C Gockel Writes

Ways to Read and Listen to My Series For FREE or Close To It

by

Subscribe and Save!

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. 

Or Read & Listen Completely FREE!

Find Your My eBooks and Audiobooks at Your Local Library with Overdrive/Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and More

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.

Find Libraries that Offer Libby/Overdrive

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

Featured Sci-fi: Defenders of the Rim: Beginnings (Far Future Book 1) by Randal Sloan

by

Featured Sci-fi: Defenders of the Rim: Beginnings (Far Future Book 1) by Randal Sloan

FREE as of March 9, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US (For sale: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia)

Apple, Nook, Kobo

The Galactic Empire is in Grave Danger and unaware of what’s coming. Can a group of young heroes find a way to save the galaxy and survive?

Young Lieutenant Jarra Carsean, newly graduated from the Rim Patrol Officer Candidate School, is given a small ship and a crew of misfits, straight out of District Specialist Training. Can their young team come together and survive their first mission, a mission that becomes a much more difficult and risky endeavor than anyone suspects it will be?

What they discover has huge ramifications for the whole galaxy and they will have to use every skill their team has to survive.

Jarra carries with her a big secret that might well jeopardize her team or it may save them all and the Galactic Empire too.

The first in the Far Future Sci-Fi Thriller series, Defenders of the Rim: Beginnings is a far future sci-fi thriller in a world that combines science that just might be possible many years in the future with a Galactic Empire, rebels and aliens.

Featured Sci-fi: Phule’s Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

by

Featured Sci-fi: Phule's Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

$1.99 as of March 9, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, Canada, Australia (Full-price:United Kingdom, Germany)

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

From a New York Times bestseller “a . . . winning story about a commander who builds a company of misfits . . . into a disciplined military outfit” (Publishers Weekly).
 
After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin’s Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule’s company operates with their own unique tactics . . .

[Read more…]

Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

by

Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

$1.99 as of March 9, 2026 in the US and Canada
Click for current price: Amazon US, Canada (Full-price: United Kingdom, Germany, Australia)

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

I loved this dark fantasy. There’s friendship, and love, and fae being twisty.

A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince!

In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives….

Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.

Until one day, he does….

As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be.

The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black’s triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.

Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 – 11 by Baileigh Higgins

by

Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 - 11 by Baileigh Higgins

99¢ as of March 8, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Discover A Savage Prehistoric World Lost To Time

Born 75 million years ago, Ridley has never known anything beyond the primeval wilderness and its primordial beasts. Fierce and headstrong, she’s no stranger to adversity and loves the thrill of the chase. When she learns about an extreme endurance race, she jumps at the chance to compete in the most dangerous competition in history.

A thrilling adventure awaits as Ridley and her loyal wolf companion, Loki, set off in pursuit of the ultimate prize. The competition is fierce, with cutthroat competitors, savage predators, and rugged terrain standing in their way. But Ridley is determined to prove herself and come out on top, no matter the cost.

Join Ridley and Loki as they face challenges and danger at every turn, pushing their limits and testing their survival skills. Will they be able to outwit, outsmart, and outlast the competition?

This heart-pumping tale of adventure and perseverance includes the entire Primordial World series and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. The first series in the Primordial Universe, Primordial Earth, can be enjoyed separately as part of its own collection.

Grab your copy today!

Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

by

Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

99¢ as of March 8, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany (Full-price: Australia)

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

A standalone cozy romance filled with books, baby dragons, and happily ever after guaranteed!

Emmy has an enemy, and his name is Luke. The good news? She rarely sees him. The bad news? When she does, she (and her pet dragons) are reminded just how handsome he is.

Besides, Emmy is too busy focusing on her dragon-fuelled business to have time for love. But when both she and Luke approach the same local investor for funding, she’s suddenly unable to avoid him. The kookie investor insists they must compete for the cash by working at the local failing baby dragon bookshop to prove their magical business knowledge.

Determined to win the funding, Emmy dives into the task. But making a very flammable bookshop fit for baby dragons is no small feat, and it seems these rivals may need to join forces. Could Luke and Emmy’s fiery animosity spark something more between them?

[Read more…]

Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

by

Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

FREE as of March 8, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

The capstone and crowning achievement of  the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction…

Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.