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Featured Releases
A Search For Connection
Mel Goldberg
A Search for Connection is a vivid and emotionally resonant collection of flash fiction stories each under 1,500 words that explores what it means to reach outward, inward, and across time in pursuit of understanding, belonging, and meaning. Ranging from stark realism to speculative science fiction, these stories offer quick but powerful glimpses into the human condition. Though brief, each piece lingers long after the final line, revealing how connection can be both fragile and transcendent. Read more HERE.
Dollartorium
Ron Pullins
Ralph makes the best corndogs in Kansas—golden, crispy perfection on a stick. But perfection doesn’t pay the bills, and with money running out before the month does, his wife’s had enough of scraping by. Enter the “Dollartorium,” a too-good-to-be-true business scheme promising riches for the price of a few self-help seminars. Suddenly Ralph is knee-deep in hustle culture, climbing the greasy ladder of manufactured success—until the whole thing topples in a spectacular implosion of greed. Now broke but wiser, Ralph must decide what really matters. Read more HERE.
Four Corners Voices Volume 2
Jamie Nielsen, etc.
Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays - Volume 2 is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (13 short stories, 25 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2025. Read more HERE.
Gold Storm Rising
M. Redding
Some stories begin with discovery.
This one begins with a scream that no one can hear.
Gold Storm Rising is a science-fiction thriller forged in grief and driven by vengeance. Beyond the warships, secret technologies, and alien threats lies a far more dangerous force... what happens when a human being survives something they were never meant to survive.
Read more HERE.
How Do I Become An Unstoppable Musician? Vol 2
Eileen Sauer
Volume 2 gathers the topics that would have diluted Volume 1's tight focus on the French School method as it was actually taught. Volume 1 shows how, with the smallest possible set of skills and concepts even a three-year-old could begin using, we built a foundation strong enough to do anything we wanted: learn an instrument, join a choir with confidence, compose, or walk into any music school or conservatory ready to thrive. Read more HERE.
Hula Girl
Rob Lezcano
Eighteen-year-old Tommy Tanner never expected his grandfather’s old yellow Corvette to carry him into a world of ancient gods, living legends, and dangerous magic. But when Tommy discovers that a tiny hula doll on his dashboard is actually La’Ka, a sacred spirit tied to the goddess Pele, his life changes forever.
Suddenly, he is no longer just a kid trying to find his place. He is the chosen guardian of a powerful legacy.
Read more HERE.
Jade's Broken Bridge
Michele Lee Sefton
Jade’s Broken Bridge is a raw and poignant story of survival, self-destruction, and hope. The narrative follows a young woman navigating a tumultuous life shaped by family fractures, isolation, and the pursuit of financial stability in the adult entertainment industry. She reflects on her past, particularly her experiences as an Arizona native working as a topless dancer in Fairbanks, Alaska. Jade’s journey is a deeply introspective exploration of self-worth, desperation, and the relentless search for escape. Read more HERE.
Native American Style Flute
Ami Sarasvati CMP
Do you feel called to play the Native American style flute for ceremonies, healing work, or spiritual gatherings? This book offers a clear, grounded, and reverent pathway for musicians who wish to bring Native American style flute music into ceremonial, meditative, and sacred spaces. Through step-by-step instruction, simple illustrations, QR codes leading to audio and video examples, charts, stories, and practical guidance, you’ll learn how to play the Native American style flute not just with technique—but with presence, intention, and service. Read more HERE.
Six Who Stopped The Steal
Nancy Hicks Marshall
What Really Stopped the Steal in the 2020 Elections?
Explore behind the scenes of six men with strength, courage, and integrity who played a pivotal role in stopping the steal of the 2020 elections. This revealing account provides a basic primer for anyone seeking to understand these elections, what integrity looks like in action, and what it can mean for future elections.
Readers will learn: Who were the six? What monsters faced all Americans in 2020?
Read more HERE.
The Cancer Chronicles
Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer
When I wrote this first blog/chapter I knew my Mom would die soon. Dad had passed in 1996, and now she was following him, both of terrible diseases brought on mainly due to life choices. Mom passed away December of 2016.
At that time, I thought I would never get cancer. No one in our family ever had it, outside of some minor skin type cancers. I ate healthy. I exercised. Yet, I was chosen for such a time as this.
Read more HERE.
The Door In The Carnegie Library
V.C. Williams
Shy Julie Johnson of 1967 dreams of a different life. The seventeen-year-old wants popularity, a clique of friends, and boys calling for dates. When she finds a secret door in the old Carnegie Library, she exits into the rustic world of 1907, where she must learn to trust strangers for the first time in her life. With nothing to lose, she ventures out, one step at a time, from her tightly guarded existence.
Read more HERE.
The Gold Hunter
Philip Atlas Clausen
When seventeen-year-old Petr Valory finds, not just a vein of gold, but the volcanic throat into the heart of the California Motherlode in 1852, instead of becoming the salvation of his pioneer family, it ends in their destruction. When he enters The Luminahee beneath the Gold Lake he experiences a spiritual transformation guarded by the Old Ones for centuries. The vast amount of gold incites the interest of power mad Dain King.
Read more HERE.
The Roses of Carterhaugh
Melissa Widmaier
Love is immortal.
In a quiet souters village in Scotland, an earl’s rebellious daughter stirs up trouble with the fabled faeries known as the Daoine Sìth. Can she lift the veil on a darkened past and rescue her knight from the seelie queen’s clutches?
Based on a beloved Child Ballad, this fairytale retelling mixes magic with devotion, leading our heroine and her loved ones on an adventure worth recounting in an enchanted glade or a royal hall.
Read more HERE.
To Finish A Feud: A Trace Newater Novel
Ami Sarasvati CMP
To Finish a Feud is not just the first installment in the Trace Newater series... it is a time-fractured, mystery-layered descent into a conflict that refuses to stay in the past. What starts as an old Kentucky blood feud soon reveals itself as something far more unsettling... a legacy that moves through generations, leaving behind unanswered questions, impossible coincidences, and traces of events that shouldn’t be able to touch one another at all.
Read more HERE.
Uncaged Birds
Mel Goldberg
Uncaged Birds contains 216 haiku written over several years, many published. Mel won the grand prize for Haiku from the Setouchi Matsuyama Haiku Contest, Matsuyama, Japan, in 2018, and a Laureates Choice award in the Maria Faust Sonnet Contest in 2021, among others.
Read more HERE.
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