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Excerpt+Giveaway: Locksmith’s War by Paul Briggs

Featuring YA sci-fi Locksmith’s War by Paul Briggs

For Lachlan Smith, learning the secret of the apocalypse was the easy part.

Ever since Locksmith found the portal to the future, he has been wondering who or what was responsible for the empty, uninhabited world he found.

Now he knows—and now he has to fight them.

He thought he had fifteen years in which to prevent the extinction of the human species.

Now, he has only hours.

When the portal is stolen by a cabal of dange...

Review+Giveaway: A Light Beam for Faith by E.K. Highland

Review of sci-fi A Light Beam for Faith by E.K. Highland

She’s not waiting for a hero to come save her; instead, she becomes her own heroine. Hazel’s world comes crashing in front of her in an instant during a family trip to Mont-Tremblant. What she doesn’t know is that she is from the stars, and so it’s no wonder she must return in order to find the answers she seeks.

She embarks on a trek aboard the Imperial Bona Fides, the mothership of the Alpha Cygnians people. With the help o...

Review+Giveaway: Lawful Good Thief by T. L. Ford

Review of light fantasy Lawful Good Thief by T. L. Ford

Lawful Good Thief is a light fantasy thieves guild adventure novel about a girl’s ascension to Master Thief. Dagger throwing, fighting, torture, revenge, escapes, unwise intimacy, accidental death, and, obviously, thieves.

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An Excerpt from Lawful Good Thief

It took a few minutes for the man on the throne to break off his conversation with the app...

Interview+Giveaway: Silver to the Heart by Brien Feathers

An interview with Brien Feathers, author of dark urban fantasy Silver to the Heart

— So begins the apocalypse, with death and a story of love —

An old soul (several centuries old), the lover, fighter, and telekinetic Drake receives an order to safeguard Ana, a mortal with Elder Talent.

Ana, an artist beset by haunting visions, falls for the perfect stranger while venturing home to mediate emergent family chaos.

Past-warlord and present commander Sasuke wields his telepathic m...

Review+Giveaway: Lethal Legacies by Colleen J. Shogan

Review of cozy mystery Lethal Legacies by Colleen J. Shogan

It’s springtime in Washington, D.C. and congressional staffer Kit Marshall has more on her plate than she can handle. With her boss campaigning for an open U.S. Senate seat, Kit is left to run the office in her absence and manage a new weeklong American history extravaganza filled with high-profile events, lectures, and receptions.

When the Director of the Capitol Visitor’s Center ends up dead, Kit springs into action to clear...

Author Discovery Project Review: A Land of Neverafter by R. L. Davennor

All my life, I’ve dreamed of the sea.

Mermaids, stormy skies, daring adventures, pirates…it was little wonder I sprinted to the docks the moment I left the orphanage. Eager to begin my new life, I searched for a ship that would have me—and found a thief instead. I chased the bastard.

Now I’m trapped.

I’m told this place is Neverland, but everything I touch is dead or dying; what’s left is hellbent on killing each other. Monsters lurk around every corner, and everyone I meet hides a ...

Interview+Giveaway: The Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting by Dana Hammer

An interview with Dana Hammer, author of comedic horror The Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting

Igor Fenenko, a former research scientist, is a scary, scary man. Not only is he a massive bodybuilder with a spider tattooed on his face, he has also been infected with Pestis Manducans — viral cannibalism. Igor tried to resist indulging, but his research specimens smelled so delicious. Who did it hurt, really, to nibble a corpse?

Caught, disgraced, and sent to a ‘rehabilitation’ center, Igor is no...

🦁 The Lion King 2 Is a Cautionary Tale About Living in an Echo Chamber

Covu, the male protagonist, was raised in a culture of hate.

He was bread to rule because of some unspecified “chosen one” criterion.

Covu was trained to be a killer to avenge the death of Scar, the “rightful” king (who really wasn’t the rightful anything).

Covu’s mother, Zira, only told Covu one side of the story to make sure he wouldn’t question her.

If Covu hadn’t met Kiara by accident as a kid, he would have hated the Pride Lands forever.

Simba would be dead.

Covu would b...

Excerpt+Giveaway: A Climate of Revenge by Tom Riley

Featuring sci-fi mystery A Climate of Revenge by Tom Riley

Sarah and JanetM, are a human/Artificial Intelligence pair who do private investigations in the near future where our climate crisis has hit and hit hard.  A man with a long dark history tries to hire them but is then killed.  His family hires the team to find who killed this man with a thousand enemies in a land with a million problems. 

The United Nations IPCC report, “Climate Change 2022, Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerabil...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex by Carole P. Roman

Featuring YA adventure Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex by Carole P. Roman

Templeton Academy- the superhero high school is finally open!

The prestigious academy is recruiting the best of the best to enroll in its student body.

The school is as mysterious as it is exclusive.

Grady Whill thinks there is nothing special about him to make the grade.

However, his best friend, Aarush Patel has been selected and thinks Grady has the right stuff.

Even school bully Elwood Ble...