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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.

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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!

Feature Fantasy: SPACE COLONY ONE SERIES by J.J. Green

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Feature Fantasy: SPACE COLONY ONE SERIES by J.J. Green

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Terror stalks a new world colony.

After nearly two hundred years’ space travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home.

Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time.

But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive.

Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

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Featured Sci-fi: Oblivion Threshold (The Oblivion Saga Book 1) by J.R. Mabry & B.J. West

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Oblivion Threshold: A Military Science Fiction Space Opera Epic (The Oblivion Saga Book 1) Kindle Edition by J.R. Mabry (Author), B.J. West (Author)

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It isn’t a war—it’s a massacre. Mindless mechanical aliens are destroying everything in their path. And their path is heading straight for Earth…

The Prox don’t even notice us. They are simply devouring and reclaiming every scrap of metal they encounter. They have destroyed several colonies, killing everyone and leaving only wreckage in their wake.

Captain Jeff Bowers is a shell of a man, reduced to solo missions where he can’t piss anybody off. He is spying on the Prox when his ship crashes and he dies…kind of. When he wakes up he discovers he has a new body—and mysterious powers that could save the Earth…or end all life as we know it. 

Oblivion Threshold is the first book in the thrilling Oblivion Saga. If you love Star Trek and Starship Troopers, you simply cannot pass up this adventure.  

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Featured Fantasy: Psychic for Hire (Paranormal Temp Agency Book 2) by Molly Fitz

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Featured Fantasy: Psychic for Hire (Paranormal Temp Agency Book 2) by Molly Fitz

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My last assignment almost killed me. This one might finish the job.

I thought I was done with the Paranormal Temp Agency. But when cat field agents start disappearing, my boss, a sarcastic talking cat named Mr. Fluffikins, sends me undercover to find the truth. My cover? A psychic who talks to ghosts. My reality? A reluctant witch faking her way through a world of magical mystery and suspicious stares.

With Beech Grove in danger and magic itself at risk, I have to catch the culprit before I become the next vanished familiar. No pressure.

Psychic for Hire is a funny and fast-paced paranormal cozy mystery perfect for readers who love small town sleuths, undercover witches, and cat cozies with claws.

Start reading now and uncover the purrfect paranormal plot.