Twentieth Anniversary Edition of SciFi Adventure

I've released a revised, twentieth anniversary edition edition of Degranon for 2021. Nook and Smashwords. “The 20th anniversary edition doesn’t shy away from message while delivering on a fast-moving and satisfying plot.” –Stars and Staffs

Interview at The Literary Juggernaut

The Literary Juggernaut interviewed me for an article about my writing, which they've posted at their site with the title "Writing is an Important Part of Who I Am." Their site features poetry, short stories, interviews, book reviews, and English lessons.

BookTok SciFi Adventure

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Free Twitter Promotion with BookClubPro

The site BookClubPro offers free book promotion on Twitter, using a form where the author fills in a tweet, an alternate tweet, and possibly some banners. Besides an easy start-up, it's also easy to replace the tweets, so the posts don't have to repeat without variation. Some of the writers also retweet each other.

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Free or Discounted eBooks at eBookLingo

The site eBookLingo helps readers find free or discounted eBooks while helping authors promote their work. The main page includes featured authors, new releases, and more. Readers and writers can also sign up for a free account. It's easy to use and frequently updated. Their Twitter account also promotes the listed books. Find more reader and writer resources via the labels at the end of this post.

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BookTok Summer Reading

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♬ Checkmate - Conan Gray

A newlywed struggles with mental health and job insecurity, but finds joy in her artwork and marriage.

A teacher faces bigotry in the small town he grew to love.

Swimming laps in a pool makes a young man reflect on his odd encounters.

Faustian legend receives a satirical update.

Those situations just hint at what readers can find in this collection of West Texas tales, set at the end of the twentieth century.

“Amazing and hard to put down.” –Kimmie Sue’s Book Review and More

“Each of Simolke’s stories lets us look into the lives of some of the most interesting characters I have ever read about.” –Amos Lassen, Literary Pride

Indie Story Geek

Readers and reviewers can learn about Sons of Taldra and other indie books at Indie Story Geek. From the site:

"Indie Story Geek is a place to highlight amazing indie books, whether they are self-published, web serials, or published by small presses. Since the reader experience can be so subjective, we’ve broken down the reading experience into eight different criteria using Kriti Khare’s system from Armed With a Book. Anyone can submit a story for review. When reviewers submit their review, they can optionally include a link back to their full review on their own blog."

Social Media, Writer Resources, LGBTQ, and more

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Blog Tour: Blood Worth by D.B. McKenzie

My second blog tour feature brings you Blood Worth by D.B. McKenzie, out today from Gurt Dog Press. Get ready for monsters and thrills in an urban fantasy that tackles bigotry and self-acceptance.

Content warnings: Violence, gore, homophobia, elements of racism, mental health issues

Synopsis:

The pills only help if the monsters aren’t real. Sadly, Devon McKenzie figured that out a little too late.

Running from his homophobic father and a mental diagnosis he’s unwilling to accept, Devon finds himself in Sudbury where the people are friendly, the parks are quiet and a looming shadow cast by the local Centre taints the idyllic village life.

Unfortunately for Devon, the Centre is his only hope of maintaining his new-found freedom.

Selling his blood to an organization that no one seemed to truly know anything about wasn’t very high on his list of things to do but after signing a contract, Devon finds himself as bound to the Centre as the poor souls that came before him.

The contract promised money and security, it didn’t say a thing about dead donors, a mysterious shadow dog that was definitely a wolf, or the return of horrific visions that Devon thought he’d buried when he’d left the psychiatric institution that his parents had sent him to years ago.

As the Centre’s secrets continue to grow, Devon begins to realize that Sudbury isn’t the quaint little village he believed it to be. Monsters linger behind every gentle smile and the more Devon digs, the weaker his grip on his sanity becomes.

With another donor’s life hanging in the balance, Devon finds himself in a race against time to figure out what the Centre is truly hiding before it’s too late for all of them.

But the only truth that exists in the quiet town of Sudbury, is that what you see isn’t always what you get and a few drops of blood may be worth more than humanity could possibly imagine.

Excerpt:

His final destination was Sudbury, a small village just east of the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Sudbury boasted a population of just over 17,000 people, if the brochure at his motel was to be believed, but that was all Devon knew about the place. His ignorance didn’t bother him because if he didn’t know Sudbury, then chances were that his family wouldn’t know the place either, making the likelihood of him being found beyond slim.

Not that Devon thought any of his family would come looking, especially not his dad.

It had only been two days since he had packed what he could and fled before his dad woke from his alcohol-induced stupor, but Devon knew he wasn’t going to get his old life back.

Because two days ago, he’d still been living a lie.

Two days ago, he’d had a family and a home.

Two days ago, he’d been outed as gay.

A gust of cold air ripped him from his melancholy thoughts, prompting him to pick up his pace as he jammed his fingers into his pockets in an attempt to combat the chill.

There were few ways to make quick money in a new place like this one and Devon’s current destination was the only place that he was sure would accept him.

As if summoned, the building rose in the distance, a towering monolith set against the backdrop of the midday sun, right where the motel clerk had told him it would be. The Centre was all glass and gleaming white walls, a rose growing among the weeds of the older buildings around it. It spiraled heavenwards in an architectural design that many had labeled pretentious, but pretentious or not, it was Devon’s only hope of supporting himself.

The courtyard was empty, the benches bare, and there was no sight of another human—or even an animal—anywhere around. It was like a ghost town compared to the hustle and bustle that Devon had left behind at the motel.

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