A Call for Thriller & Mystery
This week, we’re searching for Thrillers and Mysteries to fill our stacks. If you have one or know someone who does, send them our way. We want to highlight your work!
If you have a complete or in-progress work you’d like added to The Library or an indie-published book to include in the Buy Indie section, follow this guide, and we’ll help spread the word.
And thanks again to everyone for helping us support indie authors!
In the stacks
Speculative
Tidelands | Gareth Southwell | Sci-fi/Fantasy | (N) (I) (F)
In a flooded city on the brink of collapse, the arcology provides a high-tech haven – for those who can afford it. Here, safe in her pampered confinement, Eva longs for escape. But each day she is made to play The Game, a mysterious virtual environment that seems more designed to monitor and test than to entertain. Outside, life is a different story, where unregulated tech spawns nightmares to rival those of fairtytale and folklore – ghosts and monsters, the no-longer-human and the never-should-have-been. Here, Squirrel is a memory thief, eking out a fraught existence in service to the criminal gangs that trade in illicit gene hacks, blackmarket augments and – her speciality – stolen secrets. But with skills she didn’t know she had, Squirrel steals a secret its owners would do anything to keep hidden. And as her new-found talents attract the attention of bad people keen to utilise them for their own ends, her only route out leads to the arcology itself, to Eva, and the answers that will upend both their lives.
Fantasy
Dark Device of the Great Chasm (A Windtracer Tale) | CB "Kummer Wolfe" Ash | Fantasy (N) (I) (F)
A chance discovery of an old journal propels Windtracer Tela Kioni into an expedition to the depths of the Great Chasm on the far end of the Planus continent to recover a lost, and possibly lethal, relic of the Ancient Order. It’s a race against time and the bloodthirsty Crimson Company mercenary guild to reach the relic first. Along the way, Tela will have to deal with the terrors, and her own nightmares, of the Great Chasm and the mysterious backer of the Crimson Company, a man who seeks to rebuild the Ancient Order, no matter the deadly cost.
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From the Archive
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week. This week, we have three!
Emrys the Fool | radicaledward | Science Fiction, Fantasy (N) (I) ($)→(F)
First chapter is free, but each subsequent chapter is paid only for the first two weeks, and then is made free
Bastard son of the Lord of Clan Matauc, Emrys's greatest desire is to go to Morrigan University and study the great mechanical giants discovered buried beneath the earth. Emrys the Fool is a steampunked mix of Harry Potter and Gundam.
I’m a writer myself. I want to share with you a short story I recently published. This is the first horror story I’ve written. Inspired by classics such as Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein. Would welcome your thoughts and feedback.
https://open.substack.com/pub/holloway/p/gottfried-payne?r=6ggu&utm_medium=ios