The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter #60
New indie releases, book review, news and link to a free book!
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New Releases
Hush by Kit Derrick
Do bad choices make people bad? When events spin out of your control, can you be blamed for making bad decisions? Are any choices actually your own?
Owen is a grizzled old biker, Ziggy is a young skater, Goth Sindy will come back again, years later, when she’s plain old April. Izzy and Degs just want to be loved, not that you’d know it from meeting them. A tragedy will make them all re-evaluate their lives and values. Except for the one who doesn’t survive
Hush tells the stories of five individuals whose lives intertwine, and they search for the answers that they think will make them whole again. At least one tragedy is on the horizon, one which might make them re-evaluate everything that they think they know. It could happen to any of them.
Slaughter (Apocalypse Book 8) by Hayley Anderton and Laura Swift
Everything is going up in flames.
At the Fortress, things are going from bad to worse as a fire and a horde of biters descend upon them. Meanwhile, at the farm, everyone is still reeling over the death of a friend. Lost out in the open, Sam and Joe face trouble of a new kind.
Hope will burn.
Trust will be tested.
Things are about to get heated.
Serpentus by A J Calvin
Dispatched to Stone Hill to oversee the city's defenses among nebulous rumors of the Shadow Council's threat, Owen Greenwaters must rely on the city's guard and its natural defenses to protect the citizens.
But when an army of mythical hooded ones bolstered by a sea serpent and the Soulless arrive in the wake of a terrible storm, he knows there is little he can do beyond hope the walls hold - and pray to the gods he and Stone Hill's people will survive.
They are outnumbered, outmatched, and without magical support. Owen is the only knight present in the city. They will be overrun.
The Soulless are merciless and rarely take prisoners, but Owen and the survivors of Stone Hill are exceptions...
And some fates are worse than death.
Serpentus is a standalone novel set in The Relics of War universe.
Pre-Order Now
How to Commit the Perfect Murder in Ten Easy Steps by Jessica Huntley, release date April 1st
Clueless... meets... Gone Girl!
Ashleigh Carmichael has it all: money, fame, expensive cars, a multi-million-pound London house and the adoration of millions of social media followers.
Curtis Redding does not have it all: homeless, penniless, down on his luck and he doesn’t even own a phone. Plus, he’s wanted to kill Bryan Matthews since he was a child.
Ashleigh (through no fault of her own) winds up getting dragged into the power-play between Curtis and Bryan, who clearly have ongoing issues with each other. Bryan has inadvertently kidnapped her, and is holding her Fendi handbag for ransom. Therefore, where her bag goes… she goes, so she joins him on a road trip around the country. Curtis, meanwhile, is tracking them every step of the way.
Can she help the men overcome their differences? Or will she end up fighting for her life too?
Plus… will she ever get her handbag back? (There’s personal stuff in there!)
News Round-Up
K E Blair has a giveaway for The Hidden Crown which closes 18th March; entrants in US and Canada can win print copies, entrants in UK can win audiobooks.
Alan Shivers is running a 'queer your horror bookshelf' sale on 16-17 March, click here for a list of books in the sale.
Panelist and author sign-ups are open for BBNYA (Book Bloggers Novel of the Year Award) until May 3rd.
Book Review
Somebody Up There Likes Me by Melanie Pearson, reviewed by N S Ford
This is a very compelling memoir about the heartbreak and devastation of Huntington’s Disease. The author lost her mother to this cruel neurological disease and knew there was a 50% chance that her and her brother had inherited it. The author eventually took a test and was clear, but her brother developed it and she became his carer, as their father had been their mother’s carer. You get the sense that the book is a kind of therapy for the author and must have been very hard to write at times. Not only is it a loving memorial to her lost family members, the book also raises awareness of the symptoms of Huntington’s and helps the reader to understand the impact of it on loved ones.
Free Book
Puffin Bay by Annie Dyer
Free on Amazon US and UK at the time of composing this edition of the Newsletter.
The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter is compiled and edited by N S Ford, indie author and book blogger.