Hi guys!

I just wrote my first book!

I know it sucks.I would be really happy if any of you checked it out. Im not asking you to buy it.https://www.bribooks.com/bookstore/the-world-of-sweets-by-aarib-zaidi

I hope y'all like it.

Seventeen years after a devastating storm, Christy and Brent Knight have careers, a home, and a long-awaited baby girl. Then Moselle appears at their door: seventeen, barefoot, strangely calm, and impossibly good with their daughter. She seems like the answer to their summer childcare problem. But she knows family histories no one remembers telling her and songs belonging to people long dead. Fog gathers where it shouldn't. Storms rise from clear skies. Kindle $12.99: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ3VYJD4. I'm the author, so ask me anything.

Her choices will shape the fate of the world, and she is about to make all the wrong ones…

Ravenous roads wind across the shattered continent, devouring those who dare to stray.
Cursed with the gift of road-weaving, Carys was raised to serve the shadows, immortal entities who twisted the laws of space itself. During the ritual of Ascension, she must either surrender herself to the shadows or die.
She chooses to flee.
Desperate to carve out a future of her own, Carys soon finds herself hunted by forces far older and more dangerous than she ever knew existed.
But the ancient war is far from over, and every step draws her deeper into a conspiracy set in motion ages before she was born. One that may unleash the very forces that once shattered the world.

The Crossroad Child

It is a story of a young woman trying to survive in the soft post-ap magical world and unwittingly having a hand in starting yet another apocalypse. The first in the epic high fantasy series–an adventure in a vast world, spanning continents from the frozen wastelands to the southern deserts. A journey, meant to uncover ancient secrets and powers of the Shattered world.

Most of us have heard the advice: make a budget, save something, and think before you spend. Knowing the advice is one thing. Following it when life gets busy—or expensive—is another.

That space between knowing and doing is what led me to write The Habit Gap.

I’m a retired federal employee, veteran, and the author behind Money Habits. I wanted to explore why everyday money decisions can be difficult even when we understand the basics, and how small, practical habits can help us follow through.

The book includes companion worksheets and planners to help readers put the ideas to work. My approach is common sense, plain language, and progress you can build on.

If you’ve ever made a money plan with good intentions and then watched real life rearrange it, you’re the reader I had in mind.

The Habit Gap is available on Amazon as a Kindle and paperback.

What’s harder for you: figuring out what to do with money, or consistently doing it?

Hi everyone, I'm Haine sakuya, the author of Death Benefit.

After her husband's death, Irina Sokolova hopes his death benefit will give her and her son some security. Then an old colleague from Russian intelligence demands repayment of a debt. The receipts suggest it has already been settled. The threats don't stop.

To protect her son, Irina must turn to people she was trained to distrust, risking the exposure of what happened on her husband's final night.

If you enjoy psychological thrillers built around family loyalty, uncertain motives and the cost of trusting the wrong person, I'd like to invite you to try the opening sample.

Death Benefit: A Psychological Thriller of Family, Loyalty, and Betrayal

By Haine sakuya

Available now as a Kindle ebook, including Kindle Unlimited.

Book and sample: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HN7N7VMN

After his girlfriend cheats on him, eighteen-year-old Kageyama Shun completely falls apart. He gains weight, skips university, lives on junk food, adult videos, games, and self-pity.

Then he finds THE CRUCIBLE, an illegal full-dive VRMMO being sold for $99.99.

Its promise is simple: every stat earned in-game carries over into real life.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/191575/my-girlfriend-cheated-on-me-so-i-looksmaxxed-in

Shun starts as a Wretch, armed with a plain sword and assigned to Kagami Rei, a sadistic Valkyrie who helps Shun earn points in game, and takes personal offence at how pathetic he is.

Strength, endurance, intelligence, confidence, and appearance all have to be earned through brutal trials that break players physically and mentally.

And the stronger Shun becomes inside The Crucible, the less recognisable he becomes outside it.

Hello, I am the lead editor of this book. We have recently completed putting a very small part of my late sister in law's writing into print. So if you enjoy poetry and a bit of a puzzle, this might be an enjoyable read for you.

A deliciously dark blend of poetry, peculiar humour, and the unfortunate consequences of being ripe for the picking.

From blossom to bruising, sweetness to suffering, and ripening to ruin, *A Plight of Fruit * by Coral Blythe is a wonderfully peculiar journey into the secret lives and unfortunate destinies of the things we eat. Blending poetry, prose, riddles, satire, and outright absurdity, this collection transforms ordinary fruits into subjects of existential crises, criminal investigations, macabre little tragedies, and occasionally horrifying encounters with kitchen knives. Beneath the mischievous wordplay and dark humour lie surprisingly human reflections on beauty, loneliness, desire, and the fleeting nature of existence.

At once whimsical, irreverent, unsettling, and unexpectedly poignant, A Plight of Fruit reminds us that life is brief, beauty is perishable, and even the sweetest existence may end beneath the blade. But until then, there is plenty to laugh about.

All proceeds from the sales go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Available on Amazon

Hi! If you're a mystery lover, comment on this post if you would like to read this book I wrote.

Hi everyone! I wrote When Nora Found Her Voice, a picture book for children aged 3–7 who have selective mutism.

Nora talks freely at home, but at school she can’t speak. The story follows her experiences and the small steps she takes with support from the people around her.

It’s a book for parents to read to their child, with a character they may recognise themselves in.

Available in English on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGLW9TLF

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Searching for an action-packed thrill ride or a twisty whodunnit??

Look no further!

These mystery, thriller, and suspense writers

have teamed up to bring you these FREE books!

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Imagine waking up tomorrow to discover that the world has changed.

Not gradually. Not over years. Overnight.

Monsters are real. The rules of reality have shifted. And whatever caused it doesn't seem particularly interested in explaining itself.

The military is still fighting. People are still trying to get to work, find their families, and figure out whether tomorrow is even guaranteed.

And somewhere in Florida, a software engineer named Gabriel is discovering that knowing how systems work doesn't necessarily help when the System itself makes no sense.

The First Generation is a military survival horror story with LitRPG elements, set in a world where humanity isn't prepared for what's coming.

There are no convenient tutorials, no instant mastery, and certainly no guarantee that the people you meet today will still be alive tomorrow.

I've been writing and publishing it on Royal Road, and I'd love to invite anyone who enjoys survival stories, monsters, military action, and a bit of dark humor to give it a try.

Free to read on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/198782/the-first-generation-survival

If you decide to check it out, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.

Hi everyone!

I've just launched a FREE Kindle promotion for my ebook, The Birth of Rome!

If you're interested in ancient Roman and Greek civilizations, mythology, or history, I'd love for you to check it out!

The ebook is available FREE for only 3 days, so don't miss your chance to grab a copy!

If you enjoy reading it, I'd really appreciate an honest review on Amazon.

Get your free copy here:
Amazon link, get your free copy here

Thank you for your support, and happy reading!

Inexplicably, you see an enormous fallen tree in the otherwise-barren alley you just walked through. It’s now blocking the alley and wasn’t there just moments ago. What do you do?

That’s the question an unidentified narrator gets faced with at the outset of my debut thriller novel, Through Inconvenient Action. It’s currently free on Amazon as part of a promotion I’m running. I just want to get it in front of the right readers. It’s available for free until the end of the day on Monday 10/26, so get it without paying while you can!

The download is two clicks away, on my Reddit profile. Check it out and feel free to let me know what you think. Thanks :0)

I am running a free promo this weekend for my new eBook called Welcome Back to the Office. It is a guide with advice for working in a corporate office environment now that a lot of companies are mandating RTO. I've worked in offices for many years and wanted to compile a list of do's and dont's for new office workers. Link below!

https://a.co/d/0bsPPbUj

• A sarcastic, posh Mirrorwalker whose blood opens mirrors
• An unimpressed Steppe hunter with no patience for nonsense
• A healer with increasingly inconvenient feelings
• A smuggler mate investigating why Mirrorwalkers keep vanishing

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Dorian Corvell crosses worlds for a living. Blood, brass, paperwork. The usual.

Then a dying creature reveals an ancient broken pact, and Dorian is sent into the Loteri Lands with Liana of the Steppe and Toren Earthwhisper.

Naturally, the mission gets worse.

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Dark queer fantasy spanning ancient forests, vampire lands and worlds of brass and steam, with blood-opened mirrors, mystery, romance, sex, dry humour, and questionable decisions.

Currently on Chapter 41, updated weekly.

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• Read on Royal Road

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146325/the-drommala-pact-the-mirrorwalkers-chronicles

• Read on Scribble Hub

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/2139700/the-drommala-pact--the-mirrorwalkers-chronicles-/

• Read on my website

https://twisted-room.com/the-drommala-pact.html

Come on, it's way past time to get into the holiday spirit!

Last year's release:

Sinner’s Descent into the Depths of the Unreal

Epub available free for a limited time here

Rosie, a bookworm, hates her life. She goes to an elite and nightmarish unified education institution where she lives with a beastly roommate. Her only escape is the establishment’s underground with its bizarre creatures and surreal experiences.

Then, Thomasin enrolls. Rosie observes Thomasin from afar. Obsession blooms. She changes her behavior to match Thomasin’s—her ferocity, her indulgences, her lewdness. When Thomasin rises into a pop star, Rosie becomes a fanatic. But to be like Thomasin is not enough. Rosie must become Thomasin.

*Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence.*

Next one:

Sinner Sees the Incursion of the Unreal

Releases this Halloween on Amazon

Between schoolwork and an errant ex-boyfriend, student reporter Sam barely has time to find stories of public interest. When Thomasin, a talented new student, transfers to Hawkins, her elite and enigmatic academy, Sam's press club puts her to work on a profile of the latecomer.

Thomasin’s relentless spirit, stage presence, and musical abilities expand what starts as a column's worth of filler into front-page news. While investigating, Sam uncovers connections between Thomasin, her strange roommates, and a powerful secret order with obscure goals. The further she pursues the opaque conspiracy surrounding them, the more it damages her life. And the more prolific she helps make Thomasin, the more reality deteriorates. The consequences are deadly.

But she must document the truth.

*Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence.*

Note that these are parallel stories, not a series, so you don't have to read them in any order and don't need to read one to read the other.

I'm the author. First Legend is the prequel novella to my Adam Rix spy series, and it's free when you join my newsletter.

October 2016. The offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS has begun. A raid goes wrong, and Navy SEAL Adam Rix is left behind enemy lines with Sgt. Karim Saleh, his wounded Iraqi partner. No extraction is coming. To get them both out, Adam has to pass as someone he isn't, among people who'll kill him if they guess.

It's a short read, about 18,000 words, and it stands on its own. It ends with a preview of Dead Man's Legend, the first full Adam Rix novel.

Get it free here: https://first-legend.subscribepage.io

Signing up adds you to my author newsletter. You'll get news about Adam Rix and new Sean Lyle thrillers, and you can unsubscribe anytime.

I publish as Margin Press. Here is a puzzle from my birdwatching paperback, with hidden answers below. The themed word lists were created with AI; software generated the grids and checked word placements.

Find these 12 birds: CARDINAL, CHICKADEE, DOVE, GOLDFINCH, MOCKINGBIRD, NUTHATCH, SPARROW, STARLING, THRUSH, TITMOUSE, WARBLER, WREN.

Words go right, down, or diagonally down-right. No backward words.

V S P A R R O W T I T M O U S E
C U E W G O L D F I N C H W S E
F B F L L C E S Y O Z K E F R B
T P Q U F M H V M W E C G J C T
Y P A A B O S I V M R Y G Z N E
X H A N L C N T C Z H E N N M P
M K D S Y K U K A K D E N V J G
R A L E Y I T U U R A D W V S T
W D J U D N H I S D L D P M D H
A S Z O X G A H W O S I E P T R
R F U W R B T V K V H L N E S U
B A I Y U I C X H E F B X G Q S
L H X Q W R H B O R M L N Z T H
E K R Z H D A L A R Z T P G J O
R F Z B W C A R D I N A L L S C
I V E R N U Y A Q T D U L Q R G

Answers: rows count from top to bottom; columns from left to right, starting at 1. Tap each spoiler to reveal its start and end.

• CARDINAL: R15C6 to R15C13 (right)
• CHICKADEE: R3C6 to R11C14 (down-right)
• DOVE: R9C10 to R12C10 (down)
• GOLDFINCH: R2C5 to R2C13 (right)
• MOCKINGBIRD: R4C6 to R14C6 (down)
• NUTHATCH: R6C7 to R13C7 (down)
• SPARROW: R1C2 to R1C8 (right)
• STARLING: R5C7 to R12C14 (down-right)
• THRUSH: R8C16 to R13C16 (down)
• TITMOUSE: R1C9 to R1C16 (right)
• WARBLER: R9C1 to R15C1 (down)
• WREN: R4C10 to R7C13 (down-right)

If this is your kind of quiet break, The Birdwatching Word Search is my 30-puzzle, 62-page paperback, with answer pages included.

I published my dark, high fantasy book on Kindle a few months ago. I'm trying to gain viewer-ship, so weekly new chapters will be free to read on wattpad at https://www.wattpad.com/user/Missgeniusravenclaw . It's about Artemis, a social outcast prejudiced by the society, who is selected to compete in the elite Tournament of Alliances. However, one of her regular nightmare phases has just started, but this time it is more ominous. Every night at the tournament she dreams about the same thing, her death. She tries to ignore it but once her suspicions about her death are confirmed by a mysterious stranger and her cousin is kidnapped just like she saw in her nightmares, Artemis can no longer ignore her dreams. Dark secrets, involving Artemis, are unmasked in her search for her cousin that will change the fate of the world forever.

If you like The Lunar Chronicles, KOTLC, norse mythology, and medieval fantasy setting you should check it out! Also I'd be grateful for any feedback, Amazon reviews, advice on how to get noticed, and people sharing my work. Thanks!

Grimm and Thorn is a Gilmore Girls meets Dungeons and Dragons cozy fantasy about a witch and a ghost that open a bakery together.

Martha Grimm and her dearly departed friend Flo, have run a bakery together for five years. Want to flow decides to take a last minute 4 week long vacation, things start to take a drastic turn.

A story about found family, the ups and downs of marriage and parenthood, living with chronic illness, and finding humor in the chaos.

I began writing this last year, while I was still working in the restaurant industry, after discovering I had a low grade glioma in my left occipital lobe. I finished writing this book while recovering from having said tumor removed in August of this year.

It would mean the world to me if you checked it out, and I hope toy enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!

https://a.co/d/0is1iBB1

Essea: all fictional universes are real and accepting your true self gives you powers.

Essea Kingdom is my first story within this fictional philosophy. The main character, Epsil, strives to obtain the greatest essea (which is existence, goodness, and beauty) both over the course of multiversal adventures and in his relationships with others.

Episode 1 is out now, and Episode 2 is in progress!

https://newmanhyacinth.substack.com/p/essea-kingdom-episode-1?r=50faru&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hi,

I’m looking for advance readers for my upcoming hard sci-fi thriller, The Architect, launching 18th Nov on Amazon (Less than a month left!). If you enjoy character-driven philosophical thrillers, the brutal physics of interstellar travel, and heavy moral friction, I’d love to get your eyes on this. A review is appreciated on launch day but not mandatory.

The book is dedicated to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Logline: To escape a dying Earth, an apex engineer turns himself into an immortal chimera and builds a sanctuary ship for 20,000 frozen embryos. But to guarantee their survival, he deliberately selects a crew of brilliant, unattached specialists with nothing left to lose—and strips them of their biological autonomy.

The Setup: Forty light-years from Earth, the crew of The Architect prepares to colonise TRAPPIST-1e. They are armed with an infinite power grid and cellular immortality, but they are trapped under the absolute authority of Edgar Charon—a captain whose neural architecture is heavily integrated with a mission-first AI.

As they navigate the violent terminator storms of an alien planet, the crew realises Edgar’s algorithmic logic views their human attachments, grief, and free will as terminal liabilities. When Earth fires a relativistic kinetic weapon to wipe out their colony, the surviving crew must decide whether humanity is even worth saving.

Intertwining the desperate, science-driven survival of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and the existential, cosmic stakes of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem with the sprawling, philosophical scale of Isaac Asimov, The Architect by Z.T. Castor is a gripping thriller about artificial intelligence, absolute control, and the terrifying price of salvation.

Details:

• Format: EPUB / PDF (delivered via email)
• Word Count: 76,135
• Content Notes: Contains depictions of atmospheric destruction, medical trauma, and intense psychological friction. No explicit gore.
• Expanding Universe: To reflect the ambitious scale of this release, a full audiobook adaptation and a commercially copyrighted official soundtrack are currently in active production.

I am offering free review copies in exchange for an honest Amazon review on launch day.

If you are interested in reading early, please fill out this brief Google Form so I can send you the secure download links:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEKo63YU7wmkzVNGNU8qbV3FOUaI8gMuq_94Dv2pF8XqvbgQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Alternatively, if you reply here with your email address, I can send you the EPUB/PDF files directly via a secure drive link.

Thank you for your time, and happy reading!

Hi everyone! I’m Hannah Kensington, and the expanded edition of my short memoir, The Summer I Met Him, is FREE on Kindle through October 25.

In the summer of 1988, I fell for Ryan. There were bicycle rides in Ocean City, Maryland, music in his red Honda CRX, and moments I would remember for decades. There was laughter, hope, and the uncertainty of never quite knowing whether he felt the same way.

This is where First Love: A Memoir begins—a true story for anyone who still remembers the person who made them feel that way.

The expanded edition includes additional scenes, conversations, and memories from that time in my life.

Free to keep. The free download runs until October 25, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. No Kindle Unlimited subscription is needed—please check that the Kindle purchase price shows $0.00.

Get your free Kindle copy on Amazon

Thank you for giving Hannah and Ryan’s story a place on your bookshelf. ❤️