded themselves, telling the girl that she was ...

Review: The Journey by Mark Rasmussen

“The journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lao Tzu
Raiden, an emotionally troubled 40-something guy, is at a major turning point in his life. Rather than choose to face it head on, he undertakes an epic road trip adventure across North America, all with the aim of escaping the single most transformative event of his life – imminent fatherhood.
Searching for solutions in all the wrong places and faces, Raiden is forced to turn the mirror back on himself and shine the harsh light...

Guest Post +Giveaway: Violins Played Before Junstan by Lou Kemp

click the banner to follow the tourGuest post from Lou Kemp, author of magical realism The Violins Played Before Junstan

While on a mission to avenge the death of his lover, the immortal peyote-eating magician Celwyn is hired to deliver an automat, Professor Kang, to a priest. But Celwyn quickly learns that everything the priest told him was a lie. Now his ship, the Zelda, is stuck in a horrific storm and Celwyn knows he must reconsider his allegiance if he is to steer his vessel in t...

Excerpt+Giveaway: A Raven Remix by Sarah Hualde

click the banner to follow the tourFeaturing paranormal cozy mystery A Raven Remix by Sarah Hualde

Most people run from death,

But not Penny.

She chases it down.

Penny’s premonitions put her friends in peril. Join her as she stalks the bird of death by following the musical clues he leaves behind.

Will she and her cheeky cat, Spades save the day?

Or will the Raven be one step ahead?

This Paranormal Penny Boxset features books 1, 1.5, and 2 in the Paranormal Penny Mys...

Interview+Giveaway: Maz, Origin by T.L. Ford

Interview with T.L. Ford, author of scifi Mas, Origin

Entering the witness relocation program after lawfully escaping a massive walled-in prison, teenage Merrill tries to fit into our society. Her background and decisions may not let her.

Maz, Origin is a story of growth and love, guilt and innocence, and changing goals. What is morally right and what is legally right? What’s legal for humans may not be for aliens…

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Interview+Giveaway: Binary Logic by Tracy Ross

Click the banner to follow the tourInterview with Tracy Ross, author of scifi/fantasy horror Binary Logic

Binary Logic is the perfect merge of content and form—exploring concepts of literary genre with revelatory narrative. It is a collection of tales touching on relational dysfunction, the conflicts inherent in addiction and fear, and the legacy of female future time lords. The stories all create a bridge between the reckoning imagination and the spirit of free will and self-made des...

Interview+Giveaway: Rock Gods and Messy Monsters by Diane Hatz

Click the banner to follow the tourInterview with Diane Hatz, author of contemporary satire Rock Gods and Messy Monsters

Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is one woman’s search for herself among the blood-soaked walls, dangling body parts, and alien-hatched explosions inside Acht Records.

It’s the 1990s. Alex arrives to work at Acht, her improbable blonde hair streaked stress magenta and anger black. Her first duty is to wipe blood off her boss’s walls, to clean up his blood vessel explosion....

Excerpt+Giveaway: The Guardian by Jen Colly

Click the banner to follow the tourFeaturing paranormal romance The Guardian by Jen Colly

Prepared to die…fighting to live.

Savard was in a mood to die, but when a human insists on saving his life, death is no longer an immediate option. He knew of no species – human, vampire, or demon – that could see him while in his invisible Spirit form. Unique to this world, this woman’s singularity was a danger to the entire vampire race.

Waking behind bars in an underground vampire city was not h...

October 2022 Author Discovery Project Review: A Lesson in Love and Death by W. H. Lockwood

Anna James dreamed of only two things in life: to read books and to not die.

The day she is offered a scholarship to study literature at the beautiful, exclusive and gothic Endymion College is the happiest day of her life, but soon after arrival, Anna finds it is nothing like the brochure.

Instantly thrust into a dangerous conspiracy, sent to live in a haunted dormitory with a captivating rival, Anna struggles to keep control of her only chance at a better life and to maintain her alre...

Review+Giveaway: Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall

Click the banner to follow the tourReview of YA fantasy Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall

Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy.

Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the prestigious Astra Academy, a school for arcanists—those who can wield magic. But Gray has a major problem. Every night, as he sleeps, he’s visited by monsters. When they injure Gray in his dreams, he wakes with the same wounds in r...