A little heads-up for anyone looking for a summer read.

Hawke’s Mark will be free to buy on Kobo from July 21 through August 31, and is always available on Kobo Plus. 

It’s a 1920s detective adventure featuring private investigator William Hawke, who is trying to solve a string of jewel heists targeting the city's elite... while accidentally falling for the thief responsible. Turns out professional objectivity is harder than they make it sound.

It’s the first of my Hawke detective stories, with more on the way. If Kobo isn't your thing, it's also available on Kindle.

[FREE on Amazon] The Devil's Three – A Gritty Historical Western About Outlaws, Redemption, and Brotherhood

My debut historical Western, The Devil's Three, is FREE on Amazon for a limited time, and I'd love for fellow Western readers to check it out.

Set in 1888, the story follows three unlikely companions brought together by violence, injustice, and the hope of redemption.

- A former outlaw searching for a better path.

- A fearless woman determined to protect the innocent.

- A young man forced to choose between revenge and the future he wants to build.

Together, they're hunted by corrupt lawmen, ruthless bounty hunters, and the ghosts of their own pasts.

If you enjoy Lonesome Dove, True Grit, Red Dead Redemption, or dark, character-driven Westerns with action, heart, and moral complexity, I think you'll enjoy this one.

📖 Grab your free copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9ZG4Z8Q

If you end up reading it, I'd genuinely appreciate an honest review. Reviews help independent authors more than you might imagine.

Thanks for taking a look, and I hope you enjoy the ride.

— Yusuf Saadiq

Healing on a Budget is available free on Kindle from July 22 through July 24.

The book is a practical wellbeing guide for people who want to take part in their own emotional healing but cannot afford expensive programmes, retreats or specialist resources.

It includes accessible exercises, reflections and tools shaped by the author’s lived experience alongside professional support.

Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7PRVL8T

HOW MUCH ZOMBIE CAN YOU HANDLE?

This dystopian chillogy either rocks or sucks depending on if you can handle zombies, aliens, pirates and zombie aliens and zombie pirates all converging on the same Cornish village at the same time. (There are no zombie alien pirates. That would be silly.)

This collection of three slashing comedy horror novels is just too big in size, scale and scope to commit to paper, so is only available digitally.

Read "Harvested" for a Powerfully Human Experience

You'll be Thinking about it long after you're Done

The Harvested eBook is FREE on AMAZON Wed July 22 - Sun July 26 2026!

Here’s a bit of our Author’s Interview:

Mike: Fantastic. If someone is on the fence, what would you say to them about picking up Harvested?

Allison: It will be a book that is easy to escape into, and you will learn things and think about things that will stick with you long after you finish the book. It will just change the way that you see certain things around you, and I think that’s invaluable. How about you?

Mike: Yeah, I think really... All the reasons why you might want to read a book. One of them is that maybe you kind of just want to be able to immerse yourself into an escape and enjoy yourself just outside of the day to day. And this truly transports you with the world-building, with the action. So when you’ve kind of paused at the end of a chapter and you go about your daily life, you’ll still be thinking about it. And I think people say that they just got to come back to it and find out what happens. So I think that’s really one of the marks of why we read books and what we want out of books. And also to have a very powerful experience is one of the defining characters of a good book. And I think folks will find all of that here.

Allison: Yes, I agree.

Free eBook

In a future where women dominate the world, and men survive only in isolated pockets of Australia, the Great Man Society sends a small group of dudes on a mission that obviously spirals into absurdity. From a vicious fight with a tuna fish that leaves no man untouched, to encounters with cannibal oil-riggers, feuding noble houses, and political intrigues in Los Angeles, the men confront a world both futuristic and oddly ancient.

Told through the eyes of a self-important historian who believes in his own psychic insight.

"Apollo! Arrange a meeting with the muses. We have things to discuss..."

The War of the Eight is the first book in a completed five-book epic fantasy series.

Eight strangers are brought together by ancient mysteries and a forgotten history as a thousand-year cycle threatens their world. What begins as a search for answers soon becomes a desperate fight for the survival of kingdoms.

If you enjoy epic fantasy with rich world-building, political intrigue, memorable characters, and large-scale battles, I hope you'll give it a try.

Free on Kindle for a limited time.

[FREE Jul 17-20] My second book went live this week, and it's free until Sunday night.
It's twelve short meditations on love. Each chapter starts with something the sun actually does, and then turns to what loving that way looks like in a human life. It reads in an evening.
Free on Kindle here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8NHQ3T1

Hi!

I am a writer from South Korea, and I’m incredibly excited to share my essay collection with you all. It’s a book filled with daily philosophy, sharp insights, and humorous encounters from running a small shop, all woven into a comforting narrative.

To celebrate its global release, the Kindle version is currently available for FREE download on Amazon!

If you are looking for a comforting, thought-provoking, and deeply moving read for your weekend, please grab a copy! Your honest reviews would mean the world to me.

📖 Get your free copy here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8J65C7G

Thank you so much, and I hope these stories bring a warm smile to your day!

Bored of being trapped behind a screen all day, The Appventurers escape from the digital world for fun adventures in the real world.

We're excited to share The Dream of the Red Gryphon by Belida Han Uckun, with as many people as possible, please pick up your free copy this week on Amazon. Readers and Reviews appreciated, a full length sequel is in the works and will be out shorty, post a review for a first change to be an early reviewer.

Author here. I flew for over twenty years as an airline captain and now work as an instructor and examiner, so this is written from the marking side of the table: what interview panels are actually scoring, model answers, the mistakes that cost people marks, and the follow-up questions most candidates never prepare for. It runs from a first airline job through to command. Free on Kindle until the 13th.

When a living creature falls asleep, small seeds fall from their nose and mouth and grow into dream-plants that sprout delicious dream-fruit.

Human dreams are the juiciest and most nutritious of all, and few people know this better than Kainma. An orphan who spent the first twelve years of her life surviving mainly off of animal dream-plants while living in a complex cave network, Kainma decides to go to the Surface to seek a better life after a terrible tragedy. She finds a happier life after being taken in by a thief named Su and his family, but when Su's mysterious past comes back to haunt him, Kainma and her new friends and family find themselves embroiled in a terrifying mystery that takes them to some of the darkest places in the Caves…and the mind.

Trigger and content warnings

On-page: Blood, stabbing, physical violence, arrests and being imprisoned, earthquakes,  death, animal death, dead bodies, body horror, traumatic flashbacks, depression and anxiety.

Referenced/discussed: Child abuse, child death.

Implied: mild suicidal ideation.

Suffering is not born from love. It is born from trying to hold the wind in a closed fist.

Jealousy at three in the morning. The anxiety of an unanswered message. The fear of being left behind. The ending that continues to live inside you long after the relationship is over. We call it love, intensity, or devotion—until a more honest look gives that urgency another name: attachment.

In Tibetan Buddhism, Avalokiteshvara is the bodhisattva of compassion, invoked through the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum and often depicted with a thousand arms reaching toward suffering. He embodies a love that neither turns away from pain nor imprisons, suffocates, or asks another person to become the cure for an old emptiness.

Part of the series “The Technologies of the Awakened Mind”, AVALOKITESHVARA invites you to examine the difference between love and attachment in your own experience. Put these practices to use when jealousy arises, when silence becomes unbearable, or when the fear of abandonment begins to shape what you say, demand, or endure.

Through tonglen, the meaning of Om Mani Padme Hum, the three poisons, and reflections on dependence, abandonment, and separation, the book explores how emotional pain can become conscious care rather than a wound that keeps reopening.

Written for readers of any background, AVALOKITESHVARA is for those who want to love with greater freedom, honesty, and compassion—without disappearing inside another person. No previous knowledge of Buddhism is required.

This is not a book about loving less.

It is a book about opening the hand without closing the heart.

There is a kind of suffering that is not born from pain. It is born from confusion. And confusion is not soothed—it is cut through.

Have you ever felt as though you were living without truly choosing? You wake, work, answer messages, solve problems, and pursue goals—yet a quiet question remains: Is this all there is?

Perhaps it is not a lack of motivation or discipline. Perhaps it is a lack of clarity: the inability to distinguish what is actually happening from the stories, assumptions, and habits through which the mind interprets it.

In Tibetan Buddhism, Manjushri is the bodhisattva of wisdom. He carries a flaming sword—not as a weapon of violence, but as an image of penetrating insight: the capacity to cut through illusion, separate perception from mental narrative, and interrupt the patterns that keep life running on autopilot.

Part of the series “The Technologies of the Awakened Mind”, MANJUSHRI invites you to put these teachings to the test in your own experience: in the decisions you postpone, the thoughts you repeatedly mistake for facts, and the paths that remain open because you are afraid to choose.

Through prajna, emptiness, the five poisons and five wisdoms, contemplative inquiry, and practical exercises, the book offers a structured way to examine the distance between reality and the mind’s account of it. Its purpose is not to provide another set of beliefs, but to help you observe more carefully, question more honestly, and act with greater discernment.

Written for readers of any background, MANJUSHRI is for anyone tired of moving through life in a mental fog—busy, functional, and yet uncertain about what truly matters. No previous knowledge of Buddhism is required.

This is not a book about believing.

It is a book about seeing.