Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space travel, magic, shape shifters, vampires, time travel, and lots of sexy times.
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Reading Time: 21 minutesIn near-future England, teenage Naomi daydreams of dating a boy from the lunar Colony.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs William ambles into the kitchen to retrieve his morning coffee, he slips on a patch of melted ice. When he falls on his back, the dishwasher swings its door open and smacks him on the head.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen Grandma Minerva is bitten trying to buy a special Christmas present for her grandchildren, she is determined to still have a wonderful holiday before she turns.
Reading Time: 16 minutesHow to make a panel on a Wordpress website to promote a new book release using Gutenberg blocks.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if everyone gets a magic tattoo and yours is most dangerous of all?
Reading Time: 16 minutesCan love blossom between an man and a low-gravity spider in the most dangerous parking lot in the Galaxy?
Reading Time: 22 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWe live in an old red schoolhouse in the forest. The forest is thick and woolly, and at night you can hear the wolves sing. It is safe here.
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has werewolves, magic, space exploration, epic fantasy, and several box sets.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesThe old metalworks where Seth’s father was a Robotics technician before the war drafted him; is now a graveyard. He sneaks back inside, never expecting to find Robots, a T-Rex and a communication bot. It is perfect until the police discover them; they are immediately sent for destruction.
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can now get four months of Kindle Unlimited for $4 a month — it’s normally $10 a month. Amazon also has great deals right now on Kindle devices.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesBrother Gregor bent close to his work, his hands trembling as he lifted the taper. Candlelight flickered in the gloom; incense sticks pierced the fetid air. A drab grey light trickled through the tiny windows, illuminating the chalk circle drawn across the floorboards.
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn a war-torn world of brutal fighting between greens and technocrats, three orphaned children collide with destiny. A single decision will define their lives.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if a man had to enter an alternate reality to be with his wife?
Reading Time: 5 minutesAnca is lonely and she knows it’s because she is different, but when she had a bad accident she encounters somebody that could be a friend.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Halo video game series is all about protecting Earth from alien invaders in the 26th century. A teaser trailer has just dropped for the Paramount+ TV series, expected to hit the streaming service sometime next year, and it seems to indicate that the show will focus on characters.
Reading Time: 13 minutesThe occult has made a strong comeback with gen Z.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI found it in the usual place, where I always find them. Under the rock. “Hello,” I said. “What’s your name, little feller?” No answer. But I expected that.
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has everything — werewolves, dragons, elves, a time-traveling private eye, post-apocalyptic survival, and — dinosaurs!
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Reading Time: 7 minutesThe system said he is guilty and must be punished by hanging. They laughed at him so they also had to be punished.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a plan straight out of a sci-fi asteroid disaster movie, NASA will try to push an asteroid off-course by crashing a spaceship into it.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year’s survey of more than 1,000 indie authors from Written Word Media shows that 79 percent think that marketing is the toughest part of being an indie author — compared to just 14 percent who said writing was.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesJulia, an elderly woman, is haunted by dementia. Though Alzheimer’s might explain why she can’t remember picking the flowers in the hallway or putting the kettle on, she’s starting to believe she’s being haunted by something else entirely.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if you were caught doing illegal magic?
Reading Time: 7 minutesMina struggles with her gift of the Valiance dance. Her life gets a moment of quiet when her heart is touched by a lonely child. It is not what gifts we are given, but how we choose to use them.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has everything — zombies, werewolves, angels, demons, sword fighting, Martian mining, and a Christmas miracle.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesJPL and NASA need your help to identify objects on Mars so that the future Mars land rovers will have an easier time getting around.
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou, too, can smell like a witch. Magic and scent were linked in ancient Greece and Rome, and today, you can buy scents that can make you smell like Hermione, Hecate, and other famous witches of literature and history.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSeven visions for the metaverse we’ve been hearing about.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat if you woke up trapped in a stranger’s body?
Reading Time: 4 minutesEarth is about to launch a satellite into deep space with a sole AI on board — until the AI has another idea.
Reading Time: 21 minutesSomeone is trying to turn Baltimore into a gate to Hell. So the mundane and magical communities turn to the one man in the city sworn to defend them. Michael White isn’t the hero you want, deserve, or need. But he is willing to work on holidays and weekends.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Boston Metaphysical Society: The Ghost Ship, an eight-episode steampunk audio drama, has hit its $10,000 Kickstarter fundraising goal with two weeks still to go, and the creator, Madeleine Holly-Rosing, was on MetaStellar’s Life Long Friends YouTube show to talk about the project.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, dragons, more witches, a space opera, giants, and a deal with the devil. Oh, and also an EMP survival book.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesAfter the earth has been radiated by nuclear war, survivors move below the surface and build a new society underground, only going to the surface once a year to visit the one last tree that still remains.
Reading Time: 5 minutesFive fairy tale retellings with kickass female protagonists.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen your species is prey, you can never let your guard down. Even when you’re walking home.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThree scientists set out to determine if it were possible for humans to survive on a planet like Dune. They say yes — but not where you’d expect from reading the book.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaStellar’s open submission period for fall 2021 has officially ended. This was our best cycle for submissions yet, receiving over 400 stories in 31 days.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesA sleepy town in rural Alabama holds many secrets, not all of them worth digging up.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 21 minutesMore than 200 completely free sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fonts for book covers, illustrations, and social media posts.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, dragons, more witches, a Martian mining operation, and more witches.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThis love story between a ghost and an alien is a mash-up of sci/fi, fantasy, and goth.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook changing its name to Meta in order to focus on the metaverse. Facebook itself will remain, but will now be just one brand in the Meta portfolio, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesThe lines separating life, death, and laundry are thinner than you think.
