C Gockel Writes

Want to keep reading for free (or close to it)?

by

I Bring the Fire Omnibus eBook and The Defiant audiobook

Subscribe & Save

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

  • Everand* (formerly Scribd) – ebooks + audiobooks
  • Kobo Plus – ebooks (no Kobo device needed—the app is free)

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

Learn more about KoboPlus and Everand. 

Or Read & Listen Completely Free

You can also find my books at your local library:

  • Libby / OverDrive
  • Hoopla
  • CloudLibrary
  • BorrowBox

If your library carries ebooks or audiobooks, there’s a good chance they have my books—or can request them.

Find Libraries that Offer Libby/Overdrive

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.

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 Sci-fi: Psychomech (Psychomech Trilogy Book 1) by Brian Lumley

by

$1.99 as of July 15, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US (Full-price: United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia)

Apple, B&N, Kobo, GooglePlay, & Available from Audible (FREE Trial for new users)

Richard Garrison, a corporal in the British Military Police, loses his sight while trying to save the wife and child of millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder from a terrorist bomb. While Garrison is recovering from his injuries, Schroeder makes him an offer the young man cannot refuse – refuge at Schroefer’s luxurious mountain retreat and rehabilitation from the best doctors who can treat Garrison’s blindness, and, if not cure him, at least teach him a new way of life.

But Thomas Schroeder has a secret. His is dying and determined not to lose his life. The doctors tell him his body cannot be saved. But what about his mind? Garrison’s healthy young body would make an excellent replacement for Schroeder’s failing corpus, if the machines to perform the operation can be perfected in time.

Garrison has secrets of his own. Since the bombing that caused the loss of his sight, Garrison has become aware of new abilities slowly developing in his mind: mental powers he is beginning to master, strengths Schroeder cannot expect.

Richard Garrison and Thomas Schroeder, two strong-willed men locked in battle for the greatest prize – life itself.

Featured Fantasy: The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files Books 1 – 5 by Craig Halloran

by

Featured Fantasy: The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files Books 1 - 3 by Craig Halloran

START THE SERIES FREE
Boxset 2 also Free, Boxset 3 & 4 only 99¢ Each
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

In the shadows of Washington, DC, monsters aren’t just real—they’re on a government watchlist.

John Smoke is an ex-con with a violent past and a reputation that bites harder than any werewolf. Freed under suspicious circumstances, he’s tasked with an impossible job: track down supernatural criminals who defy belief—and law. Assigned to babysit him is FBI Agent Sidney Shaw, a by-the-book sharpshooter with a mind for justice and a chip on her shoulder.

Together, they chase down shifters, unravel ancient conspiracies, and uncover a shadow network of power that infects everything from the back alleys to the Capitol steps. But nothing could prepare them for what’s buried beneath the city—or what’s hunting them in return.

Featured Fantasy: Born of Water (Rise of the Fifth Order Book 1) by Autumn M. Birt

by

Featured Fantasy: Born of Water (Rise of the Fifth Order Book 1) by Autumn M. Birt

FREE as of July 13, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, B&N, Kobo, GooglePlay, & Available from Audible (FREE Trial for new users)

A failed duty. A forbidden magic. An epic journey begins.

In the world of Myrrah, elemental magic is not just a gift but a destiny. Ria, a young girl who has always hidden her forbidden powers, finds her life unraveling when she calls upon magic to save her best friend’s life. She discovers there is something worse than being able to control water, air, fire, or earth—there is another power, one that is forbidden, and its use is punishable by death.

[Read more…]

Featured Fantasy: Federal Bureau of Magic Books 1 – 3 by Annabel Chase

by

Featured Fantasy: Federal Bureau of Magic Books 1 - 3 by Annabel Chase

99¢ as of July 12, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia and Available from Audible (FREE Trial for new listeners)

Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight.
This box set contains the first 3 books in the Federal Bureau of Magic cozy mystery series.

[Read more…]

Featured Fantasy: The Devil is in the Details (The Broken Halo Series Book 1) by Maya Daniels

by

Featured Fantasy: The Devil is in the Details (The Broken Halo Series Book 1) by Maya Daniels

FREE as of July 12, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

It started with a demon hunt and ended with a war. The entire series is complete and yours to binge.

Nothing spices up a Tuesday night like a good old-fashioned demon hunt. Unless, of course, you accidentally open a portal to Hell.

Oops.

I used to believe in black and white, good versus evil, angels versus demons. Then I learned the hard way that Heaven has secrets, Hell has its own rules, and I’m stuck in the middle of it all.

Now I’ve got celestial bounty hunters on my ass, demons whispering sweet nothings (and death threats), and one particularly infuriating demon—who’s way too handsome for my sanity—claiming we’re destined. Yeah, sure, buddy. That’s what they all say.

One wrong move, and I’ll be heaven’s traitor or hell’s newest recruit. Either way? I’m screwed.

The Devil is in the Details is a fast-paced, snark-filled urban fantasy with kickass action, a morally gray heroine, and a demon who gives “bad decisions” a whole new meaning.

Featured Sci-fi: A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought Series Book 1) by Vernor Vinge

by

Featured Sci-fi: A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought Series Book 1) by Vernor Vinge

$2.99 as of July 11, 2026
Click for current price: Amazon US, Canada (Full-price: United Kingdom, Germany, Australia)

Apple, B&N, Kobo, GooglePlay, & Available from Audible (FREE Trial for new users)

A Hugo Award-winning Novel!

“Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin

Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind’s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these “regions of thought,” but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.

Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.