Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 320 Johnny Ultra Written by Kristoffer Gair Not all heroes are adults. Tragedy struck Gabriel Fletcher at the age of eight. Losing his parents felt catastrophic enough, but to be sent to live with his aunt and uncle who didn’t want him? Life couldn’t get much worse. Sho Tashiro only ever wanted a best friend—someone to share adventures and play video games with—and who wouldn’t make fun of his heritage or treat him like a sidekick. Little d

August 2026 Disclaimer... I am not an affiliate with this company; I am not a paid spokesperson... I simply love this tool, and I wanted to share my love of it with you. I am an "old school" writer. I love swimming deep into the oceans of creativity, sifting through the silt of everything floating around in my imagination to craft new ideas and add layers of depth to my stories. I love the angst of creation, struggling through different concepts and finding conflicts that m

July 2026 The basic function of a power inverter is to translate power found in one form that is somewhat inaccessible into another form that can be accessed more easily. So, you take a 12-volt plug (that round thing in your car that us old folks used to call a “cigarette lighter” but is now called an “accessory power plug”), plug in a box with fancy wiring inside, and add a standard AC plug on the outside. That gives you the ability to use a different piece of equipment –

Click Cover To Order! There is no better example of artful prose and diversity of talent than Kristoffer Gair. A master storyteller (and a genuinely kind human), he runs the gamut from the sublimely touching to the craftily creepy to the spectacularly snarky… and sometimes, he hits all those marks in a single book. His novels are simply unputdownable! In his latest, Jonny Ultra, an adventure novel for young adults, he again blurs the lines of reader demographics with a sto

Click The Cover To Order! Book Two in The Eternal Forever series by Andrew Allen Smith has arrived, and it was well worth the wait! I read this book in just two days, so overpowered by the characters and the intrigue of what might come next, I could not allow its release on my imagination for any longer than it took to eat and sleep. Morgan has survived for thousands of years alone, devastated by heartbreak and cautioned by the realization that having a social conscience can

Click The Cover To Order! What comes first, the story, or the reality the story is based on? It’s a question nearly every author has asked themselves as they create plots and subplots sprinkled with their life experiences and enhanced to reach the suspicious edges we imagine. In this fast-paced, sometimes psychological thriller, sometimes traditional horror, the lines between an author’s imagination and the reality of crimes that mirror the storytelling… woven into the tapest

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 319 Blanc LaBelle and the Troll's Daughter Written by Nicholas Westbrook Mira stands between two worlds: a half-troll who never knew her human father. She wouldn’t blend in with humans and the other trolls in her clan consider her mother a traitor for loving her. When her mother passes away, Mira breaks free of the Under into the Above, navigating the human world in search of a new home. Matt hadn’t expected a magical world hiding beneath H

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 318 The Ballad of Inyanna Mortseoule Book One in The Myths of Endolia Series Written by MT Lynx LISTENER ADVISORY: STRONG LANGUAGE, MATURE SITUATIONS In a war-torn kingdom, love becomes a weapon, and betrayal ignites a relentless thirst for vengeance. In the battle-scarred realm of Endolia, where political intrigue coils through court and battlefield alike, loyalty is fragile, and passion can be deadly. Lady Inyanna Mortseoule has long resist

Twenty-four children between five and seven years old and four adults. What could possibly go wrong? “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round…” I never thought I could enjoy a song less than “Baby Shark,” but here it was, in surround sound, volume on stun, in in various octaves. The drive from the school to the zoo was only eight miles. Still, I think I heard that chorus at least twelve dozen times because repetition, evidently, is the fou

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 317 What The Frizz?! How to Take Care of Your Wavy or Curly Hair No Dry Brushing Written by Stacy Schilling Rachel dry brushes her wavy hair and it always ends up frizzy and poofy! Her mom thinks dry brushing wavy hair is okay. Rachel is sad that her wavy hair looks frizzy and poofy. She wants to have pretty wavy hair. Rachel seeks help from The Frizz Girls and wants to know if it’s okay to brush her wavy hair, dry. Read and learn why The F

June 2026 There’s a lot that goes into becoming an Author. We study craft: outlining, plot development, and pacing. We steal the physical and emotional mannerisms of the strangers we encounter (and sometimes the people we know well). We eavesdrop on conversations in cafés and restaurants. We study maps. We go on deep-dive Google rabbit holes to validate hunches, and don’t dare erase our browser history in case we need to triple-check that information… even though we know

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 316 Marrow and Other Stories Miniatures Eight Women the Day They Turned Forty Written by Nora Gold LISTENER ADVISORY: Mature Situations The stories in this book are about women: passionate, intelligent, eccentric women, all of whom in their own way are struggling to find meaning, overcome grief, and become, somehow, more fully alive – whether intellectually, emotionally, or sexually. One of them is obsessed with irrigating a desert, another w

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 315 What The Frizz?! How to Take Care of Your Wavy or Curly Hair Find Your Hair Type Written by Stacy Schilling The Frizz Girls are a new kid's picture book series aimed at teaching young girls ages 5-13 on how to take care of their wavy or curly hair. For many young girls, some have parents, grandparents and guardians that don't know how to teach their young ones how to properly care for their wavy or curly hair. Adults also label a child'

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 314 Doubles Written by Nora Gold Doubles takes place in 1968 in an institution for troubled youth, and is told from the perspective of a brilliant, spunky, 12-year-old girl who is obsessed with math. Engagingly written and often funny, this novella explores how a sensitive young teenager changes over a six-month period from a polite, quiet “good girl” into a delinquent. Although set in the past, Doubles has direct relevance to today, with o

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