Was that the end of global budget travel?Relive edgy tales and deep reflections, with vicarious journeys to exotic locales around the world. Digging deep through midlife dreams, time to bust out and see the world. Traveling light, keeping warm, threading past crowds, to temporary tribe, spirit paths, home.

Northern Quebec, 1964. Mountie Jack McLain, baffled by a series of unsolved murders, knows the latest case will make or break his career. Eighteen-year-old Nilliq, chafing under the sullen power of her father in a remote hunting camp, risks flight with a headstrong shaman bent on a mission of his own. Their paths intersect in this tense mystery charting a journey of personal and cultural transformation.

Learning the Curve - A Simple Guide to Self-Publishing gives you an overview of the current options available to any author in today's publishing landscape. Learn what is required to publish with traditional print publishers, as well as the most popular new formats: Kindle or epub, and Print-on-Demand with Amazon's KDP platform.

What is stopping us from practicing our human future now?Beyond the old paradigm of false narratives and party politics, we walk in natural law of nature, culture, spirit.An empowering deep dive for free thinkers, righteous rebels, and awaking activists, Nowick Gray's essays from The New Agora (2020-21) paint visions of our creative sovereignty.

Sweet inspirations, wisdom and beauty close at hand.Haiku poems on nature, love, world issues, spirit, plus attractive nature photos. Crystalizing truth, each word sculpture stands naked to the world.These runes, caught dancing in the void, speak our soul connection to the earth and those who came before… the family of life, watching, waiting.

Sweet inspirations, wisdom and beauty close at hand.Haiku poems on nature, love, world issues, spirit, plus attractive nature photos. Crystalizing truth, each word sculpture stands naked to the world.These runes, caught dancing in the void, speak our soul connection to the earth and those who came before… the family of life, watching, waiting.

Midlife crisis, his life’s dreams at an early end, it was time to bust out and see the world.Nowick Gray sets out with backpack and drum to find out what he’s been missing. Tropical warmth, better health, inner peace… He scours Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Latin America for that perfect beach, a new tribe, a winter home. Will ayahuasca heal his woes, or an ayurvedic cleanse? Beset by desperate touts on an abandoned Bali shore, he knows he’s a dying breed: the l...

A collection of love poems for her, a woman, a spirit called zen. What is love? At times romance, infatuation, metaphysical longing. Love hurts when unrequited, satisfies when it fills from within, reflected in nature's unconditional beauty.The haiku here follow the 5-7-5 syllable form.

Edging Spain, southern France, and Portugal, a midlife couple tracks landscapes between bliss and burnout, art and love. After the rigors of wild camping, a Formentera cottage offers cozy comfort, honeymoon bliss, creative freedom. Noella sketches in watercolor, while Wilson skirts the boundaries of the postmodern novel. Amid the wild and picturesque beauty of landscape and sea, the refuge becomes a crucible of creative and romantic tension. Will it yield despair and separation—or, through...

The Last Book departs from Thomas Mann’s last, unfinished novel and propels its hero into the speculative waters of time travel, alternative history, and a dystopian future.When precocious 19th-century con-man Felix Krull is recruited by an astral-traveling presidential candidate, Sophie Vaughan, he embarks on a quest across time to find her and prove his mettle on a world stage. His daredevil joyride through ’70s middle America tests his powers of persuas...

A spin under the new VR headgear sends programmer Joe Norton into fictional territory: an AI game of tough love, mind control, and true choices. At stake are Norton’s relationships, career and sanity. He has a new mission to fulfill—but his gift-wrapped scope rifle came with no instructions, no target or source, only a single bullet.Norton chases red herrings into dimensional cul-de-sacs, seeks escape, and is tangled tighter in the net. Is the only way out, to go f...

Life's adventure can be a field of dreams, or a hopscotch of near disasters. A reckless but lucky serial survivor, Nowick Gray relates 66 personal tales of averted death, rewarded by 11 episodes of shaking hands with fame--chance encounters with cultural icons like Allen Ginsberg, Dizzy Gillespie, J. D. Salinger, Colin James.