Supporting Indie Authors

Without the marketing machine of those BIG publishers behind us, what do indie authors need most? More readers! We can all benefit from a signal boost every now and then, so that's what I'm doing each month: sharing books I think you might enjoy, written in some of the same genres I gravitate toward myself:

Struggling with newfound sentience and desperately trying to repair itself, The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is a ship trying to find a new home. In a galaxy torn apart by generations of civil war, that isn't an easy task. Tired of being used as a killing machine, it has a huge decision to make: hide and save itself, or help other artificial intelligences achieve freedom. Unable to make the decision alone, it revives the sole human aboard – the enemy officer who crippled it.

Finn's childhood in the valley is idyllic, but across the plains lies a threat. Engn is an ever-growing, steam-powered fortress that needs a never-ending supply of workers. Generation after generation have been taken away, escorted into its depths by the mysterious and terrifying ironclads, never to return. The Masters of Engn first take Finn’s sister, then his best friend, Connor. Finn thinks he, at least, is safe – until the day the ironclads come to haul him away, too.

Lose yourself in worlds that are strange but very familiar. Sibyl: The ghost of my future smells of ash. Looking Good: Beauty's only gene deep. I've got to get me some of that clickable DNA. Slow the Sound of Candle Ice Ringing: Insectoid aliens have feelings, too. A poetic coming of age story. Three Brother City: What to do if you're a sentient city when your creators have outgrown you. Visit the future, hours away and lightyears gone in your imagination. The future is closer than you think.

When life supplies eleven-year-old Tommy Grant with some unfavorable circumstances intruding on his otherwise tranquil life in 1980's Ohio, he retreats into the spell-binding Order of Cosmic Champions. When he discovers that the largely successful animated program and toy line is holding a nationwide "Create-A-Character" contest where applicants submit their action figure designs, Tommy knows he has to enter as surely as he knows his own name.