Sandcastle for Pegasus is the story of Martin Taylor, a devoted husband and father of a mentally challenged son. Martin’s world is torn apart when, Candy, who suffers from a similar condition, vanishes. A story of time and alternate realities, and within those challenges, finding inner strength in an ever-changing environment. $0.99 on Kindle.
Sandcastle for Pegasus
Free: Battlegroup Z
Thirty-five years of peace. One vicious attack destroys it all.
Reservist Lieutenant Justin Spencer loves every minute of flying fighters through space during his annual two-week tour with the Coalition Defense Force. The job back home isn’t nearly as thrilling as blowing up asteroids with the squadron under his command, but it keeps him close to his wife and daughter. After all, joining the CDF was only for the free education. Justin never expected a battle, much less a war.
With one shot across his cockpit, peacetime fades into memory.
An unexpected enemy emerges with overwhelming force designed to obliterate the Terran Coalition. The League of Sol has a different name, but it’s the same communist regime that chased away much of Earth’s population hundreds of years ago.
Illusions of returning home are shattered in a single instant. Simulated battles become all too real, and it’s full-on engagement or permanent elimination. Death and destruction erupt across the Terran Coalition and leave Justin in a protracted war with only one truth remaining.
The battlefield will leave no one unscathed. Free to $2.99 on Kindle.
Epic Fallacy Trilogy
Murland Kadabra has always dreamed of becoming a great wizard. However, at age 19, the young apprentice has yet to successfully cast a single spell. He has been reduced to grounds keeper of Abra Tower, and has become the laughing stock of the wizarding school. But when the Most High Wizard Kazimir chooses him to be one of the five Champions of the Dragon, Murland’s life changes forever.
He soon finds himself traveling through the wilds with four unlikely companions, including an alcoholic knight, a gay elf prince, a dwarf with humanism, and an obese ogre. Prophecy dictates that these champions must march west to the shadowy peak of Bad Mountain, where they are destined to do battle with the dreaded dragon of legend, Drak’Noir.
Champions of the Dragon is now a USA Today Bestseller & 2017 Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal Winner in the Fiction – Fantasy – General genre!
But what few people know, is that the prophecy is not altogether true. For it is not five champions who Kazimir chooses, but five fools. They are not meant to defeat the dragon, but to feed her.
To change their fate, the Champions of the Dragon must not only overcome their enemies, but also themselves. $0.99 on Kindle.
Run Lab Rat Run
Free: The Awakening
Haunted by a gilded ability she cannot control, Luminear finds herself trapped in an unfathomable and inescapable fate that offers but one chance at victory; a victory that comes at a price perhaps too great. A treacherous shadow from a forgotten age awakens and spreads its destruction to bring a new era of turmoil. Chaos ensues when all eyes—ally and foe alike—fall on Murnia’s Northern Realm. Attacked on two fronts, Cassenneth and Vallidor are pitted against forces on land and from the sky. In a world where hope is lost, one cruel possibility of absolution presents itself when the truth of Luminear’s origin surfaces from an unlikely place. With time running out for the free peoples, it is up to her to decide to be their salvation or their doom. Free on Kindle.
Time Out!
Wally Stephens goes back in time to discover “If I knew then what I know now” can fulfill his dreams, but real life interferes and leads to humorous, unintended consequences. Not only must he solve the mystery of why he was the one sent back, but he also has to figure out how to return to his own time. In time. $1.99 on Kindle.
Aster’s Coda: Exposure
Free: Archibald Lox
When a young locksmith finds his way into the Merge, he discovers a parallel universe filled with an infinite number of bizarre, remarkable worlds. As he journeys across realms, he makes allies and friends who help inform and direct him, but he must also overcome the threat of cold-blooded killers, ravenous hell jackals, evil royals and more. As his skills develop, he becomes a key player in the ongoing battle to save the Merge from the forces of tyranny, despite knowing so little about the universe. The greatest and most testing challenges of his life await. Free to $2.99 on Kindle.
Black Flag – Surviving the Scourge
Free: Theodyssey 1. Privateer
Sir Sechaverell de la Beche bart, baronet, cross-dresser, gourmet and opera-lover, is the captain of the privateer spaceship, HMS Bountiful. His swashbuckling reputation and less than orthodox methods mean that he is much in demand for missions of a less than orthodox nature.
In Book 1 of the Theodyssey trilogy he is contracted by a Galactic federation to recover the Holy Kwokkah, an object sacred to one of its planets, that is believed to be in the possession of a rival Galactic empire. In company with his companions, including Jim the cabin boy, he has to outwit the self-important leader of the empire with a mixture of flattery, guile and force. He employs an ancient ruse, and is aided, not always reliably, by armed mercenaries and the leaders of a feminist planet with their own agenda, in a tale that is also a satire on religion with a parody of quantum mechanics. Free on Kindle.
OldEarth Encounter
In ancient history, humanity struggled for survival and grappled with the purpose of our existence. One extended family traverses the course of history through ARAM, Ishtar, and Neb in a world of wild beasts, craven spirits, and noble souls. Generations later, in the first century AD, Aram’s descendant, Georgios must battle a world of dark secrets, deceptive promises, and hope renewed. $2.99 to 3.99 on Kindle.
Julian Fox, The Dream Guardian
Dreamers can receive eternal wisdom that has inspired the creativity of great innovators throughout the ages. Sometimes, Defilers, destroyers of dreams, is the one who tries to appear before the dreamer. They allow their pain and desire for revenge to take over and seek the same miserable fate for the one who dreams. Dream Guardians will always protect the one who dreams, even with their own life. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Rise Of The Grandmaster
Tim’s plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a job. That plan was coming together until he saw a presentation to get paid to play The Etheric Coast. He could spend his life working a boring day job or he could enter a virtual world of unlimited possibilities. And get paid. He just needs figure out how to get this dream job, help his parents financially, and catch the girl of his dreams. Free on Kindle.
Free: Constelis Voss Vol. 1 — Colour Theory
Some people believe in reincarnation. Others believe humans will eventually become robots. Why not both?
That’s how Alex wakes up—aboard CONSTELIS VOSS, humanity’s very own planet-sized ship. He soon realizes that he’s a bit of an anomaly; he’s the only android who’s ever remembered a past life. Now he needs to know why he’s remembering bits and pieces of the 1990s and how he became an android in the first place.
Familiar faces aboard CONSTELIS VOSS help him color in the blanks. Memories start to form patterns—patterns that reveal a corrupt dystopian civilization. An evil mastermind is pulling the strings, and Alex is somehow at the center of it all. Just who is he supposed to be?
The lives of his friends, his own, and the future of the human race depend on him understanding these patterns. But can you save a world without losing the people you care about? Or does the world really matter in the end?
After all, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
For fans of the Anime series Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell comes a Sci-Fi Trilogy jam-packed with action, adventure, and plenty of savvy queer literary nods. Free on Kindle.
Free: Leftover Girl
Free: RobotWorld
The year is 2075. Although it’s against the law for robots to hold positions of power in the government and in large corporations, they have managed to do so largely because of the efforts of RobotWorld–one of the largest corporations on the planet. RW has created sentient robots that can totally pass for human.
Taylor Morris, a human, has risen rapidly up the RobotWorld hierarchy and has earned a life of privilege. But he laments the fact that he’s had to compromise many of his personal values. When he goes too far in questioning RW’s negative impact on humanity to Sophia Ross, RobotWorld’s brilliant leader, he’s fired, then marked for death by the hidden government/RobotWorld complex.
Taylor eventually becomes homeless and goes on the run. But with the help of Roz Troward, a loyal co-worker who gets fired with him; Austin O’Connor, a wise old homeless philosopher, who may not be what he appears to be; and others, Taylor must match wits with the powerful government/RobotWorld complex to save himself, his associates, and maybe all of humanity. Free on Kindle.
Effacement
A future where offline privacy is illegal. A lethal plot permanently deleting people in power. One determined genius caught in an assassin’s sights.
Dr. Cole Westbay is proud of having helped eliminate crime. Groomed to take over the company that makes the surveillance chip everyone is required by law to have, he’s alarmed by a series of suspicious deaths the hardware caused. And after launching an investigation, the brilliant scientist panics when he awakes with his mandatory neural link ripped out and his recently recorded memories erased…
Arrested for the federal crime of failing to have his life fully documented, Cole struggles to get back online and clear his name. And as his paranoia grows while the bodies continue to pile up, he fears government enforcers, friends, and even his fiancée may be in on the scheme to set him up for a deadly fall. $4.99 on Kindle.
Trial, Error, and Success: 10 Insights into Realistic Knowledge, Thinking, and Emotional Intelligence
We make wrong decisions by “fast thinking,” to use Daniel Kahneman’s terminology from his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” It happens when we rely on what we know rather well and fit it like a square peg in a round hole. “Trial, Error, and Success” shows how “slow thinking” comes naturally for skeptical minds. A focus on differences between knowledge from the past and reality is all it takes to avoid overgeneralization traps. Using real-life examples, this engaging read shows how to create new knowledge by trial-and-error thinking, and how to reduce personal risk and maximize benefits by collective application of the trial-and-error process. $4.99 on Kindle.
Catastrophica: Departure of the Lords
Catastrophica…
The world before the Great Flood, a time of great civilizations that are now vanished.
Who did build the pyramids of ancient Egypt?
Who were the ancient gods?
Did the Annunaki really live among us?
What really happened to Atlantis?
Who was the fair-skinned, red-headed god of Aztec lore?
There was a time at the end of the last great ice age when the gods roamed the earth and soared through the sky. A time when Atlantis thrived as one of the pre-eminent civilizations of the antediluvian world and boats travelled regularly from Europe to the far continent, now called America.
Then came the end of the world as all knew it, wiping out all of those advanced civilizations, leaving just handfuls of people to start again and build their societies anew.
Trevor Daffyd explores , through a handful of extraordinary men and women, how the ancients came to grips with their own catastrophe and asks the question, could it all happen again? $0.99 on Kindle.
Showdown at Jupiter’s Edge: A Maxo Magnaveer Adventure
Sometimes the greatest fight is to discover ourselves…
In the year 2247, Detectant Maxo Magnaveer yearns for an opportunity to prove himself in the Cosmic Law Force so he can be promoted to squad captain. When a greedy privateer, Colonel Zaza D’Rump, brazenly hijacks a shipment of synthetic foods on its way to Mars with plans to starve the colony to death unless he is given control of Earth’s shipping lanes, Maxo sees his opportunity to rise above, save the day, and finally move up in rank and prestige.
Fooled by those he thought were allies, Maxo stumbles on the slippery edge of failure more than once as he races to what could be a catastrophic battle above Jupiter near D’Rump’s secret base, Porto Blago.
With his career and so many lives at stake, Maxo gains the help of old and new friends, and begins to realize his quest may not be about proving himself to anyone, but about discovering himself and rising to his true purpose in the universe.
First, however, he’ll have to survive the showdown at Jupiter’s Edge in this heroic, humorous, and inspirational space opera. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Exploration
Revelations
An encrypted message from outer space spurs scientists to unravel its contents. Instructions from the Message are given to build a massive Dome and allow specially designed robots to build a fusion reactor. Seven years later, no signs of a reactor but… strange things are happening inside the Dome. A scientific team enters the Dome and find themselves trapped in an environment designed for aliens. A First Contact story in which the aliens don’t invade using a spaceship. A clash between two intelligent species, the aliens intent on enslaving or eliminating the human race. A clash in which humans are woefully in peril. The fate of humanity rests upon obscure words in an ancient document…the last book of the Bible. $0.99 on Kindle.
Lightward
Journey to Jumbalot
A glowing doorway. A lost friend. Will one loyal pet turn out to be the hero of the hour?
Alby the housecat has no desire for adventure. Rescued from the street by the kindly Professor Wizoom, he’s grateful to be safe and lazy. But when his master vanishes through a magical door, the scaredy cat summons what little courage he has and races in after him.
Stuck in a strange land of mixed-together animals, Alby teams up with an irritating froguar to locate his missing owner. But when he’s mistaken for a spy, the lonely feline finds himself caught in a war between wolvaraptor pirates and noble tigeroon knights!
Can the timid feline conquer his worries in time to save the day?
Journey to Jumbalot is an award-winning, action-packed middle grade fantasy novel. If you like talking animals, daring deeds, and enchanted worlds, then you’ll love Ryan Wakefield’s illustrated quest. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Other
It started as a typical day in a sleepy little coastal village. But little did they know everything was about to change forever.
Corporal Joe Mills of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrives at Gallou Cove, certain the reported ‘sea monster’ washed ashore would be nothing. What he found there on the beach chilled him to the core.
Dr. Adele Kramer, a marine biologist, shows up to categorize the find. The creature defies any known life found on Earth. At least, nothing originating on the planet.
So begins their introduction to ‘The Other’, the secret world of cosmic horrors plaguing humanity since before the dawn of time. They soon find themselves drawn into a plot many millennia-old to prevent the end of all existence in the universe. Can they survive the Crawling Chaos and prevent He Who Lies Dreaming from awakening?
This book is the first in a trilogy, containing six of eighteen linked novelettes and novellas meant to be read in order and set in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. $0.99 on Kindle.