The Indie Express: March 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023

Sci-Fi / Fantasy Feature: Tales From the Dreamlands 2: The Quest for the Wizard's Key by C.L. Hart #promo #fantasy #scifi #paranormal #occult #rabtbooktours @ReadersRoost @RABTBookTours

Tales from the Dreamlands, Book 2

Paranormal Fantasy, Occult and Supernatural, Lovecraftian, Sci-Fi Fantasy

Publication Date: April 1, 2023

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The Wizard's Key is the second book in a series of New Cthulhu Mythos tales. This fix-up novel features a fascinating cast of outcasts on a quest to save the Cosmos from destruction by malevolent forces. Join them on their madcap journey.

This fix-up novel follows the events that transpired in Ketil and Yitzy’s Adventure in the Xura Dream House. The book can be read as a standalone, but for a better understanding of the characters and events, it is suggested that Ketil and Yitzy’s Adventure in the Xura Dream House should be read first. It is a fun, fast-paced buddy story with plenty of creepy, crazy twists and turns.

Once you have read Ketil and Yitzy’s Adventure, you will be In the Know so you can be In with the In Crowd! Then you can join us at the Kewl Eldritch Horrors table.

About the Author

C. L. Hart, the owner and sole employee of Naughty Netherworld Press, is spoken of in hushed tones. She is described as The Mad Scribe of the Northeastern Colorado Plains, The Terrible Old Woman, and The Author That Should Not Be.

When not penning sanity-destroying works of dystopian fiction, Lovecraftian fantasy, or old-school horror with the occasional sweet romance thrown in to upset the cosmic apple cart, Ms. Hart enjoys creating baked goods that she hopes will be considered palatable.

Ms. Hart shares a home in a remote rural town of 134 souls with her adult son and three cats. Her sense of fashion is best described as Early Twenty-First Century Unmade Bed. This disabled former nurse can usually be found arguing with herself about subplots or rehabilitating eldritch horrors.

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Urban Fiction Feature: She's Obsessed by Nick Haskins #promo #africanamericanfiction #urbanfiction #fiction #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @iamnickhaskins

African American Urban Fiction

Date Published: 07-30-2020

Publisher: Kcin Publishing Group

In the suburbs of Chicago, Jayceon and Leah were all set to start their new lives together as husband and wife. In Jace, Leah thought she married the perfect man until she accidentally stumbles across his deleted secret that quickly turns her sanity, and their marriage, upside down. The night before Jayceon marries Leah, he hits the record button on his iPhone when the curvaceous dancer—Jessica Fox—from his bachelor party makes her way back to his hotel suite. Soon after, the nasty recorded mistake comes back to haunt Jace, and the stripper, in the worst way possible. The life Leah planned with Jace rapidly spins out of control when she becomes obsessed with the X-rated video, and the girl in it. Leah will do whatever it takes to right her new husbands wrong, even if it means getting rid of Jessica Fox for good . . .

About the Author

Nick Haskins is the author of My Husband's Wife, Betrayed, She's Obsessed, and his latest novel, Dark Waters, which is dropping in the summer of 2023. Nick was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, where he currently resides. After years of aspiring to become a professional screenwriter, he began to shape his creative dreams and released his first African American fiction book, On the Edge of Heat, in 2011. In addition, Nick has been actively working on his first feature film and developing a new streaming series.

Readers can visit Nick's website at www.nickhaskinsbooks.com, email him at nickhaskinsbooks@gmail.com, or follow him on social media @iamnickhaskins

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Fantasy Feature: Archmage: Farewell to the Old World by Christopher Leigh Dodson and Christina Alayna Dodson #promo #releaseday #fantasy #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @Chris_Dodson789

Farewell to the Old World

Fantasy

Date Published: April 1st, 2023

A Kiran Princess named Sol has the power to look into the future, and a vision comes along one day that has the power to change her whole life and that of all the people around her. From this moment on, a multitude of unusual happenings will be heading her way.

Wrapped up in inter-tribal conflicts and risk, Sol’s world has suddenly transformed itself into one of adventure, involving the exploration of a magical island that may soon disappear forever.

Join Sol in her foray to save the people around her while captive in this magical world.

About the Author

Christopher Leigh Dodson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America 02-09-1969. Christopher has been happily married for 32 years. His wife’s name is Patricia. They met at a Bon Jovi concert on Valentine’s Day in Birmingham, Alabama. They have four children and one grandchild, and another grandchild on the way. Both of them love watching Alabama Collage Football and watching reality T.V. Christopher has been writing for many years and finally got the courage to put one of his books out there. Magic In A Tub was thought up around 2007. He saw images on the inside of his tub after pulling up the bathtub mat. Always look into the clouds and see the beautiful things you can find.

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Romantic Thriller Feature: Kidnapped Clowder by Nina R. Schluntz #newbooks #thriller #romance #romanticthriller #kidnappedclowder #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @mizner13

Romance Thriller

Date Published: 03-28-2023

It’s been over a year since Jimena kidnapped Nic and locked him in his basement. Turns out demons love being adored, even by serial killers. This long-term toxic relationship that’s become a marriage hinges on Jimena’s ability to show he is reformed.

What better way to do this than by adopting a feral cat… or seven. Jimena’s new obsession shows him the dark side of humanity and how cruel they can be to unwanted pets.

His murderous intent is now misguided and used to avenge the animals that can’t protect themselves.

It’s an improvement, sort of. Except the demon cop that’s helping keep Jimena out of jail is bringing up old feelings and Jimena is considering upgrading in demons. Might upgrade from avenging pets to avenging people too, because these mass shootings involving children are getting a bit annoying.

Jimena and Nic continue their toxic love story that may not last much longer, especially if Jimena locks a demon cop in his basement.

About the Author

Nina Schluntz is a native to rural Nebraska. In her youth, she often wrote short stories to entertain her friends. Those ideas evolved into the novels she creates today.

Her husband continues to ensure her stories maintain a touch of realism as she delves into the science fiction and fantasy realm. Their three cats are always willing to stay up late to provide inspiration, whether it is a howl from the stray born in the backyard or an encouraging bite from the so called “calming kitten.”

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Nonfiction Feature: Moosings of a Cow by Darren J. Squire #promo #nonfiction #motivational #moosingsofacow #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

21 Life Lessons from the Barnyard

Nonfiction / Motivational / Inspirational

Date Published: March 13, 2023

Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing

"The mere brute pleasure of reading-the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

-Lord Chesterfield: British Statesman, 1694-1773

Cows seems simple, and most of the time we don't even pay attention. But below the surface, they are amazingly rich in emotion and personality. In our fast-paced, technological, and socially complex world, we often forget the ease and ofttimes simplicity of the wisdom that we truly know in our heart. In this book, wholesomeness, wisdom, and humor come together to both entertain and enlighten you. Simple gems of wisdom from the barnyard.

About the Author

Author Darren J. Squire believes in achieving the utmost potential in this life that the Lord has given us. He realizes that discovering much of the world around us all, understanding its fundamental principles, then properly applying them helps lead to a successful life. Having done this himself, he hopes to encourage others to do the same.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Memoir Feature: Kashmir: A Memoir by Kashmir Neumann #promo #memoir #nonfiction #kashmiramemoir #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

Memoir

Date Published: First edition October, 2021.

At the age of 24, Kashmir leaves on a one-way ticket to live abroad in Hanoi, Vietnam. She becomes an English teacher, lives with the expats and falls in love with a South African man named Brad. She finds thrill in her new life but little does she know that her true journey wouldn’t only be a worldly one, but a medical one. After nine months of debilitating migraines, she finally flies back home to seek medical attention. It’s then when she learns that she has an AVM— a cluster of blood vessels on her occipital lobe ready to burst.

Read on to hear how Kashmir fights for not only her physical life but for her mental one. This is a collection of her journal entries that tell her story.

About the Author

Kashmir is an Author, Public Speaker & AVM survivor who shares her story of physical and mental battles with this fatal illness hoping to raise awareness and inspire readers to practice resilience against all odds.

Kashmir has a background in working on Chartered Boats as a stew & personal trainer having completed over 200 hours as a yoga instructor.

As an avid traveler, Kashmir believes in uniting people across cultures through storytelling and she advocates for accessible healthcare solutions & share how powerful mindset shifts can be life changing.

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Autobiography Feature: Distant Secrets by Richard L. Cole #promo #autobiography #nonfiction #distantsecrets #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

Autobiography

Date Published: February 14, 2023

Publisher: ‎MindStir Media

Do you ever wonder who you really are? Richard Cole was front page news a few weeks after his birth in 1944, but this was something he never knew. He did know he was adopted and he did wonder who he really was. But, as a young adult, he wondered much more about finding success, a simple goal that seemed so elusive.

He was 19 when he married his high school sweetheart and took off, full speed, into the adult world. Harsh reality and his failure to focus on long-term goals made his desire to succeed just an unlikely dream.

He finally took control of his life and made the climb up to a nice middle-class life. Along with his wife, two really cute kids, and a new suburban home, they were the picture of a perfect little family. Then the dream evaporated and Richard's life began a downward spiral that ended with him alone and subsisting on food stamps and unemployment checks. But Richard had met someone on his way down, someone who stuck with him during the bad times. She gave him a reason to keep trying, and hope that things would get better.

This lighthearted autobiography takes you along on Richard's quest to find success in life and shares his discovery of the distant secrets that surrounded who he really was.

"Find yourself getting stuck in a zigzag of life's twists and turns, unsure of where you'll land? Richard Cole certainly has and Distant Secrets maps out his journey through hardships and gains and everything in between. He opens up to share his intimate world of experiences and the "moments of stunning mental clarity" that have guided him along the way."

-J.J. Hebert, USA Today best-selling author

About the Author

Richard Cole held a wide variety of short-term jobs until his late thirties. He finally settling down with Motorola as a computer systems analyst and later a data center manager. During that period, he turned his wild bird feeding hobby into a little business and went on to opened his first Bird Watcher Supply Company store in 1988.

Richard’s wife, Nancy, operated the retail store and Richard continued his corporate job, helped at the store part-time and worked to perfect his special blends of wild bird feeds. He left the corporate world in 1990 to open their second retail store.

The Bird Watcher stores grew to five locations and Cole’s Wild Bird Products was formed to produce and distribute their bird feeds which now attracts a national following. Richard and Nancy sold their retail stores when Richard turned seventy. Cole’s Wild Bird Products is still owned and operated by the Cole family.

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Historical Romance Feature: My So-Called Scoundrel by Fenna Edgewood #promo #historical #historicalromance #regency #releaseday #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @BookBuzznet

Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Steamy Regency Romance

Date Published: March 30, 2023

When one finds a bleeding, half-naked, indescribably handsome man in one’s bed, does one…

• Scream

• Faint

• Hit him with a large book

• Push him back out the window he climbed in

• Bandage his wounds like a sensible bluestocking-in-the-making

The most perfectly imperfect debutante…

Marigold Spencer was never supposed to have a London Season. For heaven’s sake, she was never even supposed to become a lady! The former housemaid of a duke, Marigold is thrust into the limelight when her siblings marry far above their stations. Suddenly faced with the marriage mart, her escort and chaperone is not only one of ton’s most notorious scoundrels**,** but the utterly infuriating man still won’t tell her where he got the knife wound that led him to her bed that night.

…can still tempt the deadliest of rogues…

Lord Leigh Blakeley's path took a sharp turn from seductive rake to vengeful assassin long ago. Yet when he finally returns home for a visit, he nearly ruins his new sister-in-law’s reputation for good by falling into her bed after a misadventure. Now Leigh finds himself forced to play chaperone to a debutante... one who unexpectedly enchants his cynical heart. And when Leigh foolishly proposes to teach the innocent young Miss Spencer something of the ways of pleasure, he ignites an inferno of passion that quickly turns unquenchable.

When another man presents Miss Spencer with an irresistible proposition, Leigh realizes the desire of his heart is quickly slipping away. Though he's never intended to wed, Leigh finds himself making an offer Miss Spencer can't possibly refuse... or can she?

In this tantalizing Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author Fenna Edgewood, desire knows no bounds as the most unlikely of lovers succumb to the flames of their passion and defy society's expectations.

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About the Author

Fenna Edgewood writes swoon-worthy, humorous stories of love, family, and adventure. In other words, the most important things in life! She is an award-winning retired academic who has studied English literature for most of her life. After a twenty-five-year hiatus from writing romance as a twelve-year-old, she has returned to the genre with a bang. Fenna has lived and traveled across North America, most notably above the Arctic Circle. She now resides back on the Prairies with her husband and two tiny tots (who are adorable but generally terrible research assistants).

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Self-Help Spiritual Feature: Divine Love by Jade D'Cruz #promo #nonfiction #spiritual #metaphysical #divinelove #jadedcruz #giveaway #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours @AuthorParul

How to Develop Emotional Mastery, Guidance from the Winged Beings of Light

Spiritual, Metaphysical, Enlightened wisdom, Channeling,

Date Published: March 6, 2023

Publisher: Serapis Bey Publishing

This tool provides you with a powerful opportunity to shift the circumstances of your life into something better than your current situation. The energy spoken through this book stirs your soul to look deeper within the narrative of your life and the creation of your world. It has the power to push you into balance and to create more love in your life by teaching you a higher perspective from which you may begin to assert your soul power. The wisdom is brought through by the Winged Beings of Light, a collective of Golden Master Frequencies who have been co-creating with the author since 2014, following the author's personal and difficult trajectory of living under a spell of black magic. The book is an honest and personal account of moments in the author's life that presented great difficulty but shows how the guidance from the Winged Beings of Light provides us with the insight needed and desired to up turn one's life and break into one's power.

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‘remember that you are in control of your life and it is not the other way around. You are the universe and you don’t have to ask for what you want. you are it.

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Memoir Feature: Getting to My Enough by Dr. Marie Melanie Brown Mercadel #promo #nonfiction #memoir #selfhelp #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

A Story of Faith, Resilience, and Survival

Memoir / Self-Help

Date Published: March 30, 2022

Publisher: ‎Fideli Publishing, Incorporated

A cathartic experience that examines both the power of determination and the will to survive.

In her memoir, Getting To My Enough, Dr. Marie Brown Mercadel describes her remarkable journey of persevering through unspeakable childhood sexual trauma, the loss of a baby at an early age, and her tenacious resolve to get to her enough. Her frank and detailed descriptions of her life experiences are riveting and provide proof that it is possible to achieve personal triumphs in spite of the odds.

She is courageous in writing about the deep-seated emotions that caused her to be overwhelmed with self-doubt, fear, and shame for much of her adult life. Her acts of forgiveness and the adoption of self-love represent an important source of her healing.

Getting To My Enough reveals how a broken and damaged girl gained inner peace, affirmed the positive aspects of her life, and embarked on a mission to mentor and motivate women dealing with similar issues.

About the Author

Dr. Marie Brown Mercadel is a survivor of childhood sexual assault and a retired human services executive with 38 years of experience serving communities across the nation. She currently manages a consulting business that specializes in individual coaching, motivational speaking, and strengths-based leadership development. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, Alvin.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

YA Sci-Fi Feature: Escaping the Dashia by Rebecca Inch-Partridge #blogtour #scifi #yascifi #yafantasy #youngadult #giveaway #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

Y.A. Science Fantasy

Date Published: March 18, 2023

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Discovering who you are can be dangerous - even deadly.

Twyla's been living in hiding on Earth, hoping to leave her past behind. But when her mother, Madam Cassiopeia DeConnett finds her and kidnaps her back to the Paraxous Star Cluster, she expects her daughter to take her rightful place within the family business. The DeConnetts are Dashia- a group of genetically- engineered telepaths who use their powers to control some and ruin others. Their criminal organization is rich, powerful, and spans The Cluster.

When escape seems impossible, Twyla considers suicide. Then she meets Dovain, another prisoner, and their friendship blossoms into something more. Together, can they figure out how to free themselves? Can she trust herself enough to risk loving him? If she does, will that love save her, or lead to her destruction?

Review

Unique story that is well written. The reader is quickly drawn to the characters and the author does an amazing job at creating emotional bonds with each.

Twyla is strong and smart, and while she is a flawed human despite her abilities, she is real.

This story gets very intense at times which I really like. It's not cookie cutter it is RAW and REAL.

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