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THE STORY EATERS
OF YAMM
From critically acclaimed author Kevin Hincker (“Best Books of 2023,” KIRKUS REVIEWS) comes an irreverent, suspenseful, profoundly original novel about a group of science fiction writers hired to gameplan an alien invasion, led by Larry Palczewski - a struggling writer who can't perceive time.
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What starts for Larry as a desperately needed source of free lunches turns sinister and inconvenient when the alien snails the group is fictionalizing actually do begin invading - by taking over humanity's novels. After that, it is up to Larry, unlikeliest of protagonists, to author a new ending before humankind is eaten by the ultimate bad story - his own.
”Laugh-out-loud funny - neurodivergence here is just one of many alternative worldviews, and by the end you’re so enmeshed in Larry’s brain you’re predicting his thoughts. A tremendous accomplishment.”
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Asher can’t paint anymore becaue it might kill him. It also might end the world. This is already a lot of responsibility for a “recovering” addict. And then the ghosts start asking to be rescued.
Kirkus calls the series “a must read,” as Asher - a painting authenticator - must track a rare canvas through the supernatural art galleries of Skysill Beach, where paintings have started killing people and where ancient ghosts seem to have become at least as real as he is…
“… a transcendent hybrid series.” KIRKUS
★ Book One: KIRKUS (starred review)
★ Book Two: KIRKUS (starred review)
★ Book Three: KIRKUS
★ Book Four: KIRKUS (starred review)
★ Book Five: KIRKUS (starred review)
“BEST BOOKS OF 2023” Kirkus Reviews
“…unique, frantic, fun, and thought-provoking SF.” - Kirkus (starred) (Best of 2023)
“…uproarious sci-fi that gets readers thinking..” - Publishers Weekly (Editor’s Pick)
She never wanted to die the richest person in history.
All Diana Roark ever wanted was to solve impossible problems and use her fortune for good. So she's on a bio-prospecting mission in Earth’s deepest ocean when aliens orbit to make First Contact. By the time she surfaces - after a near fatal accident - she finds the aliens gone, and every human being alive Augmented… except for her.
After 30 years of Augmented, human society has become unrecognizable. The species has stopped aging at all and every need is dispensed free from Obelisks. Diana alone on Earth has aged. She’s now sick,, unable to use the Obelisks.
And then, thirty years after they left, the aliens return - and this time they’re not feeling generous. They’re back to take possesion of the Earth, and Diana’s the only human left who knows how to stop them.
Unfortunetly. If the aliens don’t kill her, her own terrible debts just might.
A DEBT TO THE STARS
The Little Queen
“Readers will fall in love with Anthony and his Little Queen.” KIRKUS
They created her, then stole her reason to live: her family.
But when the Little Queen, a mother without a hive, adopts Anthony, a grieving boy, she will sacrifice anything to save what she finds: a new family, frightening and wonderful.
From his birth mother Anthony inherits a bee hive—and the power to speak with bees. When she dies, her hive slips into ruin. Then he discovers the Little Queen, a remarkable bee fleeing a mysterious past, who takes charge of Anthony's hive and resurrects it, profoundly changed. But the future they are building is threatened by pursuers who want ownership of the Little Queen, and of everything she represents.
Smoke in the Valley
Now available, the next book in the Little Queen’s series, a novella expanding her world with new
heroes and old frinds. Get it here.
The Einstein Object
Some enemies we make, and some we inherit.
When 12 year old Preston discovers the programming language that powers Einstein's theory of relativity, he inherits a terrible enemy from his long dead grandfather, a crone who will stop at nothing to regain what she has lost.
When sixth grade starts, a mysterious course in computer programming injures Preston's hands and puts him into a coma. He misses months of school and when he returns, he finds the world somehow altered. His old friends avoid him. The only people who like him now are strange kids from the programming club. And though his inexplicable new skills in Algebra are useful, he’s started having nightmares that don’t add up: dark matter is missing from the universe, and his neighborhood overrun by Dark Folk…
"... an edge-of-your seat storyline ..." - Publishers Weekly (BookLife Prize 2023)
“A dark, middle school fairy tale -read it!” - Amazon