As this blog grows, I want to do something good with it, so I wanted to save space for Indie or debut authors with small publishing houses to spotlight their books. Especially as I hope to amongst you one day.
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*PLEASE NOTE* to the volume of submissions (yay!) it may be a few months until your spotlight will be posted. I post the spotlights once a week and currently have enough to take me into November. ALL submission will eventually be posted, I promise. If you have a release date please include it in ‘other comments’ and if I am able to, I will get you as close to that date as I can but I cannot promise this.
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Indie spotlights
- Uncomfortable – Laura ann
This is a regular feature, where I shine a light on an indie/ small print/ debut author who has submitted their details to me on the Indie spotlight page.
So, let’s get started with today’s spotlight:
Indie spotlight: Laura ann
About Laura ann
Laura Ann is an Australian indie author, who writes contempary stories involving the human psychology. Her first three books deal with love and how it can be muddled up.
Where to follow Laura ann
Uncomfortable – Laura ann
Izzy Hazelhurst never thought loneliness, insecurity, or fear would play a part when she reconnected with Henry Carlisle, the boy she’s loved since she was twelve.
But Henry’s now an A-list actor, and though he’s shown her a life she could never have imagined, Izzy finds the price of his fame harder and harder to deal with.
Then, when Henry’s off filming his dream role, she learns she’s pregnant. Unable to tell him and feeling more alone than ever, Izzy runs to the safety of her grandparents’ home in Australia, leaving only an empty house for Henry to find upon his return.
Heartbroken and confused, Henry follows Izzy to Australia, determined to win her back, but he’s about to learn their relationship wasn’t quiet as perfect as he believed..
Can Izzy and Henry find their way back to each other, or is love built on childhood dreams never meant to last?
Where to buy
The book is available to buy here
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- Matchmaking & Mixtapes – Marie Landry
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Indie spotlight: Marie Landry
About Marie Landry
Canadian indie romance author writing books that’ll make you laugh, feel, and fall in love.
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Matchmaking & Mixtapes – Best Friends & Birthdays Series #1 – Marie Landry
How Evie sees her life as she approaches her thirty-fifth birthday: pretty close to perfect.
How Evie’s mom sees her life: doomed for spinsterhood and in need of matchmaking at every turn.
Between her three lifelong best friends, a good job, and a beautiful home, Evie has nearly everything she needs.
She’s in no hurry to find love…until her first (and unrequited) love, Wesley, unexpectedly returns to town for the birthday party Evie’s mom is throwing, and stirs up all kinds of long-buried feelings.
As the boy next door, Wes was one of Evie’s closest childhood friends. Somewhere between playing out scenes from their favorite movie and listening to Wesley’s endless mixtapes, Evie fell in love. As the old friends catch up after years apart, Evie realizes she never fell out of love with Wesley, and begins to wonder if her feelings for him might not be as one-sided as she always assumed.
While her mom attempts to find Evie’s perfect match, Evie can’t help thinking she’s already found him. Too bad he’s only in town for a week…
Matchmaking & Mixtapes is a childhood-friends-to-lovers, best friend’s brother romantic comedy set in the fictional town of Bellevue, Ontario, Canada. Full of banter, crackling chemistry, and plenty of swoons, this is a kissing-only romance with mild language. It’s the first in the Best Friends & Birthdays Series.
Where to buy
The book is available to buy here
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- Waves of Undead – R. Cuthbertson
This is a regular feature, where I shine a light on an indie/ small print/ debut author who has submitted their details to me on the Indie spotlight page.
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Indie spotlight: R. Cuthbertson
About R. Cuthbertson
Bringing you dark tales from the west coast. Zombie fanatic, fantasy girlie, mom by day and writer by naptime.
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Waves of Undead – Undead Waters book 1 – R. Cuthbertson
When a tsunami and a zombie outbreak strike simultaneously, what lengths must one go to in order to survive? Twins Paul and Ana Zuessen fight for their lives when they encounter people who are violent and cannibalistic… The undead.
At the end of the road along the 49th parallel sits the remote town of Tofino, a surfers’ paradise in the Pacific Northwest.
Ana travels to this idyllic beach town hoping to rekindle a romantic relationship, when horror and disaster strike.
Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometres away in Ladner, a suburban farm town near Vancouver, Paul learns his sister is on Vancouver Island where civilians are being warned of an encroaching tsunami. Will Paul find a way to get his sister to safety despite the impending apocalypse?
Where to buy
The book is available to buy on Amazon here
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- Dracones Awakening – Sheri-Lynn Marean
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Indie spotlight: Sheri-Lynn Marean
About Sheri-Lynn Marean
Sheri-Lynn is an author and artist, who writes mostly steamy paranormal, fantasy romance. Most of her books are set in her 25 realms and her first book is Dracones Awakening.
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Dracones Awakening – Cursed & Hunted Book 1 – Sheri-Lynn Marean
“A book that will stay with you.”-Sherrilyn Kenyon
A curse on all dragonkind sent them to earth …
… now the enemy has found them.Tierney ~ When her father vanishes into the unknown, she fears for his life. She needs her soulmate. However, Jax refuses to accept what they mean to each other.
And when he enters his awakening—a dangerous time that could lead to death—Tierney’s consumed with terror.
New abilities awaken and trigger a spirit walk that confirm her suspicions—the Ilyium witches are here, and time is running out for all of them.
As her world unravels, can Tierney get past the hurt and see what is really going on?
Jax ~ Lies are insidious, and the one Jax tells himself to keep Tierney at a distance is just that. Sure, he fears the deadly power building within him—what if he loses control and hurts her? But the actual truth is much harder to admit. How can someone as damaged as him ever be good enough for her?
So when a malevolent presence threatens Tierney, Jax does what he believes is right. As long as it protects Tierney, that’s all that matters. Isn’t it?
Don’t miss out on this scorching romance where time ticks away and emotions run high. Love will immerse you in a whirlwind of passion and peril that’ll leave you gasping for more. Grab your copy now and let your savage heart take flight.
★★★★★ Download and discover why readers call this the best, fast-paced, thrilling page-turner with a different take on fantasy and paranormal shifters.
Where to buy
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- All the Ruins You Made – Alice Stokes
This is a regular feature, where I shine a light on an indie/ small print/ debut author who has submitted their details to me on the Indie spotlight page.
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Indie spotlight: Alice Stokes
About Alice Stokes
Alice writes emotionally raw, character driven fiction about the things people struggle to admit, even to themselves. Desire, shame, loneliness, trauma, self destruction, wanting to be loved, and the terrifying possibility of being truly understood.
Alice’s stories are drawn to the grey areas of human behaviour, especially the messy, contradictory places where people make choices they cannot fully explain. Alice writes about flawed people trying to survive themselves, and the relationships that expose everything they have worked so hard to hide.
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All the Ruins You Made – Alice StokesEighteen-year-old Lily is a paradox: brilliant and broken, yearning for connection in a world that often feels too heavy. When her path tangles with the magnetic and seemingly carefree Alex, a flicker of light ignites in her carefully constructed darkness. Their intense attraction leads them down a path of discovery, offering a potent escape from the shadows that cling to Lily’s past.
But Lily’s vulnerabilities run deep, haunted by the ghosts of trauma alluded to in her nightmares and the constant battle with her own mind. As their intimacy deepens, the carefully constructed walls around her begin to crumble, threatening to expose the raw pain beneath.
All the Ruins You Made is an emotionally intense new adult romance about trauma, depression, self-worth, first love, and the desperate need to be understood by someone who sees more than you meant to show.
An extract from All the Ruins You Made
I feel like I’ve become two people. There’s Lily the girlfriend, the version of me with warm cheeks, who grins uncontrollably and laughs like nothing can touch her. The one who clasps Alex’s hand and finds her mouth on his whenever they’re alone. She’s carefree and golden, the Lily who can breathe.
And then there’s this, the one who lives in the dead spaces in between.
Today, it’s all dead space.
Note from the author:
All the Ruins You Made is my upcoming novel (out on July 27th) and the most personal book I’ve written so far. It is a darker and more emotionally raw romance than my previous books and follows two young people who find each other at a point when neither of them knows how to save themselves.
The book explores dark themes and severe trauma, which may not be suitable for all readers. I worte the book in the hope that it might reach people like Lily and help them to feel seen, in a way that I never did when I was young.
Trigger warnings
- Suicidal thoughts
- Attempted suicide
- Self-harm
- Alcohol abuse
- Disordered eating
- Suggestion of sexual abuse (non-graphic description)
Character art to entice you to read
Where to buy
The book is available to buy on Amazon here
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- Diomedeid – Alexander Graham
This is a regular feature, where I shine a light on an indie/ small print/ debut author who has submitted their details to me on the Indie spotlight page.
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Indie spotlight: Alexander Graham
About Alexander Graham
Alexander is a poet and Classicist; he’s trying to weave the two together.
Where to follow Alexander Graham
Diomedeid – Alexander GrahamWhat fate follows a man who has wounded gods and their offspring?
Diomedeid charts the post-Iliadic exploits and agonies of Diomedes as he tries to outrun the bitterness of Venus
Where to buy
The book is available to buy on Amazon here
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