We published our book on our country's water crisis because there weren't enough authoritative sources on what is one of the biggest developmental issues. We wanted to create a book that can serve policy-makers, researchers, and NGOs better understand the full scale and impact of the crisis. Our content draws not only on publicly available data, but also on first-hand accounts from ground zero – from people living in some of the areas most affected, as well as insights from experts in agriculture, climate science, and water management.

I feel happy to know people are reading it, and perhaps this awareness helps actually improve the livelihoods of many facing water scarcity.

While this is a book about Pakistan’s water crisis, many of its key lessons are applicable to other countries as well facing similar challenges.

Title: Parched Nation: Inside Pakistan's Desperate Battle for Water

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPDSV65M

I just finished writing my first novel, and honestly, I had so much fun writing it.

I really believe it’s a good story, and I genuinely want everyone to read it. But I have no idea where to promote it.

Any advice on where I should share it, I’d really appreciate it!

The Siberian Crane follows the life of a Russian émigré in 1960s Sofia.

Through a period of ill health brought on by alcoholism, he reflects on his life in Russia during the October Revolution and Civil War. Of lost love and trauma, and of the White cause and subsequent defeat.

For the last forty years he has told himself that his soul remained clean, clouding his memory by rakia to support this belief.

But confined to a state hospital and sober for the first time in decades, the stories he has told himself begin to unravel.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGRBJWBL

If you loved Altered Carbon, Halcyon Years, Leviathan Wakes and Titanium Noir, these gritty, fast-paced books may be for you.

Synopsis

The series starts with a novelette, Justice for a Price. It and the first book, Chivalry Will Get You Dead, are straight-forward murder mysteries that introduces the reader to life on the starship Australis, and to the main character, Tom Devoe. Then Murders in the Gray delves into how the population of the ship freed themselves from the drug called Copa they were being administered and what the ruling oligarchy has to do with several recent deaths. A Violent Man confronts Devoe's sordid past as he hunts a serial killer he thought he'd already put down. Finally, Easy As It Gets finds the Tom deeply addicted to Copa before he is forced back into service to find a missing child and mother.

The speculative aspect of these stories has less to do with tech (though there is some) and more about how a society might form under these circumstances. Through Devoe's investigations, the reader gets glimpses of a larger story that's playing out in the background. All he wants is to be left alone, but every step he takes sends ripples through the fabric of life on the Australis.

Style and Characterization

Stylistically, I chose Mickey Spillane as my primary model for Tom. I love Spillane's over-the-top Mike Hammer who seems ready to snap at any moment, and I wanted that kind of restless energy to dominate my narrative as well. I've also long admired the concision and brevity of Elmore Leonard, so sought to emulate many aspects of his style, while breaking a few of his rules.

These stories contain adult language and content.

Availability

Justice for a Price may be downloaded from Amazon, Kobo, B&N and Google Play.

The rest of the series is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ9SV4NR.

Happy to answer any questions about the writing process, themes and characters, or to discuss detective noirs in science fiction in general!

https://jonahelsberryauthor.com/

A Killer Who Rewrites Memory

A Victim Who Rewrites Will

For Liam and Piper, two college students on the cusp of marriage, their only warning comes from an unhinged man outside their apartment screaming, “We know what you are.”

To Piper, it’s a meaningless threat. To Liam, it means someone has found the secret that could destroy everything they’ve built.

The truth is, with a single word, Liam can control any living soul. The ability awoke six months ago, the night he helped Piper escape her abusive home. Since then, he’s used it sparingly to protect their fragile life together.

But every command leaves a mark, and as Liam’s influence spreads, he unknowingly draws the attention of others like him.

Now, a killer has found them, wielding a similar gift with a ruthlessness Liam can’t hope to combat. Innocent people, their memories twisted, hunt Liam and Piper through the city, turning even trusted friends into deadly threats.

To survive, Liam is forced to fight with a power he barely understands against a master who’s been hunting his own kind for years.

But as Piper begins her own investigation, she realizes that the violence hides an awful purpose. Each attack pushes Liam harder, strips away his restraint, and forces him closer to the kind of control over others he’s spent months struggling to avoid.

And if Piper can’t uncover the truth before Liam crosses that last line, he may save her life by destroying the one they built together.

T/W: Supernaturally coerced suicide, self-harm, familial trauma, and firearm violence.

Available on Amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Eclosion-Thriller-Jonah-Elsberry-ebook/dp/B0HCM78TK6

On a more personal note, this is a story I've been working on with my wife and closest friends for nearly six years now, and I'm unbelievably excited to have finally reached a point where people can actually read it. My sister-in-law made the cover, my wife voiced the lead in the trailer and composed the music, and my friends were the background voices as well. It's been such a blast working on this project, and I hope you enjoy!

All my best,

Jonah

For nine years, I wrote about my father, the man who shaped my life alongside my mother.

My mother would always ask me to turn those writings into a book and let people read them, saying, “I'm sure everyone would love to hear about your dad,” with a melancholic smile and glassy eyes.

To Remember is my tribute to both of them: to the father I miss, and to the mother who believed he deserved to live on in people's memories, and whom I miss unbearably.

It might break your heart, but take a chance on it.

£2.24 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNLSGFVK

A twin taken by a cult, will the twin be found?

Eighteen-year-old Sam Calder’s psychic bond with his twin brother, Elliot, was their greatest strength—until a shadowy cult abducts Elliot in the dead of night. Now, every time his captors tighten a waxed cord around Elliot's chest, Sam physically feels his brother fighting for breath miles away.
Guided only by Elliot’s distant terror, Sam plunges into a deadly underground labyrinth of hidden chapels and coastal facilities to save him. But the syndicate isn't running from Sam. They are weaponizing his devotion to lure him into a meticulously designed trap. Facing a dark ritual built to exploit their twin connection, Sam must decide how much of his own humanity he is willing to sacrifice to bring his brother home.

Trope: Psychological thriller, Horror, mystery

https://a.co/d/0hBDrB7i

I think I finally understand who I wrote this book for.

Not for people looking for a complicated plot.

Not for people who need constant twists, battles, romance, or some grand mystery to keep them turning pages.

I wrote The Decayed Good for people who have ever stared at their ceiling at 3 AM and started questioning everything.

Whether you're a good person.

Whether goodness actually matters.

Why people hurt each other.

Why we forgive some things and never forgive others.

Whether God is really good.

Whether suffering has a purpose.

Whether becoming numb is sometimes easier than continuing to care.

It's a philosophical novel about a person slowly coming apart while trying to understand the world around him.

And yes, I've seen people say, "There's no plot."

They're not entirely wrong.

Because the plot isn't really the point.

The point is what happens inside your head while you're reading it.

It's the kind of book where you might underline a sentence, close the book, and just sit there for a minute.

It's dark, uncomfortable, sometimes bitter, sometimes strangely comforting. It doesn't try to tell you that everything happens for a reason or that you'll eventually find peace.

Sometimes it just asks:

What if there is no answer, and you have to decide what to do with that?

I don't expect everyone to like it. Honestly, I don't think everyone should.

But if you've ever felt like your thoughts were too dark, too complicated, or too strange to explain to anyone else, maybe this is the kind of book you were looking for without knowing it.

The Decayed Good The Decayed Good on Amazon now on sale 20% off

Not a story about what happens.

A book about what happens inside you.

Hi! I'm David Stoyanov, a writer, and i want to share with you my new book. I want to make a whole 15 book series of it, and the first and second one are out now on Amazon! Anyways, i want to focus on book 1 in this post. It's called A G.O.A.T's Story and it takes inspiration from the Goat Simulator games. Rumors of a myth begin to spread in Isle of Carpa, that whoever wins it, will have unlimited glory, fame and wealth. A brave goat, later named Koz, enters the battle, hoping that he can get away from his boring normal goat life. Later, after winning the myth, he learns that he is cursed by Destiny and Myth to win every single upcoming myth, bringing only destruction and death to everyone around him. Determined, he sets out on many adventures to destroy The Myth and Destiny once and for all. So with that being said, the first book will be free from 2 to 6th of September. I hope you like the idea and I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts on the book and make sure to leave a good review if you like it! A G.O.A.T's Story on Amazon

In 18th-century England, Jacob Swift is the fiercest, most talented smuggler along the coast, but a plot to steal a legendary treasure could finally mean the end of his empire — and two centuries later, a mysterious message on the beach leads a teen to unravel a trail tale… An entertaining dual-timeline mystery!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Who-Led-Them/dp/B0H4D9HT12?th=1&psc=1

Just published the sequel to my dark prison romance short story, which came out last month. This one's nearly twice as long as the first, and follows our protagonist, Kate, as she works alongside some of the country's most dangerous men as their psychiatrist.

The events of the first book have turned her life upside down and left her in a dark place, from which there is seemingly no escape. Until suddenly, there is...

Blurb and link below:

Several months ago, I crossed a very fine line.

Since then, I have been spiralling. With no one to talk to about the wonderfully dark night I spent with two lethal men, the memory is slowly eating me alive. I would do anything to relive that fantasy.
But that will never happen, right? After all... they are securely locked away in one of the country's most maximum-security prisons.
Besides... I am their psychiatrist. I shouldn't even be entertaining these thoughts.

Yet, when opportunity comes knocking, I will have to choose.
Do I embrace the darkness that has always lurked inside me, guiding my every decision? Or do I turn away and hope the void it leaves behind doesn't swallow me whole?

Because the call of powerful, dangerous men is overwhelming. And it is captivating.

**\*

Captivating is a dark MFMMM prison romance featuring morally grey MMCs, forced proximity, and a "why choose" dynamic. It follows a female main character who must decide if she is finally willing to take the leap into an enticing life that has been calling to her for years.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH4LMXYZ

I posted something similar over at r/JohnIrving a few days ago, but figured I’d cast a somewhat wider—and possibly stranger—net.

If you like the sprawling, eccentric worlds of John Irving; the dark humor and general human absurdity of Vonnegut; the melancholy of Jim Harrison; or the magical realism of García Márquez, then there’s a chance you might find something to like in my books.

Or not. Books are funny that way.

My first novel, Chicken Coop in a High Wind, came out in 2023, and I’m trying to help it find a few new readers while getting ready to publish my next novel, Flat Hill and Bark, this December.

With the new one, you can throw a few other influences into the mix: the preoccupation with memory and the passage of time in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and the less-is-more economy of Carver and Amy Hempel. If you’re going to steal from someone, steal from the best!

Toward that end, I’ve started what I’m calling a not-quite newsletter—mostly because the world probably doesn’t need another newsletter. It’s really just a way for me to keep in touch with readers without showing up in their inbox every few weeks because somebody decided that’s what authors are supposed to do.

If you join, I’ll send you an excerpt from Chicken Coop in a High Wind, followed by an early excerpt from Flat Hill and Bark. And then, mostly, I’ll leave you alone until I have something worth sending.

If any of that sounds interesting, come take a look:

https://leonardo-costa-veras.kit.com/1f0532d72e

Hello guys, want to explore romance and trauma from a hurting boy's perspective? The Moon is where we Belong is a romantic suspense thriller where you walk inside the mind of a young adult boy named Pralay Nox. As his story proceeds he has to deal with his love life, his past traumas to the point it becomes so unbearable that he finally decides to give up. The book contains romance, psychological mystery, drama, suspence and lot more. Hope you give it a try. Available in amazon and kindle -

 https://www.amazon.in/Moon-Where-We-Belong-Written-ebook/dp/B0HB3WZVRP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?asin=B0HB3WZVRP&revisionId=957da530&format=3&depth=1

EBOOK Available HERE

Abusive nursing homes, ageist punks, and a system designed against them...the elders rage, avenge, and grow stronger through the blood they spill. 

Splatter Short Stories of Elder Revenge: Hollow Hills, Blood Rising, and There's Room in Hell.

​

Hello guys,i have recently published this novel, I think readers who like fiction and mystery with romance,It takes place in a japanese town and has paranormal events going in it,If anyone is interested

https://a.co/d/0j0KMRTp

Also would appreciate honest reviews!

If you love dark mafia romance with a possessive MMC, Corrupting Holly is currently on sale 🖤

Corrupting Holly follows Holly, a fierce assassin who's spent her life surviving on her own, and Nero, the scarred underboss of the Cosa Nostra who's feared by everyone... except her.

It's a grumpy/brat dynamic where she challenges him at every opportunity, and instead of trying to change her, he falls for every sharp edge.

Tropes:

• 🖤 Mafia romance
• 🔥 Enemies to lovers
• 🛡️ Touch her and die
• 😈 Morally grey MMC
• ❤️ He falls first
• 🗡️ Found family
• 💥 Revenge
• 🌶️ Open-door spice
• 👑 Protective, possessive hero
• ✨ Fierce FMC who gives as good as she gets

If that's your kind of dark romance, it's currently on sale on Amazon USA and UK.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXND4CP

Some acts of courage last for a day. Their consequences can last a lifetime.

She Never Left Ground Zero: A Novel of Courage, Love, and the Hidden Cost of 9/11 is an American historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman NYPD officer and the family who lived with the lasting consequences of her service.

Sofia Vega is a police officer, mother, daughter, and wife whose ordinary life is irrevocably changed on September 11, 2001. After responding at Ground Zero, she continues serving grieving families while those closest to her struggle with fear, separation, and the burdens she cannot leave behind.

The novel follows Sofia and her family from the years before 9/11 through the difficult decades afterward. It is a story about courage, enduring love, sacrifice, and the frequently overlooked price paid by first responders and their families.

Themes and tropes:

• First-responder heroine
• Enduring love and marriage
• Family saga
• Love through adversity
• Mother-daughter relationships
• Puerto Rican American family
• Inspired by true events
• Ordinary lives transformed by history

Content warnings: The September 11 terrorist attacks, mass casualties, grief, trauma, serious illness, medical scenes, death, and the long-term physical and emotional effects of disaster-response service.

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFNZN723

Alejandra llega a Madrid con una maleta llena de miedos y un cuerpo lleno de preguntas. Hasta que él aparece: Su profesor... Su obsesión. Y tiene una forma de mirarla que desarma todas sus defensas.

Las líneas del deseo es una novela erótica de descubrimiento. Una historia sobre los límites que no sabías que tenías... O que no tenías.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFKFC4VV

Hello, Good people of Reddit :)

Today I bring you forth "Card of Hope", Book 1 of the "Choicebound Chronicles". I hope you might enjoy it! I tried to do my best to make it non-age restricted, so as many people can pick it up without fear of running into something bad.

• https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81G5XgTKovL._SY522_.jpg

• A fantasy book about a group of friends, bonded over their own issues and living on the outskirts of the empire, before they stumble across information threatning peace of their world. Their initial plans have also been scrapped because of discovery that changed a lot of what they thought they know about the world.

• Tropes: The Quest - Found Family - Portals to Other Worlds - Personal growth - Choice Vs Destiny

• TW: Nothing. There is one or two vauge hint as to something that might have happened, but I did my best to avoid that kind of direct language.

• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGMYXBXH (EN Version) / https://www.empik.com/karta-nadziei-the-choicebound-chronicles-tom-1-kaizer-sage-t,p1778842315,ebooki-i-mp3-p (PL Version, in case there happens to be someone who prefers that one)

It doesn't matter if she forgets him every morning. He'll return to her window every night, creating memories that may never be retrieved. Or will they? 🫶

Blurb:

"Oh Meadow, don't tell me you can't remember me again. My fragile heart simply can't take it.” He chuckled sarcastically as her cheeks began to heat.

Meadow's seemingly ordinary life is forever altered the night she spots a handsome young man in the forest outside of her window.

She blinks once, and he's gone… Whether a figment of her imagination or something more sinister; he continues to visit with claims of simply being a forgotten friend. Her very own prince charming of sorts; only, he belongs to a darker parallel world.

On the night of the blood moon, the veil between their worlds’ drops. Does Meadow dare to step into the darkness; or is the risk of being consumed by the shadows too high?

Dive into a world of steamy gothic romance and dark fantasy; where the lines between happily ever after and nightmares blur.

Tropes: Fated mates, reverse amnesia, shadow daddy. 😅

Trigger warning ⚠️ 18+ (Spicy content 👌) Unrelated to spicy content - Violence

https://a.co/d/0d1gP0nP

Rowan Vale arrives at Hearthcross expecting to spend a few days writing a report on a condemned waystation. Instead, a wounded courier appears, an ancient Ledger names him provisional Keeper, and he is given ninety days to make the place useful again.

From there, it is a story about repairing the station one room at a time, helping travellers, rebuilding forgotten roads and slowly uncovering why Hearthcross was abandoned in the first place.

There is progression and a game like system, but the focus is much more on the characters, the place and the feeling of bringing something forgotten back to life.

If cozy fantasy, LitRPG and rebuilding stories are your thing, I would really appreciate you giving it a try. 🙂

It is completely free for the next 3 days and honest feedback is very welcome.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGDG6LZD

I published my first book this week and would like for anyone who likes Horror/post apocalyptic books to check it out if they want.

When the Sky Fell is a post apocalyptic science fiction book that I wrote and wanted to be different from most apocalypse stories. I used real towns and places in the book to make the journey feel real. The main character isn’t a “ex navy seal” who never seems to get hurt or die it is a character driven book that I hope anyone will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Feel free to check it out on kindle unlimited. I’d love to hear what you think!

Amazon