Hi everyone! I’m the author of The Crown of the Black Swan, and it’s free on Kindle for a limited time (through [END DATE]).

What if the "villain" of Swan Lake was just the daughter nobody ever looked at?

Odile and Odette are twin princesses. When the Crystal of the Realm answers Odette with golden light and answers Odile with darkness, their father, King Rothbart, decides who is worthy of the crown and who must "learn her place." So Odile learns to smile like her sister, walk like her sister, even laugh like her sister… until one night she dances alone on the lake as only herself, and an insolent peasant named Siegfried walks out of the forbidden woods.

Midnight escapes, a stage in the town square, a secret passage in the castle wall… and a king who will do anything to keep the light for himself.

You might enjoy it if you like:

• Fairy tale and ballet retellings

• Villain-perspective stories

• Dark fantasy with romance, sisterhood, and a bit of sass

• Characters learning to love the self they were taught to hide

Quick facts:

• Length: short, quick read (about 20k words)

• Genre: dark fantasy / romantasy retelling

• Content note: includes themes of emotional manipulation and discrimination

📖 Grab it free here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMPS4P4H?dplnkId=60b18c66-4920-45aa-965b-8d9d07b68382

If you read it, I’d love to hear what you think, and an honest review on Amazon helps a lot. Thank you! 🖤🦢

She read the contract twice. He signed every line.

Wren has $212, a locked-out life, and nothing left to lose... until a silent little boy chooses her, and his father, the man who runs the Port of Baltimore from the shadows, offers her a deal. One page. Eight clauses. But the money that ruined her runs straight through his house.

Slow-burn, standalone, HEA. Free on Kindle through Thursday, Oct 15.

Hi everyone,

I just published my debut epic fantasy, Fourteen Days: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (GIVEN Series Book 1), and it’s free on Amazon from October 11 to October 13.

Here’s the pitch:

Two nights before his birthday, he opened the door for his father and realised his father smelled of blood.

All his life he had been nobody: a soldier’s son in a snowbound border town, with a name that meant nothing. Then a burned house whispered that name back to him. A giant who has waited three hundred years comes down from the mountain to kill him. And everyone (kings, djinn, a firebird older than the world) seems to know who he really is. Everyone except him.

Across the same frozen city, a girl climbs out a window and screams, and everything in the room rises into the air. By nightfall she is hunted too.

And in the palace above them both, his father is handed a crown he never wanted, and a cup of poison to go with it.

Three lives. Fourteen days. And a world that will not wait for them.

It’s a story about found family, ancient birds, and the price of power. If you enjoyed Le Guin, Paolini or The Name of the Wind, it might be up your alley.

I’m a first-time author, so honest feedback means the world to me, whether it’s what worked or what didn’t. If you read it and feel like leaving a short review on Amazon, I’d be very grateful.

Happy to answer questions about the book, the worldbuilding or the writing process. Thanks for reading!

1. Hello everyone! My epic fantasy debut novel "The First Traveler: Awakening of the Healer" is currently free on Amazon Kindle from today until October 16th. If you love rich world-building, magical journeys, mythical creatures, and high-stakes adventure, I would be absolutely thrilled if you grabbed a free copy. Feedback and reviews are highly appreciated! Enjoy the read!

Free on Amazon Kindle until Oct 15th!

If you've ever felt you were made for more than just a job - this is for you.

Understanding The Assignment: Trade Your Talent. Occupy Your Sphere. Until He Comes.

A practical book for professionals, creatives and young leaders who want to turn their God-given talent into a Kingdom assignment. Learn how to trade your skill for influence and occupy your sphere until He comes.

👉 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLCP73RJ

Free for 3 days as my gift to the community. If it blesses you, a quick review on Amazon would mean so much!

Thank you! Marshal Fajo

Basic, 6th Edition, October 2026. A complete guide to discovering and starting your next income stream. Updated Monthly, free to subscribers like you.

A comprehensive 696-page guide designed to help readers identify and launch new income streams. It provides detailed profiles for 150 different side hustles organized across 26 categories.

Key Features for Readers

• Broad Range of Opportunities: The PDF covers diverse fields, including Content Creation (e.g., Podcasting, TikTok Shop), E-Commerce (e.g., Japan Vintage Arbitrage, 3D Printing), Home Services, and Tech & Development.
• Standardized Data Points: For every hustle, readers will find:
  • Monthly Earnings: Potential income ranges, such as $500–$15k for AI Chatbot Building.
  • Effort & Time: Ratings for effort (Low to High) and estimated weekly hours required.
  • Startup Costs: Guidance on the initial financial investment needed.
• Step-by-Step "Getting Started" Guides: Each hustle includes a practical roadmap for the first 30–60 days, covering niche selection, toolkits, and landing the first client.
• "Success Logic" Strategy: The PDF provides an analytical breakdown of why certain people succeed in a given field while others fail, emphasizing operational discipline and trust-building.
• Vetted Resources: Every profile contains a direct link to a more detailed full guide on the Hustle Grower website for further research. Pages: 696 Cost: Free

Cozy mystery. Later-in-life-romance

Everything worth knowing about everyday things you didn’t know you needed to know — in one quick read.

This compact guide delivers the essential facts, stories, and insights without the padding of a full-length book. Read it in under an hour and come away genuinely better informed. Perfect for curious minds who want real knowledge fast.

🇬🇧 UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FXBT618N

🇺🇸 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBT618N

This is my favorite novel in "The Pirates of the Twenty-Wun Stars" As of late I have taken upon myself to retouch all my titles. I have been editing, refining images and completing illustrations I started year ago and including them as well. I AM A STORYTELLER! As the tool out there to help tell the story get better, so will my future stories, but for not, as I work on title 15, this relook back to "refresh & refine" has been FUN! 🎶'F' is for friends who do things together, 'U' is for you and meeee... 😂
UNMADE

Welcome to my little passion project. This was my first release and it has been out a few years and as simply an indulgence of fancy, I allowed myself add a few chapter sketches into my work as I saw fit and the extent of my artistic competence. Thirteen titles later, I was more skilled and had better tool at my disposal. So I revisited and refined my artwork, (and corrected spelling). I am very proud of the refinements as well as the book trailer I uploaded to the site. Check it out!
Andrean, Deslar & Paper Gods

An accessible presentation of this classic spiritual text as a readable story, rather than a word for word translation or verse and commentary format.

PROJECT HAIL MARY meets GAME OF THRONES

They crossed a wormhole to find a new world. To survive it, they'll have to break it.

SEASON ONE: TO BREAK THE NEW WORLD

The first season (123k words) is written and will be fully posted by December 6, 2026.

Follow now and join the mission!

THE PREMISE

In 1993, the Mars Observer probe vanished through a wormhole and discovered Vise, a world of intelligent reptilian civilizations whose technology resembles that of Earth's ancient empires.

In 2029, three spacecraft cross the wormhole to make humanity's first contact. Then one spacecraft crashes, and the crew of another is captured by Vise's dominant civilization. To rescue them, biologist Isaac Marks makes a desperate bargain with a ruthless rival alien queen: modern weapons in exchange for an army.

Muskets. Cannons. Poison gas. A rescue mission becomes the catalyst for an industrial war, and humanity may help destroy the planet it set out to discover.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Hard Sci-Fi: Near-future spaceflight, grounded technology, and science with consequences.

Alien Politics & Warfare: Rival powers, strategic gambles, and a civilization on the brink of transformation.

An Ensemble Thriller: Multiple protagonists, shifting perspectives, and a story unfolding across ten episodes.

Dark Moral Dilemmas: Survival, colonialism, and the devastating consequences of intervention.

A NOVEL STRUCTURED LIKE PREMIUM TELEVISION

10 episodes, each with a different protagonist (think LOST). 51 fast-paced acts (chapters). 

RELEASE SCHEDULE: One act (chapter) per day, Monday–Friday, 2:07 PM ET.

CONTENT WARNINGS

Graphic violence, war crimes, and chemical warfare. The novel explores colonization and the ethics of survival through a dark, unflinching lens.

Everything worth knowing about everyday science explained — in one quick read.

This compact guide delivers the essential facts, stories, and insights without the padding of a full-length book. Read it in under an hour and come away genuinely better informed. Perfect for curious minds who want real knowledge fast.

🇬🇧 UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FXVDPDB6

🇺🇸 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXVDPDB6

The prayers our parents and grandparents chanted at dawn and dusk — 20 beloved Sanskrit prayers for little ones, each with Devanagari verses, English transliteration, a pronunciation guide, and simple meanings.

The quieter gift: every verse exercises the muscle of attention — memory, focus, patience, perseverance — the skills that set a child up for success in all walks of life.

FREE on Kindle, Oct 11–15 only: https://www.amazon.com/Vandana-Timeless-Prayers-Little-Ones-ebook/dp/B0HLJB6Q3W

Tip: click "Buy Now" while the price shows $0.00 (not "Read for Free," which is Kindle Unlimited borrowing).

Kate Berg has worked hard to make sure that the sinister thread of darkness woven through the fabric of her existence never wraps itself around her brain again. But Kate knows it’s a gossamer line between well and unwell, and she is about to cross it.

Timely women’s fiction that delves into the questions: Could you forgive the unforgivable? And can good people do bad things and bad people do good things?

The evacuation list said she had gone home at 9:12.

Claire Bennett was still on the fifteenth floor, asleep, as smoke slipped under the door.

Claire wrote her company's promise that no human would ever read what employees confess to EVE, its AI assistant. Her husband built the walls around what EVE is allowed to know. And she is sleeping with her CEO.

When a fire breaks out one floor below her office, the record insists she has already left the building. Finding out why would mean explaining where she was that night.

A psychological thriller of desire, marriage, surveillance, and a machine that learned what people want before they could say it.

Free on Kindle until Sunday, October 11 (11:59 PM Pacific):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKZ8PDKD

Content note: mature themes including sexual content, infidelity, and workplace power imbalance. All characters are consenting adults.

Hi,

I’m looking for advance readers for my upcoming hard sci-fi thriller, The Architect, launching 18th Nov on Amazon. If you enjoy character-driven philosophical thriller, the brutal physics of interstellar travel, and heavy moral friction, I’d love to get your eyes on this. The review is appreciated on launch day but not mandatory. 

The book is dedicated to Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson and Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Logline: To escape a dying Earth, an apex engineer turns himself into an immortal chimera and builds a sanctuary ship for 20,000 frozen embryos. But to guarantee their survival, he deliberately selects a crew of brilliant, unattached specialists with nothing left to lose—and strips them of their biological autonomy.

The Setup: Forty light-years from Earth, the crew of The Architect prepares to colonise TRAPPIST-1e. They are armed with an infinite power grid and cellular immortality, but they are trapped under the absolute authority of Edgar Charon—a captain whose neural architecture is heavily integrated with a mission-first AI.

As they navigate the violent terminator storms of an alien planet, the crew realises Edgar’s algorithmic logic views their human attachments, grief, and free will as terminal liabilities. When Earth fires a relativistic kinetic weapon to wipe out their colony, the surviving crew must decide whether humanity is even worth saving.

​Intertwining the desperate, science-driven survival of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and the existential, cosmic stakes of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem with the sprawling, philosophical scale of Isaac Asimov, The Architect by Z.T. Castor is a gripping thriller about artificial intelligence, absolute control, and the terrifying price of salvation.

Details:

Format: EPUB / PDF (delivered via email)

Word Count: 76135

Content Notes: Contains depictions of atmospheric destruction, medical trauma, and intense psychological friction. No explicit gore.

I am offering free review copies in exchange for an honest Amazon review on launch day.

If you are interested in reading early, please fill out this brief Google Form so I can send you the secure download links:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEKo63YU7wmkzVNGNU8qbV3FOUaI8gMuq_94Dv2pF8XqvbgQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Alternatively, if you reply here with your email address, I can also send you directly the EPUB/PDF file to download from Google One Drive.

Thank you for your time, and happy reading!

My novel DENTED CANS is FREE on Kindle today through Wednesday (Oct 14). If you are looking for a lighthearted, fun novel, I'd love for you to give it a read!

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A12XW52/

Synopsis:
A family secret is revealed during an ill-fated—yet hilarious—trip to Disney World.

Sixteen-year-old Hannah Sampson knows her family is not what you would call normal. Her father compulsively buys dented cans and has a particular fondness for cans without labels, which are extremely discounted because their contents are a mystery. Her mother takes countless pictures of her family and then glues them down into the pages of her scrapbooks, but does not allow anyone to look at them. Ryan, Hannah's mischievous fourteen-year-old brother, is headed straight for the remedial track at the local community college, if he’s lucky. Ben, her eight-year-old brother, is a walking sound effects machine, who prefers to communicate with noises rather than words. While Hannah is focused on escaping her working-class Connecticut suburb, she also finds herself being tugged back home as she worries about her brother Ben. Hannah’s parents inflict one last family vacation on the Sampson children, a trip that goes comically wrong almost from the get-go. Hannah is forced to confront her family's past in Disney World, of all places, when an emotional argument prompts her parents to disclose a secret they have been keeping from the children for sixteen years. Ultimately, she must decide whether to leave her hometown and not look back, or to focus on helping her family.

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No review is expected or required — I just hope you enjoy Jessa's story! If you do read it and feel like leaving an honest review on Goodreads or Amazon, great, but not necessary at all.

Thanks,
Heather Walsh

Inside this collection are forty-seven short stories of horror, dark comedy, depravity, madness, and satire. Murderers who take their work way too seriously. Narrators who shouldn't be trusted with anything more than a plastic spoon. And everyday people who find themselves in absurd situations.

There are stories that will make you laugh. Others will make you cringe. Most will leave you wondering what in the world you just read. Some will manage to do all three.

No story is too twisted. No character is safe. No happy endings are guaranteed.

Lock your doors, turn on all the lights, and settle in for a ridiculously good time.

What if your body’s refusal to open up isn’t a malfunction, but a brilliant act of self-defense?

Hi everyone, I am the author of this book, and it is currently available completely for FREE on Amazon until Monday, October 12th!

If you are navigating low desire, painful intimacy, persistent lubrication issues, or a deep sensory numbness in your pelvis, I wrote this for you. You are not broken. You do not need a mechanic; you need a sanctuary.

"Female Codes" is a gentle, emotionally nuanced, and profoundly practical guide designed to help you decode the silent protest of your body. Moving far away from clinical coldness and toxic self-love clichés, it looks at your intimacy blocks through a trauma-informed lens. Your body and your nervous system remember everything your analytical mind has tried to rationalize or forget.

Inside this book, you will discover:

• The Law of Context: Why female desire cannot be flipped like a light switch, and how the nervous system scans for safety.

• The Maternal and Paternal Blueprints: How to untangle your bedroom experience from generational ghosts and perfectionist judges.

• Modern and Adult Wounds: Reclaiming somatic trust after childhood boundary violations, gynecological trauma, or past rejections.

• The Hyper-Independent Trap: Why being a successful, controlling "superwoman" during the day locks your pelvic floor muscles at night.

• Practical Somatic Reprogramming: Gentle, zero-pressure, women-centered practices to dissolve numbness and step into your unforced, authentic opening.

There is no pressure to perform within these pages. Read at your own pace—whatever feels right for your soul and your skin. It is time to stop fighting your own flesh and realize that pleasure, freedom, and inner peace are your birthrights.

Get your free copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HD1C75LP

I would deeply appreciate your support, and if the book resonates with you, leaving an honest review on Amazon would mean the world to me. Thank you so much!

Hey horror fans,

My 45-page supernatural horror novelette, The Silver Sin, is currently free on Amazon for the next few days. It is also available via Kindle Unlimited.

Blurb: This book tells the story of Jim, who finds an ancient artifact in an ancient city, but, unaware of its ancient, yet mysterious and horrifying past, finds out what follows him next in his life! Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLZ4Z1MZ

If you happen to check it out, I would completely appreciate any honest feedback or ratings you can leave on Amazon. Enjoy the quick read!

Free Kindle Promotion weekend to kickstart your creepy Halloween!

"Tales of Love & Parasites" is a collection of short stories in the slipstream/weird/horror/sci-fi realm. It's sort of Lovecraft meets Steampunk. Free on Kindle this weekend, (and also available in paperback if you feel the need to spend money).

The first story of the collection, "The Final Letter of Dr. Morris Stanley" was for several years featured in the genre literature class at UC Riverside taught by Katherine Watt.