Directions in Paradox Comix by John F. Elliott presents stories, wisdom to live by, and humor. You can read it as a philosophical manifesto or therapy guide. Some readers will simply enjoy the illustrations, which are very symbolic. The author cleverly builds maxims into templates...

Rage of the Skinwalker opens a new supernatural fiction trilogy blended with historical fiction, Case Files from the Nightfall Detective Agency, by award-winning author David Alyn Gordon. The story unfolds during World War II. Responding to the mass anti-Japanese hysteria after the bombing of Hawaii’s...

Jessa White's Liked introduces Jersey Mau, a clever yet depressed seventeen-year-old Beverly Hills teen who has never felt chosen. It is a story about mental illness and internet fame. Jersey’s mother abandons the family for a new life in China. Sherman, her father, runs the...

Bunny’s Big Day of Sounds by Cansu Ozer is a fun and educational book for young children. The illustrations and playful color palette created by Febriyana Fadillah work perfectly as the book encourages early speech and verbal imitation skills in toddlers and children with speech...

In Ellen Barker’s Lulu in the Loop, twenty-two-year-old Louise “Lulu” Johnson spends the summer in University City, Missouri, living in the apartment of her older sister Novelle, who has left St. Louis for a year-long academic fellowship. Lulu is about to enter her final year...

Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

In the continent of Riolta, lustite is a useful mineral that’s always in demand. However, man-made schemes and inhuman horrors fill the mines’ depths. Nicolas Brennan lives blissfully unaware of all this, despite ruling the kingdom of Myren. As the “Daft King,” Nic stays in...

In Katherine Wheelwright’s Bound by Prophecy, eighteen-year-old Elandria, a herbalist’s granddaughter, is trapped in Davenwood beneath the rule of her cruel uncle Boris. After discovering he plans to sell her into marriage, she steals back her mother’s strange medallion as escape becomes her only goal....

Stefan Vucak’s Final Limit follows President Samuel Walters as a confrontation with China in the South China Sea collides with an event beyond earthly politics. An enormous craft appears near the Moon, slows under its own power, then settles in the Procellarum-Imbrium Basin, where strange...

Echoes is a collection of eleven short stories by Matthias Meinhardt. The stories blend fiction and historical realism, spanning twelve thousand years. First, we find ourselves in the early human settlements of Southwest Asia and the ancient Sumerian city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia. The stories...

Kate: Seamwalker is a wonderful magical fantasy adventure by talented author Gypsy McKnight. The story takes us to Boston, USA. Twenty-five-year-old unemployed Kate Jullator is desperately looking for a job, but she keeps getting rejections. Suddenly, she receives a lucrative offer that feels too good...

Rich Petrelli’s The Black Chalice explodes from the very first page. Dr. Konstantin Volkov releases a bioweapon into a subway in Manhattan, creating a Piston Effect: each arriving train becomes a piston, driving the aerosolized mist through crowded platforms and into the lungs of thousands....

Audra never expected to call off her meticulously planned wedding, but what else could she do when the groom was still in love with his ex? Humiliated yet determined to stay strong, her bibliophile self turns to a self-help book. She tries to follow the...

Conversational Kung Fu by Cassandra Walsh is a guide to handling conversations in which another person tries to transfer their discomfort onto you. Walsh explains how language can create guilt that makes the listener feel responsible for fixing an exchange. The book focuses on recognizing...

Marvin North’s A Trail of Darkness follows Zeferti Camden, a newly recognized mage in Witen who can cast spells in silence. During her graduation ceremony at the sacred Dreamen Tree, Zeferti discovers signs of Corruption inside the water used to bless every mage’s staff. Soon,...

In A.V. Harlow’s Ellie Harlow and the Secret Light of Yosemite, we meet Ellie, a character who experiences everyday sights and sounds with an intensity that can easily get overwhelming. While hanging out at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Max, her fast-talking best friend,...

The Harlot of St. Cecelia’s is a fabulous, cozy murder mystery that opens the Inspector Garrett Mysteries series by talented author Darcy Graves. The story transports us to London, 1923. The assistant head librarian at St. Cecelia’s Library in Dayneton discovers the body of a...

Extropia by Jae Darcy is set in a future where the wealthy live wired into a virtual world called the Inside while everyone else survives in the ruins left behind. Bache Parker lost his own connection to that world years ago after a hack went...

In Bound Maiden: Daphne’s Chase by Eva Darcy, we meet a nineteen-year-old river nymph who resolutely turns her back on marriage to live a wild life in the woods. Daphne’s unwavering devotion to Artemis becomes her guiding light until a Titan-blooded basilisk begins terrorizing Arkady,...

Dinofloria: A Prehistoric Fantasy by Kevin Wakefield is a remarkable collection of illustrated poems that gives voices to the creatures and plants of the prehistoric era. Each menagerie of the dinosaurs, insects, and flora has a poem that is narrated in the first person—an armored...