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I Bring the Fire Omnibus eBook and The Defiant audiobook

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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 Sci-fi: Human For Hire—Collateral Damage Included (Human For Hire Book 1) by T. R. Harris

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Featured Sci-fi: Human For Hire—Collateral Damage Included (Human For Hire Book 1) by T. R. Harris

FREE as of August 24, 2026
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Human!

A name that strikes terror in the hearts of the galaxy.

Well, maybe not terror, but respect. More like caution, actually.

Since you know how hot-headed Humans can be.

After the galaxy was savagely attacked by invaders, the Milky Way was left but a shadow of its former self. Gone are the vast empires that once brought stability, law and order to countless star systems. In its wake, a savage, almost Wild West existence emerged, ruled by gun and muscle. And for anyone needing help in either the gun or muscle category—or both—everyone knows you … Hire a Human.

Featured Sci-fi: Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space (The Henry Gallant Saga Book 1) by H. Peter Alesso

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Featured Sci-fi: Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space (The Henry Gallant Saga Book 1) by H. Peter Alesso

FREE as of August 24, 2026
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As the last starfighter, only Henry Gallant can stop the alien invasion.

In the twenty-second century, genetic engineering has transformed humanity. Every officer in the United Planets space navy has been enhanced, their DNA optimized for peak performance. Every officer except one.

Midshipman Henry Gallant is the last Natural in the fleet. Unenhanced. Doubted by his shipmates. Dismissed by superiors who believe he cannot compete. Assigned to the battlecruiser Repulse on the volatile Jupiter frontier, Gallant must prove that courage and ingenuity matter more than engineered DNA.

When a devastating alien armada launches an all-out assault on the Jupiter colonies, three hundred fifty thousand colonists face annihilation. In the chaos of battle, Gallant boards a crippled enemy warship, captures vital alien technology, and becomes the last starfighter of Squadron 111. Wounded, low on fuel, and hunted through the asteroid belt, he must fly a damaged Eagle fighter across millions of kilometers of hostile space to deliver the intelligence that could turn the tide of war.

But survival is only the beginning. Political enemies and powerful industrialists have their own plans for the young midshipman, and the alien threat is far from over.

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

New Release
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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.