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Life in Colour: A Charity Anthology
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Blurb: A multi-media anthology raising money for Brain Tumour Research.
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This is the pre-order for our charity anthology, Life in Colour. There are many featured authors involved in this colour themed anthology that is raising money for Brain Tumour Research. This includes multiple types of media including art pieces, music, poetry and short stories. Authors include: Amy B Garratt Jade Ford Kim Evans Bryony Rosehurst Bethany Russo Lauren Eve Amena Jamali Honey Holloway N.S Ford Jessie Webb Hayley Turner Jen Woodrum and more to be announced!
Everything Is Summer
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Blurb: A lonely traveller in a distant city stumbles upon a young woman stealing a book from a basement and follows her to a dilapidated mansion, a world of secrets, and into a bohemian way of life that is both dangerous and addictive.
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‘Summer…’ This splash of graffiti is young Mike’s only mantra, as he wanders far from home, far from who he is and ever was. Onwards, to the coffee vans, to the bookshops. To lose himself in this labyrinth. To forget. But when he witnesses a young woman named Naila stealing a book from a dusty basement, Mike is catapulted into a strange underbelly, in which Explorers indulge in wonder, lunatics are wise men, and the mundane holds miracles. Welcome. To this distant city. This abandoned mansion. Welcome to the Undercurrent.
Home
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Blurb: A family experiences sinister happenings on their farm, before realising they are under siege by both insidious forces and an oncoming snowstorm.
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A Home Without A Dog Is Just A House. Something wakes little Kelly Bradwyn from sleep every morning, and it is not the play attacks from her beloved labrador, Link. Something dwells in the attic. Surely her neighbour's ouija board is the solution to all her problems. Home Is Where The Heart Is. As the Bradwyn family prepare the farm for oncoming snows, a sudden earthquake heralds terror - an insidious presence stalking the halls; mysteries in an occult archive; nightmares of a strange world under scarlet skies. And something else is approaching, wandering across the state on an insane pilgrimage. Home Is Under Siege.
They Call Me Angel
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Blurb: When a woman is murdered by her husband, the seaside town of Adtoft unwittingly gains an angel. Invisible to all, she becomes a serial observer, but in death could Angel finally find a way to live?
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Neither dead nor alive, Angel is trapped in a solitary afterlife with nothing but her regrets and the rules of ‘the glitch’ to guide her. Yearning for purpose, Angel watches the residents of her seaside hometown—including an artist who quietly paints on the beach every day, a handsome paramedic, and her father who is stuck in a loveless marriage—while trying to avoid reminders of her murderous husband. Distracted by her daily observations, time passes in relative peace until a boy falls from the Ferris wheel and does what no one has done in years—sees her. Struck by the brief connection, Angel’s tranquillity is overturned, causing her to seek those in peril as she searches for meaning in existing between life and death.
You
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Blurb: Cassie wanted to hide from the world in the garden shed. The world came knocking. YOU answered.
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Plagued by her family and school bullies, Cassie Reilly's only place of solace was the garden shed. Hiding away from the world, she could pretend all was well until her stepfather's violence spilled out of the house and threatened to destroy everything she held dear. Unwilling to remain in the shadows and watch an innocent girl beaten, the silent occupant at the bottom of the garden arose. In that moment, Cassie had two choices: be afraid of the unknown or befriend them. With friendships scarce, she gladly accepted what was offered, little realising how that choice would save her during some truly dark times...
Unburnt: a speculative firefighter novella
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Blurb: A middle-aged firefighter impervious to the flames he battles questions his future and his past as he faces retirement and makes a shocking discovery.
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A different kind of superhero story... After emerging unscathed from the house fire that killed his father, Ed Stoneman had recurring dreams about rescuing himself as a boy, sitting amongst the flames, unburnt. The dream stopped once he became a firefighter, later earning the nickname of “Dodge” by surviving a lethal flashover fire. Dodge embraced his supernatural imperviousness to the heat of fire by going in when no one should, breaking the rules of rescue because he had to, because he could. With the Wyoming steppe becoming increasingly arid and fires igniting every few days, his ‘talent’ is needed now more than ever. On his 50th birthday, Dodge dreams of the boy not on fire for the first time in over 30 years. Chalking it up to stress, he thinks nothing of it. With retirement from active fire duty in his near future, he’s depressed and aimless. Other than firefighting, what purpose does he have? Twice divorced and childless, believing himself to be infertile in exchange for his superpower of unknown origin, he has no one to confide in but his cat, and he daydreams of walking into a wildfire just to see if he’d finally burn. But when he answers an emergency call about a local house fire, renewed purpose greets him in the flames, making him question everything he once believed.
Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets (the unauthorized biography)
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Blurb: “A rousing tale about a young woman coming to terms with an unresolved past.” —Kirkus Reviews
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"In a universe governed by controlled narratives and cultural erasure, Fox delivers an empowering reminder to embrace individuality and dare to fight for change.” —BookLife by Publishers Weekly (Editor’s Pick) “A rousing tale about a young woman coming to terms with an unresolved past.” —Kirkus Reviews For fans of Joan He and Pittacus Lore comes Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets—the latest book from young adult author Annie Fox about an interspecies hybrid looking to find herself on a new planet. A coming-of-age story that explores the meaning of birth family and found family, Leeta Simtar shows readers how breaking out of the past can help us figure out where we’re going next. Leeta Simtar isn’t the only interspecies hybrid on the planet Fure, though she is, without a doubt, noticeably different from all the others. Not only is she impossibly tall and wildly unpredictable, she leads with her feelings, in contrast to everyone else’s steady calm and logical demeanor. When Leeta’s offended, she rages and attacks. When something touches her deeply, she gushes and weeps. No wonder she has always believed something’s wrong with her, because clearly, she doesn’t belong on Fure. When Leeta suddenly finds out that what she’s believed about herself is a lie, she is more than ready to discover the truth. Since no one on Fure is talking, her only hope is to go rogue and find her own answers. She travels forty light years in search of others like herself—assuming there are others. With just eight days to unearth her origin story, Leeta follows clues that lead her across time and space hoping to find where she truly belongs. Readers of young adult science fiction, speculative/what-if fiction, and coming-of-age stories will connect to Leeta’s intergalactic adventure. They’ll be rooting for her to get what she needs, whether that means returning to Fure armed with the truth, staying in a far away place with her new found family, or finding home within her own heart. From the author of "The Little Things That Kill: A Teen Friendship Afterlife Apology Tour"
Stay Strong
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Blurb: When ten-year-old Ryan's little brother is diagnosed with leukemia, his world is turned upside down. Faced with watching him fight for his life, he and his family can only learn to stay strong.
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Ryan Wheldon is just ten years old, but it doesn’t mean he is no stranger to tragedy. He lost his first friend at four years old and experienced the heart-wrenching loss of his father three years ago. Things seem to be clearing up now, however, and his life is centered around nothing but skateboarding, playing with his neighbours, and trying to keep his three younger siblings from annoying him. As fourth grade comes to a close, he is determined to have the best summer yet, filled with vacations and never-ending beach days. That is, until his eight-year-old brother, Cody, is diagnosed with leukemia. The Wheldon family is then forced to move three hours away to Meadowview, where Cody will receive his treatment at the children’s hospital. Their lives are now a mess of doctors and too-big medical terms, none of which Ryan can quite understand. But it’s not all—an accident Ryan believes he caused puts his youngest sibling’s life in danger, rocking his world. The perfect summer is suddenly far from his reach, but to get through it, he and his family can only learn to stay strong. Read less
Where the Sun Won't Shine
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Blurb: When Shiloh loses her boyfriend to suicide, she must learn that her search for answers won't be easy - and it shouldn't hold her back from truly living.
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Shiloh Green was once happy. As the girlfriend of Braxton Abbott, drummer for the popular YouTube band Contained Chaos, the future had seemed promising. They’d get married, have kids, have successful careers, and live happily ever after in the spotlight. She’d stop at nothing to help make his dreams become reality, starting with being his biggest fan. That was the plan—until Braxton’s suicide shattered her world. Now Shiloh is left to carry the heavy weight of guilt and pick up the pieces of what had once been a seemingly perfect relationship. She doesn’t know how to live her life without him, and neither do his bandmates. As she struggles her way through her final year of high school, Contained Chaos’ growing success comes with a new drummer, Dalton, who she can’t help but resent. But Shiloh must learn how to move forward, and as she navigates through her grief, she begins to discover that her search for answers won’t be easy—and it shouldn’t hold her back from truly living.
How to make a haunted house a home: A ghost story with an uncouth twist. (Horror comedy novella)
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Blurb: How do you make a haunted house a home?
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY for the printed word. How to make a haunted house a home is a ghost story with a literary twist. Told with grand doses of humour against the backdrop of real life implications for a family riddled with tension and nothing but headaches... Influences include: Richard Matheson, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Woody Allen and Arthur C. Clarke.
Cabin in the Woods: The Man, the Myth, the Fairytale...where true poetic loneliness lies.
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Blurb: Can you really, ever, truly live alone?
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Authors note This story is unusual. A rather long prose-poem if you will… It is not meant for the usual rabble of people. If you have a literary bent, stick with it, if you find people confusing then prepare to be enlightened with the story of: THE MYTH, THE MAN, THE FAIRYTALE! Man cannot be an island unto himself...but if he was, here's how it might go...
The island of the Dead, the Damned and the Doomed!: Love thy neighbour (Dastardly tales of modern day toilings! Book 7)
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Blurb: This morality tale is funny. Funny ha-ha and funny make ya brain twist n’whirl!
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It has a certain rhythm to its eccentricities that I dutifully believe some folks will find worthwhile! It goes places and stretches further the tightly knit bonds that hold most of my stories together. This could be to its benefit or detriment, hard to say… But its different Unique and always fairly original and… for me at least these are the prerequisites for bare minimum enjoyment when it comes to all available forms of creative endeavours. So what’s it about? Like all of my minor morality tales you’ll have to read on won’t ya now! Influenced by: Kobo Abe, Vonnegut, Ryu Murakami, Bruno Schulz, Herman Hesse and all the practical jokers of the world!
The man who needed to be exorcised...: (Doppelgänger blues!!!) Aka The emotional influenza.
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Blurb: For those who feel the world is fucked up!
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What happens when you combine Moliere's the misanthrope, Huysmans Against the Grain, Dostoevsky's bureaucratic nightmares and a whole heap of junk stored in the mind of a wayward writer hell bent on divine literary creativity? You get this bad mama-jumbo of a stream of conscious novella about a man who's superb at a job that only requires five minutes of work an eight hour day, see's doppelgängers who do not look like him everywhere and fails to look after a turtle. The jewel encrusted turtle being the only one he can have a joke with. Let's face it, we know he's gonna blow something up, time to guess what?
Twenty-First Century Mankind Blues: SO YA WANNA BE A SERIAL KILLER...
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Blurb: What occurs when you adopt a persona from the start and then work backward?
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What occurs when you adopt a persona from the start and then work backward? When the world is revealed to you in reverse there can only be mayhem. A paean to detective novels, told with humour and the human condition at its heart. Trigger warning! Not for the faint hearted, must have the darkest sense of temperament.
The General Pointlessness of Being: So you wanna be a rebel!
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Blurb: So you wanna be a rebel? growing up is hard to do, yah?
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I wish this was a novel about being a tramp. I wish I could have witnessed the gulag, the concentration camps of any world war. It would have given myself such a unique point of view, a voice to stand above it all… but my upbringing staved off any lucky strike at a down and out skid-row experience....I was brought up normal, yet I turned out anything but... Thus starts the young adults journey through hell… A biography of sorts, a bildungsroman of uneven proportions! (THE BOREDOM TRILOGY can be read in any order) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written with the wit of Kurt Vonnegut, the heart of Knut Hamsun and Carson McCullers combined. Truly a modern incarnation of that blunted reality seeker Charles Bukowski. Herman Hesse could not have written this! Stephen King wishes he was this fiendish and Douglas Adams craved to be this funny! This is the devilish slice of life you all seek! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D. David Croot has been writing on and off (pretty much continually) for nineteen hundred years. He is no preternatural creature, no real special abilities or heightened desires to speak of, but he’s put in his four-trillion hours and it’s all for you my sweaty precious and sublimely beautiful creatures.
Fairytales, Folklore and Fantasy: Snow White, Red shoes and other tales reworked in a timeless fashion.
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Blurb: All your favourite childhood characters and tales reimagined!
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Preface These tales are not stories in the conventional sense. They are steeped in the quirky tradition of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm’s collected stories. I’ve used the framework of the fairytale to condense a novels ideas into a short story. Time and time again things are introduced and taken away and moved around and… The fairytale has a sweet and glorious pace all of its own. These fairytales are unique in their freshness and timeless and easy to read and full to the brim of all the magical things life can bring. There is death and sour endings and goodness and rewards and twists and unique spins on old friends we believe we knew all too well. Life is full of kookiness, drenched in unusual characters, invented or witnessed in real life. They are alive to me. I hope they shall live on for you also… Sincerely the author D. David Croot
Fairytales, Folklore and Fantasy Book 2: Where we meet Goldilocks, The Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and many more full of life characters.
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Blurb: Fairytales reimagined for a new generation of readers!
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Preface for Book 2 A continuation of Book 1's wondrous characters as well as numerous additions: Goldilocks and the three bears, The Pied Piper, The little Mermaid and many more surprises. Ten fascinating stories to ignite the imagination. If you're lucky we might even catch up with the storyteller and the ageing starlet Snow White! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These tales are not stories in the conventional sense. They are steeped in the quirky tradition of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm’s collected stories. I’ve used the framework of the fairytale to condense a novels ideas into a short story. Time and time again things are introduced and taken away and moved around and… The fairytale has a sweet and glorious pace all of its own. These fairytales are unique in their freshness and timeless and easy to read and full to the brim of all the magical things life can bring. There is death and sour endings and goodness and rewards and twists and unique spins on old friends, we believe we knew all too well. Life is full of kookiness, drenched in unusual characters, invented or witnessed in real life. They are alive to me. I hope they shall live on for you also… Sincerely the author D. David Croot
The story of the stone: Fairytales, folkore and fantasy!
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Blurb: A brilliant tale for all of time!
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Pretty preface Normally I would write a little longer of a preface, douse the prose in a little electricity to get things going and so on. However…this standalone triptych of a tale, three tales in all, concerns BIG things done in a playful way. The stories have plenty of room to speak for themselves. I just wanted to state clearly, if magic and wonder is what you are after, you need look no further than the Story of the stone. Many happy evenings and glad tidings to all who read on.
The boy who would not leave his room.: A modern day farcical adventure.
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Blurb: The boy who would not leave his room is not a boy at all. How old is he? Who knows... Does it matter? Probably not...
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The boy who would not leave his room is not a boy at all. How old is he? Who knows... Does it matter? Probably not... What is the point of his docile and meaningless existence? It is unclear. There is no answer for life's riddle. This is why you must read on...Will he ever leave his room? Why does a therapist join him in his room? Is it better to live inside of the room for all of time? Maybe... Life, for the unlucky and unloved can be cruel... Imagine... a little Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf mixed with like a Dragons irreverent humour! An odd collaboration I know. An alternate title could be - how people come together... or the road to adventure!
The Box men!: Japanese literature for a European audience
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Blurb: There are people who live in boxes, don't ya know?
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The box men takes its influence from a peculiar novel of Kobo Abe’s, aptly titled The Box Man. The box men or Or how I learned to love the box, is an unusual type of modern day horror. It holds a mirror up to us, as well as society at large. It does not preach and is written in a rather disturbing manner. The manner mainly being satire and tiny jabs of humour that keep the story grooving. These people are unusual, disturbed but still they have to live on and learn and find ways to communicate with one another, no matter their curious difficulties. It is my humble honour to introduce the first box man who does not appear to know what a joke is…make of that what you will. ——————————————————————————————————————— These stories are openly based, much like Tales from the crypt or the twilight zone, upon other peoples work. They exist to be brief, entertain and maybe open a heart or two. It is an honour to be read and never shall I forget that Sincerely D.David Croot
The three kids who killed a Werewolf: Where the wild roses used to bloom... The inner Werewolf in all of us.
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Blurb: American Horror story for the written word!
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The three kids who killed a werewolf is a morality tale that shall plummet the depths of innocence, from school time to adulthood and explore the morale repercussions to a society at large. Literary influences include Richard Matheson, Kurt Vonnegut, Kobo Abe and Ryu Murakami.
Shadows
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Blurb: A history of hurt has a way of bubbling to the surface and littering a clean slate with shadows of the past. Can Ella reconcile the tragedy she’s come from to the life that she longs for?
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Ella Hawthorne has lost everyone she’s ever loved. Still reeling from her fiancé’s tragic death, She relocates to Charleston, SC for a new job, desperate for a fresh start. As she settles into this new life, she forms friendships and an unexpected romance that impacts her in ways she never dared even possible. However, a history of hurt has a way of bubbling to the surface and littering a clean slate with shadows of the past. Can Ella reconcile the tragedy she’s come from to the life that she longs for?
Done: Sometimes there is nothing left to give
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Blurb: Consultant Vivian Ashmead has been given her biggest assignment yet, but seems to unravel despite her best efforts.
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Vivian Ashmead is a highly successful employment recruiter and retention specialist, traveling the country and climbing the corporate ladder. Her life is going perfectly according to plan. Until it isn’t. Her latest assignment is consulting with hospitals to offset the loss of personnel since the pandemic. Vivian prides herself on being an expert in her field but is struggling to find her footing. How do you convince someone to return to their field when they leave for entirely justifiable reasons? Vivian finds herself desperately clutching to her plans as they continue to unravel. The harder she tries to hold things together, the more they fall apart. To make matters worse, she disappoints the few people in her life who care about her. In her mind, she hears a whisper leading her to a better life. In her heart, she feels the ache of a longing unfulfilled. What happens when you’ve poured everything into a career, and it’s still not enough? What happens when there’s nothing left to give? Sometimes you are just… Done.
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Heart Block
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Blurb: A story of friends to lovers and self-inflicted heart damage.
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Heart Block. A slowing heartbeat. Not dead, but not functioning well. Kinda fits Stephanie’s vibe since she said, “No thanks” when her best friend Theo said he wanted more. She changed her mind, but it’s too late. He’s moved on. Or has he?