I cannot believe that this zine has been going for a full year! Four issues of Scattered are now out there, scarring minds across the globe. >:) So far, we've published everything from cosmic horror to bizarro, from splatterpunk to gay werewolf erotica, and liminal to LGBTQ+ horror. It really has been a blast putting these little zines together and sending them out into the world. And I do not plan on stopping.Now we have the next issue of Scattered to kick off a whole new year of ...

"Rich in its contemporary setting, mythic parallel, and characters walking between the two, The Mourning Fields by David Beaumier stirs empathy and delivers catharsis." – Chanticleer Book Reviews"The Mourning Fields is real and raw and achingly relevant. A stunning debut and a gift to all willing to see they have a bit of dirt on their shoes." – HamLit Literary JournalWhen we romanticize unrequited love, what lessons do we teach?In these tragic retellings, ...

In this thrilling story from the world's #1 bestselling author, Thanksgiving takes a dark turn in this supernatural thriller where going home for the holidays can be murder.Joanie was dreading Thanksgiving with her family at their strange new house. And that was before she saw her brother Alan standing in the kitchen. It was hard to know what to say to him, seeing as he'd died five years ago ...BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James Pat...

*By the author of Anywhere With You, Ellie Palmer, this "cozy affirmation for introverts and homebodies" (Abby Jimenez) about a little white lie that spirals out of control is "the perfect romantic comedy" (Meredith Schorr)*.She found the right guy at the dead wrong time . . .**When thirty-year-old post-double-mastectomy BRCA1 carrier and reluctant thrill-seeker Alison Mullally arrives at her ex-boyfriend Sam’s funeral to discover that no one knows he dump...

A secret romance writer discovers that the hottest story of summer might just be the one happening between her and the Prime Minister’s bodyguard, from the international bestselling author of Set On You.Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she’s the no-nonsense, steadfast personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book,

The Laughbox contains SIX full-length novels so you can start all of New York Times bestselling romantic comedy author Julia Kent’s series.Get a taste of billionaires, small towns, rock stars, office romance, secret bosses, second chances, first crushes, enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, and so much more.Each series is wildly different from the others, with varying heat levels, different hijinks, but always, always - a heartwarming world you want to liv...

Love can be murder, especially when your ex is a serial killer. Don’t miss this spicy new romantic suspense by New York Times, USA Today and Audible bestselling author Kylie Scott!Nothing prepared Sidney Walsh for the awkwardness of having unknowingly dated an infamous killer. She’s doing her best to move on after her ex got dragged off to jail. If only online amateur investigators, his creepy fans and a particularly belligerent cop would...

"The mystical and the romantic combine for a love story that also confronts the meaning of life" as a young man goes on quest for the elixir of life ( Entertainment Weekly).The morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad's lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but an alchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammy's death was sudden, yet he someho...

I found out I was pregnant on New Year’s Day… but Jack was already gone.He left Snowflake Creek to work for Doctors Without Borders in Africa. I never heard from him again.Years have passed, and little Luna is the joy of my world. I lead a simple life as a single mom, running my bakery. My delicious creations are loved by the whole town, and the Frosts welcome me and my daughter as family.But when Jack returns, it turns my whole world upsid...

A divorced professor and struggling author gets a dangerous amount of attention from one of her students in this dark and twisted psychological thriller—"Riveting, chilling, and page-turning. Be prepared to stay up all night" (Lisa Scottoline, New York Times –bestselling author)."Hauntingly realistic . . . A powerful critique of a superficial society in which only those with youth and beauty command notice." —

**“Beautifully crafted . . . the sentences in these stories are living and seamless, as if Lazarin had run her hand over them until they became smooth and gleaming with the evidence of her touch.” —Carmen Maria Machado, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women’s unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurface**In “Floor Plans,” a woman at the end of her marriage tests her power wh...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . . I loved every moment of this book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties**With raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In this debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons ill...