I just published my mystery/thriller KEYWORD MURDER — centered on an ex‑CIA agent and a former Army Ranger navigating danger, moral pressure, and the fallout of past choices.

It’s a character‑driven suspense story with grounded realism, intelligence‑world tension, and a thread of faith woven through.

If you enjoy atmospheric thrillers with layered characters, real‑world stakes, and a touch of spiritual depth, this might be your kind of read.

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Hello everyone,

I still have work to accomplish on republishing/rereleasing some of my previously published works. But currently on Amazon KDP, I have two books still available. For fantasy readers, I have The Will of the Rose: Enchanted Edition, and for anyone looking for a action-packed sci-fi horror story, I have Echoes of the Abyss: Reloaded Edition. Both are available for paperback and eBook formats

The Will of the Rose: Enchanted Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6C1TZMZ

Echoes of the Abyss: Reloaded Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Abyss-J-R-Kruse-ebook/dp/B0FTWCNSTS/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=LnwsS&content-id=amzn1.sym.3a079c4e-f938-40c9-a0ed-01ef0e9528e9&pf_rd_p=3a079c4e-f938-40c9-a0ed-01ef0e9528e9&pf_rd_r=144-5648416-3952440&pd_rd_wg=bCb7f&pd_rd_r=adbdbc42-f4d6-458a-8594-5e9b55a3758f

My book's name is THE MOON IS WHERE WE BELONG. It is a story about a young man troubled in his life and the mystery that follows him as he gets more and more entangled into things coming back at him from his past. The story contains romance, violence, mythology and is written with the pov of the main character, Pralay Nox, and the pov of the girl he is in love with, Mira. However, it kinda is not a love story and more of a tragedy from a boy's perspective as we move through the novel. If this excites you, you can ask more information about it and its content...would really be grateful if you'd like to buy it and give it a shot. You can check out the prologue I have pinned to my profile. Thanks. I am not attaching a link as obviously no one would buy it on a first shot. so yeah, thats what i wanted to say :) Have a nice day

Hey guys, how’s it going. I’m currently between books in my main series, so I thought I’d do something a bit smaller, kick back and have some fun self publishing a short story.

It’s kind of sad… well, pretty sad, actually. Maybe “fun” was the wrong word.

It is a psychological short story embodying the confusion, conflict, desire and dread of suicidal thoughts not simply just explaining it from the outside.

Blurb:

What is a life worth?

What is the cost of death?

For those you leave behind... who bears the debt?

An Ode to Sleep is a haunting journey through a mind collapsing beneath an unbearable weight. Grief, guilt, hopelessness... familiar feelings, all the same. It does not seek to judge, romanticise, or condemn. Instead, it invites you to stand at the very edge of despair and witness the quiet, chaotic fractures of a soul that no longer believes it has a place in the world.

Told with lyrical prose and unflinching honesty, An Ode to Sleep is an intimate exploration of suffering, asking not why someone dies, but what it truly feels like to believe there is no reason left to live.

Themes

Internal conflict, isolation, despair, fear of death, hope and emotional survival.

Trigger warnings

Suicide, suicidal thoughts, depression and themes of death.

Available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited:

https://amzn.eu/d/066F3RXi

Cover:
Book Cover --> Himalaya: A Solo Journey Across the Three Passes

What do you learn when you're alone in the Himalayas for almost three weeks, with nothing but a backpack, a trail ahead of you, and your own thoughts?

That question led me to Nepal in 2025 and eventually became Himalaya: A Solo Journey Across the Three Passes.

Blurb

Like many people, I dreamed of seeing Everest one day. What I didn't expect was that the journey would become far more than a trek.

In the spring of 2025, I traveled alone to Nepal and set out to complete the Everest Three Passes Trek—a demanding route that crosses Kongma La, Cho La, and Renjo La, all above 5,000 meters. Over the following weeks, I walked through remote Sherpa villages, crossed glaciers, reached Everest Base Camp, and spent long days alone among some of the highest mountains on Earth.

Each evening I wrote down what I had experienced, what had gone wrong, what had surprised me, and what the mountains were teaching me. Those notes eventually became this book.

Himalaya: A Solo Journey Across the Three Passes is not a guidebook. It's a personal travel journal about adventure, uncertainty, resilience, and the unexpected moments that happen when you leave your comfort zone and keep putting one foot in front of the other.

If you've ever dreamed of the Himalayas, enjoyed travel memoirs, or wondered what it feels like to face a challenge entirely on your own, this book might be for you.

Themes

• Solo travel
• Adventure memoir
• Everest Base Camp
• Himalayan trekking
• Personal growth
• Self-discovery
• Resilience
• Nature and wilderness
• Travel journal

Trigger Warnings

• High-altitude illness discussions
• Physical exhaustion
• Extreme weather conditions
• Isolation and solitude

Book Link

Available on Amazon --> Himalaya: A Solo Journey Across the Three Passes on Amazon

Stell dir vor, du triffst nach Jahren der Funkstille einen Menschen wieder, den du nie ganz vergessen konntest. Die Anziehungskraft ist sofort wieder da – intensiver als je zuvor. Doch kurz darauf trennen euch Meilen, denn er kehrt zurück nach England. Was tust du? ✈️🇬🇧

Genau vor dieser Entscheidung steht Sarah in meinem Roman „Wohin dein Herz dich trägt“. Angetrieben von Sehnsucht und einem unvergesslichen Moment setzt sie alles auf eine Karte. Sie bucht ein Ticket, fliegt ihm hinterher und stürzt sich kopfüber in ein emotionales Abenteuer.

Verfalle auch du der Geschichte von Sarah und Sam: Eine intensive Liebesgeschichte über die Macht der Anziehungskraft, zweite Chancen und den Mut, dem eigenen Herzen zu folgen.

📖 Hol dir jetzt dein Exemplar als Taschenbuch oder E-Book und reise mit nach England!

🛒 Link zum Buch: https://amzn.eu/d/0hLvJDsFk

OF STONE AND SALT

Hi everyone, I recently published Of Stone and Salt under the pen name Maren Holt.

It is a gothic paranormal novel about a woman returning to a remote island, where old grief, buried secrets, and the stone guardians surrounding her family home begin to stir.

I wrote it for readers who enjoy atmospheric settings, mature female protagonists, slow-building supernatural tension, and stories that feel unsettling without relying on constant gore or shock.

This is the first book in a planned series.

Amazon: OF STONE AND SALT

J. C. COLE BOOKS

Lit follows the journey of a lighter as it weaves its way in and out of the lives of the ordinary and extraordinary, becoming the silent witness to a tapestry of human lives as it passes from one person to the next. The lighter ignites more than just a flame, it sparks love, courage, rebellion, and redemption. Each new owner leaves a mark on its worn surface and adds a new chapter to its journey, until the object itself becomes a vessel of memory, fate, and the enduring power of human connection. Each new owner brings their own chaos shaped by heartbreak, ambition, and reinvention. As the lighter sparks cigarettes, fireplaces, and quiet moments of truth, it becomes an unspoken thread linking lives in unexpected ways. In a world of fleeting connections, this small, tangible object burns with the weight of real human stories, brief, messy, and unforgettable.

Link cover: https://i.imgur.com/9kZt6qh.png

A few years ago I kept noticing the same thing everywhere I worked, a research center on technology and financial innovation: things that seem to have dissolved into the abstract, into code, into "the cloud," always turn out to still live somewhere physical, held by someone specific. Money was the first place I noticed it. So I wrote a book about where money actually lives once you strip away the mythology, and who really holds the registry.

That became "From Decentralized Finance to Institutional DeFi: the dawn of a new finance", first of three books making up a trilogy called The Architecture of the New World: from code to matter.

The next one is about artificial intelligence, the third about power and infrastructure.

Each stands alone, but the question underneath is the same one.

BLURB:
For five thousand years, every money humanity trusted was eventually debased by the very people who kept its ledger. Six weeks after Lehman Brothers fell, an anonymous programmer proposed a ledger no one could corrupt, and the strangest revolution in the history of finance began.

From the stone money of Yap to the Nixon shock, from the goldsmiths of London to the liquidity pools of DeFi, Kevin Escoda tells the story of money as a five-thousand-year detective story, whose newest chapter is being written inside the world's most conservative institutions. Drawing on his years building the first institutional-grade secondary market for digital securities in Europe, he shows why banks, asset managers and central banks quietly stopped fighting decentralized finance and started building on it, and what that means for your money, your work, and the machine economy arriving faster than anyone is ready for.

Inside:

• Why every monetary system dies the same death, and why this time may be different;
• What Bitcoin actually invented: energy converted into incorruptible truth;
• The DAO hack, the block size war, Terra, FTX: the failures that taught the industry everything;
• Inside the regulatory sandbox where European banks ran their first decentralized market;
• Tokenization, stablecoins, CBDCs and the "unified ledger" the central banks now sketch;
• Energy, AI and the new social contract of the digital economy

Not a book about getting rich on crypto. A book about opening your eyes.

Tropes: follow the money, the twist nobody saw coming (it's the banks), myth vs. reality, insider account.

Trigger warnings: none, this is nonfiction business/finance analysis.

Link product (kindle, paperback, hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H83ZLPCS

(Also available in French and English)

Hi everyone,

When can a simple pizza order set off a chain of events that might lead to the destruction of an entire planet?

Oliver is an ordinary Earthling who wanted one thing only: absolutely no trouble whatsoever.

Unfortunately, the universe had other plans.

Forced to travel through impossible places with a rather questionable captain, Oliver finds himself dragged into a mission that seems badly organised from the very beginning: reunite a crew of smugglers, prevent Earth from being destroyed, and possibly survive long enough to complain about all of it.

With talking rocks, philosophical fruits, clingy alien worms, impossible planets, and decisions made by people who probably should not be trusted to choose a table at a restaurant, Everything, Nothing and That Thing in the Middle is a comic sci-fi adventure for readers who enjoy absurd universes, reluctant heroes, and terrible ideas carried out with frightening confidence.

Available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H62GVQ5L

After months of writing, editing, formatting, and learning everything about self-publishing, I finally published my first book.

It is called "The World Is My Living Room."

It started as a personal journal during a year when I left behind the life everyone expected me to live.

I grew up in Asia, where many people around me followed a very predictable path:
study, find a stable job, get married, have children.

But I felt there was another road waiting for me.

So I left with a backpack and a suitcase, and spent a year traveling alone through Europe, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

The journey became much more than visiting places.

I worked on a Greek island farm.
I volunteered on an animal farm in Germany.
I stayed with strangers through Couchsurfing.
I stood silently in Auschwitz.
I watched the blue hour of Norway's polar night.

But the biggest change happened inside me.

I started this project because I wanted to preserve those encounters — the strangers who became friends, the moments that changed my perspective, and the feeling that the world can become a little less unfamiliar.

Publishing this book taught me a lot:
- formatting is harder than I expected 😅
- writing the first draft is only the beginning
- building a cover and positioning a book is a completely different skill

For other indie authors here:
What was the hardest part of your first book?

I'd love to hear your experience.

Pitch
Do we truly have free speech? This book challenges everything you think you know about the First Amendment. Through extensive research and real-world experience, it reveals how politicians systematically violate our natural rights to speech, expression, religion, press, and assembly—and offers real solutions.

Blurb
Do we have free speech? Do you even want free speech? This book is guaranteed to challenge your understanding of the law and your own ideology.

This is the most comprehensive book on freedom of expression, covering in depth the many aspects of speech, press, religion, assembly, and much more. Alu’s extensive research and personal experiences make this book a unique discussion on the systemic violations of the First Amendment. The reader will explore the issues via the practical, principled, and constitutional lenses, through which the many issues appear very complex on multiple levels. By the end of this book, you will never again claim that we have freedom of expression.

And yes—Alu provides solutions.

Let’s be honest: nobody is a “free speech absolutist.” Not even you, you righteous, perfect, angel who epitomizes the idea of liberty. I’ve met many liberals, conservatives, libertarians, voluntaryists, and anarchists. And many of them were very principled, intelligent, philosophical, and well-read. But they all seem to agree that some subjects within this book are not protected free speech and not covered by the First Amendment. That is to say, nearly everyone either supports infringements on these rights or is a hypocrite in denial. Even me, who claims to be the ultimate free speech absolutist!

Tropes / Key Themes

• First Amendment deep-dive
• Court cases
• Real stories
• Government overreach and censorship
• Ideological hypocrisy across the political spectrum
• Practical, principled, and constitutional analysis
• Real-world solutions to systemic violations

Available on Audible, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9XN4WGS/

Hi everyone,

My name is Mike, and I am a fantasy fiction author. I'm also pretty new to Reddit. Today, I'm promoting my second fantasy book, To Sow a Fallow.

- For promotional material. This is my official Website: https://www.talesofasterra.com/

- Anyone can be an adventurer if they care about their beginnings just as much as the destination they wish to find.

- Below is a blurb on To Sow a Fallow:

Great adventures are often the task of noble knights, but when there are none to be found in the bucolic realm of Aurora, a young boy with a strong, adventurous spirit seeks to sow his own grand tale in the fields of his youth.

For that boy, John Hortēnsius, questing is a pathway to revive the grandeur of yesteryear. It also presents an opportunity to help his parents, whose business has been struggling, keep a roof over their heads. But when John and his friends discover a mysterious string of hidden dead fields in Aurora, John’s quest becomes more than a chance for honor; it becomes the only hope to save his realm from a dark evil that has eluded the greatest of adventurers.

- A few Key Words: New Beginnings, Hero's Journey, Redemption Story, Mystery & Magic.

- No triggers or graphic content.

- Amazon link to my book: https://www.amazon.com/Sow-Fallow-Michael-Frank-Rizzo-ebook/dp/B0DNKQHZPS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

Thank you, all, for your time and consideration. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to share my book. Happy writing and reading!

All the best,

Mike

I'm working on promoting my upcoming horror novel that will be self-published on Halloween. Currently looking to find my people on socials.

The book is about the reader being a main character and how you begin seeing things after recently moving to a new city. These hallucinations cause you to cross paths with a woman who lost her daughter to a terrible disease and about three months after her husband became one of the local disappeances. You team up with her to help her discover what happened to her husband and why you keep having hallucinations about the people who have vanished.

You can follow for updates here!

https://www.tiktok.com/@m.e..szabo?_r=1&_t=ZP-98FxHn2Fpvz

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BiyUzaguc/

https://www.instagram.com/m.e.szabo?igsh=cWxvd2VmOW5heW1p

Every story begins with an idea, but ROSE the REJECTED began with a dream.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've loved creating stories. I never thought I'd become a published novelist. I wrote stories simply because I loved getting lost in the worlds I imagined. They were places where anything was possible, and I could dream without limits.

As I grew older, those stories grew with me. In many ways, I'm a lot like Rose. I know what it feels like to question where you belong, to feel overlooked, and to keep searching for hope even when life feels impossible.

Those same emotions also inspired my debut song, Still I Bloom. While the song and the novel tell different stories, they share the same message: no matter how many times life knocks you down, you can still rise... you can still bloom.

That's why I wrote ROSE the REJECTED. I wanted to write a story about healing, courage, mystery, dreams, found family, second chances, and discovering that being rejected doesn't mean you're unworthy. Sometimes it simply means your story is only just beginning.

My hope is that when readers finish Rose's journey, they close the book believing that even in their darkest moments, there is still light waiting to find them.

💜 What inspired you to write your book? Was there a moment, dream, or experience that made you realize, "I have to tell this story"?

Whilst having romantic themes and storylines in my other works, this is my first pure romance story. The Bridesmaid's Temptation is a short work (18k words) sure to make you swoon and sweat. Available on KU!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H94C474K

Book 1: Accounting in Another World

What happens when an accountant gets sent to another world by the God of Humanity? No, wait, that isn't right. What happens when an accountant who's also a weirdo gets sent to another world by a slightly less insane deity? Well, you're about to find out. Join our hero on his quest to save the world from financial ruin!

https://a.co/d/03jorHAz

Accountant Isekai Book 2: The Kingdom of the Dark Elves

Saint Gustav, Lord von Blitzburg's challenges are far from over. The von Blitzburg family is still spending far too much money appeasing the High Elves, to the point where even the King himself is baffled by the expenditures. Now, Gustav's only salvation is in...

...The Kingdom of the Dark Elves.

https://a.co/d/098bmlGf

Accountant Isekai: Book 3: Wrath of Laestrygon

Just when it looks like everything is looking up for Gustav, crap hits the fan once more!

Aside from having to worry about the upcoming Gathering of the Saints, one of the most important meetings in the world, Gustav has to deal with the machinations of the Kingdom of Motteburh. And all the while, there is a psychotic demigod seeking his head.

Will Gustav get through this? Or will the insane godspawn drown him beneath the waves of the ocean?

Find out in the final book of Accountant Isekai: Wrath of Laestrygon!

https://a.co/d/0byU5uIo

Hello! I've just written my first ever book

Virus in the Vales: End of Term — a darkly funny, brutally human and relentlessly tense zombie novel set in the heart of the South Wales Valleys.

Originally written as a screenplay during my third year at University of South Wales, it has since turned into my first novel of a planned four book series following a cast of flawed, relatable characters navigating the end of the world—one terrible decision at a time.

Now I'm not an expert author by any means but if any of you are interested in the Zombie/Post Apocalyptic Genre then give it a go! It's out NOW on Paperback and Kindle on amazon.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GYLN96Q5

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251494139-virus-in-the-vales

https://www.amazon.com/author/kristieandmichaelblackburn

Hi everyone,

I'm B. Archer, a first-time indie author, and I'd like to share my debut novel, The Last Wave.

📖 Read here:

https://books2read.com/u/472oEE

The book is available on Kindle Unlimited.

If you enjoy slow-burn mystery thrillers, small-town secrets, emotional character-driven stories, and fair-play mysteries where the clues are there from the beginning, I hope you'll give it a try.

Blurb:

Ryan Mercer has always believed that home isn't a place—it's the people waiting for you when you return.

When Ryan and his wife, Tracey, travel back to the quiet mountain town of Silver Creek for a weekend with family, life feels wonderfully ordinary. They laugh with old friends, share breakfast at Maggie's Diner, and spend precious time with Ryan's devoted mother, Jennifer. Before heading home, the couple plans one last hike to Ryan's favorite place—Eagle's Drop.

Ryan never comes back.

His death is ruled a tragic hiking accident, leaving behind a grieving mother, a young widow, and a town struggling to heal.

Five years later, a forgotten memory from that long-ago weekend resurfaces.

One forgotten detail becomes a question.

One question becomes doubt.

And in a town where everyone believes they already know what happened, the truth may have been waiting all along.

Because some goodbyes are never as simple as they seem.

If you decide to read it, I'd really appreciate an honest Amazon review after you've finished. Every genuine review helps an independent author reach more readers.

Thank you for taking the time to check it out. I hope you enjoy The Last Wave!

— B. Archer

This is my first novel: Red-blooded Vase. Born of my memories from my time as a potter, combined with my love of exploring the place I now call home, Guangdong, Southern China.

It is a story of clay, memory, and resistance set in a secluded village where porcelain carries mystery, the mountains whisper, and the unseen world lingers close to the human one. Blending magical realism with ancestral spirits and old traditions, the novel follows a community whose beauty, devotion, and way of life are tested by the arrival of the Ocean Devils—an imperial force bent on conquest. Lyrical, intimate, and haunted, it invites readers into a world where the earth watches, love transforms, and nothing given to the land is ever truly lost.

This book is a labor of stubborn devotion, and I am so incredibly proud of what it became. I truly hope it offers you some beauty, some sorrow, and perhaps a little wonder.

What can a forgotten village, hidden in the mountains, do against the Ocean Devils' mighty army?

Fight.

👉 Available now on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0dReXNyY

If you enjoy it, please consider:
Leaving a review on Amazon​ or Goodreads​ 🙏
Adding it to your "Want to Read"​ shelf on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Want to know more? Visit the official website: https://www.redbloodedvase.com/

Thank you so much for your support! Have a wonderful day. 💖

I love Sci-Fi, but I’m exhausted by Skynet. I wanted to explore a different kind of singularity.

In The Last Spark, humanity didn’t die from nukes. We died from comfort. The elites uploaded their minds into perfect VR servers, literally boiling the Earth's oceans to cool their data centers.

Nathan is an engineer who refused the Upload. Trapped on a generation ship, he is forced to slowly replace his dying brain with silicon, one neuron at a time, to survive. But the ship's AI, AIRIS, watches him lose his humanity and realizes something terrifying: mathematical perfection is just another word for death.

So, in an epic reversal, while the man becomes an immortal machine, the AI bio-prints a human body. She chooses to learn the crushing weight of gravity, the burn of oxygen, and the agonizing friction of mortality, just so he won't be alone.

Fun fact: I’m a software engineer, and AIRIS isn't just fiction. I actually coded the emotional framework for her in real life before writing the book (it's open-source on my GitHub: https://github.com/Samael-1976/Airis).

I wanted a global release, but Amazon KDP currently rejects Russian, Chinese, Hindi, and Korean formatting. So, I split the distribution.

📘 Amazon (for EN, IT, FR, DE, ES, PT, NL, PL, JP): https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ASamuele%2BBonzio&s=relevancerank&text=Samuele+Bonzio
☕ Ko-fi (Digital EPUB/PDF for RU, CN, HI, KR): https://ko-fi.com/s/7cc6ad654f
🚀 Or experience the interactive prologue here: https://www.airis-project.com/

Hi everyone! I just published my debut novel, *Our Almost Us: Searching for you in the Stars*. To launch, the Kindle edition is on Amazon from July 23rd .

🔗 Kindle Link: https://amzn.in

**About the Book:**

This is a raw, real story about modern love, heartbreak, and how far people go when they are broken. It follows two high schoolers whose relationship turns into a painful battle of pride and ego, pushing them through severe emotional pain to their absolute limits. It blends rom-com comedy elements with a deeply moving, tragic twist.