Rainbow Dragon

By C. M. Barrett

After strained negotiations that include an earthquake or two, the heroes and heroines of Oasis prepare to welcome fairies, dwarves, and other elementals to their land. Though the elementals promise to improve crops, irrigation, and general wellbeing, the Oasans worry about the problems of introducing alien beings to humans who are unfamiliar with their existence.

A rebel faction of fairies and dwarves want more than integration. They call for the annihilation of the human race. They’ve joined with rebellious Earth dragons who fear that the child of Druid, the water dragon, and his mate will be the Rainbow Dragon. Some believe that the Rainbow Dragon will bring peace, but the rebels fear that its birth will signal the end of the world. They steal the egg.

All species of dragons and their cat and human allies unite to devise a plan for disarming the rebels that doesn’t risk the destruction of the egg. They hope to do so without loss of life, but, for the sake of his child, Druid is prepared to die.

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Ralphie's Account of Planet Earth

By Stephen Parato

A Cosmic Superbeing Comes to Earth as a Dog

Ralphie is a dog. But there's much more to it... Dogs are not just dogs. They're actually multi-dimensional superbeings performing a reconnaissance mission on humanity.

What Ralphie discovers confuses him, amuses him and touches his little canine heart. This is Ralphie's Account of Planet Earth.

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Rainbow Patrol

By Stella Knoxville

Find out how Bernadette was indoctrinated into the ancient super-secret organization known as the Rainbow Patrollers. From her first encounter with Rainbow Mojo shamans to her nude wilderness questing to her bizarre animal encounters, this raunchy and hilarious parody novel will keep you bewildered and amazed....

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A Symphony of Cicadas

By Crissi Langwell

A story of love, loss, and the emergence of hope is told through the life and death of Rachel Ashby, a woman who is caught in the afterlife following a tragic car accident. Unable to find her son, and mourning the end of a life she felt had just begun, Rachel is sent on a journey of self-discovery, learning more about herself in death than she ever knew in life....

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Winds of Purgatory

By Rex A. Ewing

It’s been twenty years since an engineered microbe brought the age of oil to an end, triggering a civil war that left civilization forever changed. Now, in a world divided into tightly controlled urban islands and self-reliant rural settlements, Salia Warchez, a cunning priestess of the end days, is ready to bring the new social order to its knees. Moving like a ghost on the fringes of civilization, the outlaw Salia is one of the select few who know the secret to oil’s demise. And now she intends to bring it back for her own nefarious ends. But there’s a problem, and it’s waiting for her in the Colorado mountain town of Purgatory. As smoldering rivalries suddenly ignite, the future of oil will be settled once and for all, in one of the most deadly and peculiar places on Earth.

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The Magician of Lhasa

By David Michie

When novice monk Tenzin Dorje is told by his lama that the Red Army is invading Tibet, his country's darkest moment paradoxically gives him a sense of purpose like no other. He accepts a mission to carry two ancient, secret texts across the Himalayas to safety.

Half a century later, in a paradox of similarly troubling circumstances, Matt Lester is called upon to convey his own particular wisdom as a scientist, when Matt's nanotech project is mysteriously moved from London to a research incubator in Los Angeles.

Tenzin and Matt embark on parallel adventures which have spine-chilling connections. Tenzin's perilous journey through the Himalayas, amid increasing physical hardship and the ever-present horror of Red Army capture, is mirrored by Matt's contemporary, but no less traumatic challenges, as his passionate relationship with his fiancée, Isabella, and his high flying career undergo escalating crises.

It is at the moment when both Tenzin and Matt face catastrophe that their stories converge, spectacularly transforming our understanding of all that has gone before....

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The Oarsman

By Zubin Mathai

A magical river begins singing, and a man suddenly aches to know if the paradise at its end can fill his heart. He hires an oarsman to take him upstream, but they are blocked by a judge who sentences them to revisit the man's past. As the judge’s agents relentlessly pursue, and as they row further back into the man's life, the man begins to suspect the oarsman is more than he seems.....

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Identity Crisis: The Song of the Nagual

By Al Black

When the love of Al's life breaks up with him, he is forced to flee the ghost that lingers in the apartment they shared together. One of his close friends realizes that Al is close to the edge, and offers him a cabin he had inherited far from town. Al sets out but is forced off the road by an animal hours into his trip. His only assistance is a slightly malevolent sorcerer named Sam.....

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Ripple

By Tui Allen

Twenty million years ago, powers of the universe allow an ancient spirit one final chance to achieve a mysterious intellectual purpose, by incarnating it as a dolphin on the planet Azure (Earth.) The spirit is born as Ripple, a vulnerable female with a seeming tendency to insanity. She falls for the scarred fighter-dolphin Cosmo and love inspires her to achieve her purpose. But before she can communicate her discovery, she must overcome terrific odds among the terrors and tragedies of the ancient oceans. If she can succeed, the universe will change forever, and allow dolphins to profoundly affect the yet-to-evolve human race.

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The Shopkeeper and the Traveler

By J. D. Hanning

 

The Traveler’s Saga is a tale of fate, prophecy, and legends that spans the course of about twenty years. In the first installment, “The Shopkeeper and The Traveler,” Brianna Moonspirit learns the truth about her identity after losing the only parents she’d ever known. She embarks on a journey from cosmopolitan Seattle to another world and another time, changing her life forever. With the help of an infamous warrior-king from the past, she attempts to fulfill an ancient prophecy and restore peace to present-day Astralmira. Together they embark on a journey of discovery and determination as they travel to other worlds within the Multiverse, as well as through time itself. Secrets eventually reveal their special connection to the Shopkeeper through a most unusual twist of cosmic fate.....

J.D. Hanning was drawn to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest and has called the Puget Sound area her home since 1996. Having a great respect for nature, “Hannah” is profoundly concerned about the conservation of our planet, specifically the depletion of forested land and global warming. She urges everyone to reduce their own carbon footprints by spreading awareness about things we all can do to live a sustainable life.

The Traveler's Saga series of fantasy novels explores some intriguing and controversial concepts about time and the universe. This captivating saga was born as the result of a dream journal that Hannah started after having several vivid dreams, as well as experiencing some rather interesting guided meditations. After her son moved out, she had plenty of quiet time to sit down with her thoughts and develop some of her journal entries into a story.

Although The Traveler’s Saga marks her professional authoring debut, she has been writing short stories and poetry for many years. Hannah's mission is to inspire people, specifically women, to believe in themselves and to believe that everyone is empowered to live a fulfilling life. She hopes to inspire others to improve a small piece of this big world for themselves as well as for others and future generations. As a result, her stories depict strong female characters as positive role models with whom young women can relate and respectfully emulate.

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My Memories of a Future Life

By Roz Morris

If your life was somebody’s past … What echoes would you leave in their soul?

Carol is a gifted musician who needs nothing more than her piano and certainly doesn’t believe she’s lived before. But forced by injury to stop playing, she fears her life may be over. Enter her soulmate Andreq: healer, liar, fraud - could he teach her how to live now?

It’s a question Carol never expected to face. She’s a gifted musician who needs nothing more than her piano and certainly doesn’t believe she’s lived before. But forced by injury to stop playing, she fears her life may be over. Enter her soulmate Andreq: healer, liar, fraud and loyal friend. Is he her future incarnation or a psychological figment? And can his story help her discover how to live now?

A novel in the vein of The Time Traveller’s Wife, Vertigo and The Gargoyle, My Memories of a Future Life is much more than a 'who was I' tale. It’s a provocative study of the shadows we don’t know are driving our lives, from our own pasts and from the people with us right now. An examination of what we believe, what we create and how we scare and heal each other.

Above all, it’s the story of how one lost soul searches for where she now belongs.....

Roz Morris  is a writer, journalist, fiction editor and the author of the Nail Your Novel series for writers. She teaches creative writing masterclasses for The Guardian newspaper in London.

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The Eyes of Anaskwa

By David Kata Ka La

A troubled man is found broken and unconscious at the foot of a steep cliff by a band of monks who transport him to their home in a remote monastic community that has grown up around the statue of the female saint Anaskwa. The statue emanates a peculiar potency and has a magical ability to bring everyone who gazes into the depths of her eyes, the realisation of the beauty inherent in every living thing and indeed the recognition of their own soul.

Rescued from the depths of despair and drawn into the spiritual life of the monastery this young man finds that the monks, and the town people that they introduce him to, begin to answer many questions for him and after experiencing many challenges and personal loss and confronting his own dark night of the soul he begins to find clarity and vision bringing him closer to a more enlightened perspective on essence of life itself.

The Eyes of Anaskwa is a highly unusual story, fundamentally spiritual in nature, filled with reflections and observations on the ways of those on the path – whether they know it or not – and some of the ways of the earth and the universe in which we live. With echoes of Herman Hesse and Carlos Castaneda this is a mythic tale of reality told by a master story teller with quotes from ancient spiritual books that serve to both intrigue and illustrate the teachings within its pages.....

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The Road to Shambhala

By Gerald R. Stanek

Brendon Pearce has no faith in faith. He doesn’t believe in thinking his way into positive places like his sister Cassidy. He doesn’t believe in psychics or spirit guides, but they believe in him. Seeking a new life, or at least an escape from his old one, Brendon finds himself among artists, UFO enthusiasts, healers and psychics, who urge him to take advantage of his opportunities, and ‘conquer the lower three worlds’. His life is soon filled with intimations, portents, and unexplained phenomena. With their encouragement, he begins to learn the truth about himself, the Earth, and the cosmos. For Brendon, the road to Shambhala leads through Ojai, Sedona, dreams, and of course, the heart......

Gerald Stanek has written numerous children’s books, several of which have been illustrated by his wife, intuitive artist, Joyce Huntington. The couple lived for a decade in Ithaca, NY, the setting of Gerald’s recent novel, Skirting the Gorge. An artist in residence stay in Sedona and many hours spent in meditation inspired The Road to Shambhala. He now resides in Ojai, CA.

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The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce

By White Feather

This is a fast-paced, exciting spiritual adventure story about the transformations of Sarah Benson, a thirty-something country western singer/songwriter who had fallen into a rut. She had not written a song in over a year, her relationship was on the rocks, and she was working at a job that she hated. Although she desperately wanted to change, Sarah could not seem to bring that change about.

And then the dreams started.... Sarah Benson began having recurring dreams of a mystical bookstore. The dreams continued for months until finally she took action. She went on a vacation! Of course, it was not so much a vacation as it was a spiritual quest to find and unlock the artist within and experience true personal growth. And she also hoped to find that bookstore that she dreamed so much about in the real physical world. She was convinced that it really existed. In her quest, Sarah's awake life and her dream life started to blend and merge. In the process, her conscious dreams also came under examination. With her life collapsing around her, she wondered what her true purpose was in life and her dreams and her guidance led her to new understandings about that--as well as to new understandings about music. Would she ever be able to write a song again?

Sarah's quest also led her straight into a mystery involving Edgar Cayce, a mysterious man in a bookstore, and more intense lucid dreams about times in the distant past. Her attempt to solve this mystery became a quest of its own.

From the backwoods of Arkansas to the mountains of Colorado, Sarah's roller coaster adventure will make you sigh, it will make you laugh, and tears may be shed. And it will certainly make you think......

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Journey to Mandalam

By Richard Bradshaw

Journey to Mandalam: An Adventure into Consciousness is a metaphysical, science fiction adventure story in which characters explore the nature of reality, both inside themselves and in the universe around them. The story begins when a starship from the planet Tandalar encounters an overpowering Presence while passing by Earth. Shattered by their experience, the star travelers set out on a quest to find the source of this incredible power.

From there the story moves to a middle-aged eccentric in a small town in southern Oregon who suddenly feels the need for some company to help explore a huge anomaly near the coast of Oregon. Before long, chance and serendipity bring five people and a group of star travelers together for adventures into other dimensions both inner and outer where they come into contact with various other beings, all pursuing the meaning of life and personal evolution. Adventures and insights abound around speculations on who they (read that ‘we’) are, how they and the cosmos came to be, the true nature of their reality and their ultimate destiny.

The characters' adventures include journeys through 1) the subjective nature of time, 2) parallel lives, 3) existence on differing dimensions of reality, and 4) the nature of consciousness and its possible manipulation through varying types of meditation and visualization; all of which lead the characters to unusual experiences and the need to ruminate about the physics or metaphysics underlying their experiences.

Although the book is written as a science fiction-fantasy type adventure story, many of the concepts used in the construction of the world pictured in the book come from such fields as Eastern philosophy and cosmology, Western quantum physics and cosmology and a blend of East-West metaphysics. As a result, even though Journey to Mandalam is written as science fiction-fantasy, it’s a fantasy with a foundation of real possibility in it. This ‘foundation of realism’ however, does not make the book difficult to read. In the book any difficult concepts are couched within the story in such a way that the context makes them easy to understand for those not grilled and skilled in the sciences.

Richard Bradshaw was born in San Francisco, grew up high in the mountains of Colorado, spent sixteen years in Hawaii learning the meaning of ‘culture’ and how to ‘partake’ of various other cultural realities by allowing transformation of his own. The past twenty five years he’s been teaching at universities in Japan and slowly soaking up a fundamentally different ‘reality’. Inspiration for his novels and many of the ideas found therein are a product of personal experience as a practitioner and teacher of yoga and meditation for over forty years, studies in the fields of Asian comparative religion (M.A.) and social and cross-cultural psychology (PhD.), and more informally quantum physics and cosmology.

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Chasing Grace

By Carol Costello

Cathy Callahan runs away at age ten to escape her mother’s abuse and find God, whom she first met in a Chicago public park when she was six. The next thirty years are a series of funny, brutal, and uplifting adventures that pit her humor and strength against the rage and confusion that make her reckless, desperate, and blind to gray areas.

Cathy searches for love, healing, and wholeness in all the wrong places from Chicago’s North Side to Montana, to Reno, to San Francisco. In the Catholic Church’s byzantine system of salvation and ruler-wielding nuns. In a bakery/brothel run by Mollie, the brassy older woman who “adopts” her. With a good-looking, half-naked guru hawking “I AM Oneness.” With Spirit in the High Rockies and marriage to a sexy, dangerous cowboy. In too much Scotch. She finally stops running and retraces her steps to Chicago, where she faces her demons and finds unexpected grace in the last place she thinks to look.

Chasing Grace is a raw, humorous look at spiritual coming of age, at unconventional ways to heal deep emotional wounds, and at finding greater purpose in surprising places despite desperate odds......

Carol Costello has made her living as a freelance writer for forty years. She has worked as an investigative reporter in Chicago, a freelance acquisitions and developmental editor, a ghostwriter or book doctor of some 30 books. Carol is a student of meditation and the Vedanta, and a hiker. She lives across the street from the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco and speaks around the country on selling as service, creativity, and self publishing.

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Mystic Tea

By Rea Nolan Martin

A community of quirky, mismatched, and endearing women struggle to find meaning and purpose on a ramshackle monastery in upstate New York. Having spent their lives in service to a church that seems to no longer serve them, they are confused about their own futures and the future of the entire monastery. Led by Mike, the practical no-nonsense prioress, and Augusta, the grand ancient mystic hermit, they are joined by Gemma, a self-punishing novice, and Arielle, a firebrand jailhouse conversion who was sent there out of rehab by a “sort of angel.” The personalities, commitments, philosophies and beliefs of these and all the characters conflict and converge in ways at once perilous and enlightening. Throughout the tempestuous journey, Augusta's magical sacred teas draw the inevitable closer and closer.

Mystic Tea is a contemporary love story between young and old, franchised and disenfranchised, pedestrian and mystic. Most of all, it is a story of female empowerment as the women find the courage to confront epic challenges, creating a surprising future from the oppressive ashes of the past. It will make you smile as much as it will make you think.

Rea Nolan Martin spent 20 years as a writer, creative director, and creative consultant to advertising and PR agencies in Chicago and New York before engaging full-time as a freelance editor, teacher, blogger, and author of mystical fiction. She is a former adjunct professor of writing in the MAW program at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, where she transformed the student magazine, INKWELL, into a nationally-recognized, award-winning literary journal.

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Split Symmetry

By Kirsten Arcadio

It’s 2015. Dr Elena Lewis organises a charity hike in a notorious mountain range in Italy, but the presence on the hike of her estranged patient, James Dennison, unsettles her from the start. When a landslide splits the group, Elena must re...turn to the mountain overnight to save her friends. But she is thwarted by illegal scientific activity and the worst earthquake the region has ever known.....

Kirsten Arcadio has written three novels, each with a different speculative theme. After working for over fifteen years in digital communications, she returned to her twin first loves of literature and philosophy in 2011. She’s passionate about the big questions in life and how these can be explored using speculative fiction.

When she’s not writing she’s obsessing about Sci Fi or Nordic noir. She loves all things Italian, including her husband, and she once taught English in the Italian senate.

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One Second Before Awakening

By Robert Hill

One moment he was looking at the painting on the museum wall, and the next Drew Anthony found himself standing in the midst of the painting itself, thus propelling him into a living, painted world filled with both strange and wondrous being...s – all based upon the collected renderings of Salvador Dali. Pursued by the Horseman of Death across a surreal landscape, Drew begins the search to find his way back to reality, but at the same time he transforms himself and the painted world surrounding him.

One Second Before Awakening is a fantasy/adventure novel which takes place within a compilation of the various surreal subjects and scenes depicted by the great 20th century master, Salvador Dali. It is a world populated by space elephants, drawer people, amorphous cannibals, and the mysterious flower-headed Fates – the very witnesses of past, present, and future. So when Drew Anthony finds himself stepping into the midst of a painting come to life, the first thing he wants to do is to find his way out, not end up journeying across a spectacular world peopled by the magical and the terrifying. His odyssey ends up changing the destiny of a beautiful woman, altering the philosophy of the people within this bizarre, painted dimension, and transforming himself from just an average man from an ordinary world into a transformational messiah trapped in a surreal place.

Robert lives with his bride, Linda, deep in the heart of Texas where he owns a small legal services company and writes in his spare time. He is a former military paramedic, former criminal investigator, current private detective, and chief bottle washer. He has had various poems and short stories previously published in small press literary magazines, but most notably in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, and most recently with the e-zine Anotherealm.com.

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