The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter #9
The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter #9
New indie releases, news round-up and book reviews! Share and subscribe to spread the word about amazing indie authors!
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New Releases
A Graceless and Flourishing Heart: A Poetry Collection by Lauren Eve
A debut collection of poetry which focuses on the inelegant and unforgiving process of learning to grow into yourself. A process made harder in a modern world having a fragile heart can be a dangerous thing.
Eve’s 80 original works are divided into four sections, where like the seasons, she deals with blossoming from the darker times and all the graceless mistakes along the way.
A collection for anyone who has felt heartbreak and has wrapped themselves up in tape just to try all over again, and for everyone who has chosen themselves even when it felt impossible.
Dangerous Waters: Deadly Women of the Sea edited by Julia C Lewis, Brigids Gate Press
Malevolent mermaids.
Sinister sirens.
Scary selkies.
And other dangerous women of the deep blue sea.
Dangerous waters takes us deep beneath the ocean waves and shows us once more why we need to be cautious about venturing out into the water.
Featuring stories, drabbles and poems by a diverse collection of authors.
The Ikiri Duology by Phil Williams
No one returns from Ikiri.
Reece’s gang of criminal jazz musicians have taken shelter in the wrong house. There’s a girl with red eyes bound to a chair. The locals call her a devil – but Reece sees a kid that needs protecting. He’s more right than he knows.
Chased by a shadowy swordsman and an unnatural beast, the gang flee across the Deep South with the kid in tow. She won’t say where she’s from or who exactly her scary father is, but she’s got powers they can’t understand. How much will Reece risk to save her?
On the other side of the world, Agent Sean Tasker’s asking similar questions. With an entire village massacred and no trace of the killers, he’s convinced Duvcorp’s esoteric experiments are responsible. His only ally is an unstable female assassin, and their only lead is Ikiri – a black-site in the Congo, which no one leaves alive. How far is Tasker prepared to go for answers – and how will these two adventures collide?
The Ikiri Duology collects the second standalone arc in the Ordshaw series in one edition, including Kept From Cages and Given To Darkness. Read this complete, action-packed supernatural thriller today!
DoNut Enter: A Penny Lane Book Club Mystery by Mary Ann Tippett
Still reeling from the murder of her best friend Jolee, Daisy McCartney scrambles to juggle law school and her testy new boss at Jenny’s Hair Salon. Living with her mother, who lives in constant chaos and keeps volunteering Daisy for security at the museum, doesn’t help. Then Daisy thinks she sees a ghost, and can’t understand why she finds the server at the new donut shop so captivating.
When she receives a strange letter from her ex-boyfriend, who later turns up dead at the museum, Daisy relies on her friend Petra for advice, and avoids telling love interest and police officer Brett about the letter. Fighting a slew of emotions from Jolee’s death and now her ex-boyfriend’s, Daisy neglects her job responsibilities, falls behind at school, and flounders as a friend to Petra.
Before she becomes the prime suspect in a possible murder investigation, Daisy must find out what really happened that night in the museum after she left. Can she find the clues she needs before it’s too late?
Fire at Her Fingertips by Rebecca Crunden
You don’t have a name. You don’t have a home. You have only the fire at your fingertips – until the day you meet her.
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Light My Pyre: A Cozy Paranormal Romance Mystery by Kat Kinney, publication date 11th April
EVERWOOD FALLS… a small supernatural community tucked up in the Colorado Rockies where witches, werewolves and vampires can live without fear of discovery, and those with curses they can’t control are sent to keep the existence of magic from being revealed to Mundanes.
As a prince of the fae High Court, Asher Heath has always been caught between two worlds—the kingdom of faerie where his fire magic is unparalleled and the human realm where he works as a firefighter. But two months ago, he lost control of a blaze his fae magic was supposed to contain, with tragic results. With his magic poisoned by a demon curse, he can’t risk getting close to anyone… including Gwyn, the fierce and beautiful dragon shifter he encounters out in a thunderstorm in the woods. But trouble has followed Asher to Everwood Falls. An arsonist is setting fires around town using demon magic to possess their victims—and their targets get bigger every time.
Gwyneth Drake doesn’t need a prince to save her. She shifts into a twenty-foot fire-breathing dragon who can fight her own battles. A fierce advocate for the dragon community, she was forced into hiding when an ex tried to sear her dragon from the skies. Now dragon blood has been found at one of the arson sites and she and Asher will have to work together to stop the arsonist before they strike again. Someone from Gwyn’s past may have followed her to Everwood Falls, and they’re too close to the case for comfort…
With a herd of enchanted elk, carnivorous spruce trees, and sentient pumpkins that stalk the local landscaping, Everwood Falls is a quirky mountain town where fangs and fur mean found family.
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News Round-Up
The Creative Future Award is now open to UK residents from underrepresented backgrounds for entries of short stories, poems and creative non-fiction.
R&R Book Tours have recently toured Woodborn by Heather Nix, Copper Waters by Marlene M Bell and Before Again by Claire S Duffy.
The Diverse Book Awards are now open to publishers and authors based in the UK and Ireland; books must be diverse / inclusive and published in 2022.
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Book Review
The Minority Rule by Alexia Muelle-Rushbrook, reviewed by N S Ford
The first in a trilogy, this is an emotionally powerful dystopian novel set in Britain about a century ahead. In a post-nuclear society, the fertility of the population is in crisis and literally everything revolves around matching up genetically compatible couples and encouraging them to breed as their duty to the country. People are stamped with barcodes which reveal whether they are able to reproduce or not. The narrator, Maia, is horrified by the way things are. As she is young and has viable eggs, society values her for this above everything else, when what she wants to focus on is her important scientific work. However, when she is matched with her husband, Max, it turns out that he feels the same way. Yet they actually do fall in love. Together with Maia’s friends and some eccentric family members, they determine to solve the dark mysteries of the ‘Powers That Be’ and the fertility crisis. An intelligent, frighteningly plausible novel which has elements of The Handmaid’s Tale and Brave New World.
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