alchemical fantasy
Are you on Pinterest? Are you looking for your next great indie SF&F read?
Then come follow Bookwyrms, where fellow indie author Intisar Khanani and I pin books we’ve enjoyed along with a mini-review! From hilarious space opera to inventive fantasy-of-manners to lyrical original fairy tales, we’re excited to share these indie and small press books with you.
I’m participating in a super sale with 80+ other authors! Many thanks to Andrea Pearson for organizing it!
Hello, Readers! Welcome to the Fantasy and Science Fiction Super Sale! All books below are priced at $0.99 or FREE. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I haven’t read most of the books on this list. Authors assigned their own movie ratings.
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Fantasy In a land of magic users, one boy is born without magic. In a realm of angry dragons, one dragon befriends a human boy. Together, they follow their hearts in order to save their land. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: YA Fantasy Shanice has never felt like she belongs. Then she learns why—she is the last known princess from another world, their last chance to stop the one who is bent on destroying it. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Paranormal Romance Christina is a demon, but she doesn’t want to be. Only one person stands in the way of her transformation, and he will stop at nothing to keep her the way she is. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Time Travel Romance Cassie is going to heaven—if she can get amnesty from hell in the next twenty days. Her assignment is to change the eternal destination of a girl in Albuquerque to earn admittance into heaven. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Dystopian Arcene, Awoken and trapped in her own body as a perpetual fifteen-year-old, gets a lot more than she bargained for when she finally finds herself behind the walls of the blue castle. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Science Fiction When the Hubble Telescope disappears, the FBI calls Jake Corby. Corby has promised his wife to cut down on the hero stuff, but when the ISS is targeted, his promise gets hard to keep. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Urban Fantasy What if the greatest weapon in the age-old war between good and evil was inside of you? Crystal Scott must use her newfound gifts against the tide of evil threatening all of them—or die trying. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Winner of the state libraries’ Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project! Three unlikely heroes board a doomed bus. Destination: the afterlife. Their mission: to save forever. But first they have to save themselves. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Supernatural Suspense St. Margaret’s was an almshouse until its previous occupants burned to death years before. When a bag of bones falls on twelve-year old Julia, she gets thrown into the spirit realm with house’s past residents. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy Merge with a demon. Fight a traitor trying to destroy both their worlds. And above all don’t kill the people trying to help. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal When a jagged cut shows up on Kylee’s arm, she enlists her neighbor to help her uncover the truth. But Price shows her much more—he shows her what it is to be alive. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Dystopian Get this bestselling dystopian fantasy series from YA author Elana Johnson in one convenient digital boxed set! Includes 3 volumes: Elemental Rush, Elemental Hunger, and Elemental Release. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Can YOU survive the fish-zombie apocalypse? The fate of your friends and family is in your hands, and when the stakes are high, YOU need to decide what you’ll be—a survivor, or fish food. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Ghosts What would you do if you had a camera that could photograph ghosts? When Jenine discovers an abandoned Polaroid, she realises the dead aren’t as peaceful as she’d imagined… |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Spooky Fantasy Sam dreams he has a friend, but when he wakes, he always forgets him. One day he does not forget, one day he remembers, and on that day, the boy comes to stay… |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Science Fiction High school dropout Darius Arthur Heisenberg is recruited to be an agent for the Keepers, whose mission is to maintain and protect the myriad threads of time. What could possibly go wrong? |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Dystopian In futuristic America, ratings are everything. When Treena gets the wrong number, she takes a dangerous mission to prove her true worth. But why is someone trying to kill her? |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Romance Aspen—a skydiving, rock-climbing, bear-cuddling, adrenaline junkie, finds herself in real danger when she unwittingly ensnares the heart of Obsidian, the dragon king. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Romance The bracelet around my wrist is a permanent reminder of my mission. The silver charm attached to the leather cord is stamped with my birth sign. Mission: Unite with my twin flame soulmate. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy Duty versus love is the one battle warrior Kae does not know how to fight. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Coming of Age Fantasy As the second son, Micah Brachon is happy to focus on his inventions and experiments. When one of those experiments is sabotaged, he learns about the deadly faction that seeks to rip apart their government. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Romance When do dreams erupt into reality? After Hannah, vacationing in Arizona, meets handsome Josh from the Navajo reservation, she experiences vivid nightmares about the Navajo nation’s past — a riveting tale blending romance and paranormal mystery. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Science Fiction/Super Here Power of a villain, heart of a hero. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Paranormal Romance On her sixteenth birthday Emily discovers she is a witch and accidentally causes complete mayhem as her first spells don’t exactly go to plan. A young adult paranormal romantic comedy. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Fantasy When nerdy Rich Witz unwittingly becomes a paladin in training, he is thrust into a world where flunking a test can change history, and a mysterious bully is playing for keeps with his life. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Tamara thought she was a normal girl in a normal world. Wrong. Her new reality is full of ghosts and demons and she’s a member of the Choir Invisible, a demon hunter. Join her. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Apocalyptic/Dystopian No one knows why they have to evacuate at first. What they soon find out is it will take a lot of inventiveness with limited resources for the evacuees to survive the Weather Wars. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Science Fiction If your heart rate goes over 140 beats per minute, you die. In a quest for the truth about the Bug and its origin, Nik and his friends work to keep their heart rates low. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Science Fiction/Cyberpunk The world is broken. The powerful machines that once ruled over land and sky fought and died, leaving humanity in a primitive age of swords and monsters and only the Etherwalker can save them. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Above ground an epidemic sweeps the planet. In order to survive, most of the population must slave away in the dark, unforgiving caverns of the Yyinum mines. These self-appointed guardians strive for survival on Minea. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Science Fiction After the world was torn apart by the nightmares of myth and legend, a revenge-filled Caleb and a bewitched Eric find themselves on journeys to hunt down the Dragonlords. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Urban Fantasy Nicole has been chosen to lead an anti-magic organization in a revolution which will destroy all Aretes, including herself. But if she doesn’t do it, a curse placed long ago will lead to everyone’s destruction. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Urban Fantasy The Goddess blesses Her people with 25 Telepathic Gifts. In addition to Telepathy, the Gifts include command over Air and Fire, Telekinesis and Teleportation. She never bestows more than 15 Gifts on a single person. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Paranormal Romance When an ancient mystery leads archaeologist Alexandra Larson to a millennia-old war between god-like beings, she must choose between the father she’s never met and the man she’s fated to love. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: R Genre: Science Fiction Romance Yanked from her life by the mysterious Revik, Allie discovers she’s the Bridge, meant to herald the evolution of humanity––or possibly its extinction. A psychic romance set in a gritty, alternate version of Earth. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Homebuyers Kim and Julian get more than they bargained for in the secluded Beacon Estate. Its previous owners have been declared dead, missing. Something, however, still lingers in the house. Something unnatural. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Paranormal Romance Meet the couple that started it all, Edward and Connie. Two bear shifters that found each other in 1955 and started the Rochon family legacy. Sweet, spicy, sexy, and shifty. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: G Genre: Space Opera Everyone has a place where they always find serenity, a place that acts as their bond to peace. Aliea Academy was Space Cadet Q’s bond to peace. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: G Genre: Science Fiction The galaxy is in crisis, and Carrie Hatchett is the last person on Earth who should be fixing it. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Romance/Suspense Mystery, medical school, marriage – and murder! And if all that wasn’t enough, Sara’s also visiting other people’s dreams. Can Sara catch a killer, survive medical school and keep her marriage in one piece? |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal/Gothic Romance He’s haunted by his troubled past; she’s desperate for a fresh start. When their worlds collide, everything will change. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy Jaxius and his companion, Tolian, must save a northern barbarian, Bergar, from death when Bergar’s soul is forced into Tolian’s body. Jaxius must call on a power from his past life to save his friends. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Sci-fi and Fantasy A young shapeshifter must prove himself by passing a test in the wastelands. But before he can return home, he’ll uncover the secrets behind what really happened 300 years ago to bring about the apocalypse. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Evil is stalking a beautiful woman in Hawaii. He is powerful, charming, and deadly. She fled him once after a brutal attack. Can she escape his powerful spells once more? |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: NC17 Genre: Fantasy Romance When Lillian finds herself facing off against vampires and other mythological impossibilities, help comes from an unlikely source—the stone gargoyle who has been sleeping in her garden for the last twelve years. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy There is a story for every wave that washes upon the shoreline. Here are seven of them – stories of mermaids and ghosts and sea monsters and the sweetest apocalyptic love story I ever wrote. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Paranormal Romance She’s neurotic, insecure and doesn’t believe in spirits. At least not until moving into a Hollywood bungalow that’s ‘inhabited’ by one. Can she survive his dangerous charms long enough to give up the ghost? |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Comic Fantasy Curious about the day Saint Christopher found out he’d been declared non-existent by the pope? What exactly is a cat in Hell’s chance? Answers to these and other questions are in this short story collection. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy Dex wants to be a knight… |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Science Fiction/Zombies Conspiracy theory meets zombie fiction. Journalist Hunter Morgan uncovers a sinister web that connects biological experiments at an Ebola treatment center with a pharmaceutical company, U.S. government officials, the CDC and the World Health Organization. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Science Fiction Romance She’s fierce, intelligent, subtle as a brick and he’s only human. Can they find love and save the universe? |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Mythology The world is thrown into turmoil as the ancient gods of myth and legend return to wreck havoc on humanity. Only a select few stand in the way of utter chaos and devastation. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Epic Fantasy Sucked into a portal to another world, Allison awakens with powers she can’t control and learns she’s fated to fulfill an ancient prophecy where one decision will determine which of two warring kingdoms will fall. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy He’s a powerful Genie, trapped in a magic lamp. She’s an ugly old witch. They’ll fight the dark forces… together. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Science Fiction/Time Travel and Space Opera What happens when Evaran, a space and time traveling being visting Earth, decides to interfere in the alien abduction of four humans? |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Science Fiction Time traveling was not on today’s agenda. Racing to intercept her thieving soon-to-be-ex, Evy Rivera is thrown back to ancient Spain with no rules, no guidance, and brand new, badass lightning bullwhips. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: PG13 Genre: Fantasy Sam Sharp is trapped in another world. He must learn to harness the world’s unique vibratory energy to defeat the villain called the Gray Man or he can never go home. |
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Kindle * Nook * Kobo * iTunes Movie Rating: R Genre: Science Fiction Romance When New York City is destroyed by a nuclear bomb, step-brothers Franklin and Everon are determined to find and save their sister Cynthia, her husband and infant child. An exciting tale of love and sibling-hood. |
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Kindle Movie Rating: R Genre: Weird Western Fantasy Ranger of Mayat is the first episode of PISTOLS AND PYRAMIDS, an ongoing weird western series best described as an ancient Egyptian spaghetti western with magic. And mummies. Lots of mummies. |
I’m participating in a massive sale with 83 other SF&F authors. Pick up Quartz and a number of other science fiction and fantasy novels for the bargain-basement price of 99 cents each–good only this weekend.
Long-time readers of this blog may remember me enthusing over M.C.A. Hogarth’s business-of-art columns, with cartoon jaguars illustrating the various principles. Hogarth expanded these into a web comic, and recently collected six months’ worth of strips into a print volume.
So, if you want to be both educated and entertained, head on over to Amazon, B&N, or Createspace and get your copy! The delightful Three Jaguars will make you think, smile, laugh, and yes, even get a little teary-eyed.
Looking for bargains for your reading habit? I’m participating in a promotion run by Vivify Books. Check out free or 99-cent indie books in all genres here. Or, just the fantasy ones, if that’s your main cup of tea.
Sale runs from September 1st-7th.
Last–but not least–is a plug for WriteTrack, my husband’s nifty wordcount tracking tool. It’s free to use, and he recently updated it with a fresh, new look. I’m using it to keep me on track with my 25K-word goal for the month.
The best thing about this tool? You can tell it which days you’ll be out of town or only able to write a little, and it’ll handle all the calculations to give you the daily word goal you need to stay on course.
Your turn! Got a book to recommend, or a site you think I should check out? Tell me in the comments.
