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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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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 Fantasy: Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (Jane Jameson Book 1) by Molly Harper

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Featured Fantasy: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson Book 1) by Molly Harper

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The first in the Half-Moon Hollow series is “wry, delicious fun” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a librarian whose life is turned upside down by a tempestuous and sexy vampire.

Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed twenty-five dollars in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike thirst for blood.

Jane is now the latest recipient of a gift basket from the Newly Undead Welcoming Committee, and her life-after-lifestyle is taking some getting used to. Her recently deceased favorite aunt is now her ghostly roommate. She has to fake breathing and endure daytime hours to avoid coming out of the coffin to her family. She’s forced to forgo her favorite down-home Southern cooking for bags of O negative. Her relationship with her sexy, mercurial vampire sire keeps running hot and cold. And if all that wasn’t enough, it looks like someone in Half Moon Hollow is trying to frame her for a series of vampire murders. What’s a nice undead girl to do?

Featured Fantasy: Fangs and Frenemies (Blue Moon Bay Witches Book 1) by Sierra Cross

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Featured Fantasy: Fangs and Frenemies (Blue Moon Bay Witches Book 1) by Sierra Cross

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A quirky genius bobcat shifter.

A sassy ex-cheerleading vampire.

A sweet—but slightly neurotic—witch.

They fight crime.

Hazel Greenwood’s magical career and love life are finally looking up at twenty eight. Take that, shallow Beige Witch mom and sisters! And everyone else who made her feel like an outcast growing up, just because she inherited Gran’s powerful Green Magic.

But when a mean girl from the past goes missing, Hazel’s thrown back into the whirlwind of small town drama, rekindled rivalries, and romantic sparks.

High school’s back, witches.

To clear each other’s names, three supernatural frenemies must set aside ancient grudges and learn to trust each other.

Because in the cozy, sea-swept village of Blue Moon Bay, Oregon, everyone’s guarding a magical secret.

Will these three women, who usually can’t stand each other, find love and friendship while cracking the mystery—or are they cursed to fail?

Dive into a world of magical intrigue, snarky humor, heartwarming friendship, and slow burn romance. Escape to Blue Moon Bay now!

Featured Fantasy: Blood & Ash (The Jezebel Files Book 1) by Deborah Wilde

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“Wilde combines hardboiled noir and Jewish folklore in this action-packed, perfectly paced paranormal romp… This giddy, sexy series launch is a delight.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Missing teens. Impossible magic. And the sexy nemesis who might drive her to murder.

Ashira Cohen takes great pride in the detective agency she’s built from scratch. It may be small, but she harbors big dreams of becoming a renowned sleuth.

Thing is, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes wouldn’t let her stakeout go sideways.

Or find a mysterious tattoo hidden on her scalp.

Or discover it’s a now-broken ward that was suppressing dangerous magic she had no idea she possessed.

Don’t even get her started on the golem.

The only bright spot is that her new unruly powers nearly kill her long-time nemesis, Levi, the irritatingly hot leader of the magic community. No, right… that’s a bad thing.

One word from him revealing her forbidden abilities and she’ll be locked up for life, with everything she’s built taken from her by force. Definitely a bad thing.

Except…

It seems Levi requires her unique set of skills to solve a spree of abductions.

This is her shot. Sure, there’s a sinister supernatural organization pulling strings from the shadows, but Ash is positive she can rescue the captives, uncover the truth, and take her career to a new level.

Plus, after years of being underestimated by Levi, it’s Ash’s chance at payback. And she’s going to relish bringing him to his knees.

If you like headstrong heroines, clever mysteries, and a dash of red-hot romance, you’ll burn through this wickedly funny series.

Binge the complete series now!

Book Reviews: Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel 50th Anniversary Edition, Kindle Edition by Kurt Vonnegut (Author)

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Slaughter House Five is one of the first science fiction books I feel in love with. Science fiction might not truly be its genre, it borders on surrealism, and yet it is incredibly readable. It’s slyly humorous, surreal, and profound. The book is partially based on the author’s lived experience: he survived the bombing of Dresden as an allied prisoner of war, three stories below ground, in a meat locker. The aliens that came to visit were probably wishful thinking.

Maybe.

Highly recommended.

Featured Sci-fi: Space Academy Dropouts by C.T. Phipps & Michael Suttkus

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Academy Dropouts by C.T. Phipps & Michael Suttkus

FREE as of April 20, 2024
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA:

“Boldly going because they’re completely lost.”

The newly renamed Vance Turbo has sabotaged his own career at Space Fleet Academy due to a desire to atone for a training accident. Unfortunately, his actions result in him getting press-ganged into an expendable crew of misfits recruited by a legendary starship captain. Their mission? To recover a collection of lost sun-destroying missiles that could restart a galactic war. Unfortunately, Vance is smart enough to know something is wrong with this picture. After all, no sane person would recruit this crew to save the universe.

SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS is an all-new series from the hilarious duo of C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga, Agent G) and Michael Suttkus (I Was a Teenage Weredeer, Lucifer’s Star) that lampoons the space opera as well as military science fiction genres.

Featured Sci-fi: Metal & Blood Complete Series by GJ Ogden

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– From Kindle Storyteller Award Winner, G J Ogden –

A spark of rebellion can topple an empire.When Finn Brasa is thrust into a deadly gladiatorial battle against high-tech assassins and intelligent robots, it’s all for the entertainment of the masses.

No one expected him to survive – least of all, Finn himself.

His reward? Status and riches. But what Finn truly hungers for is revolution. The common people are desperate for a leader to rise up and challenge the ruthless empire that has subjugated humanity for centuries.

From the streets of Earth’s last city to the colossal space station Nimbus, Finn will stop at nothing to crush humanity’s high-tech overlords.

He’s beaten the odds before – but can one man really bring down an empire?

Fans of sci-fi adventure, daring rebellions, and epic battles against deadly AI will love Metal and Blood. Read the complete series in this thrilling box set.