ARC READERS WANTED — EPIC FANTASY

Hello, I'm Said Al Riyami, an independent author inviting readers to discover my upcoming epic fantasy novel, Floating & Drowning: We Die to Live.

BLURB

In a world whose kingdoms are scattered among the stars, war may begin for survival before anyone knows the truth of what is coming.

Sailing ships cross the warm-wind routes between constellations and zodiacal constellations. Caravans carry iron and spices, riders cross the sky on winged horses and winged bears, and even water has its raiders.

Then the reports begin to come from the south.

Crops die in places where they once survived, and warnings keep returning, though even kings cannot agree on what they mean. In the ancient books, one name returns:

Coma is approaching.

Mirzam the Seventh, King of Pollux, believes that waiting for certainty may doom them all. In the north, Han prepares to defend Draco, while another name returns to palaces and old manuscripts:

black magic.

As fear spreads, plots begin to intertwine, and every decision made for survival may ignite a new catastrophe.

BOOK & ARC DETAILS

·        Genre: Adult Epic Fantasy / Political Intrigue / Dark Magic

·        Triggers: War, violence, death, dark magic

·        Publication date: December 1, 2026

·        ARC delivery: Immediately upon joining through Booksprout

·        Suggested review date: December 1, 2026 (publication day). Reviews are welcome afterward, with no strict deadline.

·        Format: Free digital advance review copy

AI Disclosure: AI assisted text is included in this work. AI assistance was limited to translating selected passages into English and generating illustrations. The original story, characters, and world-building are entirely my own.

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Blurb: At twenty-one, everyone manifests a symbiont: an invisible companion whose powers shape the course of a life.

Conrada has spent years pretending to be just another invisible serf, yet she can’t resist sabotaging the veneer with impulsive outbursts of her truest self. Her darkest secret only makes things worse: she alone can see everyone’s symbionts. Revealing her gift risks unwanted attention from those who can pay to control it. Best case, she disappears into an experimental program; worst case, she becomes a secret weapon for a private military contractor.

At manifestation, bidding wars erupt over her symbiont, and Conrada becomes the latest acquisition by Aquila Operations; a corporate black-ops consulting firm specializing in the impossible, the unique, and the dangerous. Then her symbiont starts whispering bloodlust and tragic memories in her ear. Images of falling leaves and turning seasons haunt her, and sometimes it’s not clear who is who. If Aquila decides her symbiont makes her a liability no longer worth the risk, it may become her executioner.

Welcome to Aquila.

Triggers: Spiders. General mature content warning for violence, profanity and mature themes.

Publication Date: 19 Jan, 2027

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Available for request now on BookSirens.

The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: 19 Feb, 2027

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AI disclosure: No AI use. Human authored and human editor. Human artists used for interior and cover art. All are credited in the front matter.

Blurb:

A sudden, catastrophic communications blackout severs an ordinary Italian province from the rest of the world. No phones, no power, no emergency response. As an aggressive, hyper-predatory contagion sweeps unchecked through the valley, an engineer and his family barricade themselves inside their reinforced suburban apartment complex.

Surviving the initial outbreak is only the first equation. Under the suffocating heat of an unforgiving summer, the true siege begins from within. With water pressure dying in the pipes and desperate survivors hammering at the gates, every resource becomes a zero-sum game. Paranoia infects the hallways, alliances fracture over milliliters of water, and an unyielding survival protocol becomes the only barrier against total entropy.

From a besieged apartment building to an isolated mountain bunker, *The Survivor Protocol* is a claustrophobic, unflinchingly realistic post-apocalyptic thriller where math, engineering, and raw human instinct collide against the collapse of civilization.

Triggers:

Realistic violence, infected encounters, severe resource scarcity, claustrophobia, and high psychological tension. (No sexual violence, no gratuitous gore).

Exact date of publication:

1 October 2026 (Currently live on Amazon KDP / Kindle)

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team:

Available immediately (Instant download via BookSprout until November 6, 2026).

The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by:

November 20, 2026

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AI disclosure:

The original manuscript, story, and world-building were written entirely by the author. AI assistance was used exclusively for the English language translation and proofreading.

The best exorcist in Rome has a few demons of his own.
One of them is quite literal.

Dante di Dio was born during the exorcism of his mother, which left strands of a demon entangled with his soul.
The Church took Dante in, turning him into the most effective (and least trusted) asset of the Order of St. George, the armed wing of the Vatican quietly protecting the world from supernatural threats.
When a member of the Order shows up dead inside the Pope's cathedral, Dante is called to track the killer above and below Rome, to thwart a conspiracy that could set off Judgment Day.
And when all else fails, the demon inside him is always up for a bargain.

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Hello, my name is Luca and if you like urban fantasy and paranormal investigations, I'd love to have you on board!

• Fast-paced action
• A supernatural investigation featuring creatures from worldwide folklore
• A belief-based magic system
• Vatican intrigue
• Found family
• No romance

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• TRIGGERS: none
• Exact date of publication: Jan 4th, 2027
• AI disclosure: no AI was used in this work

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Thank you for your time and consideration.

In a society that posts for clout, a love story is as real as it gets.

Blurb

One night out with her friends changes the trajectory of Shelly's life when she meets a musician who alters what she thought she wanted out of life. But can one brief encounter stand up to distance and social politics?

Slowburn Setlist is an open-door, contemporary rockstar romance that explores self-sabotage, inner growth, and unwanted social media exposure. This is a dual POV narrative with mature MCs (FMC 80%/MC 20%).

Book 1 of the "Basslines of the Heart" series. Webpage

Triggers: This book includes themes contextual to the narrative’s purpose: lite bi- & fat-phobia (stereotypes directed to bisexual FMC); mature, adult spice content; rock history topics.

Exact date of publication: January 13th, 2027

Reviews by: The book releases on 1/13/27, AND I'M definitely looking for product reviews by then, but I'm hoping to have EARLY READER TESTIMONIALS for promo material on a rolling basis through 11/30/26!

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval (within a day or two)

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Country availability: Worldwide.

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work or art.

Similar books:

The Comback by Lily Chu
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

In a society that posts for clout, a love story is as real as it gets.

Blurb
One night out with her friends changes the trajectory of Shelly's life when she meets a musician who alters what she thought she wanted out of life. But can one brief encounter stand up to distance and social politics?

Slowburn Setlist is an open-door, contemporary rockstar romance that explores self-sabotage, inner growth, and unwanted social media exposure. This is a dual POV narrative with mature MCs (FMC 80%/MC 20%).

Book 1 of the "Basslines of the Heart" series. Webpage

Triggers: This book includes themes contextual to the narrative’s purpose: lite bi- & fat-phobia (stereotypes directed to bisexual FMC); mature, adult spice content; rock history topics.

Exact date of publication: January 13th, 2027

Reviews by: The book releases on 1/13/27, AND I'M definitely looking for product reviews by then, but I'm hoping to have EARLY READER TESTIMONIALS for promo material on a rolling basis through 11/30/26!

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval (within a day or two)

ARC sign-up: https://forms.gle/rNna3EvyYfWSFdwDA

Country availability: Worldwide.

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work or art.

Book is for readers who like:
... a mature heroine
... men who dig independent women
... the live music scene
... top-tier banter
... character-driven conflict
... LGTBQA+ inclusivity

Similar books:
The Comback by Lily Chu
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

She was raised to believe desire was something to fear. Bethelbrier will teach her otherwise.

Penelope has always known the life waiting for her: obedience, marriage, children, and the quiet satisfaction of becoming the woman her rigid homeland expects her to be.

Then she is sent across the sea to Bethelbrier.

There, silk barely conceals skin, pleasure carries no shame, and princes are as likely to be found in taverns and fighting clubs as on their thrones. Penelope has come to marry into the royal family. Instead, she finds herself drawn into a kingdom where almost everything she was taught about power, virtue, and desire is being challenged.

And then there is Corin.

Warrior, prince, and unapologetic libertine, Corin embodies nearly everything Penelope has been taught to distrust. He is crude where she is proper, experienced where she is innocent, and dangerously comfortable with appetites she has spent her life denying. But the more Penelope discovers about him—and herself—the harder it becomes to tell the difference between temptation and freedom.

Beyond the palace walls, Bethelbrier is changing too. Old resentments are stirring in the North. The royal family is beginning to fracture. And the pleasures Penelope once found shocking are becoming tangled with questions of loyalty, power, and who gets to decide the shape of another person's life.

Penelope came to Bethelbrier prepared to accept her destiny.

She may leave it wanting something entirely her own.

Desire or Destiny is a lush, provocative fantasy of sexual awakening, dangerous intimacy, political unrest, and the intoxicating discovery that a life can be chosen rather than inherited. Perfect for readers who crave morally complicated characters, queer-normalized worlds, slow-burning desire, court intrigue, and fantasy unafraid to be genuinely adult.

Triggers: None

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Release Date: December 1, 2026

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Blurb for the book: Joe was supposed to be there. But he’s already dead. Now, his companion must finish what they started.

For years, he has hunted the creatures that steal children from their beds. He’s learned the hard way that these things don’t belong in the world of men. But the missing children aren’t the only reason he’s in the woods tonight.

Armed with a compound crossbow and driven by vengeance, he continues the hunt alone. He follows their trail deeper into the woods, where the creatures are waiting. He knows exactly what he is up against. That’s why he’s afraid.

And now he must face the creatures without the man who taught him everything.

But there are some secrets Joe never revealed.

This creature feature horror novel follows a hunter navigating a dangerous forest as he tracks deadly entities and uncovers hidden secrets about his mentor's past.

TRIGGERS: Death, profanity, abduction, body gore, abuse, violence, pregnancy loss

Date of publication: 11/14/2026

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Review Window: November 14, 2026 - January 25, 2027

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Publishers: Self published

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

**Blurb for the book**

The Hannish are engorged with anguish. Swollen with misery. Walking, talking morsels of agony. Their old masters have been driven out, yes, but now something hungry drags them one by one into the shadows. It traps them in their worst memories.

And feeds.

Niala Chainbreaker means to stop it. Eight years ago, she shattered the mage empire and freed her people from bondage. Now she is desperate to save them all over again. But beneath her hero’s veneer lies a bloody secret, and the beast can taste her shame. To stop it, she may have to unearth all she’s fought to keep buried.

Brimri Mgedowu carries the blood of the fallen mage masters, but none of their magic. An halfbreed orphan exiled to the lawless islet where Hanheim discards its unwanted, she survives by swindling the men who come to gamble and whore. When violence claims her mentor’s life, she resolves to escape forever, even if it means robbing the most dangerous man in the criminal underworld.

The beast almost hopes she succeeds. Despair is sweeter with a little hope left in it. Brimri’s daring heist and Niala’s hunt for the hunter draw them both towards each other and into the path of a monster born from slavery’s dark legacy.

Neither is prepared for what it will show them.

DREADSONG takes the gritty elements of streetlife in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and combines them with the rigorous worldbuilding and literary exploration of racism in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.

* Length: 137,000 words

* Triggers: Graphic Violence, Suicide, In-World Racism, Mentions of Child Neglect & Abuse

* Exact date of publication: January 19, 2027

* ARCs available now

* ARC Reviews due January 19, 2027

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* AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

* **Blurb for the book.**

When twenty-four-year-old Agent Elara Winslow is shot through the heart during a murder investigation, the bullet destroys the device suppressing her true biology. Suddenly, she’s at risk of being exposed as a stygian, a species born for violence. In an act of hiding her from her team and the public, she's sent to the care of an eccentric scientist and the scientist’s alluring daughter, Cam.

Elara’s condition worsens, causing violent episodes, black veins across her body, and an increasingly uncontrollable urge to kill, but the glimmer of a new and different life with Cam gives her something to fight for.

Meanwhile, little does Elara know that her best friend and fellow agent, Peter, is competing against her for the only permanent position on the team. As Peter watches Elara survive an impossible injury, disappear behind closed doors, and repeatedly uncover impossible evidence, he becomes convinced Elara is the elusive murderer he’s been hunting.

As Elara’s body races toward becoming a monster again, Peter races toward publicly proving her as one. With both closing in, Elara must find a way to survive long enough to decide what and who she really is, before she loses control of her body and her future.

STYGIAN is a sapphic horror thriller novel. It will appeal to readers of SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN for its romance between a monster and the woman trying to save her, and to fans of AKIRA for its power-hungry descent from friendship into violence.

* Length: 86,000 words

* **TRIGGERS!!** Graphic Violence, Murder, Body Horror (Monstrous), Body Oozing, Chest Pain, Gun Violence, Dead Bodies, Child Neglect, Homophobic Slurs

* Date of Publication: 11/23/2026

* ARCs available now: https://insidestory.app/books/kd9dap

* ARC Reviews Due: 12/7/2026

* **AI disclosure** No AI was used in this work

* Note: If you have a book available of similar length, genre, and themes, I would be happy to do a trade for honest reviews!

• Blurb for the book

Sera is a fearless detective on a neutral space station. She’s also very pregnant, hungry, and absolutely not in the mood to save the station today. So when her captain begs her to visit an odd perp she previously busted, she refuses. That’s why it’s called maternity leave.

Toreena, who has somehow gone from ex-con to the owner of the hottest new bakery on the station, has important information that she will only share with Sera. Not only no, but hell no. That is, until Sera’s captain offers an extra week off and all the cinnamon rolls she can eat. Damn those pregnancy cravings.

While elbows deep in cinnamon bliss, Sera discovers Toreena has stolen a dangerous metallic catalyst, MC-7, capable of destroying the station and rendering worlds uninhabitable. Risking Sera’s own life is an easy decision, but risking her unborn son’s life isn’t. Caught between duty and motherhood, she confiscates the dangerous substance, thrusting herself and her unborn son into the center of a conspiracy. Faced with corruption, a crime syndicate, and a hostile alien race, Sera goes on the offensive, but she won’t do it alone.

Mo is a debt ridden freighter pilot looking for love. Only he doesn’t realize it. His ship’s overzealous AI does. And she will stop at nothing to make sure he’s happy, whether he wants to be or not.

Sedna is a xenobiologist who helps colonists avoid getting eaten by the local fauna on unexplored planets. She’s trying to get over a loss by absolutely not filling a void, that certainly doesn’t exist, by taking on a stray alien as a pet.

Callen is a master pickpocket trying to pay for his daughter’s medical treatments. But when he picks the wrong pocket, he finds himself running from a ruthless crime syndicate and into a gender identity crisis he never expected.

As the tendrils of conspiracy reach a distant planet designated as a wildlife refuge, Sera, Mo, Sedna, and Callen will have to decide whether to risk everything to stop a war.
What to Expect:

• Character driven space opera with heart, humor, and mystery
• Action, adventure, slice of life, and found family
• Romantic subplot
• Four POV ensemble cast
• Gender identity exploration

• Serious stakes balanced with humor, bad decisions, and overenthusiastic robotic ducks

• TRIGGERS: Gender identity exploration, pregnancy, childbirth, death, violence, profanity, transphobic and offensive language from an antagonist

• Exact date of publication: December 8, 2026

• ARCs are being sent out Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• ARCs should be complete by December 11, 2026

• Link to ARC Sign up on Booksirens

• AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

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Blurb:

When her parents vanish, Xanthe Static deliberately fails a classification test that determines her future, sending herself into the slums to uncover the truth.

There, she befriends another girl who failed her classification, discovers a mysterious android, and reconnects with a childhood friend, only to realize that in a society divided by technological inequality, some choices can have deadly consequences.

Potential Triggers:

• Violence and physical assault
• Kidnapping and abduction
• Discrimination and systemic oppression
• Class segregation and poverty
• Missing family members
• Threats and psychological distress

Genre: Cyberpunk / Dystopian Thriller

Publication Date: March 17, 2027

ARC Format: Free digital copy

ARC Delivery: Late November / Early December 2026

Review Deadline: March 17, 2027

Availability: International (digital)

AI Disclosure: No AI usage

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Title: The Iceberg & The Penguin by Anne Spielberg

Genre: Children’s Picture Book/Environmental

Pub Date: April 22, 2027

Blurb: When a young iceberg breaks away from an Antarctic glacier, the little penguin born on its frozen surface goes along for the ride. Together, they drift toward warmer waters, where the iceberg begins to melt. Can a helping hand bring these two friends home?

Inspired by her trip to Antarctica, The Iceberg & The Penguin is Anne Spielberg's first book. She's the screenwriter of Big and dozens of other scripts for film studios and independent film producers.

This picture book for children ages 4–8 carries a message about friendship, kindness, and caring for our imperiled oceans. Daniel Fiore illustrates the book, which features an introduction by pioneering oceanographer and Mission Blue founder Dr. Sylvia Earle.

Triggers: Climate change and melting ice; a friend in danger; separation and fear of loss. The story has a hopeful, happy ending.

Exact date of publication: Earth Day, April 22, 2027

ARCs will be sent: November 15, 2026

Reading and review deadline: January 15, 2027

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Publisher: Pierce Press

Country availability: Available worldwide via online retailers or Bookshop.org

ARC format: Digital PDF

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Fallen Dominion: Blood of the Seven Districts Book 1 of the Fallen Dominion trilogy — martial arts wuxia, gang warfare, grounded fist fights

Blurb The city is carved into seven districts. No qi. No chosen one. Just fists, blood, and the brutal math of who's still standing when the districts collide.

Triggers Graphic violence, hand-to-hand combat, dark themes

Publication date July 21, 2026

ARC format EPUB (PDF available on request)

ARC send date Within 24–48 hours of your message

Review deadline No hard deadline — 3–4 weeks is appreciated, and an honest review on Amazon and/or Goodreads means a lot to an indie author

How to request Message me on Reddit to request a copy.

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9VD1LKD

AI disclosure: please choose

No AI was used in this work

AI was used in cover art

AI assisted text is included in this work

AI was used in writing and cover art

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One night. One fire. One island. And the one she left behind.

Every nineteen years, when the Hunter’s Moon rises full on Halloween, the little Maine harbor town of Bonfire Bay sends two people across the tidal bar to keep a bonfire burning on the island from dusk to dawn.

Nora Beal is home for one week. That’s all. She doesn’t know her mother put her name in the lantern for the watcher's draw.

This year, a six-year-old draws two names: Nora’s, and Jack Libby’s, the high school sweetheart she left the morning after graduation.

Now it’s one night, one tiny hut, and two narrow beds (for now). The bell buoy is ringing in a dead calm, and there are wet boot prints on the granite that don’t belong to either of them.

What you’re getting:
🔥 Second chance + high school sweethearts
🏝️ Forced proximity on a tiny island
👻 A gentle ghost story, cozy and not scary
🍂 Small town, fall feels, a whole town of meddlers
💋 One open-door scene
📖 Novella, about 23,000 words, perfect for one cozy evening
💛 Happy ending
🍸 Bonus cocktail recipe from the local bar

Triggers: Ghosts? Break-up, sexual content: foreplay and then fade-to-black, Character death by accident, described, not on page-IE the ghost

AI disclosure: AI was used in cover art - I SUSPECT. Commissioned, but I have suspicions - just to be transparent.

Releases October 29. Your free ARC in exchange for an honest review on Goodreads before release, and on Amazon on release day or within a week after. Download available now.

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Book One of The Bonfire Bay Almanac by Margot Frost. Book Two releases in November.

In an empire built on fear, trust is an act of war.

As a child, Vaye watched a crowd of angry villagers drown her mother for sorcery. It was just the latest act of violence against her people, long held responsible for summoning the dark goddess who turned the sky into a weapon. But the villagers were mistaken—it was Vaye, not her mother, who had inherited the deity’s gifts.

Imagine what people will do if they find out she’s trying to dig her buried goddess back up.

When Vaye sneaks into an elite military academy to steal back her heritage, her path tangles with two strangers carrying secrets of their own: an insurgent sent to destroy the empire from within and an exile cast out by her family for her forbidden desires.

A dark epic of stolen magic, the price of power, and ancient forces that are not what they seem.

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Length: 124,337 words / 464 pages
Release date: Dec 12, 2026
Ideally, reviews submitted prior to release, but a little after is fine.

ARCs available immediately via BookSirens, NetGalley, or DM.
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Triggers

The Witchglass Covenant is an adult dark fantasy. If you prefer to go in without knowing what's coming, skip this warning.

This book contains:

- Graphic violence, including an on-page execution
- Sex between consenting adults, including group scenes
- Body horror
- Drug use
- Attempted sexual assault
- Torture and loss of bodily autonomy
- Religious persecution and genocide
- The death of a major character

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

• The Architect - Z.T.Castor - Nov 18 2026
• Blurb: 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. 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.
• TRIGGERS: Contains depictions of atmospheric destruction, medical trauma, and intense psychological friction. No explicit gore.
• Exact date of publication: Nov 18, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Immediately
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Nov 18, 2026
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• AI disclosure: No AI was used.

Nine rooms. One way out. A secret someone would kill to protect.

Daniel Mercer has spent years mastering escape rooms. He knows how to recognize patterns, solve puzzles, and find the way out.

But when he's brought to an isolated house containing nine interconnected rooms, he discovers that this challenge is anything but a game.

Every room hides another piece of a dangerous conspiracy. Every answer raises new questions.

And the people guiding him may be hiding the most important secrets of all.

What if escaping is only the beginning?

Hi everyone! I'm Netanel Dori, an independent thriller author, and I'm looking for ARC readers for my upcoming novel, THE PERFECT ESCAPE.

If you enjoy psychological mysteries, intricate puzzles, escape rooms, conspiracy thrillers, and stories filled with unexpected twists, I'd love to share an advance copy with you!

Book details:

• Genre: Psychological Mystery / Thriller
• Length: Approximately 135 manuscript pages
• Publication date: November 20, 2026
• ARC delivery: Starting October 30, 2026
• Suggested reading target: November 19, 2026
• Optional review date: November 20, 2026 or later
• Format: Free digital ARC (EPUB)
• Availability: Worldwide
• Content warnings: References to death, violence, forced displacement, threats to family members, and psychological distress
• AI disclosure: AI-assisted text is included in this work.

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The Ghost's Truth is what happens when a cozy swords-and-sorcery Hallmark movie deconstructs into an apocalyptic cosmic horror, and then broadens further into a high fantasy adventure.

The infinite realms of Halbron are Beautiful and Terrible and Strange.

One such realm—a harsh, frozen place by the name of Spiramoote—is facing its doom. Perhaps if there was a hero among its citizens, Spiramoote’s fate could be changed. Instead, its tragic tale is centered around Si’Lanci Gnell, reclusive owner of the local soup shop with an infamous reputation. Deemed ‘too soft for Halbron’, Lanci is a simple mortal woman who has never held a weapon and faints at the sight of blood. Content with her life of solitude in the mountains, she dreams not of romance or glory, but of soup and her beloved pet geese.

But when Lanci’s brother is struck by a lust to explore Halbron’s faraway realms, trouble comes to their boring little home. Desperate to restore peace to her fractured family, Lanci forms an unlikely alliance with Vamiro Kunhema, Spiramoote’s newly appointed magical protector who can’t stand pain, cold weather, or being sober. Together, Lanci and Vam must overcome the trials of a drunken ghost, a portal door that never opens to the same place twice, and, worst of all, their own crippling insecurities.

All the while, the doom of Spiramoote watches and waits. Taulslocke the Bonebark Devourer, a tree demon with an appetite for human flesh and bone, ravages the realm in the course of a single night. In his wake, he leaves a Last Survivor and an walk into his mouth, or live in despair under his rapidly growing shadow.

• ⁠TRIGGERS: violence, death, language, sex (not smut but not closed door either)
• ⁠Exact date of publication: December 21st, 2026
• ⁠ARC period underway; ARC copies available on request
⁠• ⁠Please submit reviews by December 15th if possible
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• ⁠AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Blurb:

The lone survivor of a massacre. The genetically enhanced immortal who spared only him. 

On an isolated planet where unity is as engineered as its people, two human lines nearly drove each other to extinction rather than acknowledge their shared humanity. The empire that maintained peace for the last century cannot afford to show the cracks in its control. But when Jesse's mining town is slaughtered under mysterious circumstances, it's clear ancient bigotries linger, and rebels now have access to magic or tech capable of wide-scale genocide. But Jesse only sees the Red Demon fleeing the scene of the crime, a bio-engineered immortal who should protect the empire instead of killing her own kin. Lost and alone, Jesse sets out on a path for justice that will bring him face to face with both his misconceptions—and new enemies. 

Faruhar, the so-called Red Demon, is not the mastermind Jesse expects. Guilt ravages her fragmented mind over crimes she cannot remember committing, and a code impressed on her by a few kind people she cannot forget. And when she and Jesse face off, hatred quickly turns to hesitation, as they together uncover a mystery that might unravel their world’s fragile peace.

A twisty science fantasy with tense fight scenes and a spicy romantic subplot.

Triggers:  Depictions of death (including children), graphic violence, one chapter of graphic gore, bioengineered animal death (they aren’t cute), profanity, graphic sexual content (M/F), off-page rape references, threats of sexual violence, and inappropriate physical contact.  

Publication Date: 11/20/26. Note that print was released in 2025 and only the audio production is releasing at that date, but I'm happy to share ebooks if folks prefer.

Delivery: ongoing, immediately after approval on netgalley (audio only) or the google form (any format, delivery through bookfunnel)

Date Reviews Due: Immediately on Netgalley, within 48 hours on the form. A Review is a review! While release date is helpful, I'm happy to approve anyone who intends to leave an honest review. ESPECIALLY looking to approve those of you who post about books here on Reddit. While I'm getting mentions on IG and Threads I don't see many here yet.

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Audiobooks on Netgalley - also includes links to booktrailers and things.
Request any format (Ebook or Audio via Bookfunnel, a few scratch and dent physicals availalble in the US) .

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I’m looking for ARC readers to review my novel.

My novel Sisters will soon be out, and I’d love for a few people to read it and share their honest thoughts.

I’ll send you a free copy (print, ebook / pdf). In return, I’d be so grateful for a short review on Amazon / Goodreads, even just a few lines.

Interested?
You can sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/977a057ed62b/trcvnz0eb6

Blurb:
Betty is dying.

Her four daughters, four lives intertwined, will face a challenge that seems insurmountable to them: the sickness of their mother.

As each sister copes with their mother’s death in her own way, tensions begin to arise between the four sisters.

How will they manage to handle them? Why have they been avoiding them for so long?

Read Sisters and immerse yourself in a profound story navigating through the complexity of family life.

Triggers: death, parents' death

Exact date of publication: 1 Dec 2026
Date of sending ARCs: as soon as Amazon can get them to you.
Date for ARC team to finish reading and submit reviews: 30 Nov 2026

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Hi all — I'm Jay, indie author. Looking for ARC readers for my cozy fantasy, out December 8.

Goblin glass never lies. Neither can the elf learning to make it.

Cael came to Korrvik with a mission, a hood, and a country that no longer exists. The elvish halls sent him to learn how the goblin glassmakers of Drovnik put a maker's true intention into glass, the craft that keeps an empire safe and that no elf is allowed to touch. By the time word reached him that his people had come apart, he was already behind a shop counter on Nettleway, wrapping decanters and keeping his ears covered.

Then Kazmir, the shop's master gaffer, nearly dies at the furnace, and Cael catches him without thinking. The glass rings. Cael has just done the one thing he was sent to steal and was never supposed to be able to do. Kazmir saw all of it. Instead of turning him in, he hands him a pipe.

Now Cael has a craft to learn, a retired orc patrolman who treats honesty as a courtesy, a delivery boy who is always right a little before anyone else, a salamander living in the furnace who is technically just a nuisance, and an apothecary down the street named Rinn, who keeps her notes in neat columns and whose compounds only hold in Kazmir's glass. For the first time since he left home, there is something he wants to keep.

But an elf teaching in a goblin shop is a crime for both of them, and someone from his old life has come looking. Sooner or later, Cael will have to decide what he owes the people who sent him, and what he owes the ones who took him in.

Forbidden Glass is a slow-burn cozy fantasy about found family, honest work, and the cost of telling the truth to people who have given you everything. Book one of The True Glass.

Triggers: None

Publication date: December 8, 2026
ARCs sent: November 1, 2026
Reviews due by: December 15, 2026

ARCs go out November 1 — sign up here: https://thetrueglass.com/arc/

AI disclosure: The writing is AI-assisted with heavy human editing; the cover's background image was AI-created, with human editing adding all other visual elements including text. Cover art: Jay D. Anderson.

The bonds of the world are fraying. Every stone, brick, and boulder, even the great mountains
themselves, are crumbling away, and in a few years there will be nothing left but dust.

The Eight Cities, sealed for centuries, are ignorant of the decay that eats away at their vast and
ancient walls. Lyna Veraine, one of the Gifted whose powers sustain their closed society, spends her
days training for a future that may never come, and her nights using her Gift to leap across the
rooftops and gaze out at the mysterious and deadly Wilds. The people of the Cities believe that
there is nothing but death beyond their walls, that they are alone in the world, but they are
wrong.

The nomadic Clans, refugees of a fallen civilization, have forged a secret existence in the Wilds
through their own versions of the Gifted powers. It is those powers that allow Daen, scion of the
Green Walker clan, to sense the creeping decay of the Waning. Tasked with finding the cause,
Daen's path will lead him to the Cities, and to Lyna.

As two societies face the slow death of their world, one blind to the danger, one helpless to prevent
it, two young people must come together to save them both.

Triggers

• Violence
• Descriptions of injuries/wounds (limited)
• Substance abuse (very limited)
• Human experimentation (limited)
• Abduction (limited)

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

ARC release date: November 9th 2026

Reviews Date: December 10th 2026

Publication Date: December 15th 2026

To get your ARC copy, follow this link and submit the form.

• https://jphiggsauthor.com/arcs

Thanks!

• Blurb for the book.

Humanity destroyed its own sex drive to survive a telepathic alien attack. The Batisseer Inquisition hunts down those in whom the drive still lives.

Vy works at an orbital hotel, far from the domes of Mars. She ends up in bed with an alien. Prrhan Anan, a young Inquisitor with a secret of his own and a very uncomfortable chastity belt, arrives to investigate a possible Carnal Crime.

Vy’s escape takes them both into space, toward a giant that has been calling to her since childhood.

A posthumanist dark comedy about sex, religion, and exploding space whales.

• TRIGGERS!! 
  • Explicit sexual content (human/alien)
  • Graphic violence
  • Body horror
  • Religious extremism and institutional torture
  • Self-flagellation / self-harm (religious context)
  • Genital injury
  • Asphyxiation
  • Death (including animal/creature death)
• Exact date of publication:
  • December 1, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team.
  • November 1, 2026
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by.
  • December 7, 2026
• Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC.
  • https://forms.gle/mcjgAvUMusSnC56C8
• AI disclosure: please choose
  • No AI was used in this work