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
The Incredible Machines of Thinkery: Outpost #9 | Linnhe Harrison |
Speculative Fiction (N) (I) (F)
Ezra and Betsy Cooper are thirty four years into a childless marriage, struggling to make ends meet, trapped in a repressive patriarchal system. Hope of a better life arrives when The Institute of Thinkery recruits the highly intelligent Betsy for a new scientific research programme. Thanks to his skills as a carpenter, Ezra is assigned to The Transmitters and posted to Outpost #9, a small cabin on a tiny island in the Wadden Sea, North Holland. The long separation – whilst difficult for Ezra - is a small price to pay to end Betsy’s unhappiness. But six months into the posting, Ezra and his Dutch colleague Ivo begin to unravel disturbing truths behind The Institute. Amidst a backdrop of death, lust, desperation and treachery, Ezra strives to be reunited with Betsy, in a totalitarian world on the verge of a sinister technological breakthrough.
Young Readers
Timing is Everything | Nicole Viola Bennett | Contemporary Romance, Speculative (N) (I) ($)
When seventeen-year old Mae Walker finds a box of old 90s mixtapes and a long-forgotten cassette player, she also discovers an unlikely way to travel back in time. By accessing her mom’s memories through the songs they’re tied to, Mae is suddenly able to unravel the complicated story that her mom, who had Mae at eighteen, has been so reluctant to tell. And while watching scenes from her young parents’ high school history and love story unfold before her eyes, Mae finally gets some glimpses of the dad she never really knew. With her best friend across the ocean for the school year, Mae finds an unexpected friend in classmate Javi Gutierrez, a boy who’s dealing with some family drama of his own. As Mae explores her mom’s past, she is shocked when the mixtape memories show her the truths that her mom has kept hidden, and along the way, she finds herself inexplicably linked to Javi, in more ways— and times— than one. Perfect for fans of Throwback by Maurene Goo, Better Than the Movies & The Do-Over by Lynn Painter, books by Morgan Matson and Jenna Evans Welch, and the movie About Time.
Are you publishing a book, comic, or story/poetry collection on Substack that you’d like to add to The Library? Send it our way!
Buy Indie
Can readers buy your indie book from your author's website or favorite online bookseller? Provide us a link and some details about your book, and we’ll help get the word out!
From the Archive
Featuring a different, randomly selected book every week
Space Traveler Fargone | Mark Starlin | Science Fiction, Humor (S) (I) (F)
Space Traveler Fargone was a typical space freighter pilot until he posted some entertaining space logs about his side trips on SpaceBook. The splogs became so popular that his employer, Titanic Galactic Shipping, asked him to do them full time. He got a raise, a brand new ship, and something he didn’t want—the big boss’s niece as co-pilot. Join Fargone and Emma on their adventures in this serial space sitcom featuring adventure, action, humor, romance, uncharted planets, space travel, aliens, silliness, drama, and whatever else the pair might discover in uncharted space.