Newsletter for July 2025

Featured Books

 

A PSYCHO-CRIMINAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL ON A SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC

A FAMILY ON THE BRINK OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING INSOLVENCY

A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD UBER-GENIUS DAUGHTER IN THE LINE OF FIRE

CAN SHE SAVE THE FAMILY, NOT TO MENTION THE PLANET?

An extraterrestrial crashes into a suburban cul-de-sac Colonial, absorbs every binary bit of information ever chronicled in all of human history, rearranges its molecules and presents itself as a couple of late and legendary film noir icons, then immediately displays an appetite for debauchery, depravity, decadence, and destruction, seducing the family into its psychopathic criminal orbit with irresistible Hollywood panache, alluring sexual charisma, and inconceivable intergalactic powers.…all in the name of saving the family from their emotional, marital, and financial ruin.

But uber-genius-daughter Mike Devine figures out fast that the extraterrestrial’s principal plan is to employ its unfathomable interplanetary muscle and implode the planet. Which leaves the fate of her family, not to mention the world, in her twelve-year-old hands. 

Extraterrestrial Noir is a blistering, dark-comic sci-fi crime thriller that disintegrates genre boundaries and opens the floodgates for unputdownable, edge-of-the-seat, laugh-out-loud adventure!

If you like heart-pumping plots, captivating characters, and humor that crosses the line, then blast into orbit with Rich Leder’s rocket of a read!

 

Believe by Christina H. Wilson

At its core, this book is about the evolution of a frail child into a woman shaped by intense love, incredible upheavals, and ultimately, a deep personal wisdom.

At the age of 36, Christina had it all:  two young and healthy boys, an uber-successful husband, a big house in a gated community...she was rich, young and on top of the world.  Then on the morning of September 11, 2000 a devastating phone call would upend everything and life as she knew it.  While this cataclysmic event didn't mark the beginning or end of her life, it would be the test of her character, agency, and faith.

The story begins with a childhood marked by illness where books and fairytales became her refuge and compass.  These early influences are woven throughout her life, not as naive fantasies but emotional frameworks that at times conflict with reality.

At twenty-five, Christina meets Jeffrey, a Wall Street Titan.  The connection is all consuming and their life is thrilling, exciting, and materially abundant.

Then her world takes a drastic twist where her journey is all about transformation and a deeper meaning.  The book becomes less about the external events and more about the quiet and radical changes and Christina's understanding about self, love, spirituality, grief, and the journey of life.

This is a story of life lessons that teach resilience, self-discovery, unconditional love, and finding the inner strength and faith you need to get through life's challenges.
 

 

 

The Museum of Lies by J. Timothy Hunt

Cary Scott's remarkable life story of spectacular good fortune, mixed with soul-crushing abuse, is frankly unbelievable.

Even to Cary himself.

In a series of disturbing, unfiltered monologues, Cary unburdens himself of his memories -- of being raised by a psychopathic single mother who was abandoned by her gay husband, of becoming the target of a pedophile, of becoming morbidly obese, followed by quack treatments that boomerang him alarmingly into anorexia. Cary recalls being a bullied gay teenager who literally crucifies himself with a hammer and nails to get out of gym class. From a psych ward, he finds himself instantly famous after an unintentionally homoerotic poem he wrote for a high school assignment finds its way to becoming the #1 pop song in the nation. In the years that follow, Cary's life nosedives again and again, yet he always finds himself rescued by bizarre deus-ex-machina occurrences.

All these tales, however, are placed into doubt after his former therapist is accused in the media of implanting false memories in patients. Cary is labeled a pathological liar in a national magazine cover story.

Refusing to believe that his exceptional life never actually happened, Cary creates a grotesque, secret, museum to himself filled with artefacts of atrocities and miracles which prove that his memories are true -- but is it only a museum of lies?
 

Safe Haven by Peter Hargraves

Margaret was afraid of her murderous husband. She never knew that her fate would lie with the genetically modified cougars and their human agents that occupied the land to the far north. A chance encounter with an enigmatic man gives her the confidence to take matters into her own hands and she embarks on a perilous journey she never imagined she’d take.  

 

“SAFE HAVEN is a snappy steampunk thriller …  its greatest strength is a deeply human premise … Margaret’s story is gripping because it’s simply relatable … the narrative itself is often full of joy … The emotional arc here—recognizing beauty in the world, and building up the courage to pursue one’s freedom—is both the spine of the narrative and also the great joy of reading this book.”          –Indiereader  4.2 stars
 

Book Giveaways for July

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