*The Amazon links in this post all use my associate’s link, and therefore I earn a small commission from your purchases, at no extra cost to you.

As an FYI, if you signed up on x, we’re not ignoring you. My assistant hasn’t been able to get into her computer that has X on it for these last few days (her husband was fixing it) but that’s solved now, and you’re not being ignored.

I have a list my assistant is compiling of authors to promote who answered the call of responding if they were not afraid of being associated with this blog. I will be post them in the evening, ten at a time. Hopefully you find some new reads. If nothing else, you know these people are fearless. – SAH*

MEET KB CARLISLE

About the author

KB Carlisle is husband, father, panda enthusiast, former time traveler and professional desk chair warmer. If you can’t find him in his office, then you probably won’t find him anywhere because he is most likely lost.

He loves stories of all kinds from fairy tales and folk lore to horror and psychological thrillers and almost everything in between.

His debut novel The Book of Rose won the 2024 Imadjin Award for Best Young Adult Novel.

Check out all of his work at kbcarlisle . com

KB Carlisle would like you to consider his book: The Book of Rose

The world ended. That’s what Rose had always been told when she was a child. Every time she asked why the sky was blue or how apples grew on trees, her grandpa would grin and say, “Because the world ended.”

She never believed that it had actually happened, especially not on the same day that she was born. Even if it were true, the world that ended wasn’t a world she knew.

After all, her world was just beginning.

But when strangers appear on her doorstep, the world Rose knows is turned upside down. As she is introduced to new powers, new beings, and new questions, one thing becomes certain… her story is just getting started.

MEET KARINA FABIAN

Join the multiverse of science fiction, fantasy, the paranormal and the un-normal from the mind of Karina Fabian. Here you will find snarky dragons, slapstick zombies, religious sisters who do dangerous work in space, insane psychics, and more. With books that range from the solidly serious to the happily hysterical, you’ll find adventures to challenge the mind and tickle the funnybone – sometimes both at once.

I’m Karina Fabian, and I’ve been writing science fiction and fantasy since (mumblemuttervagueness). I grew up reading Asimov and Mercedes Lackey and discovered Robert Asprin and Douglas Adams in college. These authors and the influence of my writing friends (especially in the Catholic Writers Guild) have helped me develop my unique style–humor with heart!

After 30+ years of writing and teaching, I’ve compiled my knowledge into a series of guides in print, ebook, and video! Check them out on my Write Boost page.

I’m also a speaker on topics of writing and faith as well as a standup comedian. I’m available for events. Check out my comedian and speaker pages or contact me directly for more information. https://karinafabian.com/

Karina Fabian would like you to consider her book: Gapman: A DragonEye, PI story

When Ron Engleson wakes up with superpowers, he’s determined to do good for the city of Los Lagos. Being the first superhero in the world is hard enough—but on the border town of the Faerie and Mundane worlds? Forget gang fights and bank thieves—he’s also fighting murder hornets and possessed geese. On top of that, he’s adopted by the local dragon, Vern, who’s under orders to train him up and keep him out of the police’s way. At least there’s a chance for romance with the local reporter—but does she want the man, the hero, or the story?

Join Gapman as he defends his mom against sleazy exes, rescues an ill-tempered chihuahua, and faces mortal danger on the Conveyor Belt of Doom!

“Yes, I’m in this book, but it really is about my padawan. Enjoy.” –Vern

MEET RICK HANNAH

Rick Hannah is living in Central Texas with his beloved wife, Daune, where they make arts & crafts. Rick made the decision between art and writing when he was 18 and decided, when he turned 60, it was past time to write.

He has self-published a collection of Sword & Sorcery stories, “Brysta of the Dawn,” and has had a few short stories published. He has a new collection of interrelated stories in the same genre now out, “The Tears of Arquazel,” Book 1 of “The Siblings.”

He’s currently working on the next book in that series and contemplating producing whimsical animal-based stories (inspired by Kipling’s “Just So Stories”) native to his Texas origins, such as, “Why the Mockingbird Mocks” and “How the Rattlesnake Got Its Rattle” and such like. The short that inspired this idea, “How the Lion Lost Its Spots” is now in search of a home since the publishers who purchased it have decided to shut down.

Rick Hannah would like you to consider his book: The Tears of Arquazel: The Siblings Book 1

10 jewels were fashioned to enhance, protect, extend and heal. 10 jewels for 10 children. Children who must grow up and bear a heavy burden. Warriors, seers, sorcerers, rulers, conquerors… That was The Plan. The earth was recovering. The skies were clearing, the air was warming, life began to burgeon again.But one man saw in a vision that this resumption would spell the end of humanity. Mankind would grow and prosper and then, they would recover the Old Knowledge. The Forbidden Wisdom. Once again they would possess the machines of destruction, and this time, they would finish what they had started so long ago. They would utterly extinguish themselves. All of humanity would perish, a final and complete extinction event. To stop this, the man conceived a mad scheme and planted the seeds for the Siblings, exceptional men and women who would be burdened with a great task, to stop the spread of such knowledge, if only for a time. But The Plan seemed impossible to implement, too many factors beyond the man’s control, chaos warring with his notion of order. And the man had colleagues who broke away and saw his idea as a great evil and would do anything to stop it. And now, in the fracturing of his designs, as the Siblings begin to discover the fate manufactured for them, they will come to a time of choosing. Success will involve death and destruction and hatred for 100 years. Failure could mean annihilation. What path will the Siblings choose?

MEET CAROLINE FURLONG

Stories have captivated Caroline Furlong from early childhood. She considers it a minor miracle that as a child no one ever tripped over the toys she scattered while she set up queens and sent out heroes on quests. Reading meant that the toys got taken out less, and when it came to writing at thirteen or fourteen they were put away for good.

But she continues to dream up realms and heroes, monsters and androids. They are her toys now, parading across paper rather than a carpet. The slightest suggestion – a word, a movie, a flower, or a ship – can bring a new story to mind. So, where there are dragons that talk and spaceships to fly, that’s where she will be.

Her novelette “Halcyon” appeared as the cover story for Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense’s Summer Special. The story was the focus of John DeNardo’s appraisal of the Special for Kirkus Reviews. One of her short stories was the first entry in DAOwen Publications’ Unbound III: Goodbye Earth anthology. She is also a contributor at The Mind at War, The Everyman Commentary, and Tuscany Bay Books’ blog. Her poetry appeared in Dragon Soul Press’ Organic Ink, Volume 2 anthology, and two of her stories have appeared in Planetary Anthology: Luna and Uranus. Another story by her appeared in Cirsova Summer Issue 2020. She has been published in Ember Journal and Cirsova Magazines 2021 Summer Issue. Her series, The Guardian Cycle, is available for purchase in ebook and paperback on Amazon.

Caroline enjoys history, reading, writing, swimming, traveling, astronomy, and classic cars.  She lives in south central Virginia, U.S.A. https://carolinefurlong.wordpress.com/

Caroline would like you to consider her book: Contact: Angeles

While removing a prototype sensor from the prow of her new Alliance battleship, the Ausa, Captain Elizabeth Goodwin and her crew encounter a setback when one of the engineers sent to remove and stow the device is injured in an accident. Before the other engineer can help the man, the two are surrounded by amoeboid creatures which seem immune to the effects of vacuum.

Thought to be hallucinations experienced by early spacers who had been alone in deep space too long, these creatures – known as “angel fish” – startle the crew by their sudden appearance. Despite her misgivings, Goodwin allows three of the aliens to be taken aboard for study. But less than an hour after the aliens have been brought on the ship, one of Goodwin’s men is killed and another is seriously wounded.

Her search for both the murderer and the escaped “angels” soon leads to a disturbing revelation. Eventually, Goodwin must decide which threat is greater: an old enemy of the Alliance, or the fabled “angels” encountered by the first explorers from Terra.

MEET FRANK HOOD

When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney) reminded me of my interest in Remote Sensing, and I spent 40 years as a software engineer with a career spanning punch cards to artificial intelligence. Now I’m back to my original career. I mostly write SF, but I write on whatever comes to mind on my own website at https://frank-hood.com and on more technical stuff at my LinkedIn site https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-hood-b708588/.

Frank Hood would like you to consider his book: Advance Guards

A young man and woman abandon a near-future Los Angeles that is so addicted to technology that human needs are met at the cost of everyone’s humanity. After 40 years in the wilderness that has been abandoned by the population, the family they raised returns to the city one by one to either revolutionize the dying city or be consumed by its seductive allure. Does all hope rest on their youngest son?


“Seth, everything I have, and everything I am, I now bequeath to you. Do you understand?”

“Yes Father,” Samuel managed to stammer despite his father’s mistaking him for his eldest brother, the brother he had never met, the brother that had died before any of his siblings were even born, the brother that had never had the chance to grow up.

“Take care of your mother. She’s your responsibility now.”

MEET DAN LANE

Dan is a departure for this set, since he doesn’t publish on Amazon. but all of us who’ve read the adventures of Nastycat, Neighborcat, Othercat and Doofus knows exactly why I’m including his link to Royal Road here.

Guys, this man can WRITE!

You should probably check out Dan Lane’s current serial on Royal Road: Dr. Z’s Zombie Apocalypse

MEET MACKEY CHANDLER

Mackey (Mac’) Chandler retired to Rochester, Michigan from a working life that spanned a large number of occupations. Mold maker, aerospace machinist, plumber, mechanic and dozen more as well as owning several businesses. In 2022 the Chandler family relocated to Winston Salem, NC to be near relatives and no longer deal with Michigan winters.

A life long time reader of Science Fiction, the authors at Baen’s Bar and their evening chat room motivated him to try his own hand at writing. His first effort was a short story titled “Common Ground” which sold to the short-lived Jim Baen’s Universe.

“Paper or Plastic” was his first Kindle book. Two series have been added starting with “April” and the second series starting with “Family Law”. The series have merged and continue to grow together. Limited print and audio books are available.

Other stand alone books and shorts bring current publications to twenty-nine.

His personal favorite book is “The Mote in God’s Eye” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Other favorite authors include Lee & Miller, and C.J.Cherryh.

Mac’ blog is at: http://mackeychandler.com

All Mac’s books are DRM free. I respect my readers and don’t assume they are thieves.

Mackey Chandler would like you to consider his book: April (April series Book 1)

April is an exceptional young lady and something of a snoop. After a chance encounter with a spy, she finds herself involved with political intrigues that stretch her abilities. There is a terrible danger she, and her friends and family, will lose the only home she has ever known, and be forced to live on the slum ball Earth below. It’s more than an almost fourteen year old should have to deal with. Fortunately she has a lot of smart friends and allies. It’s a good thing because things get very rough and dicey. They challenge the political status quo, and with a small population the only advantage they have in war is a thin technological edge. The entire “April” series is building towards a merge with the future series that starts with “Family Law”.

MEET CELIA HAYES

I grew up in a far suburb of Los Angeles, the oldest in a family of four children, the offspring of a research biologist and an artist in stained glass, which eccentric family experience formed the basis for my first book a memoir “Our Grandpa Was An Alien” (Booklocker, 2004) after I had written many, many short accounts of growing up in mid-century suburbia.

After earning a professionally useless degree in English Literature (California State University Northridge, 1976) an un-slaked taste for adventure, foreign travel (and a regular paycheck) led me to enlist in the United States Air Force, where I trained as a radio and television broadcast specialist, and served for twenty years in places as various as Greece, Spain, Japan, Korea, Greenland and Ogden, Utah, in a wide assortment of duties and pleasures which included midnight alt-rock DJ, TV news anchor, video-production librarian, radio and television writer and producer, production manager, tour guide and driving a bright orange Volvo sedan from Athens to Zaragoza, Spain, accompanied only by a small and cranky child.

I retired from the Air Force in 1997, and began working for various small firms in San Antonio as an office manager, administrative assistant and executive secretary. By 2002, I had become exceedingly bored with all that, and leapt at an invitation to became a regular contributor to a military-oriented weblog, “Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Brief” (now “The Daily Brief”). The build-up to Desert Storm had begun, and my daughter was serving as an active-duty Marine. Writing for the blog was an outlet for me and I wrote anything and everything; essays and commentary on matters historical, personal, political, cultural, literary and military.

One thing led to another, and with the encouragement of various blog-fans, I got hooked on writing historical fiction. I brought out “To Truckee’s Trail” in 2006; that’s the story of the first ever wagon-train party to bring wagons over the Sierra Nevada, which marked the opening of the California Trail. The Adelsverein Trilogy followed, which was originally going to be just a single book, but the experiences of the German settlers in Texas became so interesting to me, and there was so much non-fiction about them that it ran to three books, and I wasn’t even finished at that. As it turned out, there are another three books, relating to some of the secondary characters in the Trilogy; Daughter of Texas and Deep in the Heart – about early Texas, the war for independence, the Alamo and the eventful decade of the Republic of Texas. My latest book, the Quivera Trail is sort of a sequel to the Trilogy, dealing with the adventures of two young Englishwomen who arrive in Texas in 1876.

Besides historical novels, I review books and movies for PODBRAM and for the Amazon Vine program, and contribute to several blogs and on-line discussion groups. I currently live in San Antonio with my daughter and an assortment of dogs and cats, and travel within Texas doing lectures and talks about my follow-up novel series, the Adelsverein Trilogy. I’m on FB as Celia Hayes, and my website is http://www.celiahayes.com/

Celia Hayes would like you to consider her book: The Golden Road (Adelsverein)

Sixteen year old Fredi Steinmetz longed for adventure and riches. What better way to find both than to follow the Gold Rush from Texas to California, But he didn’t reckon on bandits, and robbers, gold in the riverbanks, murder in the streets of San Francisco and the saloons of Moke Hill, a rich cache under a half-dead pine tree on the North Fork, of Mormons and gold-miners, fugitive Fenians, and the Lotta Crabtree, the Faery Star dancing under a glittering golden rain thrown on stage The wild west was never wilder.

MEET LAUREN RITZ

Lauren Ritz started writing at the age of six with a journal entry about an alien flying through her bedroom window and landing on her wall. She would have started earlier, but she was handicapped by the fact that she couldn’t draw well enough.

After years of dabbling in this and that (making a living on the side) Lauren decided to settle down to writing full time.

You can find Lauren online, or in her garden.

Lauren Ritz would like you to consider her book: DemonTaint (Demons Bay)

Lady Motsu Inata disappeared from her father’s House years ago. Found by a nameless woman in a cottage that moves from place to place each night while they sleep, Lady Inata struggles to raise and care for children who are not her own and who never seem to age in a timeless solitude that becomes more and more dangerous as time passes—time that the woman, with the evil of the Demons Bay deep in her eyes, would deny entirely if she could. Kobi Sibir has returned from her two years of service to the blod. She was given one instruction by the Administrators–find out how many non-human ameso there are so that the “infestation” can be contained. Kobi begins a journey toward the Demons Bay that the semi-aquatic ameso call home. Toward the cottage. Like all evil things, the Demons Bay must either own what is good, or destroy it.

MEET NATHAN BISSONETTE

I grew up in a small town in southern Minnesota at a time when Moms made homes and read bedtime stories, cars had no seatbelts, kids rode bicycles to shoot .22’s in the town dump, and we didn’t come home ’til the street lights came on. It was an idyllic childhood. I’m grateful to have had it.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy yourself.

Nathan Bissonette would like you to consider his book: Kobold and Centaur

Worst Prom date ever. Steph only went with Sam because nobody else asked her. Besides, it was just for Prom, right? It wasn’t forever. But that was before the little man with pointed ears handed them enchanted scrolls that sent them out of this world. Now she’s stuck in far from home wearing a different body. Can Steph and Sam make it back in time to save the planet and everyone on it? And can they do it without getting killed? Or killing each other?

MEET JEFF DUNTEMANN

I am a writer, editor, technologist and contrarian living in Scottsdale, Arizona. Although I’ve worked as a programmer, I’ve been in the technical publishing industry (both magazines and books) from 1985 until I retired in 2015. I co-founded Coriolis Group Books in 1989 and ran editorial until the company closed in 2002. Most of my book-length work has been on computer technology. (See ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE STEP BY STEP and LEARN COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE WITH RASPBERRY PI, as well as many more titles now out of print but available used.)

In my spare time I’m an amateur radio operator (callsign K7JPD), amateur astronomer, and SF writer. My first SF novel, THE CUNNING BLOOD, appeared in 2005 but I have been selling SF stories to magazines and anthologies for over 50 years, and was on the final Hugo Awards ballot in 1981.I now have seven volumes of SF and fantasy on KDP Select, plus a collection of my short nonfiction and miscellaneous works, and a middle-school romance.

My wife Carol and I met in high school and have been married for 48 years. We live in Scottsdale, with one Bichon Frise dog.

*If you’ve never come across his fiction, Jeff comes with a personal recommendation from me – Sarah A. Hoyt*

Jeff Duntemann would like you to consider his book: Drumlin Circus / On Gossamer Wings

A starship malfunctions and strands its 800 passengers on a planet eerily like the Pleistocene Earth, complete with prehistoric mammals including woolly mammoths, dire wolves, and smilodons. And something else: tens of thousands of abandoned alien machines consisting of a bowl and two pillars that respond with drum-like sounds when touched. Tap 256 times on the pillars in any combination, and…something…coalesces in the bowl. It might be a spoon or an axe or a twisted lump of silvery metal. These artifacts (dubbed “drumlins”) help the unwilling colonists survive, but there’s something a little weird about what comes out of the “thingmaker” machines. High-pitched sounds sometimes make drumlins twitch and combine into more complex things. Stranger still, what drumlins do seems to depend on the thoughts of nearby humans. Wish hard while you whistle just so…and something amazing may happen. 260 years on, the castaways have created a civilization resembling late 19th Century America, based in part on coal, steam, iron, and hard work–and in part on the mysterious drumlin artifacts. Both short novels in this volume are set against this background.

Drumlin Circus: Every spring, Bramble Ceglarek takes Pretty Alice’s Wonderland Circus down the dirt roads of the west country, dazzling townfolk with clowns, acrobats, calliope music, and trained animals — especially trained animals. His wife Julia trains them with a drumlin whistle, and they obey with peculiar precision. The cultlike Bitspace Institute, hoping to train animal assassins, sends agent Simon Kassel to steal the whistle. Unknown to him, Kassel has been set up to fail by his Institute rivals who want to be rid of him, and after Julia and her apprentice Rosa are abducted by Institute thugs who attempt to kill him, Kassel switches loyalties and joins the circus as a very scary clown. He returns to Institute HQ to rescue Julia and Rosa, only to discover that the training whistle is much more than merely a whistle: a mysterious “function controller” that compels animals, human beings, and even the alien drumlin artifacts themselves to obey its bearer.

On Gossamer Wings: From out in the dry rye fields of the west, rumors have come to the Bitspace Institute that someone has drummed up something valuable from the alien thingmakers: a large sphere of pure iron. Institute agent Hiram König rides out to investigate, and discovers the strange, mute young woman who has done the drumming. He also learns that the Big Ball of Iron is just the beginning of the previously unknown drumlins that she has discovered in the vast “bitspace” of the alien thingmakers. Despite the slow progress of technology in the Valeron colony, where steam locomotives and the first primitive hydrogen airships are state of the art, Natalie Bishop is using her talents with the thingmakers to seek out the drumlin parts she needs to build a heavier-than-air flying machine. For her, the flier is her masterpiece, the work that will prove her worth to the people she cares about. The race is on for König to extract Natalie from the pressure-cooker of a small town that is her home, before it blows up around her and before she takes the dazzlingly risky final step and tries to fly.