Free: How Hot It Be in Hell

How Hot It Be In Hell descends into the hidden impulses people try to outrun—jealousy, obsession, violence, desire, and the quiet urges that twist a life off course. Each poem opens a door into a different human fracture: a lover’s fatal rage, a predator’s watchful hunger, a drunk stumbling toward chaos, a homeless man recounting […]

Hannah Bloom: Dream Juggler

Hannah Bloom longs to claim the title “poet.” With her daughters at camp, she expects time to write—until heartbreaking letters arrive, an unexpected pregnancy upends her plans, her mother considers moving back to Europe, and a lawsuit threatens the family business. Now Hannah must hold it all together—and find her voice. $0.99 on Kindle.

Going to Zossen

NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER “Gripping” – Kirkus Reviews Based on true accounts of children’s penal colonies that emerged during the 1990s post-Soviet chaos, Going to Zossen is a raw exploration of the bargains ordinary people make under oppressive systems – necessary reading for fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Colson Whitehead’s The […]

And So It Was for Mary

If given a second chance at life, would you love differently? Would you mend broken relationships? Would you follow your dreams? Homeless and estranged from her family, Mary, a guitar savant with big dreams and little hope, is on the verge of letting her life slip away. Just before taking a fatal mix of alcohol […]

Where the Heart Meets the Sea: A Novel

An emotionally rich love story with themes of lost and found family in a stunning Norwegian island setting. $0.99 on Kindle.

Free: Zenith’s Peak: Journey of a Light Shaman Book 1

This is not a book about trauma. It is a book about what is born through it. Thaddeus Harold Pierson is a disabled, queer orphan raised inside institutions that alternately erase him and weaponize him. His survival requires a splitting of self: the dissociated observer during confinement, the intimate narrator when free. Through shifting narration […]

Free: Decaf: Coffee Break Bundle Amusing Short Reads

Lost your smile? Brighten your day with a bundle of coffee giggles. Funny short reads to make you chuckle during your coffee break – a mischievous blend of absurdity, satire and delightfully unexpected moments in everyday life. Four short stories to put you in the happy zone Free on Kindle.

Free: Freshman DAYS

A coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy and the trials and tribulations he experiences at a private all-boys high school during his freshman year. A diverse combination of family, friends and fellow students guide him through nine months of sports, dances, teenage shenanigans and Latin. Free on Kindle.

Free: Welcome Darkness

Experience the heartbreak and turmoil of a suppressed population through the eyes of a Black man. Follow this grieving widow as he struggles to find a meaning for life. Witness a tumultuous presidential election; these powerful poems delve into themes of loss, heartbreak, and the struggle for justice. Join our protagonist, a Black writer, as […]

Free: Blackbird

Would you like to live forever, Discover the sensation of love for the first time, become lost and confused in an ebony cloud, and celebrate love in a sky highway, let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the passions of love, the joy and sorrows of […]

Such a Bad Influence: A Novel

In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong? In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls […]

Free: Unscrambled Eggs

Profound and riveting, this is a 60 poem book collection with poetry that enlightens, speaks the way of life and the world. It is a stirring compilation of poems about living your dream and finding purpose. Free on Kindle.

Free: BECOMING: The Life & Musings of a Girl Poet

BECOMING is an uplifting poetry collection of inspirational poems and articles about living a life of fulfillment. The author draws upon her own experiences, inspirations, and what she feels most passionate about. Free on Kindle.

Inside the Circle of the Sun

Join Aubrey E. Drummond through a journey of Love, Life, Song, Grief, Despair and Darkness. See this world through the unique perspective of a black man, who has lived both in sunshine and the pour of rain. His poems are short, simple yet complex. Readers will find his work irresistible, appealing to audiences wide and […]

Free: Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation

Harriet is an intriguing and original ‘take’ on Jane Austen’s immortal Emma, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Prize quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh. Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty boarding-school pupil, and to matchmake her as eligibly as she can… But how is she to guess that Harriet has a secret?Meanwhile, […]

Tourist

Fresh out of a mental hospital, Jake returns to Lake Placid as the 1980 Winter Olympics ignite the town. Haunted by his friend’s death and the stigma of illness and poverty, he reconnects with former love Laurie. As USA faces USSR on the ice, Jake must choose despair—or peace within. $0.99 on Kindle.

Nineteen Hundred Days

Twelve-year-old Ben panics when his parents don’t come home from work. Having been raised to believe that the police and CPS are the enemy, he will do anything to avoid foster homes for him and his sister. Unfortunately, their incredible journey to evade the authorities brings them into contact with people who may not have […]

IMAGINING MORE and Other Stories

New Release! A kaleidoscope of flawed, searching characters, among them actors, writers, troubled artists, strive to make sense of themselves, their relationships, and their place in the world. “The sheer narrative daring in the title story… is superb.” San Francisco Book Review “acts of cruelty or betrayal coexist with moments of profound insight or aesthetic […]

Free: Eating ‘Round the Toilet Stool

Immerse yourself in the soul-stirring verses of Aubrey E. Drummond’s second poetry collection, ‘Eating ‘round the Toilet Stool.’ Following the success of ‘Boy, Kant You Read,’ Drummond continues to captivate with his poignant reflections on love, life, grief, and death. Experience the world through the eyes of a black man, as he weaves tales of […]

Death Magnanimous

Charlie Chessman begged them to let him die. The paramedics who pulled him from the flames. The ER doctors who raced to mend his mortal wounds. The surgeons, psychiatrists, nurses, and physical therapists who reconstructed his burned and broken body. Assisted suicide the only way out, an unexpected question emerges: Is the life Charlie can’t […]

Free: How Hot It Be in Hell

How Hot It Be in Hell contains 39 poems written by the 5-star reviewed author Aubrey E. Drummond. The author goes from questioning Life and his work to celebrating life, love, and happiness and finally to confronting Death, Horror, and perhaps the end of us all. Free on Kindle.

The Threads of Becoming: A Memoir in Poems

At once triumphant and vulnerable, this memoir in poems describes Tamara’s journey through surviving childhood neglect, becoming a mother, navigating grief, reaching new heights in her career, and ultimately, discovering herself. $0.99 on Kindle.

The Marfa Blues – Searching for Treasure

Marfa, Texas, 1968: Vera Desoto’s cafe. You’ll experience buried treasure, giant cloned cows, a psychic raven, and the mysterious Marfa Lights. Egenes gives us a mismatched group of characters that helps explore themes of found family, redemption, and the varying interpretations of “treasure” really is. Offbeat, character-driven fiction. A delightful discovery, and an unexpectedly warm, […]

Whaling Town: Poems

A simultaneously rough and tender exploration of the American experience in observational prose poetry that spans rural and urban existence, infused with the rhythms of the Mississippi Delta blues and perfect for fans of Demon Copperhead and This Tender Land. $0.99 on Kindle.

CLOUDED THOUGHTS III: Poetry Thoughts After the Storm

Surviving the Tempest: A Journey from Darkness to Renewal Are you ready to dive into the storm? The third installment of the Clouded Thoughts saga by the most clouded author of this time has done it again. Step into a world where pain meets poetry and survival becomes an art form. This deeply moving collection […]

Free: Blackbird

Would you like to live forever, Discover the sensation of love for the first time, become lost and confused in an ebony cloud, and celebrate love in a sky highway, let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the passions of love, the joy and sorrows of […]

Mijo: We Bend, Not Break

Three generations of Mexican men carry unspoken pain across borders and time. Mijo: We Bend, Not Break is a moving story of fathers, sons, and the silence between them—where masculinity, love, and healing collide to show that bending isn’t weakness; it’s how we finally learn to heal. $2.99 on Kindle.

River Talk

“Yes, the inquisitive hermit out in the delta seems to have unlocked the greatest secret of them all.” All Mankind once shared the same instinctual connections to the planet as all the other species that thrive, here, on earth. Threading ourselves into the wind, the light, the electromagnetic field and the rhythm of the ocean […]

Gajarah: A Novel

A coming-of-age novel of a Pakistani woman who discovers the transformative healing power of storytelling. $0.99 on Kindle.

Free: Hello Stranger

Let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on an emotional journey—from the pain of losing love to a prayer to love again. Search for a ray of hope in this bitter world. Wish for the gift of flight to free ourselves. Witness the hatred of a bitter old man. Become lost in the voices that creep […]

MIJO: We Bend, Not Break

What if the greatest inheritance a family carries isn’t land or money, but silence? Mijo: We Bend, Not Break is an unforgettable novel about three generations of Mexican American men bound by distance, unspoken love, and the heavy weight of survival. From the cracked soil of Michoacán to the immigrant fields of California, it follows […]

My Life as a Gorilla

When mortal illness threatens Alan Parkman’s life, his only alternative is to undergo experimental head transplantation. However a human body is not immediately available and so he reluctantly agrees to have his head temporarily transplanted onto the body of a gorilla. The transplant proves to be a success but now he must deal with the […]

Free: Tiffany’s Rules

Thirty-year-old confirmed bachelor Jody Hart suddenly has an eleven-year-old girl thrust into his life. What’s a man to do? Find an adult female to share the burden. Except nothing goes as planned according to Tiffany’s Rules. Free on Kindle.

Many Mansions

Moses and Isaac are a set of fraternal twins who took separate paths in life due to parental favoritism, as well as their own popularity and success. Moses became a successful real estate tycoon while Issac, his brother, lived in the dark, filthy tunnels of the New York City subway. One day, the brothers reunited […]

Grace and the Wolf: A Brief Tale on the Kindness of Strangers

A standalone novelette inspired by Kat Goss’s The Client She wanted to find herself. Someone found her first. Grace is starting over. Leaving behind a life that wasn’t truly hers, she seeks solace and self-discovery on a challenging hike to Cragspire Peak. But the small town at the mountain’s base holds an unexpected encounter: a […]

Free: Crystal’s Ball

An offbeat love story between a writer and a mysterious woman from his past that takes place in a northern California coastal town. Their story is paralleled with a similar romance between a logger and a schoolteacher in the 1890’s from the same coastal town. Free on Kindle.

Free: Blackbird

Would you like to live forever, Discover the sensation of love for the first time, become lost and confused in an ebony cloud, and celebrate love in a sky highway, let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the passions of love, the joy and sorrows of […]

Sailing for Grace

The novel is a story of love, loyalty, friendship and the intersection of law and personal morality— when the right thing to do may not be the legal thing to do. You might sum the story up as: “A wealthy widower risks his freedom to fulfill a promise made to his dying wife.” $0.99 on […]

Free: Gratitude: Two Hundred Short Poems

Winner of the 2024 Bronze Readers’ Favorite Book Award in Poetry Travel through the human condition with succinctly worded verses that linger long in your mind even after you’ve closed the book. These poems offer a different perspective and a lovely way to view the world. Free on Kindle.

Free: Toadvine: A Prequel To Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

TOADVINE follows the branded outlaw Louis Toadvine through his pivotal teenage years in the frontier. Long before he drifted south and joined the infamous Glanton Gang in Cormac McCarthy’s epic novel Blood Meridian he was just a boy with a dream. Based on historical events that took place around Ohio in the early 1800s, where […]

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