Sleigh Bells and Starships - format ePub

In my first year on Kickstarter, I ran four campaigns. All four succeeded; in fact, all four overfunded, some by over 400%. I am not a media superstar. I am, at best, a very energetic indie author and...

n Kherishdar, when a person commits a crime, they become their sin....Suicide. Rape. Child Abuse. Addiction. Twenty-five crimes. Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five narrators... and one minister over them...

For the Ai-Naidar, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about...

The Alliance has sent twelve ambassadors to the Chatcaavan Empire; all twelve returned early, defeated. None of their number have been successful at taking that brutal empire to task for their violations...

At the advice of Vasiht'h, his first and truest friend, Jahir Seni Galare has accepted one of the most coveted residencies in xenotherapy, even though doing so has severed him from all the relationships...

Language and locations, culture and customs, biology, psychology, and history... worldbuilding an alien world for a fiction series can be a monumental effort involving notes, maps, drawings, and resources......or...

When emissaries of the Stone Moon arrive in het Narel, Keshul, the charlatan seer of House Akkadin, is suspicious. Who are these prosperous, well-fed people, and why do they care whether the Houses of...

Greed. Power. Cruelty. These have been the watchwords by which Chatcaava of lesser means have been ruled for generations, and even the most valuable among them, the Slave Queen, has lived the whole of...

When a routine mapping expedition uncovers what looks like ruins on the planet Theth-129, the crew of the Stardancer is thrilled to have something more exciting to do than catalogue worlds only a terraformer...

Jahir and Vasiht’h have earned their licenses as xenotherapists at last, and they have their hearts set on starting their practice in one of the Alliance’s most exciting and cosmopolitan destinations:...

Ensign Taylitha Basil didn't know what to expect at her first officer training retreat. Hiking up a mountain? She's never hiked. Canoeing back down it at the end? She's not a great swimmer. Dealing with...

Morgan Locke, university student, has been hiding his debilitating illness with fair enough success when two unlikely emissaries arrive bearing the news that he is prince to a nation of creatures out...

Mistress Commander Angharad Godkin hates politics... so of course, her ruler the Godson sent her to replace the Governor of barely tamed Shraeven province. She hates religion, so naturally, the native...

War is a serious violation of the Alliance's colony charters, so when the Stardancer is sent to investigate rumors of a conflict on the distant colony of Gledig, everyone is hoping to come up empty. They're...

An Eldritch Ambassador began the regeneration of a dragon, a regeneration that nearly ended in the harem of a Chatcaavan worldlord. Rescued before he could die, the Emperor now faces the nearly impossible...

Dive into the dark war saga Tor.Com calls "peculiarly compelling space opera" with volumes 1-3 of the Princes' Game series... where psychological headgames, shapeshifting dragons, and the psychics who...

Is it hate—or the other four-letter word?TonyaThe arrogant, infuriating man who humiliated me is back in my life. Why does one smirk still send my pulse racing and my mind spinning? The tension between...

Enjoy this Contemporary Small Town Sleuthing Couple Mystery Who is trying to sabotage the marriage of Dominic Trent and Heather Crawford? When texts are sent to the bride breaking up with her, Father...

MASONMarry for love… not to lose our fortunes. That's the pledge we all made ten years ago after our Harvard graduate brother suspiciously died three months into his marriage.One of us may have found...

Isabella Montgomery has spent her career making other people's hotels successful. At fifty-five, she's finally ready to create something of her own. When the historic Wexley Inn on South Carolina's exclusive...

They hunt the deadliest diseases. Now, they're hunting a different kind of predator. A sinister pattern is emerging in the sweltering, rain-swept streets of Jakarta. Teenage boys from prominent families...

A companion novella to Not Quite Out.Will came out to his friends. Dan walked away from Matthew for the last time.After an intense start to January, they're ready to relax and focus on their next challenges....

After the darkness, always comes the light. What if the light doesn't come? Abigail Reynolds wakes up with no memory of her life. The only clue she has is a note and the tone of it doesn't sound promising....

Best friends since childhood, Maximiliano Cortes, Frederico Resendes, Cezar Queiroz, and Marcelo Rocha traveled to the new world with visions of gold dancing in their eyes. What they found were dank jungles,...

"Luke's Dream Land: Superhero in a Movie" is a fictional kid's short story inspired by the author's childhood which is about a six year old boy, Luke with a big imagination who has lucid dreams often...

Phillip Brown and Timothy Sweitzinger became best friends as boys, went off to war together, and remained steadfast as men to guard each other's backs from all threats. When Timothy is found in bed with...

Uplifting short stories for seniors to spark joy, connection, and mental sharpnessTake a heartwarming stroll through the past with A Walk Down Memory Lane—a collection of 50 nostalgic short stories designed...

Some storms trap you. Others follow you inside. Olivia Waterson arrives at a secluded Colorado mountain home, determined to finish her next novel before her deadline—and before the storm rolling in cuts...

Life inside the Dome is perfect. Outside, it's anything but. Beyond the glass lies a brutal world where power is measured in blood, where loyalty shifts like shadows. Assassins lurk in the darkness, criminal...

Second chances and mistletoe are the last things he needs.Divorced dad Birley Haynes is too busy raising his children and running his family's music school to dive headlong into a relationship. Then Harmony...

Enjoy four fun yet sizzling hot paranormal romances set in a future where genetically enhanced supercops keep the peace and mafia rabbits rule the underworld. The Godrabbit I am known by many names. My...

Marie Charles' party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. And this time, her famed attorney father isn't going to pull any strings to get her out of this self-imposed...

Brewing up lattes, love, and a latte trouble this Christmas.The twinkling streets of Moon's Landing are aglow for the annual Christmas Market, and Lindsay Zimmer's Sweetie's Latte is right at the heart...

Blake wasn't expecting to be wooed by someone playing Secret Santa twelve-days-of-Christmas style, but he certainly isn't complaining. Presents are fun after all, especially when your Secret Santa seems...

As a genetically enhanced agent on the run, Cal has given himself one mission: to find and protect the woman who calls herself Trinity. Yet he's not the only one looking--the shadowy government agency...

He's cold, calculating, and lethal. A killer.He's also my hero.Finn Decker rescued me from a life in captivity, but not out of mercy. I'm his key to destroying the Bratva leader who shattered both our...

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923, and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May of the same year. It...

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by John Lane at The Bodley Head and in the...

2130 hours. Christmas Eve. Thirty minutes until contact.Grace Carter sits in a medical tent listening to radio traffic as her father and nine aging operators prepare to face forty armed poachers. Ten...

She ran from the wrong wedding… straight into the arms of the one man she never forgot.Calla Montgomery is Atlanta's top event planner—poised, polished, and perfectly on track to marry the city's most...

Trapped in a loveless marriage to a ruthless billionaire, a mute woman struggles to reclaim her independence, only to find herself entangled in a web of betrayal, obsession, and buried secrets that threaten...

Late into the longest night, a certain magic stirs.Daring demons, sassy spirits, winsome witches, and humble humans—none can resist the magic of the winter solstice. Rich with imagination, brimming with...

The fire was only the beginning.From the ashes of her mother's lies, Aria Vale forged a fragile new life built on truth. But when the last of Vivienne Vale's secrets is uncovered, Aria is forced to face...

In the second act of life, will she finally come first?After decades of holding everyone else together, Celia Hart returns to Stillwater Springs burned out and broken-hearted. Her marriage is over, her...

A daring thief and a disciplined duke are bound by a cursed mirror that reveals every hidden truth. When an accident swaps their bodies, they must navigate court intrigue, dangerous heists, and their...

A Tales Retold EpilogueTwo years after the events that changed her life in Every Goose A Swan, Tallie de Lacey is marrying her true love, Prince Morgan. But on their wedding day, a mysterious melody...