Darkness is falling across mystic Azdia. Soon, all of life will stop glowing with light. Soon, the trees will no longer spring to life. Even the mighty feldroes will cease to roam the forests. Already, many lumens, the shape-shifting caretakers of Azdia, have lost faith in their provider and protector, the mysterious Mr. Thicket. The only hope for the creatures of Azdia are the awaited chosen ones sent from another world called Earth.Del Ryder and her thre...

A wildly entertaining collection of interconnected stories filled with monsters, myth, and personal mysteries – blending speculative and crime fiction – that reflects our fractured yet shared global reality in which borders blur, consequences ripple, and no one and no story exists in isolation.Every story follows a distinct agent of the Speculative Detective Agency as they confront cases that defy conventional logic: haunted environments that resist documentation, ...

Del Ryder leads the Company of Light on a quest across the sea to the most ancient parts of Azdia, hoping their mission will bring them closer to discovering how to defeat the darkness. The Heir of Mordlum, bent on finding the powerful Crystal Seeds, has assembled an army larger than anyone's imagining. Can Del and her friends trust Mr. Thicket enough to stand against such a vast and terrible fighting force?Find out in Book 3 of the Del Ryder Series: Del Ryder and the Emerald S...

Del Ryder and her best friend, Sam, need help if they are going to face off against the forces of darkness. Their best hope lies with Eleanor, who, in a different age, brought hope and light to the land of Azdia. When Eleanor is captured, Del defies the odds and sets off on a rescue mission which takes them to the brink of disaster. Will Del be able to free Eleanor before the mysterious Heir of Mordlum corrupts not only the entire realm, but also Del’s best friends?This is book 2 i...

This book is a philosophical experiment in thinking, feeling, and willing beyond the transcendental threshold of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. It draws inspiration from the organic process philosophies of F. W. J. Schelling and A. N. Whitehead to articulate a descendental aesthetic ontology showing the way across the epistemological chasm that Kant's critiques hewed between knowledge and reality. This descendental inversion of Kantian transcendentalism aims to bridge the ch...

Welcome to the wild west. It's a little different than you might think.Necromancers are in high demand. There's a lot of people who want the dead revived to work off the debts they owed, and slave labor like that is a cheaper avenue than creating a "patchwork"—otherwise known as a Frankenstein's monster.But Necromancer Haze isn't interested in using his power to magic the dead back to life. He and his gun-toting zombie partner in crime, Ern Shining, are far more interested ...

Darkness has fallen across all of Azdia. Soon, all of life will stop glowing with light. The tress have lost their life. Even the mighty feldroes have ceased to roam freely. Most of the lumens, the shape-shifting caretakers of Azdia, have been destroyed or enslaved. The only hope for the creatures of Azdia are the awaited chosen ones sent from another world called Earth.The problem is Del Ryder has decided she never wants to go back. She feels like it’s all her fault that ...

"Since the beginning they've played our hearts a deceitful game, a pinch that catches fire or scatters in the wind.But oh, to watch it build, to hear its rhythm, can count the steps.From the moment that girl caught his eye, her voice his ear, he was taken.Something so familiar, those cries silenced in his mind.In a flash of memories caught in time for eternity reflecting in the distance see clearly what you've found in love."This is a work of fiction...

Two men meet to discuss common enterprise."On the trails hunting with my father he once struck me peculiar. His anecdotes always of treachery, but that time he did his best to explain that which erodes with power and the consequence of being pitted against one another. He'd always shot clean but this time aimed for the lung. I remember it tasting particularly like hell and he said it was, 'so the animal could have a few more moments in the world.' We'd tracked the poor thing to whe...

"...the enduring light in the absorbing collection is love." Kirkus Reviews#irl is a ravishing and provocative odyssey across the landscape of life. Matthew David Wachsman's collection of poems is a full-throated celebration of our ability to love, reason, cure, support and honor each other. It is also an unflinching exploration of why we can and must do better. He inspires us to believe in ourselves while laying out the possible implications of our failure to act. These poems are ...

Get your superhero game on with this humorous guide to preparing for a life of fighting evil—a must-read for comic book fans.The government provides manuals for new home-owners and new motor vehicle operators, but what's a new superhero to do? Ka-POW! The Government Manual for New Superheroes rushes in to save the day!The Government Manual for New Superheroes is a hilarious, mock-official handbook that offers thorough, accessible, and comp...

There be no callin' 'dibs' in piratin'. Booty be divided among the crew, from the lowest deckswabber to the highest masthand. So says the Pirate Code." —Calico Jack Rackham, king of the pirates* Enjoy a witty mock-official handbook for potential pirates and plunderers.Matthew David Brozik and Jacob Sager Weinstein continue to spoof those uber-utilitarian survival and how-to guides by offering this pithy pirating primer for budding buccaneers. This treasure trove of Pirate C...