Imagine a world, exactly like ours, but different…Welcome to the H2LiftShips series, a cosmic romp fans have compared to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for its witty quirkiness, and that critics hail as "The most unique and weirdest book series out there."Captain Graciela is where she wants to be, far from her controlling mother, in a rented solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. It can be lonely in the void, but the crew on the H2Lift...

When Jake Solomon learns of the death of his estranged father, including the fact that he was murdered, it is viewed as little more than an annoyance. But when he finds his father has left him $300,000 hidden in his secret toy chest and he discovers his father was a CIA agent involved with drug smuggling, this fosters an attitude adjustment, and Jake sets out to find out who his father really was. In the mold of Chinatown, nothing Jake is told is completely accurate. He finds himself embro...

The Essex Experiment is an adult story that incorporates intrigue, love, and mystery. It places the main characters in a series of events that include industrial espionage, murder, scientific investigations, and family relationships. The theme centers on the possible discovery of a cure for HIV. The novel explores the attempt by a few unscrupulous individuals for greed, vengeance, and the lure of money to hold back that discovery from the public. It might seem like chance that brought Dr. ...

We've tried to make a nice, friendly Space Opera.Sure it has passive-aggressive families, gambling, cheating, and double-dealing, but nice. Still, watch your back.SolarSail Cargo ships travel between the populated asteroids and Goldilocks Core.And now HiveMother at the Heliopause and the HiveSisters in the Heliotail are fighting.It may turn into a full-fledged bioGel War.The Solar Sail crew of BosonsWave and Captain Herb, an Eastern mountain gorilla in th...

It's cold, rocky, and a little dark.Solar Sail cargo ships ply the commercial space from Earth to the distant Asteroids. Trading foodstuffs, coal, and nuclear engines for pure steel alloys, ZeroG Wool, and bioGel computers.Anti-Dystopian SciFi because we have too much Dystopia right now.Just regular sentients making a living in the void around our Sun: Earth, Luna, Mars/Phobos, and the Asteroid belt. Gig work is the norm, jumping from job to job, trying to earn enou...

The Mississinewa River and Reservoir with the land and towns surrounding them are filled with the shadows of history and ghosts from the past. All of us grew up hearing those stories and exploring the backroads and cruising the towns, when cruising was a thing. And we all heard the whispers in the deep woods and the haunting songs echoing off the water.From the time the Myaamia—or Miami—people made their home in the region with villages, encampments, council sites and sacred locati...

The ultimate resource for learning how to design, plan, build, and manage extraordinary events!Events matter. When people come together to share ideas, they can forever change the course of progress. No one knows that better than Bob Priest-Heck and Carrie Freeman Parsons of the Freeman Company, one of the world’s leading event companies. These two event pros have seen firsthand the power of uniting people to explore innovative ideas, grow businesses, advance educa...

Step into the future of Sol's heliosphere, where science meets imagination in a world of computers hosting petabytes of DNA memory, bioGel tablets, and asteroid-based factories. Humanity's ingenuity has unlocked incredible advancements, from interstellar trade powered by solar sail ships to semi-sentient technology that challenges the boundaries of intelligence and ethics. Against the backdrop of a dynamic heliosphere teeming with cosmic rays and evolving societies, this story offers a ric...

Trapped by a dead man!When an age-old nemesis finally gives up the ghost, Vampirella and her young assistant are lured to his rural gothic estate, Rookhaven, for the reading of his last will and testament. There they meet the manor staff: the prurient assistant, the wild-eyed groundskeeper and his pensive young daughter, and the sinister and enigmatic Mr. Frey. Expecting a trap, Vampirella is not disappointed — but she gets even more than shebargained for in this thrilling adventure!Writte...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...

“Our planet Zavre will be covered by one hundred feet of ice within twenty years….” So starts my science fiction novel about a civilization that existed a million years ago. How scientists, intellectuals, and the government respond to that news is the premise of this 270 page novel. Dr. Andros is given the authority to assemble experts to resolve the terrible dilemma of a world on the edge of extinction. What has caused this pending destruction? Is the dire prediction reversible? What will...

A series that's set to take you on the ride of your life: part road trip, part solar sailing. Into a world almost parallel to our own (but not quite.)Soaring through the heliosphere through the asteroid belt on Solar Sail cargo ships, the unlikely crew of the LunaCola finds themselves jumping from odd job to odd job, foraging supplies from Earth and sea and hitting up the casinos around Sol to gamble their bounty and add to their pot. Their adventures cross paths with everything fro...