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My ebooks* and audiobooks are available through Everand (formerly Scribd). My ebooks are available through KoboPlus (You don’t need a Kobo device, the Kobo app is free for your phone, tablet, and PC.)

Everand and KoboPlus are subscriptions services, much like Kindle Unlimited. Both services have 30 day FREE Trials (conceivably, if you read fast, you can read all* my books FREE.) Learn more about KoboPlus and Everand. 

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I love to read! I also have a teenage son who consumes a gallon of milk every other day, and a growing daughter who needs new clothes and shoes on the regular.

I support my book habit by frequenting my local library. Maybe you do, too. All my books are currently available to libraries through Overdrive/Libby (the most popular app), CloudLibrary, BorrowBox, Hoopla, and more. If your local library loans out ebooks, but doesn’t have mine, they’ll have a way to request it.

If your library doesn’t loan ebooks or audiobooks, you may be able to get a library card at a larger library system for a modest fee. Here is a website that lists libraries with non-resident borrowing priveleges.

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*Everand isn’t featuring Magic After Midnight at this time.

Featured Sci-fi: Monster Squad by Heath Stallcup

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Featured Sci-fi: Monster Squad by Heath Stallcup

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Humanity has spent its time enjoying a peace that can only be had through blissful ignorance. For centuries, stories of monsters have been handed down through the generations.

When creatures of the night proved to be real, the best of America’s military came together to form an elite band of rapid response teams. Their mission: to keep the civilian populace safe from the creatures that go bump in the night and hide all evidence of their existence.

During a routine mission things go horribly wrong and the Monster Squad finds themselves having to rebuild from the ashes of what they once were. This time they face not only the monsters, but their own government as a dark storm brews on the horizon.

A storm that will threaten not just the squads and their existence, but the lives of every human on earth.

Featured Fantasy: Heir of Dragons Books 1 – 4 by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Heir of Dragons Books 1 - 4 by Sean Fletcher

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She’s got the powers of a dragon, and the Slayers are closing in…

Kaylee just blasted her first date with lightning. She has no idea how, but when the creep pulls a sword on her, what’s a girl to do?

Soon, she’s discovering a whole magical world she had no clue existed, all hidden in plain sight. And that lightning she summoned? Even among paranormals, that’s not normal.

Turns out Kaylee is a dragon-kin, a half dragon/half human with the incredibly rare power to summon storms. As if that weren’t trouble enough, her newly discovered magic has attracted the wrong kind of attention: Slayers, a murderous ancient order dedicated to eradicating all dragon-kin. They’re planning something big. Something deadly.

And they’re going to use Kaylee to do it.

Perfect for fans of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. If you like snarky, fast-paced fantasies full of dragon shifters, awakened elemental magic, and a slow-burn romance, then this series is for you!

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Featured Fantasy: Bigfoot Bay Witches Books 1 – 3 by Cat Larson

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Featured Fantasy: Bigfoot Bay Witches Books 1 - 3 by Cat Larson

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Magic. Mayhem. Murder.

Just your typical day in Bigfoot Bay.

When Samm Hain left her small town 13 years ago to escape her witchy past, she never expected to return.

And when mysterious circumstances bring her back, she never expects to stay, dealing with one mystical mishap after another.

It’s enough to drive a girl batty.

As if that weren’t enough? She’s forced to tackle it all with her bewitched fiancé and no counterspell in sight.

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Waking (Archangel Project Book 4) by C. Gockel Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Waking by C. Gockel Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

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On an icy, barren world, a starship dreams of doom….

Throughout the galaxy, the reclusive alien race known as The One are incapacitated by terror.

On the planet Luddeccea, wolf-human hybrid Volka harbors a terrible secret…a secret that must explain her nightmares.

Trapped on a luxurious asteroid, pleasure ‘bot 6T9 struggles to find purpose – until he receives a message from an Unidentified Caller.

The worlds of The One, Volka, and 6T9 are about to collide.

The galaxy will be shaken to its core.

The starship is waking.

Starship Waking takes place in the Archangel Project universe.

©2018 C. Gockel (P)2019 Podium Publishing

Featured Sci-Fi: Starship Waking by C. Gockel

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On an icy, barren world, a starship dreams of doom…


Throughout the galaxy, the reclusive alien race known as The One are incapacitated by terror.


On planet Luddeccea, wolf-human hybrid Volka harbors a terrible secret…a secret that must explain her nightmares.


Trapped on a luxurious asteroid, pleasure ‘bot 6T9 struggles to find purpose–until he receives a message from an Unidentified Caller.


The worlds of The One, Volka, and 6T9 are about to collide.

The galaxy will be shaken to its core.

The starship is waking.


Featured Science Fiction: Chaos Zone (Parse Galaxy Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

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Featured Science Fiction: Chaos Zone (Parse Galaxy Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

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Space travel is so overrated.

Bounty hunting isn’t any better, but it’s what Sloane Tarnish needs to do if she wants to fix the rundown spaceship her uncle dumped on her. So she can find him and dump it right back.

Problem A: Her uncle also ditched his motley crew–made up of a cranky ace pilot and an extraneous mad scientist–and they don’t exactly see her as the captain.

Problem B: Her ship’s too broken to leave the most dangerous system in the galaxy, where a recent power vacuum is turning the place into one orbiting cluster of fugitives, thugs, and swindlers.

When Sloane sets her sights on a bounty with a reward that will solve all her problems, the Commander of the Galactic Fleet himself shows up in pursuit of the same man. The last thing Sloane needs is to get tangled in a web of galactic politics–but she won’t let her prize go, either. The payoff is just too big to give up.But as dangers close in on all sides, she can’t help wondering if she’ll live to claim her prize…

Chaos Zone is the first installment in a new space opera series full of reckless women, messy worlds, and big adventures–perfect for fans of Guardians of the Galaxy and the Mandalorian. Order your copy of Chaos Zone now!