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The 2025 Indie Author Holiday Book Catalog

No doubt you've already received your catalog from Amazon and a thousand other retailers for your holiday shopping. Well, we didn't have your address, so we decided to post our recommendations for seasonal book-buying for those readers on your list (or yourself!). All these titles are from regular or new contributors here on the blog. 

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Enjoy the books!

Tales of Silvertide, Volumes 1&2; Collections of short stories that cover a wide selection of characters who are just starting their journeys as heroes.

Fantasy, imagine if The Ranger's Apprentice met the Dragonlance books.

To purchase and for more information: https://tinyurl.com/27fp2s8s

It's 1932, and America is preparing for the LA Olympics. But in the midst of one of the stormiest winters on record, the rain is murder--literally. Men are dropping dead of the storm and the city is panicking. A former Great War airman is dragged into a plot to terrifying America to staying neutral in the next World War. Along with a small group of determined allies, he will take the battle from the streets of Hollywood to the forests of the Amazon. There they will find their destiny--those who survive... No. 1 in a series.

To purchase and for more information: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T44SLHC

Cemirowl is gifted, and cursed. She sees the spirits of the dead, and sees the future in her basket of bones; her sight is cryptic, lacking, and mostly useless. In her tiny village, she is a priestess, but still an object of curiosity and an outcast.

A chance meeting brings one of the king’s caballiers to her door for a reading, for nothing more than some entertainment. He is well-entertained indeed by her predictions of his lady loves… and far less so when she foretells a coming death. He leaves, dismissing her. But for all that her power is mysterious and often confusing, it is never, ever wrong.

When Queen Tidyri is murdered, the caballiers return for Cemirowl. She is brought unwillingly into the palace and into a web of intrigue and lies, where King Larthor rages in his grief. He demands that Cemirowl now use her gifts to find the one who killed his beloved wife.

Cemirowl must draw on all her abilities – her powers, no matter how unreliable; her intuition for reading people; her knowledge; and her wits – to discover the murderer, lay the spirits of the dead to rest, and help the living to grieve and find peace. And, perhaps, she will finally find a place where she belongs.

THE BONE READER is a fantastical murder mystery set in the rich world of Ihyel, where the hard-won peace between two kingdoms rests on the shoulders of one determined, compassionate priestess.

To purchase and for more information: https://books2read.com/u/4DBxag

From Darkness Comes Peace…

Raised in the caves of his father’s people–the brutal and warlike Oni–a half-breed boy knows only a world of darkness and pain. Life here offers one cruel lesson: fight or die.

But he dreams of a world of light and beauty, the world of his human mother, an Oni slave. His only solace, she implores him not to give in to the hate and evil of the Oni, to reject their Dark God, Grund. “Be at peace,” she advises, and from this, he gleans both hope and a name.

As his mother wished, Peace escapes the caves, but he encounters a world of humans that he doesn’t understand. A token from his mother earns him a place at the Sky Temple of Eos the Maker, where his mother trained in her youth. Here, he, too, can become a warrior for the Gods of Light. Struggling against his upbringing, he earns a home, a family.

But the Dark Gods have dark plans, and they have planted their seeds within the promising young disciples of the Sky Temples. To thwart them, Peace must return to the Oni, submit to the machinations of a centuries-old creature, and offer himself to Grund.

To save his world and those he loves, he must sacrifice his soul.

To purchase and for more information: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Peace-Seeds-Darkness-Trilogy/dp/1939837375

Magical children, American legends, and the nation's first lady detective come together in this thrilling fantasy for fans of The Wild, Wild West and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Kate Warne shattered the glass ceiling and helped save a President as the first female Pinkerton detective. Now she's learning a new role in life - ghost detective. Coming back from beyond the Veil to continue her work, Kate and her partner Shadow are tasked with finding a missing girl somehow linked to the famous Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison.

But all is not as it seems with the strange inventor, and Kate begins to suspect that his strange assistant may be much more than he appears to be. What she learns is that Edison, the girl, and all her strange siblings are involved in something much deeper and far darker than she ever imagined.

Now Kate and Shadow must join forces with a traveling snake-oil salesman, a semi-retired combat airship pilot, Edison's most famous rival, and a legendary river boat captain and itinerant scribbler of tales to keep Edison and his mysterious cohort from calling forth an ancient power and possibly the end of life as we know it.

To purchase or for more information: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Menlo-Park-Jessica-Nettles/dp/1645541215

Are you ready for an island adventure? An old enemy stalks Abraham Snow through the streets of Hawaii. Get ready for vengeance in paradise in author Bobby Nash's SNOW ISLAND, the 8th book in the award-winning Snow series from BEN Books. Get ready for a #SnowDay at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVSX9WZX

Written by Author Bobby Nash.

Cover by Plasmafire Graphics’ Jeffrey Hayes.

Edited by Michael Gordon.

Published by BEN Books.

Audio narrated by Stuart Gauffi. Coming soon.

Read it free with Kindle Unlimited. .

Learn more about Snow at www.abrahamsnow.com

Check out Snow’s complete adventures at www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3K7S46

Teel James Glenn’s mystery horror mash-up Not Born of Woman is a fresh, approachable, and engaging take on what a sequel to Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel Frankenstein could be. Smart, self-educated, caring and mystified by humanity, the creature, now self-named as Adam Paradise, has spent several decades in Arctic isolation living on an ice-bound ship filled with an impressively stocked library and gold treasure, is back among alleged civilization, namely 1930’s New York City, attempting to understand humanity and his place in the world by using his size, power, sophisticated mind, and an impressively empathetic heart to help those in need. The result is an addictive read that mixes classic mystery, private eye, and horror tropes with a wealth of philosophical and literary references, a rich cast of fully formed New Yorkers that includes cops, gangsters, store owners, a trans neighbor, gypsies, and Nazis. 

To create a quick read that builds on a classic, is fueled by essential thoughts, is paced like a thriller, and offers a way to love a long beloved character in a new way is an impressive accomplishment indeed. Teel James Glenn delivers all this as a page-turner of a ripping fun read.

Most highly recommended. -- Chris Ryan

To purchase and for more information: https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Shadow-Paradise-Investigations/dp/163789337X/ref

A demon’s plot.

A deadly assassin.

Four unlikely allies against the forces of Hell.

Amid relentless monsters, fey alliances, and explosive magical battles, Jake Foster—a man tormented by his past and his own powers—must choose between surrendering to chaos or leading a desperate quest to reclaim his soul.

With the help of a Homeland Security agent, a professor of magic, and a scared half-demon kid, will Jake conquer the darkness, or be devoured by it?

Demon's Call is the pulse-pounding debut of The Nevermore Casefiles, a series set in a world where the veil between the mundane and the monstrous is alarmingly thin.

To purchase and for more information: https://books2read.com/nevermore1lrs

Farahnaz Rahnema has spent her life in the shadows of Emari’s grand Citadel, serving the powerful queen, theMashyana, as her most loyal Hand. With the Talent of metallurgy, Farah can bend and control metal, making her a skilled thief and assassin, tasked with retrieving ancient relics of unimaginable power for the queen. She believes in the queen’s vision for a restored kingdom, one relic at a time. When a mysterious girl named Pari, the Voice of the gods, insists that Farah must join forces with Yasher—a charming, reckless card shark who thrives on luck—Farah’s world starts to unravel.

Yasher has always relied on his quick wits and strange luck to survive, avoiding deep ties to anyone or anything. But when he crosses paths with Farah, he’s thrust into a perilous mission to recover relics that could reshape Emari’s future.  As they navigate a kingdom filled with hidden truths, ancient secrets, and ever-shifting alliances, Farah begins to question the queen she serves and the kingdom’s growing corruption.

With her loyalty tested and Yasher’s own hidden motives in play, Farah must decide: is Mashyana truly Emari’s savior, or is something darker at play? In The Hand of Mashyana, power, betrayal, and ancient relics collide, with a kingdom’s fate hanging in the balance.

Perfect for fans of epic fantasy, thrilling heists, and slow-burn romance, The Hand of Mashyana is the first book in the sweeping saga where destiny, power, and loyalty collide.

To purchase and for more information: https://amberhansford.com/books/the-hand-of-mashyana/

Pursued by a warlord atop a dragon, a Viking on a vengeance quest and a half-elf freedom fighter must find the sword of a god to protect their homes and decide the fate of a nation.

To purchase and for more information: 

https://a.co/d/h0C8QOT} and https://hfdaywrites.com/product/a-tale-of-scorched-ash-and-elm/

Dime-Store Detective vol. 1 is on Kickstarter! Published by Source Point Press! This 130 pages covers issues 1-5 in this new graphic novel. Detective Mackinder must uncover the connection

To purchase and for more information: https://t.co/klU83cOpaI

THESE MEN ARE APES... ON FILM!

From the moment they met—it was movies! They’ve reviewed new releases of vintage cinema and television of all subject matter on disc, finding gems and letting you know the skinny on what to avoid. At Apes on Film, their aim is to uncover the best in retro film. As they dig for artifacts, they’ll do their best not to bury their reputations.

What will they find out here? Their destiny.

Welcome to CINEFILMANIA! This book exists to scratch your retro-film-in-high-definition itch.

HORROR • DRAMA • CRIME • SCIENCE FICTION • COMEDY • ACTION • ADVENTURE • ROMANCE — Name your genre, they’ve got opinions on it! Blu-ray, 4K, UK, Anyway, Anywhere, Don’t Care. If it’s film or television from the past on high definition physical media, they’ve watched it, considered it, critiqued it, and reloaded their players for the next one.

Train them! Excite them! Arm them!...Then turn them loose on the movies! Each one of them is a watching machine, slowly circling their prey until CLICK! The Disc is IN! They were four... but they watched movies like they were FOUR HUNDRED! If you only see one movie this year... you need to sit on your couch and watch films more often!

Films with titles like...

GOOD GUYS WEAR BLACK • DRACULA • DRESSED TO KILL • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK • HARDCORE • MOTHRA • VIVA • THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE • PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES • EYE OF THE DEVIL • THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 • BABYDOLL • PUMP UP THE VOLUME • THE KILLING • DEATH LAID AN EGG • NEEDFUL THINGS • SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES • MESSIAH OF EVIL • COOL LAKES OF DEATH • TERROR CIRCUS • THE QUESTOR TAPES • ONE FALSE MOVE • SLEEPWALKERS • THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI • MADAME CLAUDE • MISTER ROBERTS • SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY • THE VICTIM • MALLRATS • SAMSON AND THE 7 MIRACLES OF THE WORLD • MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID • FEAR IS THE KEY • WEIRD SCIENCE • RED SUN • THE UFO INCIDENT • NIGHT GALLERY • 52 PICK-UP • THE SUNDAY WOMAN • FLYING LEATHERNECKS • AFTER HOURS • HUGO

...AND SO MANY MORE! Pick a favorite, pop it in, and sit back and enjoy along with the APES ON FILM!

FEATURING A FOREWORD BY ACADEMY AWARD™ WINNER CHRIS WALAS (THE FLY, GREMLINS, ENEMY MINE)

Apes On Film is the popular syndicated, online retro film on high definition media review column created by Anthony Taylor, featuring work by Lucas Hardwick, Chris Herzog, and John Michlig.

To purchase and for more information: https://www.amazon.com/Cinefilmania-Adventures-Retro-Hi-Def-Forbidden/dp/B0FTVSQ9Q7

[Link] 2025 Indie Author Survey Results

by Ricci Wolman

Every year, we ask indie authors about their experiences with writing, publishing, and marketing. We’ve been running this survey since 2016, and it’s one of my favorite projects of the year.

• For 2025, we had 1,346 responses from authors around the world.
• 96% of respondents are already published
• 4% are not yet published but actively working toward it

The survey skews toward serious, prolific indie authors (that’s our audience!), and all data is self-reported, especially income. As always: Correlation ≠ causation. When we say “high earners tend to…,” we’re not saying “if you do this one thing, you’ll get rich.” We’re describing patterns, not guarantees.

This year’s survey covered everything from income and catalog size to email lists, direct sales, KU vs wide, and author sentiment.

Grab a coffee (or your favorite writing snack) and let’s dig in. ☕️

Table of Contents

1) How Are Authors Published in 2025?

2) Motivation & Goals

3) Income Breakdown: How Much Are Authors Earning Each Month?

4) Genres

5) Catalog Size 

6) Formats 

7) Revenue Channels & KU

8) Direct Sales

9) Cover Design

10) Editing

11) Marketing

12) Email Marketing

13) Sentiment & Community

1) How Are Authors Published in 2025? 

The indie author community continues to thrive, with 77% of respondents identifying as self-published, while 17% described themselves as hybrid authors, Only 5% of authors remain fully in the traditionally published camp.

Indie publishing is no longer anyone’s “Plan B.” It’s a primary, intentional path that serious authors choose because it lets them:

• Control rights, pricing, and packaging
• Move faster than traditional cycles
• Experiment with series, direct sales, and special editions

Read the full article: https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/2025-indie-author-survey-results-insights-into-self-publishing-for-authors/

Fave Holiday/Winter Themed Short Stories

 What are your favorite holiday/Winter short stories?

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of short stories. I still consider them the finer art when it comes to writing stories at all. So, I'm curious what are you favorite holiday-themed or Winter-themed short stories?

The following are mine:

• "The Little Match Girl," Hans Christian Andersen
• "The Kit Bag," Algernon Blackwood
• "The Star," Arthur C. Clarke
• "The Festival" H. P. Lovecraft 
• "Smee," A.M. Burrage
• "Whistle and I'll Come for You, My Lad," M.R. James
• "At Christmas Time," Anton Chekhov
• "The Signal-Man," Charles Dickens
• "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," Dr. Seuss
• "The Cobbler and His Guest," Leo Tolstoy
• "Christmas at the Roof of the World," Ernest Hemingway
• "One Christmas Eve," Langston Hughes 
• "The Gift," Ray Bradbury

Movie Reviews for Writers: Snowed Under

There's something special -- at least to me -- about those screwball, over-the-top, situation-gone-from-bad-to-loony comedies of yesteryear. Snowed Under is no less effective than the classic greats. 

Alan Tanner is a playwright with a rotten case of what we call writer's block. It's so bad that his play is set to begin practice in one week, but he still doesn't have a third act. 

To that, let's add the screwball situations. 

1. He's seeing a new girl who won't leave him alone so he can write during his retreat to the country cottage.
   
   
2. His producer sends his first ex-wife to help him finish the work like she did when they were married. 
   
   
3. His second ex-wife and her lawyer are arriving to either take his back alimony or, failing that, send him to jail until he does pay it. 
   
   
4. They're about to be snowed in together. 

So, as you can predict, hijinks ensue. I won't spoil it for you, but let's just say it's not a good day for our hero, Alan Tanner. 

One of my favorite parts is when Alan tries to explain writer's block to his housekeeper, Mrs. Canterbury. 

MRS. CANTERBURY: I figured you’d be coming up again sooner or later. Nice to see somebody in the old place again.

ALAN: I thought, if I drove up here for even one night, I could crash through the wall . . .

MRS. CANTERBURY: . . . crash through the wall . . !

ALAN: Of my writer’s block. I just can’t seem to get any work done.

MRS. CANTERBURY: Mmph. If Luke used that excuse in the barn, the work’d just keep piling up, anyway!

I love this way of looking at writer's block. It's something that only creatives seem to run into. I've often heard that plumbers don't get plumbers' block. Electricians don't get electricians' block. Middle managers don't get middle managers' block. Nor do marketing consultants don't get marketing consultant's block. They either work through any "funks" or they lose paying business opportunities. 

Free Holiday Story: It's Christmas, Baby, Please Come Home

 

It’s Christmas, Baby, Please Come Home
by Sean Taylor

This story originally appeared in Cyber Age Adventures Magazine and is collected in my short story collections Sin and Error Pining and Show Me A Hero by Taylorverse Books.

• Listen to the audio version (narrated by Alice Cashman)
• Buy the audiobook

The woman across the table from me wasn’t really a woman at all. She had no real skin to speak of or any kind of humanity other than the feminine shape she had forced her new body of light and energy to look like. Her arms and legs may have been covered up with regular clothes like the rest of us wore, but the way I could see through the parts of her shiny, twinkling form that weren’t covered by clothing reminded me all over again how she was no longer human.

She was something else.

Just like my baby.

Her name was Nancy Elliot, but most of the world knew her as Starlight. A superhero. A woman who had lost her body years ago and had become a freak.

“We love our little girl, Ms. Starlight,” said my husband, Chris. “It’s not like we don’t want her.” He sat beside me,  his hands gripped together in one tight fist, his muscles as tense as his mind had to be. Putting words into the air for both of us. Trying not to make us sound like monsters. “It’s just that I don’t think anymore that staying with us is what’s best for Mackenzie. I think she needs parents who can understand her situation and deal with it better.”

“It takes one to know one, huh?” asked the Elliot’s attorney, a tall man with dark hair that had introduced himself as either Tom or Thomas or Tommy.

Nancy placed her hand on his shoulder. “I’m sure that’s not the way Mr. Brown meant it.” Her fake face looked calm and compassionate. Like a mother’s face. “I’m sure this can’t be easy for them either.”

Her husband sat beside her, wearing a dark blue suit with white pinstripes. He looked like a lawyer himself, but he kept quiet, saying everything he needed to by saying nothing at all.

“I only mean that Deidra and I aren’t really capable of taking care of someone like little Mackenzie. We’re just not physically or emotionally prepared to cope with the responsibilities of having a child that can burst into flame at a moment’s notice.”

“No parents are ever prepared for their children, Mr. Brown,” Nancy said.

Motivational Monday: Accumulating Dreams

Sunday Funnies: Oh, So It's Guilt?!

All I Want for Christmas Is... Reader Reviews!

Hey, readers! I know that Amazon can be a bit weird about leaving reviews if you didn't buy the books on Amazon (ie, bought them at a con or directly online), so here are the links to leave reviews on either Goodreads or StoryGraph. 

And once again, I thank you for your honest reviews. 

Show Me a Hero

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208714410-show-me-a-hero

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/00979f0a-1ca2-4d16-a2c2-bb8111f9ba4b

A Crowd in Babylon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208912563-a-crowd-in-babylon-and-other-dark-tales

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4154e3c6-6ec2-4247-bbd1-5a2fa096fef1

When We Had No Flag

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229012706-when-we-had-no-flag

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2036e912-17ae-4abb-b60c-b274c1b22c93

Sin and Error Pining

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37653895-sin-and-error-pining

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c39724f2-b7a6-4e3d-a41b-3a42b52bedae

Warts and All

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219488375-warts-and-all

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6588cf30-bfcd-4721-b694-dc863fe0abb2

The Corpse Delivers the Eulogy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208457858-the-corpse-delivers-the-eulogy-and-other-works

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fbcd9461-89d9-4064-8073-64a524c5195d

Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229011184-bad-girls-good-guys-and-two-fisted-action

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/46da2240-503f-4f3b-bf24-aff028b3a5ba

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION PRESENTS THE PERSONA – VOL. 3 SILVER SKIN

Novelty king, Michael Mansford, aka the Persona, takes a business trip to Brazil with his fiancé, Stacey Standish. However, on their way, a strange phenomenon occurs over the rain forest, which pulls their plane into a mysterious realm, which is occupied by hostile, flesh-feasting natives and a silver-skinned alien who intends to redesign the landscape to his liking.  

With his mystical powers limited, Mansford must find the means to thwart the alien fiend before a rescue team arrives and is captured by it. Will Mansford and his bold companions succeed in time, or will Earth morph into something that no human can survive? 

Once again writer Michael Housel pits his master of occult powers against the forces of alien evil obsessed with the destruction of our world. This third adventure is illustrated by artist Aiden Belcher with a cover by Michael Youngblood.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now from Amazon in paperback and soon on Kindle.

Holiday-Themed Writing Prompts

 If you find yourself needing a little push or a little help getting started, try some of these prompts for Season-Themed tales:

https://minds-in-bloom.com/20-christmas-writing-prompts/

http://www.build-creative-writing-ideas.com/christmas-writing-prompts.html

Movie Reviews for Writers: The Norliss Tapes

I can't believe I only recently discovered this flick. 

Considering just how big a Kolchak the Night Stalker fan I am, you'd think I would have seen it way earlier. 

Oh well. 

Coming into this movie, all I knew was that it was very similar to both the Kolchak movies and the series, and that it was produced by the same guy (Dan Curtis, also of Dark Shadows fame).

David Norliss is a writer working on a book debunking supernatural events. It's a book he pitched to his publisher. It's a book he has been paid a large advance for. Only, after almost a year, not a word is written.

Sanford: Hello, David. Been a while. How's the book coming?

Norliss: Sanford, I've gotta talk to you.

Sanford: I know, you're gonna tell me it's only half-written, and we're gonna have to delay our-

Norliss: Half-written, hell. I don't have a word on paper.

Sanford: It's been almost a year.

Norliss: I know how long it's been, Sanford. But I, uh... I can't write it. I'm afraid to write it. You're not making sense.

Sanford: We gave you a sizeable advance to write a book debunking the supernatural, which was your idea not ours. And now you tell me, a year later, you haven't even started it.

Now, before you chalk David's problem up to what is typically called Writer's Block, it's not that. It's much deeper. He's not distracted. He's not "blocked." He's terrified. 

A free gift to you! "The Little Match Girl" read by me!

  

Folks, this is my favorite seasonal tale, and I'm happy to share it with you here. 

Motivational Monday: What You Have To Say

Sunday Funnies: MacGuffins 'R' Us

[Link] How To Write Like HP Lovecraft – 5 Best Tips

by Eugene Doak

Lovecraft might not be a household name like Stephen King, but his stories and the mythos behind them have a cult following. His unique style of cosmic horror has inspired countless authors, films, musicians, and games. So, even if you haven’t sat down and read The Call of Cthulhu, you’re probably familiar with some “Lovecraftian” inspired horror, which is the topic of today’s article – What is Lovecraftian Horror and how to write like HP Lovecraft.

Cosmicism: The Philosophy of Insignificance

At the heart of Lovecraft’s style is Cosmicism, the philosophical idea that human life is meaningless in the face of the vast, indifferent universe. His stories are not about good versus evil, but about frail, limited humans stumbling upon truths that their minds are simply not equipped to handle. The horror comes from the revelation that there are ancient, powerful, and utterly alien beings for whom humanity is less than an afterthought.

The Fear of the Unknown

Lovecraft rarely showed his monsters in full detail. Instead, he relied on suggestive prose and vague descriptions to build suspense. He would use words like “cyclopean,” “non-Euclidean,” and “squamous” to describe his creations, forcing the reader’s imagination to fill in the terrifying blanks. The horror isn’t just in the monster itself, but in the inability of the human mind to fully comprehend it.

Pastiche and Pseudobibliographia

Lovecraft created a shared literary universe by having his characters reference the same fictional grimoires and texts, most famously The Necronomicon. This technique, known as pseudobibliographia, made his stories feel more real and connected, as if they were all part of a larger, horrifying history. He also used a style of writing that mimicked 18th-century antiquarians, giving his prose a scholarly, archaic feel that lent credibility to the terrifying events he described.

How To Write Like HP Lovecraft

If you want to try writing like H.P. Lovecraft, you should focus on a few key elements that define his unique style. It’s less about imitating his exact word choice and more about capturing the atmosphere and philosophical core of his work.

Read the full article: https://livingwriter.com/blog/how-to-write-like-hp-lovecraft-5-best-tips/

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION PRESENTS BOOH HUNTERS VOL. 3 - SENIORS

Upon their arrival at the Long Household, Book Hunter Master Zhi Wenku and her companion, Master Shen Wei, discover all the aftermath of a horrific event. Foreign agents had descended on the family and somehow vaporized all the adults. But when seeking the children, who had gone into hiding, these attackers were then defeated by a young mud-covered boy named Gan Xuan. He who claims to have devoured the bad men. 

Thus Zhi, Shen and their student apprentices, Qing and Xinglu, begin their most intriguing and complex adventure ever. It will take them into different realms of magic and confrontations with truly fantastical beings. Once again writer Barbara Moran spins a tale of Chinese wonder rich with amazing and memorable characters, both evil and heroic.

Artist Gary Kato provides the interior illustrations with Guy Davis turning in his colorful cover piece.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now from Amazon in paperback and soon on Kindle.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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