As a child, I was always concerned by existential threats to humanity so much so that when my parents built a house in central Virginia, I insisted that a bomb shelter be included. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were probably the only family in central Virginia with the means to withstand a nuclear attack. R. Chapman Wesley – 3 December 2023 The Back Flap Professor Anatoly Popov, an esteemed virologist and Russian-born defector, steals the world’s deadliest virus from a US counter bio-terrorism lab. His aim–to alter its properties with the remains of an interstellar meteorite to create a ..read more

The book follows a special forces group and a journalist who is trying to tell a story about why they do what they do. The catch is they are sent on a hostage rescue operation on a remote planetoid. E.L. Grover – 30 November 2023 The Back Flap Humanity has started to colonize other worlds and learned the lessons of colonization anew. A recent war with a neighboring alien race has prompted changes in Earth’s military. Straining the relationship between Earth and her colonies. Worlds such as Tronis, now a trade center that was spared from the war. Pirates have started to attack the Tronis trade ..read more

Actions have consequences. Battles and killings have a lasting impact on our psyches. We are all influenced by our parents, our childhood, our experiences, and who we become as adults reflects all we have experienced.  Shiva Kumar – 28 November 2023 The Back Flap Vanara Prophecy warns that war is inevitable. Can Dharma prevail? Our exiled heroes crash-land on Lanka, an Earth-like planet, and discover none of their modern technology or weapons function. While adapting to their new world, they are attacked by bloodthirsty, demonic shapeshifters. Arya connects to the soul of the living plan ..read more

Opening up and being vulnerable can be challenging, but it is also rewarding, and looking back, it has helped me connect with readers. Chrissy Holm – 26 November 2023 The Back Flap The church has a lot of views on women’s relationships. Respect the sanctity of marriage. Save yourself for your husband. Never, ever think about a wife. Homeschooled at church and raised by a devout father, Chrissy internalized scripture’s strictest messages. She suppressed her bisexuality and followed all the teachings of purity culture. When she turned sixteen, her parent’s divorce flipped the script. Devastated ..read more

I remember as a kid I couldn’t wait for each Harry Potter book to come out. The one thing I did not like was having to wait such a long time for the next book to be published. I decided that if I ever became an author, I would speed up the process. Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr – 24 November 2023 The Back Flap A serial killer is on the loose in New York City. This wasn’t the kind of day Griffin Knight looked forward to when he woke up this morning. Sure, being a homicide detective is never unicorns and rainbows, yet knowing the victim of a murder scene is up there with some of the really bad days ..read more

Some of the many questions I wanted to ask in this book were; who are we when everything is stripped away, how do we find the courage to continue in the face of hopelessness, and what comes after our time here? Sophia Conway – 22 November 2023 The Back Flap Alone for so long, the last man alive is about to have one final visitor… Isaac lived on after others passed. He survived humanity’s demise and is now prepared for the ultimate journey. He isn’t surprised to see Death approach, nor the prospect of what is to come from their meeting. The conversation that follows prepares them both for one ..read more

Needing to write a memoir was one thing. But wanting to visit all the pain and shame and trauma, being naked and on display, and risking judgment and the possible disdain of readers—such wanting was hard to imagine. Would all that really be required, I wondered, in order to share my story with candor? It would. It did. Terry Crylen – 20 November 2023 The Back Flap In Pursuit of Radio Mom brings the reader tight to Crylen’s side as it traces her path from frequent and debilitating anxiety, loneliness, and shame; and beyond a dysfunctional marriage that mirrors the dynamics of her relationship ..read more

To be quite honest, the writing of this entire book was a struggle. I opened up childhood wounds, and, in some cases, they were things I hadn’t shared in treatment or counseling. I began bleeding those stories onto the page. There were numerous triggers while writing the book and some nightmares reliving the abuse. Maya Golden – 18 November 2023 The Back Flap At age 30, Maya Golden appeared to be living a charmed life. She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Outwardly, she was the picture of the American Dream for many women. Privately, she was battling addictio ..read more

One of my favourite pieces of writing advice I ever heard was, ‘write the book you want to read,’ and that’s what I do. It’s one of the freedoms of being an independently published writer. I’m not having to please an editor or a publisher. The only compromise I have to find is between writing the book I want to read and the book that ticks every commercial box there is. Stephen Mellor – 16 November 2023 The Back Flap Two men meet. Alej has been waiting centuries, Ben believes he is passing through. In the days that follow, the past becomes the present as untamed spirits haunt Ben’s journey ac ..read more

I got to thinking about how weird the phrase “death by misadventure” is, and what would happen if you changed it to “miss adventure” instead? Things pretty much spiraled from there until eventually, I had a book on my hands. S.G. Tasz – 11 November 2023 The Back Flap With the power to assume an incorporeal form and track people down through their mementos and heirlooms, Adina is the hired gun no one ever sees coming. There are no contracts. No conversations. Just gruesome accidents, untraceable and custom-made. When Adina is accused of killing a valued member of the clandestine magical Order ..read more