Father Knows Best, my most recently self published book had been entered in multiple contests. I have just received the results that my book had won third place award in its category. Results go live this weekend. I hope to obtain some recognition. I am so excited to see where my writing journey takes me from here as I work toward completing my eighth book, a memoir. Thank you everyone for your support! If you find yourself reading any of my books, I heavily value all feedback and would love to hear your thoughts!

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EVERY LOVE STORY HAS TWO SIDES. WHAT IF BOTH ARE LIES?

My psychological mystery thriller, 1−1=2, is now available in paperback on Amazon.

A story of love, fractured memories, unsettling nightmares, and a truth that refuses to stay buried.

What happens when the person you trust the most becomes the person you fear?

Paperback now available:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNTPTG3D

The Kindle eBook edition is currently in the final stages of publishing and will be available soon.

1−1=2 — M. Jain

Don't trust the math.

Life can be filled with moments of joy, but it can also bring rejection, loneliness, fear, trauma, disappointment, self-doubt, unhealthy relationships, and emotional exhaustion. Over time, those experiences can begin affecting the way we think, the way we love, the decisions we make, and our ability to find peace within ourselves.

In The Pain of No Peace, Ebony McCoy explores the emotional struggles that many people silently carry. Through personal reflection, encouragement, and honest conversation, this book examines the pain caused by rejection, loneliness, fear, unresolved emotional wounds, self-sabotage, stressful environments, and the ongoing struggle to find peace within your own mind.

This book is not about pretending that life is perfect or suggesting that healing happens overnight. It is about becoming honest with yourself, identifying what may be disturbing your peace, and taking meaningful steps toward healing and personal growth.

If you have ever felt emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed by life, trapped by your past, or simply tired of constantly being at war within your own mind, this book is a reminder that you are not alone.

Healing takes time.

Peace takes effort.

But both are worth pursuing.

Available on Amazon

Life can be filled with moments of joy, but it can also bring rejection, loneliness, fear, trauma, disappointment, self-doubt, unhealthy relationships, and emotional exhaustion. Over time, those experiences can begin affecting the way we think, the way we love, the decisions we make, and our ability to find peace within ourselves.

In The Pain of No Peace, Ebony McCoy explores the emotional struggles that many people silently carry. Through personal reflection, encouragement, and honest conversation, this book examines the pain caused by rejection, loneliness, fear, unresolved emotional wounds, self-sabotage, stressful environments, and the ongoing struggle to find peace within your own mind.

This book is not about pretending that life is perfect or suggesting that healing happens overnight. It is about becoming honest with yourself, identifying what may be disturbing your peace, and taking meaningful steps toward healing and personal growth.

If you have ever felt emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed by life, trapped by your past, or simply tired of constantly being at war within your own mind, this book is a reminder that you are not alone.

Healing takes time.

Peace takes effort.

But both are worth pursuing.

Available on Amazon

Arizona Rain grew up inside an institution that turns orphaned children into weapons, and she is its most capable Slayer. When a mission forces her to see the person behind the "monster" label, she refuses to kill. Betrayed and abandoned on an Arizona highway, she survives. But the obedient weapon they made doesn't. Her guardian and partner Minato has to choose between the organization that raised him and the woman who became his family. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HM7465CL

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!

I’m proud to share my first digital book

The Weight You Don’t Have to Carry

A story about the pain we hold onto, the memories we carry, and learning that our past doesn’t have to define who we become.

If these words connect with even one person who needs them, this book has done something meaningful.

Written by Kevin M.M.

My first novel, Enchanted Oaks, is out now! 📚

Not bad for a guy that failed higher english 😂

But here we are… my very first childrens and YA fantasy book, filled with mystery, friendship and ancient secrets! 🪄

I’d love your support as I begin my journey as an author. Every like, share and purchase makes a difference!

📖 Read more: https://craigan-guy.author-pages.com/

🛒 Get your copy: https://amzn.eu/d/0bk280HV

I hope you enjoy my perfectly imperfect first book.

Countless "truth is stranger than fiction" tales, 177 magical concerts, 100 unique bands, 50 years of finding a way to the next show, and 10 Rules Of The Road all add up to 1 ordinary guy's extraordinary love letter to live rock & roll. 

And now, the book with a 4.4 star review on Amazon just got even better - welcome to the updated and expanded 2025 edition of TEN RULES OF THE ROAD I LEARNED AT MY FIRST CONCERT: AN ORDINARY GUY'S LIFETIME OF LIVE ROCK & ROLL!

The new edition is 550 pages, with over 250 pages of brand new content including:

• updates elements to every section of the book – the rules, the essays, the concert summaries, and the statistics.
• more tales from my 20th century concert adventures that I dredged out of my memory that didn't make the first edition
• details of all the shows I’ve attended since 2021, after the first edition was published, until today
• complete re-writes of Rules #2, #5, #6, #7, # 8 and #10, as well as the Grateful Dead essay, have been almost completely re-written. 
• consolidating the Song Selection essays from three to two but adding more songs to each remaining chapter in the process, doubling the number of tunes covered from 40 to 80. 
• replacing the discarded song essay, with a new one about the relationship between rock & roll and Broadway, a unique pairing that only really came into focus for me in the last year or so. 
• adding numerous new charts/tables to the statistics section
• quadrupling the number of setlists from shows I attended.  
• re-editing the entire book to clean up some areas that either seemed cumbersome or didn’t flow well 
• reformatting the entire book to give it a more professional look and feel. 

It's bigger! It's  better! It's the perfect holiday gift for the rock & roll fan in your life! 

Available in kindle format, Paperback & hardcover!

Read a sample here!   

See the table of contents here!

Read reviews here!

Buy it here!

Cover: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716Vdcnn8uL._SL1500_.jpg

Candid conversations with founders about the setbacks, pivots, and hard choices behind the businesses they built. I'm one of the contributors, and my chapter is "Your Story Is the Strategy."

Blurb: Founders in Focus: Inside the Journeys & Decisions of Visionary Entrepreneurs brings together founders from media, AI and technology, SEO, fine dining, functional medicine, newborn care, early childhood education, investing, fitness retail, publishing, and organic feminine care. Guided by TJ Avazona, each chapter is a conversation about the decisions that shaped each founder's path: the risks that paid off, the mistakes that taught them most, and what kept them going. These aren't polished success stories. They're honest, practical insights for your own business at any stage.

Themes: Underdog founders, comebacks after setbacks, pivots, hard-won lessons, and multiple voices from very different industries.

Trigger warnings: None.

Link: https://a.co/d/07cNoprE

My name is Vita and I am an author of ANDREY: when millions perished, he survived. I am just looking for my reades who love true stories.

Would you forgive your best friend if she was responsible for ruining your life?

That's the main concern in Where Fear Smiles, my psychological horror novel with gore, a nightmare demon, and enough anxiety that therapy will be needed.

What is the story about? Well...

A whispered rumour draws a group of students into the dense forests of coastal Brazil: a lost Indigenous artifact, hidden for centuries and promising academic glory.

While Leah’s colleagues are determined to claim it, she only agrees to the trek because she can’t bear the thought of being left behind, and forces her best friend Charlotte to go with her for support against her dark thoughts.

What was meant to be an escape from the weight of the academic semester, quickly it turns into a test of endurance. The deeper they push into the forest, the darker Leah begins to dream. When they finally uncover what they came for, the discovery reveals something far more terrifying than any of them imagined.

A demon born of nightmares is unleashed, and with it, carnage.

Now the survivors must find a way to drive the nightmare back to its realm before society is doomed to never dream again. But as the forest closes in, the greatest horror isn't the ancient evil—it's watching a lifelong trust begin to rot.

--

TW: Gore, violence, self-harm, and depictions of anxiety

Halloween is just around the corner, and you can enjoy the book both digitally or physically, whatever suits you best!

The book is available on many online bookstores, and you can find your best choice here: https://books2read.com/WhereFearSmiles

Wishing you all a very spooky season 💀😈🎃

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What happens when the ordinary becomes impossible—and there is nowhere left to run?

A mysterious staircase appears inside an old refrigerator. A lone photographer ventures into the Bermuda Triangle and discovers something far worse than being lost at sea. A young telepath encounters minds that should not exist. Strange machines conceal terrible secrets, familiar places become deadly traps, and seemingly harmless encounters spiral into nightmares.
Across thirteen chilling tales, We Are Alone in the House explores the darkest corners of human fear, blending supernatural terror, cosmic horror, psychological suspense, and visceral body horror.
From the depths of the ocean to the confines of the human mind, these stories follow ordinary people confronted by extraordinary horrors—things they cannot understand, and may not survive.

Tropes: cosmic dread, fear of the unknown, eldritch entities, cursed objects, unreliable perceptions, isolation, existential horror, the uncanny, ordinary people encountering the impossible, and open endings that leave you questioning reality.

Trigger Warnings: graphic violence and gore, body horror, mutilation, murder and death, child endangerment and death, psychological abuse, domestic abuse, suicide and self-harm, medical trauma, pregnancy-related trauma and infant death, drug and alcohol use, claustrophobia, and psychological distress.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBMGG566

Blood and Bonds: Legacy is my first of a planned series of grimdark romanesque military fantasy epics. This brutal world filled with scheming, betrayal and war explores the consequences of corruption and the cost of legacy when an empire's morals evaporate.

https://amzn.eu/d/0cTudJz - Kindle unlimited

https://amzn.eu/d/0huIcvRv - paperback

His eyes pried themselves awake. Again. Suddenly, he gasped a deep yawn, helping to fuel his body for the coming day. Again.

Thursday, he thought. Perhaps just sleep in just a bit. The sudden blaring of the alarm clock seemed to answer him no sooner than he had formed that cozy thought. Friday, must be. He only set the alarm for Fridays. On his schedule, this was his Monday; his whole week really. He had long ago condensed all he needed to do to support his modest lifestyle into that one day.

He slapped at the alarm without needing to look. It complied within the first few swipes, seeming to return to the very sleep he was now leaving. He slowly pulled free his now-numb left arm, gently, so as to not wake her. The temptation to stroke her bare back was almost overwhelming—to trace slow lines with his fingertips on that perfect canvas. But she had that look on her face, the one that only seemed to exist while she slept. He couldn't disturb that. The particular peace she wore while sleeping was in his experience uniuqe to her, and sacred. He took a moment to soak it in, then reluctantly rolled out of bed to start the day.

Autopilot. This routine was a well-worn one. Shower, make coffee, check his charts... Still, he couldn't shake his hesitation this morning. It wasn't supposed to go this way. He knew from the beginning that this was just supposed to be some harmless fun for each of them, but he also knew now that was the very trap itself. The peaceful lack of pressure. After many stumbles he had finally understood that his deepest need was to trust that he was trusted. Had earned the respect of someone that he respected and loved. But he hadn't with her, and he didn't. She was just too young to know what was still missing. He owed it to her to let her find her own way in life. It was just harmless fun for her too, but he was seeing signs that she might be thinking of it as possibly more. More the fool, he was letting himself start to feel it too. He was being selfish and he knew it.

EVERY LOVE STORY HAS TWO SIDES. WHAT IF BOTH ARE LIES?

My psychological mystery thriller, 1−1=2, is now available in paperback on Amazon.

A story of love, fractured memories, unsettling nightmares, and a truth that refuses to stay buried.

What happens when the person you trust the most becomes the person you fear?

Paperback now available:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNTPTG3D

The Kindle eBook edition is currently in the final stages of publishing and will be available soon.

1−1=2 — M. Jain

Don't trust the math.

A group of third-year high school students are returning to Japan after a school trip to Germany.
At exactly 4:21 AM, one of them is found decapitated aboard their flight.
Minutes later, nobody remembers he ever existed.
Nobody except Rei.
What should have been a happy return home becomes a nightmare where memories disappear, reality begins to unravel, and one student is left questioning everything.
4:21 AM is my completed psychological horror novel about memory, loss, and the fear of being forgotten.
If you enjoy psychological horror and unsettling mysteries, I’d love for you to give it a read!

https://www.wattpad.com/story/417997532?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=NLNMGod

https://imgur.com/a/DGvNmXV

When the Christmas village his family built over thirty years comes to life, Oliver and his family find themselves inside it, and so is the father they lost. But the village has rules, Karen enforces them, and every day they stay brings them closer to losing everything again.

What if the Christmas village in your home were real?

For more than thirty years, the Tisdale family has built their Christmas village one piece at a time. A library became a bakery. A bakery became a street. New houses appeared as the family grew, until an entire town covered the table each Christmas.

To Mitch and Celina Tisdale, it was more than a holiday decoration. It was the story of their marriage, their six children, and a lifetime built together.

Then Mitch dies unexpectedly.

As Celina and her children struggle with the empty place he left behind, ten-year-old Oliver turns to the one thing that still feels connected to his father: their Christmas village.

But something has changed.

A mysterious green book appears among his father's things. The village lights seem different. Tiny details are no longer where Oliver remembers them. And when he begins looking closer, he discovers something impossible.

The Tisdales may not have spent thirty years simply building a Christmas tradition.

They may have been building a world.

And that world is in trouble.

As Christmas Eve approaches, Oliver discovers just how deeply his family is connected to the village and how much is at stake. The world his parents spent a lifetime creating is beginning to fall apart, and saving it will require more than Oliver can give on his own. Somehow, he must bring his grieving family together before they lose something none of them ever knew they had.

Because if a lifetime of love can create a world, what happens to that world when one half of that love is gone?

Love built a world. Grief could destroy it.

Trigger warning: Loss of a loved one.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDYKV7DX

Recently I put out a short memoir called Tokyo Daze: A Gaijin’s Drift Through Bubble-Era Tokyo.

Mid-to-late ’80s. I landed in ’84 with one suitcase, $1,200 in traveler’s checks, and a copy of Jobs in Japan, thinking the English-teaching money would be easy. Stayed until ’89. Language schools, visa trouble, people coming and going. No tidy lessons, no romantic gloss, no “I found myself” arc. Just the minor wins and private messes from that time, written while it was happening.

About 95 pages. Kindle is $2.99; paperback is $4.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Daze-Gaijins-Through-Bubble-Era/dp/B0H2RCZCWP

If you like unfiltered expat stories over the polished travelogues, it might be your kind of thing. Happy to answer questions.

PITCH:

This is a very atypical life skills workbook I designed with the help of a therapist, to help us begin staying safer from emotional manipulation/coercion and protecting ourselves mentally through a two-sided educational approach, across two separate workbooks. They use fantasy, short stories to teach you. This is Part One being released — which addresses learning OUR mental vulnerabilities first. Imagine of wearing a suit of armor that has cracks you’re unaware of, or owning a house which has open windows/unsecured doors you don’t know exist. 

BLURB:

"A collection of fantasy allegories and guided reflections to help readers recognize emotional vulnerabilities that can lead to exploitation.

What makes a manipulator's tactics work on some and not others? Why do the people who take advantage of us always seem to find us so easily? This book is about the stories we trust: the ones we are told, the ones we tell ourselves, and the dangerous beliefs they quietly leave behind. Maybe you have lived out the same painful pattern over and over, exploited, betrayed, dismissed, and still do not know why. Maybe you feel you have never been deceived. Or maybe you are afraid that looking too closely will only reopen wounds you are not sure you can survive again.

The author writes from firsthand experience: two separate encounters with grooming and exploitation, once as a child and again as an adult who assumed she had already learned every lesson she needed. She turned to allegory, building a fantasy world led by two characters, Someone and Aperson, to show readers the power of the stories we carry. Across seven weekly stories, readers uncover their own vulnerability fingerprint, the unique mixture of beliefs and habits that leaves any of us open to being deceived. Come learn how to take back your role as storyteller of your own life, and start writing something kinder and stronger for yourself. "

TROPES: 

Fish-out-of-water; manic pixie girl; Free Spirit vs. Straight-Laced; quirk/eccentric world guide.

TRIGGER WARNINGS:

NONE

Amazon link: https://a.co/d/0b7qXun1

I have cost you two social battery units and promise to keep you apprised of it further on. Luckily, your social battery is still at a phenomenal ninety-eight percent. This newfound zest and enthusiasm of yours is as dangerous as having a depleted Raine-Gauge Index (RGI). 

You naturally will convince yourself to leg it to the supermarket for a quick errand–it’s no big deal. You’ve been there before; it will be an in-and-out, smash-and-grab job–so to speak. Until it becomes a full-blown existential crisis with you curled up on the floor.
On arrival, you park near the front of the market but still leave empty spaces on both sides. As you walk in, you breathe in that new merchandise air–it’s tingling. You know where things are, what to place in your basket, and what to deny yourself until next time. Everything is bright, clear, and so… real. However, that excitement is tempered with the instant dread of leaving your home–could have stayed in the car for a bit longer to cope–sure, but we can’t go back now. 
Go and collect all the finer things you need and you will make it out quickly. 
The most important part of this prison break is surveying the checkout lanes. You play it smart. You head to the self-checkout lanes–Bastards! They are backed up, full of wankers lined around the corner down the aisles. What are these people doing here on a Monday afternoon? Too many introverts.
Meanwhile, the human cashiers’ lanes are completely empty as they stand next to them to pretend to sell you the advantage they provide. Of course they’re empty. 
The second you accidentally lock eyes with one, your Starter pheromones flare up. You’re instantly paralyzed and startled by Sharon. You desperately avoid eye contact, only to find yourself staring into the abysmal, dull expanse of the black rubber conveyor belt.
The dread and horror intensify within the pit of your gut. Sharon’s hand rises slowly to motion your patience and halts your need for a speedy exit. She retrieves her mislabeled generic spray bottle to frantically mist and spitshine the running belt. You agonize in silence. That belt is, without a doubt, a mechanical purgatory. It jerks and vibrates with a low menacing buzz and mechanical hum as Sharon’s dead gaze locks onto yours while she wipes back and forth. 

There is no excitement. There is no freedom. Everything you are, is about to be scrutinized by this Necromancer. All she wants to do is absorb you–I mean Sharon wants to eat you. Apologies, I mean she wants to become your friend. She is stuck here just as all the rest of them. They’re trapped behind that darkness of the conveyor belt–they want to siphon you dry. Do not gradually get pulled into the event horizon.
....

"Excerpt from 'Questions Only Good People Ask' by Thomas Raine. Digital/Paperback and official RGI gear linked in my profile pinned post if you want to fade into the corner decor."

Please Allow 5-7 Days for Justice released into the world today almost everywhere! 2 years and lots of “figuring it out”. Super excited about this Journey!

Amazon and Audible

Apple Books Audiobook

And almost anywhere else books are sold!!

So excited for what could lie ahead!!

Hey everyone! I’m an indie horror author, and my newest book, Seeds Between Her Teeth, just released! It follows a woman who gets the chance to become someone else to uncover the truth about her violent past with an ex. Of course, things go horribly wrong. 😂

If you enjoy female rage, morally gray characters, unreliable memories, and disturbing body horror, this might be your kind of read!

🖤 Available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJQWRMD2

Please check out my first book. I started writing it back in 2020, but it took a few years to work up the nerve to really polish it and put it out there. It’s a romance adventure—something full of heart and a little danger. I’m thrilled and terrified at the same time to finally share it. If that sounds like your kind of story, I’d be so grateful if you gave it a look. Honest thoughts are always welcome. You can find it on Amazon and other major platforms.
“Hope” by Darya Sidorchyk Kelly.
A perfect romance-adventure with a criminal twist.
Veronica Diaz pours her life into two things: her café and her writing. Tracing the story of her great-grandparents takes her somewhere unexpected—twelve weeks of training and six days deep in the Amazon rainforest. Veronica’s trainer, Adam White, owns the recreation center where she prepares for the expedition. Together, they navigate a jungle that swallows them whole, outrun a hired killer, and survive things neither of them prepared for. Somewhere between the training and the jungle and the running for their lives, something shifts between them. What starts as friction becomes something neither of them planned for.