One choice can change the course of a life. In this short story collection, featuring different genres, the characters make the best decisions they can at a certain moment in time. Don’t we all face this dilemma at different points in our lives? We do the best we can and hope for no regrets. $0.99 on Kindle.
Of Dust and Tides
Comet Fox
Free: Twisting in Headstands and Heavy Drinking
In an unruly Midwest town, Tristan – a college fraternity president – pinballs between failed relationships in an unholy battle with depression. Locked in savage self-abuse at the hands of booze and cigarettes – and surrounded by a collection of part-time degenerates he calls, “Brothers” – Tristan must confront his own inner turmoil, as he searches desperately for some main vein of American life in the swirling backdrop of mental illness. Free on Kindle.
Venice Beach: A Novel
Finn, a hard-drinking and cantankerous Irish writer, is in the midst of a downward spiral. After the death of his wife, he finds himself penniless and with nowhere to go but West to live with his daughter in Venice Beach. There he meets an eccentric cast of determined survivors who help give him the inspiration to get back to the success he once knew. As soon as he feels ready to dig his way out of the darkness, he finds himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation that threatens his life as he has come to know it. $2.99 on Kindle.
The Ruelani Chronicles: The Chamber
A medically discharged army ranger, Kyle thought his life was set. Forcing himself to work through his injuries and relaxing in the evenings on his lonely, if beautiful acreage. He missed the army and his ranger buddies, but then life is what it is. Little did he know that the life he thought he had was about to change.
While walking a new section of his land, he discovered a mystery. Doing a little exploring he finds a chamber buried in inside a hill. It was most definitely not natural, but it also seemed harmless. He should never have gone in. Or maybe he was meant to?
In any case, he fell asleep in the chamber, and upon leaving it, he finds that the world he finds himself in isn’t the same as the one he left.
Kyle soon discovers that he has awoken in a world called Ruelani. One where men are rare. Where women protect the few men that are born. Where men are little more than pets throughout most of the world. And they’d never be allowed to do anything hazardous. Like, say. join the army.
Beyond the world being different, Kyle finds that he is different. Better. In fact, he is more than human. Much more.
Luckily the nation he woke to is one of the very few that give men a bit more freedom and respect. They even have a King. And a need for a different kind of man. A man like Kyle.
And for a soldier, a ranger, this is world is shocking. Where a man is expected to be frail, weak, meek and know their place. All the things that Kyle isn’t and could never be.
But then war is coming to the land. And war is something he does understand. $4.99 on Kindle.
Off-Ramp to the Void
Shift Change
Anyone can work in a convenience store, but some people really shouldn’t…
James Sims is a recent college graduate who has done everything by the book, but that doesn’t mean that he has actually done anything right. He has done everything but figure out what he is going to do with the rest of his life, and thus he finds himself working nights at the busiest gas station in a small Michigan town. It’s the last place he should be. $6.99 on Kindle.
Free: Daughter of the Town
Free: Beneath all this Beauty – Poems and Photographs
The book “Beneath all this beauty” combines poetry with photographs, written media and visual media. Poetry that comes out gushing, crying and kicking, laughing and hitting, while touching different issues.
Photographs were chosen that envelope the poems, adding a visual component that enriches the reading experience, and offers the reader an additional experiential dimension. Free on Kindle.
Pianist in a Bordello
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?
Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisors, he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.
And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all.
He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become.
Are voters really ready for the whole truth?
Are you?
Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises. $0.99 on Kindle.
The One-Way Time Traveler
Free: Where Eagles Dare Not Perch
Zachary Webster was an innocent Maine farm boy before becoming a sharpshooter, but the violence of the Civil War battlefields has turned him into a natural killer. While home on his unit’s month-long furlough, he murders the man he believes has stolen his beloved. If you enjoyed Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, you should like this book. Free on Kindle.
Danny Smashed
Born to an unstable mother whose death leaves him in the clutches of a sexual predator, sixteen-year-old Danny escapes from a commune in the northern Arizona desert and makes his way to Los Angeles. In a short time, the spectacularly handsome teen lands a modeling contract with a small West Hollywood talent agency. Cunning and charismatic, his climb to celebrity status is meteoric. But as true A-list stardom comes within his reach, Danny is jailed for a grievous crime that neither society nor Hollywood, can forgive. $4.99 on Kindle.
Finding Mary
Can you fall in love with somebody who will be gone by the end of the year?
Is it wise to even try?
What happens to the path our lives take after a tragedy?
Can we ever really recover when something truly evil happens?
Janey, India and Hannah have to answer all of these questions in 2006. The year begins with a terrible tragedy where they work and, if the truth be told, it scares the shit out of them.
That is until Gabe arrives in their sleepy town called Wray. Gabe doesn’t seem to have any past or any explanation as to where he has come from. But he seems to be on a mission to get tangled up in the girls’ lives. Will he succeed in saving them? And save them from what? $0.99 on Kindle.
My Name Is Sam
The morning sky is dark with rolling clouds as I sit on a boardwalk bench in Seaside Heights, NJ, just reflecting about how blessed my life has been. The waves are anxious, pounding the pristine sand in a precise, rapid rhythm. The boardwalk is empty except for a few early morning gulls and a man standing by the rail about 100 feet away. As I huddle here, I close my eyes, soaking in the sounds of the surf, the fresh, clean smell of the air, the feel of the salt air enveloping me in the gentle breeze. Through the veil I sense the clouds suddenly open. When I open my eyes I could see the gray sky punctuated by shades of morning pink and blue with a pure white center. You can’t see the sun but know it is just behind that one puffy, thin cloud. Rays shoot out in all directions. Immediately my thoughts dart to my early Religion class days and thinking…heaven is still shining through. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Town with No Roads
An enchanting follow-up to Siple’s award-winning debut, “The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride,” this is a story of forgiveness and redemption. When a woman begins finding notes from her comatose father, miracle fever takes over the town. This touching story explores the strength of a father’s love. Free on Kindle.
Triangle of Hope
If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do. Inspirational journey of friendship and hope. Filled with grit and determination, three people with three different problems converge in a small Irish town to form a Triangle of Hope against all odds. Together they take a courageous stand that will forever change their world and that around them. $0.99 on Kindle.
Lincoln’s Lawman #1 Sixguns or Surrender
Once the vanguard of a new breed of marshals envisioned by the slain president, the formidable Nash Riker upholds his sworn duty on America’s newest battlefield, the lawless West.With McKenna, his deputy, confidant and best friend all rolled into the form of his twin sister, at his side, Riker endlessly patrols the western landscapes delivering justice and bringing hope.
The siblings’ drive to deliver law and order is matched only by their embrace of sizzling encounters with the opposite sex as they fight to restore order and vanquish villainy wherever they might encounter it.Now its sixguns or surrender when a would be dictator seeks to seize an entire High Sierra town for himself leaving Riker to rally the citizens in revolt to reclaim their town or die trying!
The Riker’s adventures, be it braving the sometimes-violent west or their sizzling escapades with the opposite sex are recommended for mature readers who, are 18+ years of age and above. $2.99 on Kindle.
Whispers Among The Prairie
Journey through the prairie lands of The American West and join Black Kettle, the Great Southern Cheyenne leader who tries to save his people from destruction of their way of life. His adopted daughter, Morning Dove befriends Captain Clinton McKay of the US Calvary, changing both their lives in unexpected ways. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Dead of August
The Unexpected Journeys of Lawrence Tyrone: A Novel
“A hard-drinking man. A dented Harley. A detour to an unexpected future.”
Professor Lawrence Tyrone didn’t have a drinking problem or an obsession with his ex-wife until he discovered she was marrying his brother. When crashing the wedding with disastrous results leaves him divorced for a second time, unemployed and close to rock bottom, Tyrone moves to the country, buys a Harley and starts taking riding lessons from a secretive Polish expat.
Isolated out in the country, far from his usual haunts and routines, Tyrone gets caught up in the lives of several unpredictable characters – his neighbors and their Labrador dog (who has a mind of her own), his street-smart riding instructor, a rebellious young girl, a gambler and a medical resident caught in a love triangle.
Meddling in other people’s lives forces Tyrone to confront his own failings. For the first time in his life he wants to be a different man, but there’s that lifetime of bad habits and bad behavior to overcome. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Eclipse Dancer
When Andy turned thirteen, she found out that she was not completely human and she fell in love.
Andy, the trailer trash daughter of an alcoholic, met a nature spirit and learned that she, too, was part of the magic of the forests and rivers, a member of the wild hare clan of fairies. She found, with her fairy relatives, the wonder and delight that had been missing from her home life. But the summer of magic ended, and Andy was left to grow up on her own. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Hypnotist’s Assistant
Free: Tali Nohkati
Creators of the World, Coyote and the Moon pay special attention to the only survivor of a blazing fire, Tali Nohkati, as the child takes his first steps. At the end of a long journey rich in animal encounters that takes him from the White Land to the Land of the Red Earth, Tali is finally adopted by a tribe. Free on Kindle.
Finger of an Angel
Psychological, Magical, Mad, Lily’s journey on a long winding road and beyond…
“Cacoyannis is known for his introspective protagonists, but in this exceptional novel he delves even deeper, excavating the darkest corners of the psyche. An erudite, richly layered, and unsettling psychological tale.” Kirkus Reviews $0.99 on Kindle.