Click The Cover To Order! She was everything her mother told her not to be, and still, it hadn’t made a difference. Raised in a highly conservative family with the tumult of propriety everywhere she turned, it was difficult to win. She dressed well, had impeccable manners, and a dowry large enough to capture preeminent suitors... and still, it wasn’t enough. She wanted something more, something different. One day, he came to her door, roses in one hand and a marriage propo

The cabins were old, older than any other building I’d ever seen. Even though there were some slats in the siding missing, and I was sure a strong wind could topple them easily, I was grateful. I’d been on this route for at least two hours, avoiding the dedicated trail, desperately trying to find a place to hide. Wintertime is no time to be out in the elements unprotected, but I would rather fight the specters of snow and ice, with the threat of losing my fingers and toes

Liza led me from Twain's Inn, through the fog of Purgatory, to just outside Hell's Gate. "Well, this is as far as I go. Enjoy your trip to Hell. I'm sure it will be great fun for you." There was a twinkle in her eye and a gentle smirk on her lips as she walked back into the fog. I had a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. It's the same feeling you get after an enema... a little knotted, a little gassy, and the most uncomfortable sensation that you

"Do you believe in True Love?" he asked, pausing for what he hoped would be a small effect. "Not the kind of love they show you in the movies where everything is perfect and sunshine. I mean True Love. You know, the kind of love that's hard-won, the kind you can only find with one other person on the whole planet?" His gaze drifted away aimlessly. "The kind of love that lasts through all the nonsense the world can dish out and never goes away? The kind of love that

Have you ever considered writing under a pseudonym, and why or why not? I’ve thought about it briefly, but in the end I knew that I wanted people to know it was me. I didn’t have a reason to create a character to hide behind. If I was going to be doing all the work to promote and write my book? I wanted to be seen for it. What is your “go-to” method for working through or around writer’s block? My “Go-To” is to write something bad. It sounds silly, but a lot of times just th

Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode #321 Whoodah Hitchin's Book Two of the Whoodah Series Written by TK Cassidy The Whoodah girls are back again! Safe on the farm with the new men in tow, there is nothing left to do but get married! Not just one wedding will do. Oh, no! Not with these three characters. Think my Big Fat Greek Wedding times three. From runaway horses to a crazed barn rat, these weddings will keep you wondering what's next and giggling into your coffee! Watch for

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

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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