K.S. Brooks is an award-winning novelist and photographer, author of twenty-two titles, and co-administrator of Indies Unlimited. Brooks’ feature articles, poetry, and photography have appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, and other publications both in the U.S. and abroad. Continue reading “Featured Selections by K.S. Brooks”
Category: Featured Collection
Featured: The Matt Archer Series
Looking for a unique, monsterly-fun YA paranormal? Love rooting for scrappy heroes facing impossible odds? Want a YA urban fantasy free of vampires, werewolves and fairies? The Matt Archer series is a fast-paced, action-packed romp with funny asides, a little bit of romance and tons of suspense. Follow Matt as he grows–in some cases, literally–into the monster hunter, soldier and man he’s destined to become. An unlikely hero. A dangerous double-life. An awesome reading experience.
The Matt Archer Series by Kendra C. Highley
Coming in January 2014: Matt Archer: Bloodlines, book 4 in the Matt Archer Series.
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Matt Archer: Monster Hunter (Matt Archer #1)
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Fourteen-year-old Matt Archer is forced to kill a strange creature to save his uncle. Now Matt’s part of a world he didn’t know existed, working with a covert military unit dedicated to eliminating walking nightmares. Faced with a prophecy about a looming dark war, Matt soon realizes his upcoming Algebra test is the least of his worries.
His new double life leaves Matt wondering which is tougher: hunting monsters or asking Ella Mitchell for a date?
Matt Archer: Blade’s Edge (Matt Archer #2)
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When Matt Archer was fourteen, he discovered monsters are real. As if that wasn’t enough to go on for a few decades, Matt also found out that he’d been chosen to hunt those monsters–with a sentient, supernatural knife.
When stories of decimated towns and hordes of zombies start pouring into the Pentagon from Afghanistan, Matt knows he’ll be called up soon. Between the new mission and the knife’s increasing control over his mind, Matt wonders if he’ll survive long enough to take his driver’s exam.
Matt Archer: Legend (Matt Archer #3)
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Now Matt’s sixteen and the war has cost him more than he ever thought it would. Then things get worse: the next lunar eclipse cycle is starting, a prominent physicist has gone missing, and Matt’s best friend is thinking about quitting the team. If he loses Will—after everyone else he’s lost—Matt’s not sure how he’ll fight alone.
As the source of his nightmares starts to creep out of the shadows, Matt knows he’ll need all the help he can get…because being alone could prove deadly.
Make 2014 a Pish-tastic Year!
Celebrate every day in 2014 with Mr. Pish, the traveling terrier! Adorable photos and engaging text adorn each month. Reading, writing, and pet-related dates are noted throughout the year to help promote outdoor learning and literacy. Join Mr. Pish on a romp through 2014!
2014 Hanging Calendar
Available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
2014 Desk Planner
Mr. Pish the traveling terrier will help you stay organized in his own cute way with this 13-month personal planner/calendar loaded with photos and commentary from the precious and adventurous pup!
Available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
Featured Collection: Melinda Clayton’s Cedar Hollow Series
Melinda Clayton’s Cedar Hollow series takes readers on a journey into mid-century Appalachian life, with complex and flawed characters rendered as hard and real as the edge of a knife. Set in the rustic and rugged mountain country, Clayton’s writing gives voice to the anguish and triumphs of the human spirit and the challenges of poverty and prejudice in a lawless land.
Appalachian Justice
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Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different. In 1945, when Billy May was fourteen years old and orphaned, three local boys witnessed an incident in which Billy May’s sexuality was called into question. Determined to teach her a lesson she would never forget, they orchestrated a brutal attack that changed the dynamics of the tiny coal mining village of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia forever.
A 2013 finalist for the University of North Carolina-Wilmington’s Synergy Program, a Global Ebook Gold Medal Winner in 2013, and Sapphic Readers Book Club Book of the Year in 2011 (under a different imprint), Appalachian Justice is a work of southern fiction that delves into social issues such as poverty, domestic violence, misogyny, and sexual orientation. Ultimately, however, Appalachian Justice delivers a message of hope.
Return to Crutcher Mountain
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No one with Jessie’s history of childhood trauma could make it through unscathed, and Jessie is no exception. At the age of thirteen, on a stormy night on top of Crutcher Mountain, Jessie was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Little does she know, Billy May’s dying wish may just bring her the peace she so desires.
As Jessie searches for answers, she must open her heart to the truths she discovers and place her trust in a lonely little boy. It’s only by doing so that she can save herself.
Entangled Thorns
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Beth Sloan grew up hard, surrounded not only by homemade stills and corn liquor. Her impoverished family more often than not preferred life on the wrong side of the law.
After the mysterious death of her brother Luke, seventeen year old Beth and her younger sister Naomi ran away from home, never to return. As the years passed, Beth suppressed the painful memories and managed to create a comfortable, if troubled, life with her husband Mark and their two children in an upscale suburb outside of Memphis, Tennessee.
But the arrival of an unwelcome letter threatens to change all that.
Now Beth must risk everything to face the truth about what really happened to Luke that long ago summer night.