The 21-Day Boyfriend by A.S. Kelly Audio Teaser & Giveaway

The 21-Day Boyfriend
A.S. Kelly
Publication date: May 21 2025 (Audiobook)
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance

Eric O’Shea needs to make a decision. The annual event his family forces him to attend is just around the corner, and he doesn’t have a date.

Eric never needs help when it comes to finding men. But this time is different – his ex and his new boyfriend will be there, and Eric can’t just bring along one of his usual flings.

His only hope seems to be him: the best friend of his best friend, who he never wanted to meet.

Sean Quinn is a calm, collected, and cultured man; someone who would rather stay at home and read a book than waste his time chasing a date with no future.

Sean isn’t in a rush to find the perfect man, and he certainly doesn’t intend to go out with Eric: his best friend’s other best friend, who he’s avoided meeting for years.

But Sean has a flaw: he can’t say no to anyone, especially not when it comes to his friend Jake, who has a habit of worming his way into other people’s lives.

But it’s just one date, after all: pure fiction. It’s a shame, then, that when Eric needs Sean for another favour, he can’t turn his back. It’s a shame that just when Sean is beginning to understand that Eric isn’t what he seems, he can’t seem to stop before he gets hurt.

Twenty-one days: that’s the agreement.
Twenty-one days of grazing hands, furtive glances, and unexpected kisses.
Twenty-one days where anything goes; except falling in love.

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Author Bio:

A. S. Kelly writes Rom-Com, Romantic Fiction and Family Saga.
Avid reader, hopeless romantic, lover of yoga, knitting and home baking.
She was born in Italy but lives in Ireland with her husband, two children and a cat named Oscar.

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Through the Woods by D. M. Million, R. M. Carpus Teaser, Sneak Peek and Giveaway

Through the Woods
D. M. Million, R. M. Carpus
(A Short Story Anthology, Vol. 2)
Publication date: September 9th 2025
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal

Welcome to Thorn Valley, where the dead make the rules and the living follow them.

Everyone knows what goes on at the Thorn Valley Cemetery. The locals never stray from the three sacred rules.

Don’t speak when you enter through the gate.

Never visit at night.

Never visit alone.

Seems simple enough, but in this town, nothing is simple, and no place is safe. Don’t let the white picket fences and cozy shops on Main Street fool you. Here, the dead don’t sleep, and they’re always in charge.

Escape to the small, eerie town of Thorn Valley in this fresh collection of spine-tingling tales from the much anticipated next installment of THROUGH THE WOODS.

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Then I see where I’m standing, at the edge of an ivy-covered gate, black iron, sharp-toothed rods I recognize well, even in the damp, cold night. The entrance to the Thorn Valley Cemetery. My freezing fingers lace tighter around Eva’s, and I look down at my bare, mud-caked feet. I’m in my blue satin nightgown, half-sheathed by my lace ivory bathrobe. Gasping, I cover myself and whirl around in the damp cold, searching the night for signs of life
or reason.

“Why am I here? What are we doing here?”

Eva releases my hand but keeps her eyes locked on mine as if I might disappear. She shakes as she tugs the quilt from her shoulders to wrap me in its warmth. “You had another spell,” she says, still trembling as she guides me away from the gate. “You were trying to climb up and over. Your sister called me and said you were gone, that your bedroom window was open, the curtains pulled wide. She woke up to make tea because she couldn’t sleep and had a feeling she should check on you.”

“Another dream.”

“Yes.”

“They’re getting worse.”

“I know.”

“I was . . . on the coast.” Dizzy and dazed, I pause for a beat to get my bearings. Eva stalls too, waiting patiently for me to find my balance. “The sea was coming for me, it wanted to drown me. I was running, then climbing . . . trying to climb toward the sky.” I can feel Eva’s horror, her pupils like frozen, black saucers stunned as they study my face.

“There was so much sun, so much blue, an unwavering stillness on land. But the sea . . . it roared, it wouldn’t stop reaching for me. I felt an earthquake, an imminent tsunami in the distance, even in the stillness. I couldn’t let it have me, I just couldn’t—” Eva takes hold of my shoulders, carefully turning me toward her. I know in that moment my eyes are tinged with a ripple of madness, and that she sees it, too. “This is going to stop.”

-“Night Fever,” Thorn Valley – R. M. Carpus

Author Bio:

DM Million: I grew up in southern New Jersey, reading fantasy and paranormal books. I love anything that whisks me away to another world, and I wanted to create my own worlds for readers like myself to enjoy. I believe reading is not only an escape from our real-world problems, but a way to expand our minds, keep us sharp, and bring us joy. What I love about books is that we can use our imaginations to "see" what the author sees. When we watch TV or a movie, we can turn off our creativity and mindlessly view what the creators intended for us. But reading requires the engaging of our creative minds. I hope that you will enjoy my stories as much as I have enjoyed writing them.

R. M. Carpus is the author of THE CITY WIFE and co-founder of Wraith House. Born in Philly and raised in sunny Southwest Florida, her nomadic spirit has carried her all over the U.S. She now resides in the moody Pacific Northwest, where she dwells with ghosts of the bygone grunge era, always on the lookout for Eddie Vedder, killer whales, and inspiration for the next book. When she’s not reading or writing, she’s engrossed in ’90s music and reruns, catching a film at SIFF, or hiding away in the San Juan Islands or the Olympic Peninsula. She loves animals, the ocean, and spooky season.

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Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton Teaser & Giveaway

Dot Slash Magic
Liz Shipton
Publication date: August 19th 2025
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy

A new, spicy urban fantasy from TikTokker Liz Shipton, perfect for fans of I am Number Four, Wreck it Ralph and ACOTAR.

What if you wrote a magic computer program? What if that magic computer program started summoning monsters?

When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is to walk into an underground magic club. Like, actual wizards and shit.

Seven reluctantly joins the motley crew of magic weirdos and discovers her own power. But she struggles to control it…until she figures out how to channel her magic through an artificially intelligent computer program.

Unfortunately, there is literally nothing Seven’s new friends hate more than AI, and when a student mysteriously turns up dead, blame falls on Seven. Is her “creepy artificial magic” summoning terrifying creatures to hunt students? Or is someone trying to frame her?

With only one person – cute ex-Navy seal Logan – on her side, Seven fights monsters (Dragon? Check. Kraken? Check) while struggling to convince everyone that her AI has nothing to do with them.

But how can she convince her peers when she isn’t totally convinced herself?

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Author Bio:

Hi! I'm Liz. I'm a freelance writer, indie author, and full-time, off-grid, live-aboard sailor. I’m currently sailing around the world with my boyfriend and my dog, turning my real-life adventures into speculative fiction.

I feel extremely grateful to be able to explore the world as I do, and I love incorporating the experiences, places, and people I encounter on my travels into my work.

I also use my books as a means to explore themes of mental health, addiction, technology, climate change, and the looming collapse of society (but, like...in a fun way.)

When I'm not penning novels about the impending apocalypse, I work as a freelance content writer specializing in articles about code, music theory, and off-grid living. On the rare occasion I'm not writing, you can find me swimming, hiking, telling my dog I love her for the bazillionth time today, or watching Taskmaster.

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Lost and Stolen Gods by Debbie Cassidy Teaser & Giveaway

Lost and Stolen Gods
Debbie Cassidy
(Labyrinth of Gods, #1)
Publication date: April 4th 2025
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Gods aren’t born, they’re made.

I should have died the same night that a monster murdered my grandmother, but I was saved, stolen from my world, and thrown into a realm ravaged by an endless war between ancient gods called Asura.

I’m told that I’m a demigod, that there are others like me, brought to this world to replenish their dwindling numbers. They want us to prove we’re worthy of ascension and fight alongside them.

But I don’t give a damn about their war. All I want is vengeance on the monster that killed my only family. A monster from their world. And if the only way to kill it is to become a god, then I’m all in.

But the path of ascension is paved with dangerous tests, culminating in a lethal trial called the labyrinth of gods.

Only an ancient fire elemental has the power to help me survive it.

His wicked mouth sets my pulse racing, and his dark threats turn my blood to ice. Charismatic and terrifying, he attracts and repels me in equal measure, and I have no doubt he’d snap my neck in a heartbeat if freed from the magical bonds that compel him to aid me.

He hopes to be my undoing, and if I’m not careful I may not make it to the labyrinth alive.

To claim the vengeance that I desire I’ll need to protect my body and shield my mind, but most of all I’ll need to guard my heart.

Enter an Otherworldly realm filled with gods, monsters, and mystical beings. Opposites attract and love and conflict collide, in this forced proximity romance.

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Author Bio:

Debbie Cassidy lives in England, Bedfordshire, with her three kids and very supportive husband. Coffee and chocolate biscuits are her writing fuels of choice, and she is still working on getting that perfect tower of solitude built in her back garden. Obsessed with building new worlds and reading about them, she spends her spare time daydreaming and conversing with the characters in her head - in a totally non psychotic way of course. She writes Urban Fantasy, Fantasy and Reverse Harem Fantasy. All her books contain plenty of action, romance and twisty plots.

 

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Hi De Ho, Infecterino! The Come Up by Andrew Marc Rowe Excerpt, Teaser & Interview

 

A riotous yet thought-provoking journey...

 

 

 

Title: Hi De Ho, Infecterino! The Come Up

Author: Andrew Marc Rowe

Pages: 202

Genre: Zombie/Horror/Comedy

Larry Evans was on the brink of his big break. As the lead singer of a rising rock band in 1980s London, his dream of leaving behind his small-time drug-dealing days seemed within reach. But fate—or more accurately, a freak fire and a faceful of experimental fungal spores—had other plans. Transformed into patient zero of a flesh-eating zombie outbreak, Larry unwittingly becomes ground zero for a pandemic that’s more psychedelic than apocalyptic.

The culprit? De Longeuil, a hallucinogenic fungal infection created by the brilliant but socially awkward scientist Hester. As the infection spreads, it alters not just bodies but minds, creating a hive mind of infected individuals who crave brains and challenge the limits of human evolution. Meanwhile, global leaders weigh the nuclear option, threatening to obliterate Great Britain in a desperate bid to contain the outbreak.

Enter an unlikely alliance: Larry, fighting to maintain his humanity; Starseed, the newly sentient fungal hive mind; and a ragtag crew of survivors, including Willy, an adult bookstore clerk battling his own addictions, and Ralph, whose experimental fluconazole offers a glimmer of hope but at a strange cost to her own humanity. Together, they must find a way to prove to the world that the infected aren’t mindless monsters, all while dodging fallout—both literal and figurative.

Across the Atlantic, Subject #30452—a crow gifted with sapience thanks to Parasol Industries’ sinister experiments—embarks on his own odyssey. From revenge to psychedelic enlightenment, his journey takes him to a New Jersey arcade run by a hippie named Zane, where unexpected connections begin to reshape his worldview.

Hi De Ho, Infecterino! is the first explosive installment of The Parasol Files, a mind-bending trilogy that blends apocalyptic chaos with dark humor, wild characters, and a sharp, satirical edge. Equal parts zany adventure, raunchy comedy, and biting commentary, this is a story of survival, evolution, and the absurdity of it all. Buckle up for a trippy, laugh-out-loud ride into the end of the world—and the strange possibilities it might bring.

Hi De Ho, Infecterino! The Come Up is available at Amazon.

 

Book Excerpt

“Carter?”

The line went dead as soon as the man sitting in the darkened office uttered the name. In the dusky light filtering in through gaudy Venetian blinds, a barely-visible haze of blue smoke wreathed the speaker’s head. He replaced the phone in its cradle, sighing as he did so. Then he pulled another draw on the cigarette. His face glowed a faint orange in the gloom.

White-haired, fat, well past the prime of his life, he had given everything he could to his career as a lawyer. At least, that was the party line he fed to others. In truth, he had given his life to himself, or at least tried to. In addition to the pounds of adipose tissue, he had the pounds Sterling to prove it - and to lose. Every single jiggling part of him had cringed before he picked up the phone to make the call to that bottom-feeding reporter, the one who had been dogging him for weeks.

Humphrey Carter: even the reporter’s name sounded made up, to go with his well-coiffed hair and plastic grin that he wore whenever he delivered his latest on the nightly news spot reserved for ‘hard-hitting investigative journalism.’ Carter was the guy who exposed an Anglican priest as a diddler with several child victims over the decades, a scandal at a pulp and paper mill involving glory holes, buggery, and married mill workers, and a former Labour MP’s connections with the Californian porn industry, among other sordid tales of perversion.

Carter might very well have been a lech himself, because all he ever did was shine a light on the dirty secrets of the local heavyweights. His latest scoop? He had discovered that Rufus Duhaim, one of the managing partners of London’s biggest corporate law firms, was living a double life,  splitting his time as a family man with the 2.3 kids and fancy apartment whilst also maintaining a loving relationship with a transgender prostitute from Germany named Greta. Or, as Duhaim’s starched-collar colleagues at the firm liked to call women like Greta, ‘tranny whore.’

The whole blackmail exchange with Carter was not surprising. For every Father Terry unmasked for the vicarious titillation of the masses, there must have been a dozen perverts still working their ‘magic’ in the closet of the various churches and freak havens like Buckingham Palace and the House of Lords. It was clear that Carter was earning well beyond the pay grade of an investigative journalist, what with the Bugatti sports car and the Italian suits that only men like Duhaim could afford. It stood to reason that Carter’s silence was for sale, and the price for said silence was a handsome one indeed.

– Excerpted from Hi De Ho, Infecterino! The Come Up by Andrew Marc Rowe, Sophic Press, 2024. Reprinted with permission.

About the Author

 

Born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Andrew Marc Rowe had no idea that the human psyche and the nature of reality were going to end up as his prime fascinations in life. Perhaps he had more than an inkling that he would not wake up one morning as a jock doing sports things, given his penchant for nerdiness like mythology and fantasy and science fiction, but matters of the spirit and philosophy were the furthest things from his mind as an adolescent. More his speed were the most puerile and juvenile expressions of toilet and sexual humour offered up on silver platters by stand-up comedians and nascent Internet peeps.

People grow up, though, or so Andrew has been told. His interests expanded, limited world views were shattered, horizons increased in scope. Mental health problems became intractable, psychedelic medicines and following one’s dreams were recognized for their curative powers. Atheism became raving pantheism became ‘wrong question, dude’ as Andrew found himself no longer young enough to know everything or believe anything. Instead, he finds himself writing characters who think they know everything.

If you really want to stroke Andrew’s ego, tell him you’ve never read anything like his work before. It makes his writing nearly impossible to market but at least I’ve got chicken, as young Leroy Jenkins once proclaimed to a bunch of nerds in the mid-aughts.

What’s that? You want bog-standard biographical info? Lawyer, father of one, man nearing middle age who gets his jollies pushing and bending and licking the literary envelope.

Happy?

Interview:

Where are you from?

I'm from a little city that happens to be as far east as you can go in North America, St. John's on the island of Newfoundland. That's pronounced New-finnd-land, not New-found-land or New-found-lund or whatever it is you Yanks or whomever is going to read this has cooked up in your mind. 'New finned land' if you want it in three separate and actual English words that gets the pronunciation in one go.

They say we're a friendly bunch.

Tell us your latest news?

Welp, on the writing front I have just finished the first drafts of the sequels to Hi De Ho, Infecterino!: The Come Up (The Parasol Files #1). Cerebrum Deficiency: The Lost Art Of Tripping Balls (The Parasol Files #2) and The Headshop At The Bellend Of The Universe: The Afterglow (The Parasol Files #3). It's a trilogy of novels, billed as A Psychedelic-Soaked Zombie Horror Comedy. I think it's apt - I came up with it!

On a personal note, this month I am back down in Peru, drinking ayahuasca in the jungle to try to map out a bit more of the bestial terrain that is my mind, a bit like that South African arsehole chap with a blunderbuss from the move Jumanji. Except I'm not hunting Robin Williams nor a cartoon villain out of a metaphysical board game, I'm just trying to keep my mind buttoned up by blowing it into cosmic bits.

When and why did you begin writing?

To answer that question, we'll have to go back, far back into the furthest reaches of time and space, to a little event known as the Big Bang...

I'm only being slightly facetious. To tell the story takes a lot more juice than what is reasonable to expect of you. The reality is, I feel like I was always meant to be a writer. To have chosen not to be a writer would probably have driven me mad. I mean, I'm already a bit mad, but I mean madder. Writing is like the pressure relief valve that keeps the insanity from boiling over. In short, I simply have got to, and that's all there is to it.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

Probably after my daughter was born and I wrote the first book that I published, The Yoga of Strength. Before that, I was like a kid trying to ride a bike but not able to figure out that the damn thing would ride itself if I just stopped worrying about it.

What inspired you to write your first book? 

The birth of my daughter, to a degree. But in terms of actual inspiration, I would say that going to Peru to drink ayahuasca for the first time in 2014 and 2015 and the lessons I learned in the two years after that of integrating what happened to me. That book was probably the most retrospective of my books. Everything since then has been prospective, as in I had not lived through the things that occurred... yet.

Do you have a specific writing style? 

Yup. It's my own. Built it myself. It's probably got a bit of Tolkien, of Paulo Coelho, of Irvine Welsh, of Stephen King, of Frank Herbert, of... well, of pretty much everyone else who came before me and whose work I absorbed through my eye holes. But it's my writing style and I'll be gorsh dorned if I'm going to apologize for it. You ought to be apologizing to me, for asking me a question like that.

How did you come up with the title? 

I actually thought that I was ripping off a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror with the name of the book: Hi De Ho, Infecterino! sounds like something zombie Flanders ought to have said to Homer in that episode where Bart accidentally raises the dead when he's trying to help bring Lisa's cat Snowball back. I know that Homer blasted him with a shotgun, and there is a bit of shotgun on zombie action in the book, thankfully. As for The Come Up, the subtitle to the novel, well, anyone who's encountered a psychedelic can tell you what that means.

Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?

Yes and no. I mean, I certainly hope that people laugh at my story. It's meant to be funny and absurd and filthy. I feel like a laugh is a fully formed philosophical statement, as Wittgenstein put it when he said that 'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.' When you look at the absurdity of life itself, really dig into the muck of these lives of ours, if you don't laugh, you cry. And, to paraphrase Joseph Campbell, the Greeks held the comedies as being a more fully realized understanding of life than tragedies. There is something in these ideas that not a soul on earth can truly communicate to one another. We each have to have our own experiences of divinity, if it's our 'job' in this lifetime to have an experience like that.

I like to mix the sacred and profane in my work, to really try to communicate the wholeness that I feel is at the heart of what we are. There is a lot of cause for pessimism in this world. The Parasol Files, though it deals with horrors and brutality and weirdness in equal measure, is a very bright and optimistic counterpoint. All of these apocalyptic tales seem to be endless hellscapes. The Walking Dead, for example, shows a world where the horror and brutality never ends. But everything ends eventually, even the bad stuff. The good stuff goes too quickly - we all know that. But the counter-point, that the bad stuff ends too, that is not as talked about as I would like.

As someone far wiser than me once put it, if you're going through Hell, keep going.

How much of the book is realistic? 

The setting is quasi realistic. The most research that went on in this series had to do with stuff like who was in charge of which country and when. I had to know that Francois Mitterand was the President of France in 1988, for example. To the extent that it's not set in some fantasy world is realistic. Do I really think that some weird Igor-like hunchback lady named Hester could come up with a fungal infection that develops into a hivemind like Starseed using jock itch and 80s DNA recombination technology? No. That definitely is not realistic.

Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life? 

I feel like each of my characters has something of me in them. I try to empathize with them, even the ones I see as evil. Darkness lurks in all of our hearts. When we self-righteously condemn each other for not being as perfectly in control of their shadows as we think we are of ours, then I think even then the darkness prevails. A friend once told me that all of my characters get redemption arcs and that is because that is the way I prefer to look at life. I don't think anyone is irredeemable. I obviously haven't had a serial killer harm a member of my family or been through something like the Holocaust, so I think I'm a bit privileged to be able to think that way, but I have traveled to Hell on multiple occasions. The Hells that psychedelics can bring you to can eclipse the suffering of this existence. Imagine if not only were you damned for a lifetime, but for all lifetimes into eternity? Imagine if there was no escape, not even death, from such isolation and torment? I think - I know - that I have been tested to the limits of what I can endure. When you go to realms where time loses meaning, where you truly understand eternity, the things you can experience might make any number of physical tortures sufferable, if only that you were not cut off from all of life forever.

Sometimes you just need a good dick joke to relieve that kind of pressure, and I feel like I'm Johnny on the spot with them.

What books have most influenced your life most? 

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was my first foray into fantasy. I remember watching the old Rankin/Bass cartoon on a tiny CRT in my parents' starter home when I was three or so. It's one of my earliest memories. I was a precocious reader and I think I read the book itself when I was six. That certainly caught my attention. Immediately before I discovered my process, I wrote out, chapter for chapter, The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho and my own last real shitty attempt at writing before I finally figured out how to do it. That definitely has had an impact. Stephen King's The Dark Tower deals with metaphysical themes, Irvine Welsh's stuff (particularly Filth and Glue and The Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs, but really, everything he's written that I've read has been solid gold), American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Dune by Frank Herbert. There are so many books I cannot name them all.

If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?

Probably Paulo Coelho, for the reason I cited above. He is a bit of a rhetorical type of writer, he has characters talk a bit of philosophy in his books. Mine definitely do the same. Fiction just seems a bit less preachy, and really, what the Hell do I know, except that I will be different tomorrow, and was different yesterday?

What book are you reading now? 

I'm listening to The Source, the third book in the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley. One of my favourite shows / series of books is The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro, which is a vampire story that seems a very scientific / biological apocalyptic tale at first, but turns out to be a mythological tour de force. Someone mentioned that it probably owed some of its body horror vampire heritage to Necroscope. I definitely see it, and definitely am loving Necroscope.

Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest? 

A fellow Atlantic Canadian author, Jennifer Shelby, wrote this book Care & Feeding Of Your Little Banned Bookshop and released it late 2024. It's one that is very much a propos of the moment, partly because it has a message of its own about free speech. There are those who are absolutists and those who believe it should be tempered owing to the damage that unfettered speech can do. Shelby's tale gives a very nuanced look at the issue, though I'd say it's pretty clear where she lands on it based on the book itself. What makes it a stand out piece of literature for me is the way that it presents the problem of the absolutist approach. As a guy who tries to second guess any absolutism in his own thinking, I can very much appreciate what she tries and succeeds in doing. I know that there are people who might dismiss it as a piece of 'woke' literature (to be fair, there's an LGBT flag on the cover), another salvo in the culture war, but if one reads the whole thing and looks a bit deeper at what is being communicated, I think it's one of the most human pieces of fiction I've encountered in the past couple of years.

What are your current projects? 

I'm finishing the rest of The Parasol Files, Cerebrum Deficiency: The Lost Art Of Tripping Balls (The Parasol Files #2) and The Headshop At The Bellend Of The Universe: The Afterglow (The Parasol Files #3) and releasing them in 2025. I also have a book of philosophy, Lounging Jaguar: A Leisurely Meat-Eating Heretic's Guide To That Mystical Wossname, coming out this year. The long-awaited fourth book in The Thoth Quadrilogy, Fly Me To The Moon: A True Lie (The Thoth Quadrilogy #4) will be coming as well. I also am taking up a new nom de plume, Lounging Jaguar, which is a story for another day, and I have started rewriting the original series of books that I released, The Yoga Trilogy, except that they will be a bit different. It will be set in a fantasy version of Newfoundland and will be called the Punk The Rock Trilogy and will be far more comedic than The Yoga Trilogy, albeit with some similar themes. They might be late 2025, early 2026, depending on how quickly they get written.

Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members? 

Definitely a little Facebook group headed by one Peter J. Foote of Nova Scotia called Genre Writers of Atlantic Canada. Though all of my writing defies genre, it would likely scandalize the esteemed ranks of the literary fiction lovers, and I feel more than at home at Peter's brainchild. It's well run, well moderated, and I get to yell and scream about my writing on a regular basis on the group.

What would you like my readers to know?

You've got far more power than you think. You've got a voice, you've got purpose, you're here for a reason. I'd say don't blow it, but I don't think that it's possible that you can blow it. You're loved for exactly who you are, no matter what.

And God doesn't give a flying frig whether you beat your meat or flick your bean.

Andrew Marc Rowe’s latest book is Hi De Ho, Infecterino! The Come Up.

Website & Social Media:

Website ➜ http://www.andrewmarcrowe.com 

Facebook ➜ https://www.facebook.com/andrewmarcrowe 

TikTok ➜ https://www.tiktok.com/@bawdybardwrites

 

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Rules for a Fake Fiancé by Katherine Lyons Teaser

Katherine Lyons is pleased to announce the release of her regency romance, Rules for a Fake Fiancé. Check out the gorgeous regency romance and read in Kindle Unlimited today!

Title: Rules for a Fake Fiancé

Author: Katherine Lyons

Genre: Regency Romance

About Rules for a Fake Fiancé:

A delightful Regency romance perfect for fans of Julia Quinn and Tessa Dare!   Melinda Smithson needs a husband - preferably one who appreciates her scientific mind. Trevor Anaedsley, future Duke of Timby, needs a temporary fiancé to secure his inheritance. Their fake engagement seems like the perfect solution...until real feelings start to complicate their clever scheme.   Between meddling families, dramatic duels, and a surprisingly combative turkey, Melinda and Trevor discover that matters of the heart can't be approached with scientific precision.   As London's high society watches their every move, can these two brilliant minds find the formula for true love?   Read in Kindle Unlimited!

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About the Author:

  Flirty, dirty and fun! That’s how Katherine Lyons likes her love stories. One would think that would lead her to contemporary romance, but she’s always loved the witty dialogue and hot, sexy humor of regency romance. She’s a big fan of The Bridgertons, Big Bang Theory (even though it’s over), and her favorite movie is The Avengers because she loves the MCU.  

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The Vision of the Quest by Kimberly Cole Excerpt, Teaser & Review

 

Alicia, Roger and Emily must unite against the forces of a warlord intent on destroying anyone who stands in his way.

 

 

 

Title: The Vision of the Quest

Author: Kimberly Cole

Pages: 326

Genre: Fantasy

Liana, a widowed mother of Alicia and Emily, is in a desperate situation. After her car breaks down on a desolate road, she feels lucky to have her daughter’s friend Roger with them. As they begin a trek to seek help, Liana has no idea that she, her daughters, and Roger are all about to embark on the adventure of their lives. After the group finally reaches the vast doors of a mansion in the middle of nowhere, they are greeted by an eerie butler, who leads them to Sir Bronze Pierce, the master of the mansion who soon captivates Liana with his charming personality. Roger and the rest of the group are slowly drawn, one-by-one, through a portal into a different time, where they are soon thrust into a battle with a wicked warlord whose ultimate goal is complete domination. It is up to Alicia, Roger, and Emily to bring back harmony and peace to these strange kingdoms. As the three young people seek the help of the king’s court — a loyal Griffin, a powerhouse rock man, and other valiant warriors– they must unite against the forces of a warlord intent on destroying anyone who stands in his way.

Praise:

“During the late hours of the night, Roger woke up abruptly. He thought he was dreaming; an evil presence drew him out of his bed and into the hallway. He walked through all kinds of twists and turns and stopped suddenly in front of a door needing a repainting…In the center was a narrow slide with a small opening. ‘Look and see! Look and see!’ the voices called him out and urged him on. Bit-by-bit, Roger looked into the slot…” So begins a suspenseful, page-turning, dark fantasy read in the spirit of work like Terry Brooks, Stephen King, Gary Dauberman, and even the author’s literary inspiration, C.S. Lewis, who shares the author’s faith.

What Kimberly Cole does not have in terms of out-and-out, one hundred percent originality, she more than makes up for in terms of overall ideological presentation, characterization, and rich, immersive worldbuilding. You really feel like you’re experiencing a fast-paced fever dream if you delve into the text. There really is this sense of total, emotive immersion in the stakes at play, likely coming from the decidedly personal origins of the work. Cole herself clearly has decided to make this her passion project. The choices feel as much informed by superb storytelling technique, as they do by Cole’s unique vision. Cole herself states the following: “(The Vision of the Quest) was a test for me to write. At times, I struggled to tell my story…pushing on always, faith pulled me through to my goal. This book is special to me because I was talking with my husband sharing how I would love to write a book like Narnia with three children…The next morning my daughter, Meghan, had awoken from her sleep. She came to me excited saying, ‘Mom, I had an awesome dream with three children and their mother stranded on a dark road. I came to a mansion and knocked on a door when a butler answered’. She said there was an evil man named Sir Bronze Pierce and then I had taken the story from there. I could not have completed this book first without God’s help and my husband’s support.”

Indeed, Sir Bronze Pierce is one of the juiciest dark fantasy villains to grace the pages of a work like this in some time. He has this kind of dramatic, old-fashioned menace that at once retains a good sense of fun, while not shying away from what the narrative needs to be. I’m a big fan of a good, scary villain to raise the stakes for our heroes and heroines, and Sir Bronze Pierce is no exception to this. Again, this kind of quality likely comes from the work being intensely personal for Cole. Core aspects of the narrative are inspired by Cole’s daughter’s dreams, which adds a poetic and innocent quality to even the darker aspects of the story, and necessarily menacing scenes. The Christian element is also intriguing. More often than not, popular genre work with Christian themes tends to lean into distinctly paranormal, if not paranormal horror stories. Seeing something appealing to a wide audience with Christian themes is compelling, and a bit different from the usual, pantheistic nature of fantasy. — Cyrus Rhodes

The Vision of the Quest is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Ewings Publishing LLC.

 

Book Excerpt

Melanie ran out of matches. She could no longer stand beside Liana but behind her. She realized the tunnel was growing smaller when her hand hit the wall. She felt the cold, hard rock. The young girl yelled out in absolute fear, “We’re going to die in here!” Frightened, she threw her arms around the back of Liana’s curvy waist things looked hopeless. Liana had her doubts and wondered whether they would make it out of there. She whispered in fear. “What would become of my children” ?  Her hopes were beginning to diminish.

Quantum heard in Liana’s voice disappointment. He unflinchingly said out loud, “My lady, go with the encouraging Spirit that’s deep inside your soul. I discovered the day you entered Congo’s land I sensed a power within you that I do not quite understand. I do know this unlimited power you possess can overcome any fear that tries to lay hold of your conscience. Lift it up! Believe in this strength that lives within your being. There is nothing that can stop you, not even fear itself. This is your time! Grasp it and lead us to safety.

– Excerpted from The Vision of the Quest by Kimberly Cole, Ewings Publishing, 2024. Reprinted with permission.

About the Author

 

Kimberly Cole was born in Baltimore and raised in Millersville, Maryland. She grew up in a very small home with six brothers and sisters. This was the beginning of where the fuse was lit with great expectations of creating stories to be read throughout the world. She completed high school at Old Mill High. Her hobbies are writing novels and reading good books. She finds it an enjoyment to help others by giving to charities, because they go to places she cannot be and charities impact lives which she may never get to see.  Ms. Cole’s favorite authors are C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Frank Peretti (Piercing the Darkness). 

Website & Social Media:

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My Review:

This story is about a mother who has run out of luck. Her husband died, she lost her house and now her car has died in the middle of nowhere in the dark. There is no cell service either. She has her two young daughters and a friend of theirs with her. As her kids grow weary she decides to walk somewhere for help. She finds a house and knocks. A butler answers. He can not let them use his phone, because it is out of service due to the storm. He offers to let them stay for the night. The house is a beautiful mansion. The eating area is bigger than the school cafeteria! There is a lot of description. The family soon realizes that the butler seems to be out of touch and from a different time. There is not even running water for the bathroom, and no toilet. Roger also sees something that leads him to believe that he is dreaming. The next morning the homeowner arrives and he is no less wacky than his butler. Between her car being out of commission for days and having nowhere to go, Liana decides to stay. There are weird happenings from Sir Bronze wanting the children's jewelry to him hitting on Liana. He even thinks to himself about getting rid of the children. He is not a good man. Liana and the children soon enter into a new strange world. What I liked about the new kingdom was that it was based on the Bible. Characters and beings that I have heard of before, make this a fast read. King James is the good guy and the newcomers join his court. Characters like a Griffin, and Cain and Abel make for an interesting read. I did think that this was an epic tale that was very big and grand. There was also a cliffhanger at the end. I did like the ending though, especially the twist at the end. I am giving this book a 4/5. I recommend to those who like, a family that fights together against all odds, and stories based on the Bible. I was given a copy, all opinions are my own.   

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Coat of Many Colors by Deanndra Hall Teaser & Excerpt

 

Title: Coat of Many Colors 

Author: Deanndra Hall 

Genre:  Cozy Mystery 

Release Date: January 6, 2025 

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

A dangerous killer, a psychic, and the coat that has all the answers …

Maisey and Aaron Friedman (Justice for Maisey) are enjoying married life and their new blended family. But everything changes after the social worker’s simple trip to a consignment shop where she finally purchases a coat she's had her eye on.

Despite Aaron deeming the coat "ugly," Maisey still loves the garment, and she’s sure he’ll love it too when she models it for him. But when she wakes up on the floor with her deputy sheriff husband standing over her, concern in his eyes, Maisey knows something is terribly wrong. The coat’s sad origin reveals an unsolved slaying, and without the victim to help them, the Friedmans begin their attempts to solve the case using the secrets the coat reveals in Maisey’s psychic visions as their only clues.

But as they delve deeper into the mysteries of the coat, the murderer refuses to allow them to uncover the truth. Suddenly, Maisey’s security is in question, leaving Aaron and his crew of hometown heroes to strategize ways of keeping her safe while unearthing the identity of the culprit. The coat comes with answers, but will those answers be the catalyst that puts them all in danger?

AMAZON 

The room went black. And then there was a person, their features partially obscured by a hoodie, looming over her and yelling without words, but she could see their lips moving, and they were positively terrifying. Was it a man? A woman? She tried to back up, but she couldn’t. Something was behind her, and the figure came closer. In an instant, there was the flash of something shiny somewhere near the center of her body and she felt the slice of a knife’s blade as it entered her midsection, felt the warmth of blood on her skin, felt herself sinking as the figure bent over her, still yelling, their face even more hidden. There was a flash of light, and she gasped as she opened her eyes.

“Babe! Babe, are you okay? Maisey? Talk to me, baby! Are you all right? Maisey, come on. Talk to me.”

“Whaaa, what happened?”

“You just fell out, honey, flat on your back, like you were in a trance.”

“I don’t know. Somebody … Aaron, somebody stabbed me.”

He peered down at her. “Honey, there’s nobody here but us.”

“No. You don’t understand. Somebody … It was dark, and somebody was coming toward me, and I saw something flash, and I felt it sink into my skin, and there was something warm and wet on my skin, like blood, and I felt weak and tired and …” She stopped. “Did I say anything?”

“You were mumbling something. I think it was ‘no,’ but I’m not sure. Can you sit up?”

She didn’t get a chance to stand before he bent down, scooped her up, and lifted her in his arms. “I’m okay, really. I think I’m okay,” she said as he plopped down on the sofa and held her in his lap.

“Are you sure? We can go to the hospital and have you―”

Something felt funny. What was it? It dawned on her in an instant. “Oh, god.”

Aaron swept her hair back and away from her face, then grasped her chin between his thumb and forefinger. “What? What’s wrong?”

“The coat.”

Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).

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