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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 Fantasy: Cloak Games by Jonathan Moeller

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Featured Fantasy: Cloak Games by Jonathan Moeller

START THE SERIES FREE—Book 2 only 99 ¢, Book 3 only $2.99
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The High Queen of the Elves has conquered Earth, but I don’t care about that.

I don’t care about the High Queen, or the Rebels seeking to overthrow her. All I care about is getting my baby brother the treatments he needs to recover from his potentially fatal disease…and those treatments have a steep price.

Fortunately, I have magic of my own, and I’m a very, very good thief.

Unfortunately, the powerful Elven lord Morvilind has a hold over me. If I don’t follow his commands, my brother is going to die.

Of course, given how dangerous Morvilind’s missions are, I might not live long enough to see my brother’s death…

Featured Sci-fi: The Expanding Universe by Multiple Authors

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Featured Sci-fi: The Expanding Universe by Multiple Authors

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Available for a limited time, this collection includes my novella, Situation Normal All Furballed Up—an adventure with 6T9, Volka, Carl, and Sundancer. It doesn’t require any familiarity with these characters, but it takes place between Starship Waking and Darkness Rising for those familiar.

6T9, Volka, and Carl are back in this hilarious sci-fi rescue mission… with extra glitter, gladiators, and one grumpy telepathic furball.

Android 6T9 was designed for pleasure—not prison breaks, gladiator death matches, or interstellar diplomacy gone sideways. But when his mission to retrieve a stranded scientist on the patriarchal desert colony of Exeter 389 goes spectacularly wrong, he does what any self-respecting former sexbot would do: improvise with glitter, charm, and masochism settings dialed to maximum.

Now trapped in a gladiator barracks, wearing a glorified diaper, and surrounded by musclebound morons, Sixty’s only backup is an artistic wolf-girl, a sentient starship with communication issues, and Carl—a venomous, telepathic space-weasel who’d rather nap than save the galaxy.

The locals are bloodthirsty, the rescue window is closing, and a six-legged monster is about to enter stage left.

For Sixty and his crew, it’s Situation Normal, All Furballed Up!

Besides Situation Normal there are twenty-two other short stories by such indie author luminaries as Craig Martelle, Lawrence M. Shoen, Rick Paltrow, Rachel Aukes, Daniel Gibbs, and many more!

Featured Sci-fi: No One Left Behind The Complete Series by John Walker

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Featured Sci-fi: No One Left Behind The Complete Series by John Walker

FREE as of September 13, 2025
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Edgar Bryce thought his war was over. Then he heard the signal.

Once a decorated soldier, Bryce now roams the stars as a freelance prospector, trading danger for solitude. The battles may be behind him, but peace has never come easy. He’s drifting until a strange signal pulls him off course.

A hidden transmission. A plea for help. A distress call from human prisoners long thought lost.

The authorities won’t act. Peace is too fragile. Diplomats would rather look away. But Bryce remembers what it means to wear the uniform and the unspoken vow that comes with it.

He’ll have to do the impossible: form a team, cross the border, and bring them home.

Because some promises don’t expire. And some missions… choose you.


This box set includes all six books in the Veterans Code series:
Veterans Code
Veterans Gamble
Veterans Honor
Veterans Duty
Veterans Wrath
Veterans Legacy

Featured Fantasy: The Ragnarök Prophecy by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: The Ragnarök Prophecy by Matt Larkin

FREE First in Series—Book 2 only 99¢, Book 3 only $2.99 US & UK
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The necromancer who became a god of death …

From out of the Mist he came, his name whispered in awe and dread, for Odin cast himself as a god of Man. But behind the illusion and the lies, Odin too was once a man, in an age of ice and an era of Mist.

With his blood brother Loki by his side, Odin wanted only to protect his people from the soul-stealing Mist and its denizens. But when a vision of Ragnarök shows him the end of the world, he is forced to accept a terrible truth. In the face of the extinction of Mankind, any action, any deception, no matter how vile, is needful if it might avert the end.

So Odin will kill, will lie, will use Men in his ceaseless schemes. Because the price of his failure is unthinkable …

Featured Science Fiction: Spaceships & Dames – Nine Novels of Space Adventure by Multiple Authors

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Featured Science Fiction: Spaceships & Dames - Nine Novels of Space Adventure by Multiple Authors

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Nine full-length novels of unique heroines: mothers, gentle mutants, star mages, and scientists, all with destinies in the stars.

Included in this collection:
Project Charon 1: Re-entry by Patty Jansen
Starship Waking by C. Gockel
Star Mage Quest by J.J. Green
Children of Darkness by James E. Wisher
Faring Soul by Tracy Cooper Posey
Spaceberg by M. Pax
Ghost by Demelza Carlton
Traitor’s Code by Jane Killick
Derelict by LJ Cohen

Featured Sci-fi: Soldiers of Earthrise Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Arenson

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Featured Sci-fi: Soldiers of Earthrise Books 1 - 3 by Daniel Arenson

FREE as of September 12, 2025
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War rages among the stars. Can Jon Taylor survive?

Soldiers of Earthrise box set! 3 entire novels = 1,000+ pages of epic science fiction.

Jon Taylor is an Earthling. He doesn’t care much about space. At least until his brother dies on Bahay, a war-torn planet many light-years away.

After the funeral, Jon joins the army. He learns to kill. And he flies to Bahay, sworn to avenge his brother.

Centuries ago, Filipino colonists arrived on Bahay to build a utopia. But this world has become a nightmare. Jon finds himself in a dizzying dreamscape, a world of dark jungles and neon slums, of ruthless guerrillas and intoxicating bargirls, of blood-soaked battlefields and glittering brothels. Here on Bahay, a man can lose his life in the jungle, lose his sanity in the gleaming drug dens, or lose his heart to a local girl with a sweet smile and knife behind her back.

On Bahay, nothing is as it seems. In this place of strange dreams and secrets, Jon hunts the man who killed his brother. But he learns that revenge always comes with a price…

The bestselling Earthrise universe spans multiple series and dozens of novels. If you’re new to Earthrise, this box set is a great place to start. If you’re an old fan, buckle up for a new adventure among the stars.