Newsletter for October 2025

Featured Books

 

A diverse group of children discover a park where words quite literally come to life, looking and behaving a lot like kids. Some words are warmer and more inviting, while others are prickly or pushy or odd. Not every word makes the best first impression, but as they play and share adventures, these children connect more deeply with language. They learn that words have superpowers and grow to love them for their quirks. They see that words make excellent friends, who magically appear just as they're needed and easily attune to how kids feel. The more these children bond with language, the more they tap into their own voice—and as they dare to give it expression, they gain more respect for the power of words.
 

 

THE REAL DREAMWALKER PRESENTS: El Niño

 by Ashlyn Jacobs  

 

It's an El Niño summer in the unassuming neighborhood of SOMEWHERE, Tucson, and the burgeoning heat is driving everybody crazy, bringing with it a single mirage of terror.

When all the males experience the same disturbing nightmare featuring a supernatural entity that grows from the body of a deceased animal, they start to wonder who this mysterious creature is.

 

The Real Dreamwalker seeks a prize beyond human imagination, but to claim it, you must be drawn into a trap where nightmares reign and reality is a blur. Are you ready to play a game where there can only be one winner?

 

Bloody, subversive, and filled with horrifying tales that will deprive you of your sleep, THE REAL DREAMWALKER presents: EL NIÑO will keep you turning the page until the very end.
 

 

 

No Free Speech for Hate by Stephen Ford

A few years from now the United Kingdom has broken up, the monarchy abolished and English society is dominated by the Universities, new centers of power in the land, a power as great as the medieval Church and suppressing heresy against the new woke creed as zealously as Stalin’s secret police, dissenters banished to gulags, to protect the public from dangerous hateful influences.

Suitability for University education is not determined by academic prowess, rather by knowledge of and adherence with the new creed of flexible genders and intersectional categories. Almost every occupation, from waste disposal operatives to cleaners, has been made into a graduate profession, excluding those deemed Educationally Unsuitable from almost all legitimate jobs.

An attempt to ban jingoistic and militarist Remembrance Day commemoration sparks revolt among those excluded from university education and employment for lack of sympathy with the new ethos, leading to a populist right-wing insurrection, restoration of the monarchy and purging bastions of the old regime’s power, the Universities.

The Glastonbury Triangle by Stephen Ford

Journalist Simon, reporting on the Knights of Camelot theme park run by an eccentric Marquess, is drawn into a tangle of intrigue, witchcraft, alternative lifestyles, mythology and secret technology as he investigates mysterious disappearances in Glastonbury, including his new girlfriend, Jenny.

On Jenny’s trail, Simon joins Abballon, a female dominated community inspired by worship of the goddess Gaia, where the role of men is to serve obediently, modern technology is banned and all must obey the tyrannical ruler, Philomena.

Cast out from Abballon, Simon uncovers a fiendish plot by a deranged scientist to transform abducted people into mythical creatures, from centaurs to satyrs, intended to populate the Marquess’s new Mythological Magick theme park. He rescues Jenny just in time to prevent her metamorphosis into a mermaid.

The Manipulator by Dan Buzzetta

Dan Buzzetta delivers a confident, captivating, compelling tale in The Manipulator, the inaugural installment in Buzzetta’s blockbuster new series.  In this stunning debut, Buzzetta introduces protagonist Tom Berte.  A seventh-year associate at the prestigious law firm Balatoni, Cartel and Colin, Tom Berte is on track to make partner. But when he’s tapped for an enviable position that could catapult his career to the fast track, Berte is thrust into extraordinary circumstances that could alter the course of his life.  Though a testament to his meteoric rise, the offer Tom receives proves too good to be true—and threatens to derail not only his career, but everything he holds dear.

About The Manipulator: Thomas Berte, a Harvard-educated attorney at the peak of his career with a corporate law firm, is thrust into the legal battle of a lifetime when the U.S. Attorney General offers him the position of Deputy Attorney General.  Tasked with the daunting mission of bringing to justice Cosimo “Nino” Benedetto, the elusive mastermind of an international criminal syndicate, Tom soon realizes that the immense pressure of the job is only one challenge of the enviable position.  Dogged by Special Agent Bruce Young, an insolent, insubordinate underling who is intent on making Tom’s dream job a nightmare, Tom is determined to complete the task before him. But when he uncovers troubling connections between his former law firm and the underworld empire he’s determined to dismantle, Tom’s world is upended. Even more disturbing, Tom discovers unimaginable secrets about his own family. The chase for Benedetto becomes a personal crusade and a pivotal moment of reckoning, pitting the pursuit of justice against unspeakable threats that come from exposing long-buried secrets. For Tom Berte, discovering the truth could be as devastating as failing to succeed. Expect the unexpected in this electrifying, edge-of-your-seat thriller.

Lizard People:  Death Valley Underground

by David A. Ek

Set in Death Valley National Park’s remote wilds, “Lizard People: Death Valley Underground” is an intriguing mystery novel that lies within the borderlands between American Gothic, ancient cosmic forces, government conspiracies, and off-centered antisocial misfits struggling to survive in a brutal desert wilderness.

Sid Emerson goes missing while investigating a mysterious cosmic energy within Death Valley’s wilderness—a force that draws in an odd mixture of eccentrics, societal outcasts, alien conspiracies, and those seeking hidden truths to ancient earth mysteries. Sid’s niece hires local desert rat Paddy Darwin to find her uncle. However, she soon discovers that strange things happen when the lost search for the lost, especially within a harsh alien landscape filled with clandestine “patriots” chasing shapeshifting alien Lizard People, a media-seeking crackpot who believes his dead-body-detecting machine can locate additional victims of the Charles Manson murders, and an overworked sheriff who continuously recovers withered and desiccated bodies from Death Valley’s desert inferno. The search for gold, Lizard People, and lost souls unleashes an escalating series of intertwined events fueled by greed, suspicion, and conspiratorial beliefs. The journey forces Paddy to face his troubled past in ways that provide a few lizardly twists and turns of their own.

Book Giveaways for October

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