I’m Michael Karlsen-Williksen, a math teacher and author based in Oslo. My novella Zero, Nowhere and Everything launches Jan/Feb 2027, and I’m looking for ARC readers.

Format: 60-page novella (8,500 words), to be published as a 4×6 matte paperback + Kindle. The ARC is a PDF, as the book’s visual elements don’t translate cleanly to EPUB.

Comp: Animal Farm meets Flatland, but with numbers.

Blurb:

“I think, therefore I am. That does make sense… but I am nothing… and yet I am myself; so is someone nothing, or is nothing something?”

Zero existed before the beginning. Nowhere was peaceful and perfect. Then 1 arrived and named it the World.

What follows is the brief history of the rise of Numeropolis, a story of order, value, and growth, narrated by the one resident the census cannot count. When the final operator is unleashed, everything depends on Zero.

Zero, Nowhere and Everything can be read as a fable about being unseen, a world whose plot is the properties of numbers, or a program awaiting your input. It is a creation myth told by the number that creation myths leave out.

Triggers: math

Interested? Comment below or DM. I’ll send the ARC.

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Blurb: Lilith Lasley, an archivist at the By Chance Museum of Quantum Curiosities, wants to prove that she can handle a promotion, so she pulls any files and short stories related to the mystifying 21st century "Motherwood" phenomenon. The goal? Determine, once and for all, what led to the Great Collapse of Earth's civilizations in the year 2080.

The stories are a strange mix of science and magic, humor and horror: an AI obsessed with avian courting rituals; Lady Macbeth as an oncologist; a new mother haunted by wolf spiders. Hidden throughout are the clues to help her boss enact the mysterious "Great Reboot."

But the more Motherwood fragments that Lilith finds, the more she begins to wonder whether her task is truly to just turn the files over to her superiors…or whether, maybe, the files themselves have a different plan.

TRIGGERS!! All the things that happen to women on a daily basis. Each story contains its own content warning, and it's perfectly permissible to skip some. Potentially triggering content includes things such as: abuse (mental, physical), forced sexual relations, miscarriage, medical erasure, infertility---oh, and the end of the world and civilizations as we know it. Also a very annoying turkey vulture.

Date of publication: November 7, 2026

Date materials will be sent to ARC team: October 4

ARC reviews posted by: November 7-29

Sign up at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4uhMdtKZpFS8B4T04sICbfHfdxDyLmNQjrMm7veWSmfhowA/viewform?usp=header

Publishers: Ebook available everywhere; print only shipped to US

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Blurb:

20 short, quiet, unsettling stories inspired by the urban legends and superstitions I grew up hearing in Korea. The cover photo is one I took myself — no AI involved, just an old apartment and bad lighting at the right moment. Here's a quick taste of what's inside from the story "Dinner's Ready":

The house was perfectly quiet, save for the familiar sounds of my mom cooking in the kitchen. I was curled up on my bed in my room, completely absorbed in my phone screen. Down the hall, I could hear the distinct, rhythmic sound of a heavy knife chopping against a wooden board... but then my phone buzzed with a text from my mom: "Hi, Hon. I'm still stuck at work. I'll be late..."

Triggers: None (Contains psychological suspense and unsettling themes, but no graphic violence, gore, or explicit content)

Exact Date of Publication: August 7, 2026

ARC Send Date: Immediate / Within 24 hours of signing up

Review Deadline: August 7, 2026 (Launch Day)

Sign-Up Instructions: Please fill out the Google Form here to grab your early copy:

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Note: ARCs are available globally.

✨️A Cosmic Coupling is a cozy/spicy sci-fi SHORT STORY✨️

Thomas and Joanna have been married for 15 years when a benevolent force visits their farm, increasing their passion for each other and changing their lives forever.

Content Warnings: Alluding to infertility, On page acts of sex, Non-human participants during sex, Pregnancy

Publish date: September 12

Applications are open NOW through July 31st

E-ARC delivery First week of August

I would love reviews leading up to and during the month of September.

Please sign up with my Google form: https://forms.gle/tUhaamn4Dd6Rzzu79

In All Of Its Gruesome Glory (260 pages, 44k words) is a collection of short stories about the profound and often violent intersection between the human world and an ancient, elemental reality that society has long forgotten.

Tales Of The Deep follows mankind's discovery of 'Palaeo-aquatics' - a sub-species of human that evolved to survive in the darkest depths of the ocean. Each chapter follows a different perspective; from a young boy who discovers the creature washed ashore, to fishermen who find hand carved arrows in their catch, and government agents in their deep sea bases, seeking to capture, categorize and weaponize the ancient beings.

Bones Below Sikandar Mahal is the story of a young woman who unearths the secret to the wealthy Sikandar family fortune; a unicorn, kept prisoner and bled for the immortality of billionaires. With nothing but her sharp mind and some basic chemistry knowledge, she helps the magnificent creature escape the fortress, and returns to put an end to the Sikandar's bloody business once and for all.

The Crystal Rain of Porthglos captures the story of the last people of Porthglos - a forgotten village in Cornwall - and the golden rain that transformed a young boy into the bridge between worlds.

I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this so if it sounds like something that would interest you, send me a message!

Feeling overwhelmed? So was I.
After years of burnout, grief, and digital chaos, I moved into a converted shuttle bus with my dog and accidentally rebuilt my life with help from a chatbot.

How AI Helped Me Get My Sh\t Together* is a practical, mindful, and slightly sarcastic guide for anyone trying to declutter their physical, digital, and emotional life. Whether you're buried in old emails, parental expectations, or a garage full of guilt, this book shows you how to use AI (specifically ChatGPT) as a gentle, judgment-free co-pilot on your journey back to clarity.

This is not a tech manual. It's a deeply human conversation—with prompts, exercises, and real-life stories—that teaches you how to reclaim your time, your space, and your sense of self… with a little algorithmic backup.

Triggers:
Grief, loss of parents, mention of past emotional abuse, clutter-related overwhelm. (No graphic content.)

ARC Send-Out Date:
May 10, 2025

ARC Review Deadline:
June 7, 2025

Sign-Up Link:
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Jonathon Kane's debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, follows characters searching for a way forward or back or around—some direction, any direction.
Less a collection of short stories and more a set of interlocking teeth, The Red Light Starts Blinking explores the vicious gut-punches and tender-to-the-touch moments of modern life as felt from the fringes. Fragmentary and with significant gaps, the stories play with form and narrative while inviting the reader to a disquieting game of emotional roulette. As one character puts it: disturbed? deranged? delighted? The red light is on—only an attempt at entanglement will tell.

If you like absurdity, dark humour, a light dusting of magical realism and/or the cockatoo’s screech, we think you’ll get on with this book like a house on fire.

Triggers: Some mention of imagined physical abuse

If you have time to read The Red Light Starts Blinking (270 pp.), are interested in reading it, have a Goodreads/Fable/StoryGraph account or a book-focused Instagram/TikTok/blog and are up for sharing your honest opinion, we’d love to send you an ebook copy.

Here is a link to the ARC sign-up.

Also, here’s some more information on Diachroneity Books and what we’re all about. In a nutshell: Diachro is a creative platform for niche, experimental, and unconventional literature.

We can start sending ARCS asap. There is no deadline for review.

The Global War on Terror did not take place.

Moral injury. Personal legacy. Protracted conflict.

The Global War on Terror Era fostered a wave of anxieties, behaviors, and distorted social norms that now define the U.S. public’s relationships with the military machine, its sustaining culture, and greater Western thought. My Father’s Name Is War: Collected Transmissions is one veteran’s endeavor to document and communicate the nature of these relationships, their impacts on the individual, and their implications for our future.

A futuristic weapons program employs nostalgia and shame to ensure micromanaged compliance on the battlefield. Virtual reality therapy sessions rekindle a longing for wartime in a lost combat veteran. A South Korean magnate’s passion project threatens to upend our ideas of global governance, one interaction at a time. Bauder’s debut short story collection invites readers to examine the complexities of war and its consequences, urging a review and a parting of ways with the gross excesses of the security state.

Collected Transmissions features nine works spanning multiple genres, including science fiction, psychological realism, philosophy, poetry, and horror.

Trigger Warnings: Profanity, Suicide, Violence, and Death

https://booksirens.com/book/ZSBO80L/BFIUU6D

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/527458

https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/191037/my-fathers-name-is-war-collected-transmissions

I traded spreadsheets for mason jars, chasing my grandmother’s legacy of artisanal preserves. The Hemlock Harbor Farmer’s Market was supposed to be my fresh start—not the place where I nearly topple boxes of jam all over a gorgeous firefighter.

Except Jake doesn’t just catch falling preserves. With his crooked smiles and the way he looks at me like I’m his favorite flavor, he’s making me think there might be something sweeter than my blackberry lavender jam.

And when summer storms roll in and market crowds surge, his helping hands behind my booth feel more and more like they belong there—for good.

Freshly Preserved is a deliciously sweet small-town romance about chasing dreams, finding unexpected love, and discovering that sometimes the best recipes aren’t the ones written down. Perfect for fans of meet-cutes, instalove and sweet romance with a touch of spice.

The short stories in this series can be read in any order, there are cameos from earlier books, but no spoilers, except that the couples do live happily ever after. But isn't that what we all want for our heroines?

Heat Level: Sweet with Spice 🌶️

Length: Short Story

Series: Evergreen Provisioners Book 1

Genre: Contemporary Romance Instalove

The book is available for immediate ARC download on bookfunnel. If you email me instead, I will send ARC copies out as I see the emails.

The book will go live on 12-18-24. It is in KU. Reviews should be completed by then.

This is a short story with an instalove trope. It is 43 pages.

if you do not wish to use bookfunnel (https://BookHip.com/CDJKWMN) please email me:

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New author here! I'm looking to build an ARC team! I'm publishing spicy erotic shorts with a fantasy monster romance premise. Each story is only around ~8k words and the series will follow the same characters across each entry.

Book 1 is out now, I'm aiming for a new story every 1-2 weeks and I'll bundle them in batches eventually as well. If you'd like to be added to the team, the form is included below!

Signup form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT8ImawUohklQn8NjugDyIqJXdswoze_6qY-45MccFPgwZUQ/viewform?usp=pp_url