Author Spotlight: Antoine Monks about Heroless

Exile of the Heart is a deeply moving and lyrical memoir by journalist Rasheed Abou-Elsamh, chronicling a lifelong search for belonging across borders, languages, and faiths. Born into a diplomatic family, Rasheed …

Tortured Heart is a slow-burn, emotionally driven love story set in a modern fantasy world where ogres are shaped by war, exile, and rigid codes of honor. Grunt is a …

Lizzy Brendel’s debut collection The Human Condition Exhibition is an intimate, bruising walk through a young life remade by trauma, medicine, love, and rage — a sequence of short poems …

Steve Goldsmith’s Dear Dairy is an odd, tender, and frequently hilarious experiment in voice that wears its constraints proudly: each entry pairs a short, painfully specific slice of twelve-year-old Justin …

Mara Blake’s Modern Spirits is a warm, character-driven southern romance-thriller that folds family, identity, and a small Black queer community into an often tender, sometimes tense story about belonging and …

Is it possible to start over without carrying your old self with you? Margo hopes a semester abroad will be clean and uncomplicated — a fresh chapter after a painful …

Jeremy Bender — a part-time writer, full-time dad, and long-time student of religion and folklore — invites readers into Twin Rivers, a visceral, idea-driven novel where a theocratic city worships …

Jeremy Bender’s Twin Rivers opens on a city of immaculate marble, floating gardens and ritual spectacle and then peels that glossy veneer back to reveal the brittle politics and human …

Elba Kramer: The True Autobiography of a Pathological Liar is a raw, unsettling, and often darkly funny exploration of identity, memory, and survival, framed through the deliberately unreliable lens of …

Elain Hilton’s Tortured Heart plunges the reader into an uncompromising urban-fantasy landscape where ogres, vampires, witches, and fallen-angel bloodlines collide in blood and ash. The novel opens with Grunt—nicknamed Stonefist—holding …

Geoff Gibbins’s When AI Shops is a brisk, timely, and practically oriented exploration of what he calls “Human-AI Commerce” — the idea that buying and selling is being rebuilt as …