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Indie Reads Aloud with T.L. Shively and "Spider's Awakening"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 240 Spider's Awakening Written by T.L. Shively  Unwanted. Unloved. Battling to survive among the gods...
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Indie Reads Aloud: Ashley Grant and "If The King Falls"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 239 If The King Falls Written by Ashley Grant  LISTENER ADVISORY: MATURE SITUATIONS In If the King...
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Inside The Indie Author: A Conversation with Nevah Ann
Have you ever considered writing under a pseudonym, and why or why not? My first short story was published under my real name in an...
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Indie Reads Aloud: Nevah Ann and "Double-Edged War: Taking Flight"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 237 Double-Edged War: Taking Flight Written by Nevah Ann  LISTENER ADVISORY: STRONG LANGUAGE, MATURE...
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Indie Reads Aloud: Samantha Bryant and "Going Through The Change"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 233 Going Through The Change Menopausal Superhero Series Book One Written by Samantha Bryant  "The...
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Inside The Indie Author: A Conversation with Amy Klco
April 2025 Have you ever considered writing under a pseudonym, and why or why not? Probably not, but I would if I had something to share...
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Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Click The Cover To Order! This was a spectacularly captivating book. I read this collection not having been tremendously familiar with...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1) by Ransom Riggs
Click The Cover To Order! If you're looking for a story that draws you in and makes you think... and then go back to re-read just so you...
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
This is a well-crafted foray into the possibilities of a different sort of reincarnation. We found the book to be a little difficult to...
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The Accidental Alchemist (An Accidental Alchemist Mystery #1) by Gigi Pandian
Click The Cover to ORder! This is a extraordinary story with surprises at nearly every turn. There is a lovely spice of wonderment when a...
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Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Click The Cover To Order! Okay folks, I know I'm seriously late coming to this party... but I'm glad I made it! The well on this one...
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European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss
Click The Cover To Order! This is the second installment of this series... a story about Mary Jekyll, Diana Hyde, Catherine Moreau,...
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Only You by Benjamin Daniels
Click The Cover To Order! This was a most curious book. I've never read anything quite like it before. The narrator is the book itself,...
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They Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel by Jasper Fforde
Click The Cover To Order! As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a tremendous fan of series fiction. It’s often frustrating to me when I read...
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Zebulon by R.L. Heron
Click The Cover To Order! Written by friend, and fellow Indie Author, R.L. Herron, this is an interesting collection of short stories. ...
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Dragon Box: The Key to Magic by Nancy B. Kemler-Oakley
I discovered this magical story while visiting The Book Cottage in Jackson, Michigan. Tucked unassumingly in the Local Author section,...
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Unbound by J.A. Bullen
Click The Cover To Order! Although Viking lore is not usually in my reading wheelhouse, I was tremendously pleased to read this epic tale...
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The Origin of the White Wind by Xander Cross
Click The Cover To Order! Admittedly, the closest I’ve come to indulging in Asian literary influences were Sidhartha  from a Far Eastern...
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Excerpts From An Unknown Guidebook: Book 1 Phases of The Moon by Josef Bastian
Click The Cover To Order! I’m so happy to have read this book! Although it is written with middle-grade and early young adult readers in...
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Mystekos Summer by Amy Klco
Click The Cover To Order! I loved this story! It was a wonderful return to my pre-teen years spent fantasizing my days away between the...
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