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C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead)

Review: When the Devil by Emma E. Murray

April 13, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis “This sapphic, Southern tale of love, murder and liberation [is] addictive, satisfying, and an all-around must-read.” -George Dunn, FanFiAddict In When the Devil, Libby finds salvation in a new sapphic partner, homebrewed poison, and facing a God she no longer believes in. “In When the Devil, Murray’s lips curl back to reveal fangs. With sharp and southern […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, LGBTQ+, Psychological, Religious Horror, Reviews, Serial Killers Tagged With: #EmmaEMurray, #Novelette, #Sapphic, #ShortwaveMedia, #Shortwavepublishing, #WhentheDevil

Review: Undead Samurai by Baptiste Pinson Wu

April 12, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Japan, 1625 A new Drum Master has risen, and soon the nation will fall to the curse of Izanagi. Answering the call of his kotsuzumi, dead warriors abandon their peace to once again roam the land of the living, swinging rusty blades and chattering rotten teeth at his behest. Japan’s last hope lies in […]

Filed Under: Action & Adventure, Asian Inspired, Coming of Age, Fantasy, Historical, Horror Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Reviews Tagged With: #BaptistePinsonWu, #Japan, #Japanese, #UndeadSamurai, #zombies

COVER REVEAL: Teleportasm (Killer VHS Series Book 3) by Joshua Millican

April 11, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Cover illustrator: Marc Vuletich | SitePublisher: Shortwave Publishing | Site GoodReads: Add to shelf | SiteRelease Date: June 25, 2024Pre-Order Link: Direct & Amazon | Here Shortwave Shop link is the only way to get the Killer VHS rental shipping box and Membership! Blurb Four friends unearth a unique VHS tape that, when viewed, causes short-distance teleportation with euphoric after-effects, inadvertently […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, Cover Reveal, Recommendations Tagged With: #CoverReveal, #FearForAll, #Horror, #IndieHorror, #JoshuaMillican, #KillerVHS, #ShortwaveMedia, #Shortwavepublishing, #Teleportasm

Review: Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

April 10, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box “A disturbed bedtime story told by a broken child, this book is the monster that lives inside your closet.”—G​rady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling […]

Filed Under: Demons, Fear For All, Ghosts, Haunted House, Monsters, Occult, Psychological, Reviews Tagged With: #Delrey, #IncidentsAroundtheHouse, #JoshMalerman, #Netgalley

COVER REVEAL: Starlight Jewel (Gifts of the Auldtree #1) by E.L. Lyons

April 9, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Cover Artist: Samantha Slaughter Cover Designer: Shane PhillipsPublisher: Self-Published GoodReads: SHELFOrder Link: LINK | Siverstones Books Behold the newly re-covered Starlight Jewel! Blurb The human city of Minalav is renowned for its lavish balls, where nobles bring wealth from distant lands to the Starlight Palace, to be romanced—and robbed—by the half-human hybrids who live below the city. […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, Cover Reveal, Recommendations Tagged With: #CoverReveal, #ELLyons, #Fantasy, #GiftsoftheAuldtree, #StarlightJewel

Review: Under the Lesser Moon (The Marked Son #1) by Shelly Campbell

April 6, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis ‘Dragons once led our people across the wastelands, away from storms, and toward hunting grounds.’ That’s what the elders say, but eleven-year-old Akrist has squinted at empty skies his whole life. The dragons have abandoned them, and it’s Akrist’s fault. He’s cursed. Like every other firstborn son, he has inherited the sins of his […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Dragons, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: #Audible, #Audiobook, #RyanHaugen, #ShellyCampbell, #UndertheLesserMoon

Review: The Warden (The Warden Series #1) by Daniel M. Ford

April 5, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis A Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus and a Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Editors’ Pick for AmazonA Reactor Magazine Best of the Year Pick For fans who have always wanted their Twin Peaks to have some wizards, The Warden is a non-stop action adventure story from author Daniel M. Ford. There was a plan. She had the money, the connections, […]

Filed Under: Action & Adventure, Action Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy, Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Reviews, Sword and Sorcery Tagged With: #DanielMFord, #Sapphic, #TheWarden, #TheWardenSeries, #TorBooks

Intro to Indie Science Fiction + Representation

April 4, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Similarly to my original Intro to Indie posts (which you can check out here: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-fi) this is an idea I’ve been brewing for months. Not just where to start with sci-fi or underrated sci-fis, but sci-fi from authors you may have never heard of, authors that may not look, sound, or think like you, authors that […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, List, Recommendations, Self Published, Series Spotlight Tagged With: #Ace, #AlinaLeonova, #AndreaRoseWashington, #Asexual, #DepartDepart, #Disability, #Elendil, #Epilepsy, #GraveCold, #HaloScot, #IndianRep, #IndoCaribbean, #IntrotoIndieScfi, #JCMBerne, #Jewish, #LastHopeForHire, #LaurieJaney, #LGBTQ, #LGBTQrep, #MatthewWilcox, #MentalHealth, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, #PremeeMohamed, #Representation, #RoryAugust, #Sciencefiction, #Scifi, #ShannonKnight, #SimKern, #TheAnnualMigrationofClouds, #TheCrossing, #TheHeartbeatofaMillionDreams, #TheJourney, #TheLastGiftsoftheUniverse, #Trans, #WildFlowersElectricBeasts, #WistfulAscending

Intro to Indie Horror + Representation

April 3, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Similarly to my original Intro to Indie posts (which you can check out here: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-fi) this is an idea I’ve been brewing for months. Also feel free to check out my original Intro to Indie + Rep post for Fantasy here. Not just where to start with horror or underrated horrors, but horror from authors you […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, Historical, LGBTQ+, List, Mystery, Mythology, Novella, Recommendations, Self Published, Series Spotlight Tagged With: #AhmedHAlameen, #AnthonyEngebretson, #BadHandsBooks, #BestGhost, #BrianMcAuley, #CandyCainKills, #CJDaley, #CranberryCove, #EightNightmares, #EmmaEMurray, #EReyes, #GothicHorror, #HaileyPiper, #HarvestNights, #HungersAsOldAsThisLand, #Imago, #IntrotoIndieHorror, #Jewish, #KillerVHS, #Lumberjack, #MatthewZakharuk, #NativeAmerican, #NativeAmericanMythology, #NightmaresfromaDesk, #Representation, #ShortwaveMedia, #Shortwavepublishing, #StuartTudor, #TenebrousPress, #TheHouseonMoonCreekAvenue, #VeloxBooks, #Western, #WhentheDevil, #WhereDreamsAreLost, #WillieRHeredia, #ZacharyRosenberg

An Intro to Indie Fantasy + Representation

April 2, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Similarly to my original Intro to Indie posts (which you can check out here: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-fi) this is an idea I’ve been brewing for months. Not just where to start with fantasy, or underrated fantasies, but fantasy from authors you may have never heard of, authors that may not look, sound, or think like […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, LGBTQ+, List, Norse Mythology, Recommendations, Self Published, Series Spotlight Tagged With: #ADrownedKingdom, #AllegraPescatore, #ArmanisArfeinial, #Asian, #BaptistePinsonWu, #CMCaplan, #Disability, #FourofMercies, #HotelFen, #IntrotoIndieFantasy, #Lira, #MarieSinadjan, #MeriBenson, #Mi'kmaqTribe, #NativeAmerican, #PLStuart, #POC, #Representation, #SarahChorn, #SistahSamurai, #SkinThief, #SteveHughWesterna, #SuzanPalumbo, #TatianaObey, #TheFallIsAllThereIs, #TheLastGift, #TheNecessityofRain, #ThePropheciesofRagnarok, #TheWingsofAshtaroth, #Trans, #UndeadSamurai, #WhereShadowsLie, Fantasy, LGBTQ, Queer

Everything I read for SFINCS inaugural year!

April 1, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Now that the first ever year of SFINCS is drawing to a close, I wanted to put together my own post collecting all of the novellas I read throughout the competition. I will re-share each read’s full review, with links to the originals (linked on the actual word ‘review‘ if I shared one to the […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, List, Mystery, Novella, Read-A-Long, Recommendations, Self Published, Series Spotlight Tagged With: #AgeofRekindling, #AlexValdiers, #AMirageintheMemory, #AmyMarsden, #AndrMos, #ASorrowNamedJoy, #BadGrains, #BenjaminAeveryn, #Blackcap, #BladesoftheIce, #BSHGarcia, #CalBlack, #CaraNDelaney, #CrownandTide, #CthulhusCarPark, #DarkFantasy, #DarkHeartofIlmoure, #DouglasLumsden, #DSRitter, #Envoy, #Fantasy, #FromtheAshes, #Horror, #ItHastoStartSomewhere, #JeffWalker, #JoãoFSilva, #JPatriciaAnderson, #LegendsofElessia, #LuisFalcaoDeMagalhaes, #LukeTarzian, #MichaelRoberti, #Misadventurous, #NoelleNichols, #OccultHorror, #Rainfallen, #RaokeGang, #RuinsofSmoke, #SarahChorn, #Sciencefiction, #Scifi, #SFINCS, #ShatteredSpirits, #ShatteredSpiritsTheFallofIshcairn, #ShawnDrew, #SimonTull, #SpeculativeFiction, #SpeculativeFictionIndieNovellaChampiondhip, #StaffofJustice, #SusanneSchmidt, #TheChoiceofWeapons, #TheDemonsDagger, #TheHeartofQuinaria, #TheLongLostWar, #TheOrderoftheStrawberryCircle, #TheRevengeofThousands, #TheShadowsCreedSaga, #TheSlipSaga, #TheSmokesmiths, #TheWorldMakerParable, #WereAllMonstersHere, #YourBloodandBones

COVER REVEAL: No Happy Endings: A Grimdark Anthology by Armanis Arfeinial & Kieran Ferrara

March 31, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Cover illustrator: Miblart | SitePublisher: Self-PublishedRelease Date: November 12, 2024Pre-Order Link: Amazon GoodReads: Add to Shelf Organized and arranged by Armanis Arfeinial and Kieran Ferrara, with editing from Kieran Ferrara Blurb Where fantasy and science fiction collide, seven gripping stories unfold, each filled with no shortage of grit, and happy endings are wanting. From barren wastelands […]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Spotlight, Cover Reveal, Self Published, Short Stories Tagged With: #AdamConlon, #Alijon Smith, #Anthology, #ArmanisArfeinial, #BenSherman, #CoverReveal, #DarylBishop, #Grimdark, #KieranFerrara, #MarcEmerson, #Miblart, #NoHappyEndings, #SierraTrabosci

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