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I Bring the Fire Omnibus eBook and The Defiant audiobook

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You can read (and listen to!) most of my books through subscription services:

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Both offer 30-day free trials—so if you’re a fast reader, you could get through quite a bit at no cost.

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A quick note

I’m a big library user myself and often enroll in various subscription services (books add up fast—and so do growing kids’ expenses).

However you choose to read—buying, borrowing, or listening—I’m just glad you’re spending your time with my stories.

*Everand isn’t currently featuring Magic After Midnight.

Featured Fantasy: Children of Sun and Moon (Children of the Worldsea Book 1) by Juhi Larkin & Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: Children of Sun and Moon (Children of the Worldsea Book 1) by Juhi Larkin & Matt Larkin

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To save her family, she must spy on the enemy. To save her heart, she must trust one.

Chandi has lost everything to the war against the Solar Empire—her mother, her fiancé, and the future she thought was hers. So when her cousin is married to the Solar god-king to secure an uneasy peace, Chandi follows her into the enemy’s domed undersea city with two missions: protect her cousin and uncover the enemy’s secrets before the truce inevitably shatters.

The last person Chandi expects to rely on is Naresh, the Solar warrior assigned as her escort. As an Arun Guard, he’s the very monster her people have been taught to fear. But the fiercely loyal, infuriatingly perceptive soldier is determined to preserve the fragile peace, forcing Chandi to question everything she believes about the enemy—and risking the anger that’s kept her alive.

Then Chandi and Naresh uncover evidence of a malevolent supernatural force working in the shadows, manipulating both kingdoms toward war. As conspirators move to crack the domes and drown the Solar city, Chandi’s mission becomes more dangerous than espionage alone. To stop a catastrophe, Chandi must decide whether to save the kingdom she came to protect … or the man she was sent to betray.

Blending the elemental action of Avatar: The Last Airbender with Southeast Asian mythology and horror, this dark romantasy weaves political intrigue, slow-burn romance, and epic magic beneath the waves.

Featured Fantasy: Moonshadow Bay by Yasmine Galenorn

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Featured Fantasy: Moonshadow Bay by Yasmine Galenorn

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Moonshadow Bay…where magic lurks in the moonlight, and danger hides in the shadows.

One month before January Jaxson turns 41, her husband ditches her for a trophy wife. Adding insult to injury, he steals the business she helped build, and kicks her out during the holidays. So when her best friend Ari suggests she move back to Moonshadow Bay—a quirky, magical town near Bellingham WA—January decides to take the plunge.

Born into a family of witches, January accepts a job at Conjure Ink, a paranormal investigations website. The job’s right up her alley but she doubts that everything reported to Conjure Ink really exists. That is, until she’s sent out on her first case.

An abandoned asylum once housed a murderer, who killed an entire family one Yuletide Eve. It’s rumored that every December he returns to haunt the woodland around the asylum, seeking to add new members to his supernatural family. January’s sure it’s an urban legend, but when new victims show up with no logical explanation for their deaths, Conjure Ink sends her in to investigate. Suddenly January finds herself in over her head, staring directly into the shadowed world of the Veil.

Now, January must not only navigate the new life she’s trying to build, but the paranormal beasties she’s sent out to explore, as well as a hot new neighbor, who seems to be hiding a shadowed past of his own.

Series Reading Order:

Starlight Web
Midnight Web
Conjure Web
Harvest Web
Shadow Web

I Bring the Fire Omnibus Paperback Release by C. Gockel

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The special Kickstarter edition of I Bring the Fire Omnibus (the same one that hit the USA Today Bestseller list) with Illustrations of your favorite characters by me.

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(Also available as an ebook and hardback)


The special Kickstarter edition of I Bring the Fire Omnibus (the same one that hit the USA Today Bestseller list) with illustrations of your favorite characters by me. Now available as a paperback.

For those of you unfamiliar with the plot … 

Sometimes the hero is the wrong guy at the right time. Sometimes the hero is drunk.

When Amy prays for a savior, Loki Norse God of Mischief and Chaos isn’t who she has in mind. Loki can’t resist Amy’s summons, but he can insist she help him outwit Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms. Can Amy trust a so-called God of Mischief? With a powerful evil calling him from beneath the Chicago’s streets, can Loki even trust himself?

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Featured Fantasy: Never Met An Orc Who Wasn’t Moody a Cozy Fantasy by Sherry D. Ramsey

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Featured Fantasy: Never Met An Orc Who Wasn't Moody a Cozy Fantasy by Sherry D. Ramsey

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Larch Bloodmoon and Greylocke Krolkag are just a couple of orc-kin Finders, digging through mouldy basements and dusty attics to unearth artifacts for SCAT, the Society for the Contemplation of Arcane Tangibles. It’s a living, and not a very exciting one. Artifacts holding the vestiges of arcane power are mere historical oddities and the ancient Source of magical power is a long-dead mystery. When magic Withered a century ago, folks adapted, and nobody other than Scholars like their boss really thinks much about magic any more.

Or do they?

When a new elf-kin Finder joins their team, Larch and Greylocke’s routine is overturned as they’re drawn into keeping her secrets. And with the discovery of an inexplicable artifact and rumours of a shadowy cabal bent on resurrecting magic, a dangerous new path beckons … one the Finders can’t ignore.

Featured Sci-fi: Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

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Featured Sci-fi: Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

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The first novel in the Dragonback series is “a romp of a space thriller” (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn.
 
Jack Morgan is dealing with more trouble than any young man deserves. Raised to be a professional thief and con artist by his late uncle Virgil, he’s survived on his uncle’s spaceship with the help of an AI program. But when he’s accused of a crime he actually didn’t commit, Jack is forced to flee to a remote, uninhabited planet where he can stay off the radar for a while.
 
His solitude is soon interrupted when a ship crashes on Jack’s hideout after a terrible space battle. There’s only one survivor: a warrior called Draycos, whose reptilian race is being targeted for extinction.
 
The good news is that if Jack helps Draycos, the odd creature might be able to help clear Jack’s name. The not-so-good news is that to survive, Draycos must bond—physically and mentally—with a sentient being to use as his “host.”
 
And it looks like Jack is the only sentient being around . . .

Featured Sci-fi: Space Hunter the Complete Series by Rick Partlow & Pacey Holden

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Hunter the Complete Series by Rick Partlow & Pacey Holden

99¢ as of August 17, 2026
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Get the Space Hunter War Complete Series Box Set, featuring all six books in the series. 2000+ pages of explosive military sci fi action from a pair of bestsellers.

Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?

Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.

What could possibly go wrong?