#Kobo fantasy novels

[joncronshawauthor]

Explore the Dark Fantasy World of 'Guild of Assassins' - Available Now

Good news, everyone! I am thrilled to announce the launch of the paperback edition of my dark high fantasy novel, Guild of Assassins. It is now available for purchase on Amazon, ready for those of who prefer the feel of a physical book in their hands. Order HERE. For those who enjoy the convenience of digital reading, Guild of Assassins is also available as an ebook on various platforms,…

[amanda-littrell-author]

Available Books

Welcome, lovelies! 📖

These are my books so far:

Keeping Her Toy (Only 0.99)

Coveted Hearts (Free)

Helping Her Boss

Denying the Crave

Sharing a New Experience

Living Among Others (First Book ever published)

When Normalcy Knocks (A Holiday Romance)

Hallow's Charms (A Halloween Romance)

Revenge Wish (Valentine's Day Romance)

Friendly Wishes

There are new ones coming this year, and sequels for some of these in the works, so be on the lookout for more. ⭐

[kitty-is-writing]

✨ Publishing Update ✨

My new series, Tales of the Northern Kingdoms, has passed all the verification checks and stuff to be available on Kindle and Google Play Books! The Kobo links are still good as well, so do take a look if you're interested 😊

All the relevant links are on my store page here

https://www.kittylewisfantasy.net/store

I'm also thinking of doing an ebook giveaway at some point. Let me know if you'd be interested in something like that!

[indynerdgirl]

Stuff Your eReader Day!

If you have an ereader and enjoy romance novels, then mark your calendar for tomorrow, June 30th! 😄 Over 1,000+ free ebooks for platforms such as Amazon Kindle, Kobo, B&N Nook, and Google (some of the books are already free today!). Plus you don't have to sign up for any kind of newsletter or anything like that. These are all no strings attached!

[seanalmond]

'An Academy for Liars' by Alexis Henderson, promises to be an interesting read! Gifted with the ability to alter, even reality, with their words, we are introduced to a school for the gifted... which in reality, could be any one of us!

[darknightwolves]

Episode 143: Reading 'Disciple Two : A Shrouded Personas Short Story' | Creative Writing Club

https://youtu.be/YLr6rlC9gLQ https://open.spotify.com/show/0BX9Z6IfApWiXjzzNPJWK7 In this week’s episode, I read a short story that is based on my newest published novel ‘Shrouded Personas.’ Where the main character, Timber Narissara, goes on her first ever solo mission at 12 years old and the lead-up to it. The short story was written to be part of my 2023 collection of short stories, which…

[madi-konrad]

A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS

It is the curse of ADHD that, at least for me, I'm always running to the next project, and then the next, chasing the new shiny thing. And that has served me well in my creative endeavors, as much as it has stymied me. But I really do think that I caught something special in my first novel, A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS. And thanks to how my brain works, I rarely ever promote it! Which seems unfair for how much effort I put in, alongside my friends who patiently helped me edit it.

It's a sapphic romance between a (newly minted) Duke and the demon she summons. It's a fantasy which takes place in a secondary world loosely based on Victorian-era Europe, though without any of the queerphobic, or even sexist, hatred endemic to its real-world counterpart (or even to our modern day). It's fast paced, gay as fuck, and I poured my heart and soul into it.

I'd be honored if you picked it up; it's only $5.99. About the price of a Latte.

Grab it at the following places:

itch.io (PDF, ePub, and mobi all included!)

Kobo link (ePub version)

Apple Books, Smashwords, and a few others (ePub version)

Amazon (Kindle version)

Barnes and Noble (ePub)

Synopsis below the cut:

Lucia is a succubus, a demon with the power to shape the emotions and passions of mortals. Summoned often into the world of Melodia, she takes pride in upholding her demonic contracts to the best of her abilities. She likes to think she does her job well … though a string of recent failures say otherwise.

Talia, the recently elevated Duke of Fallmire, summons Lucia for a simple reason: to pose as her wife and fulfill marital obligations to the satisfaction of Parliament. All to say, just a few weeks of walking around the estate and playing nice with the neighbors before a conveniently tragic death. Quick and easy.

But immediately, Lucia smells blood in the water. Behind closed doors, the Duke plots vengeance upon those who killed her father—and the demon wants in. Revenge, after all, is much more fun … and more lucrative, to boot.

But can Lucia predict how hard she’d fall for the Duke? (Not a chance). And can the Duke find it in her vengeful heart to love?

Spice Level: lightly described nudity, fade-to-black sex.

64,000 words.

[qqueenofhades]

THE EMPIRE OF BONES: Take Two!

If you would like to acquire my obviously awesomesauce fantasy novel, recently described by a clearly highly intelligent and trustworthy reader as "being every cool culture from classical and medieval history crushed into a giant delicious cookie to be devoured," would especially like to have it as an e-book, and do NOT want to give your money to Jeffrey F. Bezos in order to do so, I have arrived bearing options!

Barnes and Noble (paperback and ebook)

Kobo (ebook)

Apple (ebook)

Fable (ebook)

Smashwords (ebook)

(Also as a reminder, if you do prefer a non-Amazon physical copy, it's available in paperback and hardcover from Lulu!)

Other options, including alternate print versions and library lending, are still in the works, and I shall return to you with them when they arrive. So yes.

[mxxnlightwriting]

A Spark of Magic (✨) — The Masterlist

— Synopsis —

Life can change in an instant. Isaac had it all: place on the swimming team, popularity amongst his peers, and acceptance to a prestigious university. Until he didn’t. Now, he grows a tail whenever water is involved. He is running out of time and ideas. Danger looms around every corner. Alice has only wanted one thing: to get her magic back. After having her life turned upside down, reconnecting with her powers is the only way to prove her worth as a witch, and hopefully leave her small town for good. Help is worth risking everything. Isaac knows Alice might be his only chance at getting his life back, but her help doesn’t come without sacrifices. Differences must be put aside to find a solution, even when everything feels like it is trying to drive them apart. Luckily they seem to agree on one thing: this should be their secret. Secrets are hard to keep. The answers are even harder to find. Trust can be earned, but at what cost?

— Details —

age group/genre: young adult contemporary fantasy, coming of age, romance type: novel (1st in a series) pov: dual pov, third person, past tense status: published

— Features —

unexpected friends, dislike to lovers, witches, merfolk, shapeshifters, werewolves, made-up folklore, magical abilities, teenagers being teenagers, the weight of decisions you’re not 100% sure of, family, identity, self-acceptance, dealing with past trauma and its effects in the present, friendship, duty & honour, small town in the woods vibe, another dimension/realm and more!

— Index —

All Posts

Character Profiles

Inspiration

Excerpts

Playlist

Mood boards

A Spark of Magic is now available on all major retailers (incl. Kobo Plus) and you can also request it at your local library! I also have this story available through the highest tier of my monthly subscription on Inkitt. You can also add A Spark of Magic on Goodreads & The StoryGraph

[read chapter one] ● [read chapter two]

> A Spark of Magic 2 (🐚) Masterlist <

[authorsadiethatcher]

I meant to write this post last week, but events left me distracted. But now I'm here, writing this month's State of the Thatcher Address. It's dark and rainy where I am, but that just means it's easier to write and I don't have to wear sunglasses when I run.

In the next few months, you might notice a few changes I'm making. Or maybe not, because I'm this isn't a pivot, just a slight shift in how I do things (and at times where I do them from). But what you can be sure that I will continue to bring you my special brand of bimbo fiction (please remember that what I write is fiction).

However, one change that I'm making is a pullback from Twitter. My Twitter will stay up, but it will only be used for book announcements from now on. Instead, I'm moving all captioning and commenting to Bluesky. I've already got a handful of fun and sexy captions and will be writing more soon. Check it out.

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sadiethatcher.bsky.social

A quick reminder that you can find my books on Amazon, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Everand. You can also read everything I’ve published under my Sadie Thatcher name since last May 2023 on Ream, which is a subscription platform built specifically for authors. You can check out my Ream page below.

Ream: https://reamstories.com/sadiethatcher

And speaking of Ream, I have a Ream exclusive novel called The Muse (extreme dollification) that is now complete. I’ve made the first three chapters available for free. All you have to do is sign up as a follower at the link above to get a taste of my first real story that is too extreme for Amazon. I'm thinking about writing another Ream exclusive, but I haven't had any ideas for it yet.

I also post the occasional bit of flash fiction for followers on Ream. I have one up already and plan to post another one this week. As soon as I’m inspired, I’ll add a new mini-story to Ream.

On the Libby Feron front, I am finally moving forward with Astra's first book in Magical Misfits Academy. Astra will get a trilogy and then there will be a second trilogy featuring a classmate of Astra's. Hopefully it all comes together soon. Since I don’t talk about my fantasy writing often, checking out https://libbyferon.com/ and signing up for the email newsletter is the best way to stay informed. At some point, there will be a free novella offered.

The up and coming news isn't as significant this month, because I'm writing this in the middle third of the month. The Stacked and Racked Series is finished, although I'll admit that Lexi played less of a role in this series than I had originally intended. She was more an example of what Brandi's future might entail. I'll be publishing the omnibus soon. There are two more books in the Bimbo Candy Series. I set up a sequel in Growth Mindset. The next book will be called Accidental Bimbo. I have it all outlined, so I'll be writing that next. As with most of my series, this will be a trilogy.

The last new series I plan is listed in my notes as Plastic Bimbo. I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote it down, but I'll figure something out. I don't know how plastic the bimbos will actually get, but there could be some shiny skin involved. Who knows?

I'll write another update in December, because I don't actually have all of December mapped out yet. I will say that I have a commission coming up that could be a lot of fun. That's something else I'm working on.

For those in the northern hemisphere, stay warm and dry. And maybe horny, too.

[stressedspidergirlsfitnessblog]

I'm not sure how to link anyone to my profile to make friends, but I read over 300 books and comics this past year so far, (still counting) and over 60, 000 pages. So if anyone would like to join me, I know @fatmaninalittlesuit also has an account but I'm not sure if it's something he's still using or promoting so I'm not trying to volunteer his info here.

(My username is stressedspidergirl there)

But if anyone would like to connect on storygraph there's buddy read functions and all kinds of cool stats and when the 31st is mostly over I will try and screenshot my stats and share them with y'all.

I think my goal again this upcoming year is to read 300 books/comics, and 60,000 pages. I will adjust the goal as needed, to increase it if I'm off to a good start again, but I had a lot of time this summer where I read a bunch of manga before packing it and I doubt that'll happen again.

I mostly read a lot of sci-fi /fantasy novels, and they trend towards the YA side of things. But I am working on trying to include a non-fiction book or two a month, and just expand my knowledge. I've also been trending towards some more adult fiction but I'm still relatively picky about it. I read for fun, I usually am not reading to stress myself out, depress myself, or otherwise ruin the enjoyment I get from having a book.

I got a Kobo this past year, vs a kindle, because Kobo is integrated with library books, and you can add more than 1 library card. There's lots of kobo options IMO, I did get the color, but not the fanciest one that I think does like e-books and maybe video, I just wanted something I could read on. If I can get a good job, and make enough money I will probably do their subscription on top of the library so that I can read books my library doesn't have.

Feel free to tag me in reading challenges/reading goals, I might not do more than reblog you to promote you, but I might join in on some challenges if I can fit them into catching up on my tbr list.

[joncronshawauthor]

The Fall of Wolfsbane: Now Available on Multiple Ebook Platforms and at Your Local Library!

Good news, everyone! I am thrilled to announce that my latest fantasy novel, The Fall of Wolfsbane (Ravenglass Legends, Book 1), is now available on a wide range of ebook platforms, making it easier than ever for you to dive into this epic adventure. You can now find The Fall of Wolfsbane on: Amazon Kindle Google Play Books Barnes and Noble Nook Apple iBooks Kobo Ream And many nore I…

[storieschats]

Is my roommate a vampire or is he just weird?

Just read My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine and it was... meh. It didn’t annoy me, it didn’t gave me an ick in any way and the writing wasn’t awful so it passes the basic romance novel threshold.

But I didn’t find the characters particularly charming nor was I very interested in what was happening with the plot. I kept waiting for it to get better. I was like okay, next pages it will pick up and it kinda never did.

Also if you are going for the vampire thing: for something that is so central to the plot it’s kinda funny how little we actually go over it!

I mean if you are looking for some vampire/monster fantasy rom-com you could do worse so if that’s your thing it’s only like 300 something pages... it isn’t horrible is I’m trying to say... just a bit boring truly.

And it’s so funny to me that even though our love interest male vampire is supposed to be this cute kind marshmallow we still have to throw some scenes where he is possessive or jealous CAUSE THAT IS THE FORMULA GODDAMIT!!! It comes out of nowhere and it’s hilarious.

Also anyone who has read the second book... Is it worth it? Because part of me is like: I didn’t like this one that much and all but the other part is like vampire, Reginald maybe it’s fun?? I don’t know, tell me what you though please!

Forgot to add: The cover.... Amazing ok

Now I’m gonna read the Ex Hex by Erin Sterling because it was like less than two euros on the Kobo store so... Let’s see.

[elizmanderson]

rats, I was gonna add this to my original cover reveal post as a reblog, but apparently I can't? I didn't see a video option for rb, anyway. I guess it's fine bc this got longer than I meant it to, although that's mostly because I wanted to include information that would've already been in the post I had planned to reblog

anyway please behold the magic of me somehow creating a book trailer despite generally having no video editing skills to speak of. I think it slaps actually

here's the original post: link to cover reveal post

here's a full book description

In this mesmerizing, wonderfully moving queer cozy fantasy, an immortal ghost hunter must confront his tragic past in order to embrace his found family. Find an angry spirit. Send it on its way before it causes trouble. Leave before anyone learns his name. After over two hundred years, Peter Shaughnessy is ready to die and end this cycle. But thanks to a youthful encounter with one o’ them folk in his native Ireland, he can’t. Instead, he’s cursed to wander eternally far from home, with the ability to see ghosts and talk to plants. Immortality means Peter has lost everyone he’s ever loved. And so he centers his life on the dead—until his wandering brings him to Harrington, Ohio. As he searches for a vengeful spirit, Peter’s drawn into the townsfolk’s lives, homes and troubles. For the first time in over a century, he wants something other than death. But the people of Harrington will die someday. And he won’t. As Harrington buckles under the weight of the supernatural, the ghost hunt pits Peter’s well-being against that of his new friends and the man he’s falling for. If he stays, he risks heartbreak. If he leaves, he risks their lives.

here are some book links

(only this time I remembered to actually link all of them)

request it on Netgalley: link to Netgalley page

add it to a TBR: link to TheStoryGraph | link to GoodReads

preorder: link to BookShop | link to Barnes & Noble | link to Kobo | link to Amazon

and here's alt text for the video

text fades in over softly blurred flowers, reading "The Keeper of Lonely Spirits, book trailer and cover reveal."

text split up throughout the trailer reads: "a ghost. a curse. a town in peril. to save an Ohio town, he'll have to risk his heart…"

as the music starts, clouds dissolve into faded flowers, a sunset field, an upward shot of trees, an overhead shot of a small town.

fade to black.

as the music swells, cut to: a swiftly ticking pocketwatch; someone walking through a forest, wearing jeans and boots; a cemetery; sunlight through the trees; a cheerful old white man in a vest.

more images flash swiftly, getting faster and faster: an old white man with a weary expression, leaning his forehead against a wall; hands fixing a pocket watch; an overhead shot of trees; a ghostly figure in a corridor; a weathered cottage in a field; an old man running with two children; a lone headstone; someone running alone in the sunset; a flash of color in the air; a young Black woman sitting on the floor in front of a couch, look sad and holding a cup of tea; two old men kissing; closeup of a man's eye with tears falling; yellow flowers; an old letter; two old men with their foreheads pressed together.

the last image lingers; one man's eyes flicker up to the other's face.

now the images slow. closeup of an old white man from the back, facing the sunlight, dissolving into a sunlit field with text over it reading, "You get used to it." the text is wiped away and replaced by different text: "I hope I never get used to being alone."

cut to: a background of yellow flowers. the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits fades in: a small cottage sitting atop a lonely hill, with smoke drifting from the chimney, surrounded by headstones, yellow flowers, and intermittent trees, with the title "The Keeper of Lonely Spirits" centered in large, yellow, sans-serif text and "a novel, E.M. Anderson" centered in smaller, white, sans-serif text below it. music is XAmbassadors' Unsteady.

[physalian]

Reminder that IngramSpark is terrible

Even if you're one of the lucky authors who've never had any issues with this platform, that they have a chokehold on expanded distribution for indie authors is my problem. Ingram will nickle and dime you with a user interface that pales in comparison in efficency to KDP. Cannot comment on any other print-on-demand company but even little Kobo took me like, 40 minutes to go from making my account to having my ebook live on their website.

Fuck IngramSpark.

You want to/need to make any changes to your manuscript whatsoever after 60 days (even if you have had zero orders and/or have none being processed)? $25 a pop, oh and you get de-listed while the changes are being processed, which can take at least 72 hours. If you do have orders in the middle of being processed, your possibly critical changes won't go into effect until the last order during that time frame has been processed, leaving those readers with the older, worse version of your book.

Are you allowed to preview those changes to make sure it'll process correctly before paying that ridiculous fee? Nope! Not if you're uploading PDFs and not using their in-house formatting programs.

I've said it before: Amazon is shady as fuck. I'm not going to pretend they aren't.

But they know their shit and they do it with maximum efficiency. Lower print costs mean higher royalties and Amazon is one of the largest marketplaces you could hope to host your book on. The massive caveat being that Amazon will only sell on Amazon, unless you sign up for their expanded distribution which is... eh.

It will never not bother me that I had to price my book a whole dollar higher using Ingram, charging my readers more money, because to price Eternal Night what I have on Amazon ($17.99) would have had me owing Ingram money.

Books are expensive enough already, and you don't really buy direct from Ingram. It's more expensive to print with them (on shittier paper to boot), which means they charge the vendor more to buy it so they can profit, which means the vendor (the bookstore you're buying from) can charge you more at the register so they can profit. You want my paperback for cheap? I would rather send you a copy from my own home, footing the bill on both ends for shipping costs, than use Ingram, if only to keep these bastards from taking their cut and giving me my $0.16.

I am not in this business to make money. I want people to enjoy my book and if that means losing a couple dollars of profit not pricing a 111k word fantasy novel at $22, I'd rather someone be able to afford it and like it than give it a pass because it's too expensive.

Ingram thinks they're the best, because they're still the standard for any brick and mortar store you want to shelve your book, and have zero incentive to change and better themselves.

I wouldn't have to pay the $25 in the first place if they didn't fuck up the color matching on my cover, and that's why I haven't pushed my book with Ingram at all. My debut novel is available technically through any vendor you could hope to buy from, because Ingram works with nearly all of them. Their version of my book is just awful, and trying to get the paper quality fixed all this time has gotten me nowhere, so I gave up and switched focus to the cover, and here we are.

I would rather pay to ship my books myself from KDP and hand deliver them to any brick and mortar store than use Ingram.

Amazon will print what you give them exactly as it looks on your digital screen, regardless of the color mode. Ingram will not, will not tell you this, and will not let you see if there is problem before you pay an arm and a leg for an author copy + shipping to see the damages.

If nothing else, it's a massive waste of paper to have an author copy I can't do anything with, with an issue any other platform would have let me prevent. I have one, 1, author copy from KDP, and it has a big fat watermark on the cover, but it's the only personal copy I need for my own use and reference. At the very least, I could have given my Ingram author copy away to somebody, but the color matching on the cover is atrocious and I'm embarrassed to look at it. Same exact files to both platforms.

Nor is anything with Ingram instantaneous. Everything requires a manual check. Which is great, thanks, human eyes on something is awesome, but maybe don't charge me the $25 change fee until that change has been approved? Now I have to fix a bleed issue, after updating the color mode on an identical file I already gave them that had no issues, after a 48 hour delay, and hope that this time, the color matching is correct, because they still won't tell me. If it's not? Another $25.

I don't want Amazon to expand their monopoly, but I desperately need Ingram to fix their shit and get off their high horse so they can be a fair and proper competitor of value. There should be zero fees to fix things if the book hasn't even sold a single copy on your platform. I know it can be automated and work flawlessly, negating the need for that fee. KDP has done it, and imo, on paper quality alone, KDP has Ingram beat anyway.

Ingram, allegedly, works great if you have no issues. If you do have an issue, it's never a small, simple fix.

Sorry for the rant and sorry to anyone who has used Ingram and doesn't know what the fuck I'm ranting about. It has been a struggle with them and their website since day one.

Do better.

[seanalmond]

'I'll be waiting,' by Kelly Armstrong, takes us into the world of the supernatural, and introduces us to the reality of the presence of a spirit realm (albeit, fictionalised, in this case)