Rules for Waking

What if you could pay off your debt while you sleep? The SleepWork Welfare Program helps you do just that, allowing people to lift themselves out of poverty by working while they sleep. Violet has an implant in her throat that controls her body when she sleeps. It guides her through minimum wage labor, and in the morning she wakes up to a paycheck. But one night, Violet witnesses her mother kill herself under the influence of the Program. Now Violet is trapped in a contract with the same program that killed her mother, and she is alone. It doesn’t help that her best friend, Mandy, has replaced her with a boyfriend. It helps even less that Mandy’s mother is the head of SleepWork. But least helpful of all is the fact that Violet is in love with her.

Cain

Mohamed Hossam, a deadbeat drifter who believes he has supernatural powers, returns to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, for the first time in years. After a home invasion leaves him wheelchair-bound, he has no choice but to live with his manipulative and volatile younger brother Jimmy Carter Hossam, a former child actor who makes Mohamed his right-hand man in his upcoming run for senator. As the election grows closer, old conflicts re-emerge, and Jimmy’s assignments for Mohamed become increasingly questionable.

Your Novel

Mabel lives alone on the Texas plains, trapped in an isolated life while her father wanders the plains of the great state looking for treasure. But her simple life is turned upside-down by a string of disasters that wipes out all she knows and leaves her with nothing to do but go search for her father and his gold. Given the choice between her father's gold and the discovery of the rest of the human race, where will Mabel's heart and instincts lead her? Which blood source runs deeper: close family ties or the ancient blood that runs through and connects us all? And what if they lead in very different directions?

Useful, Like a Two Dollar Bill

Useful, Like a Two Dollar Bill follows Stiff, a middle-aged, single, and aloof cemetery manager whose life has not gone according to plan. A local psychic by the name of Gummy gives Stiff a prophecy to right his unfulfilled life. This sets Stiff on a journey to find what he's been missing. Haunted by the powerful women of his past, Stiff dives into the seedy criminal underbelly of his hometown Emma, Louisiana where he meets a man brought back to life after a lightning storm, a matriarchal lumber and drug mogul, and ghosts of people whose lives have petered out all around him.

The Fool's Gold

Recently accepted to her dream school, Rosa Diosa embarks on a journey to become the first member of her family with a college degree. She soon discovers that Manhattan isn’t the city she expected... literally. Unseen, supernatural forces are at play and New York is revealed to her as the epicenter of an invisible war. With the help of her new friends and a snarky professor, Rosa must protect the people she loves, maintain her grades, and deal the daily challenges of living in a big city.

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Dogteeth

Mara, Cate, and Darcy are high school girls and best friends in a punk band that grows in popularity in the San Francisco underground scene. When Cate, Mara’s friends since childhood, develops a more obvious substance abuse problem, the band struggles to aid and cope. Meanwhile, Mara’s friendship with Darcy slowly becomes more than a friendship. Mara struggles to balance her intense female friendships with her own responsibilities and identity, all in the face of mounting teenage stardom. Eventually, things come to a head, and Mara has to decide whether or not to put herself first––and what it means. 

Into Memory

In Into Memory, memory is no longer something which resides in the past. Instead, it is a substance which can be extracted and consumed like a hallucinogenic drug, immersing consumers in a vivid and immediate past whose physical effects linger long after the images of that memory disappear. For Paul Mendez, these memories offer an escape from a present defined by grief, while former professional football prospect Calvin Long seeks to reconnect with a past too long stained by regret. For law school student Kara Douglas, selling erotic memories is simply a business transaction—that is until she considers removing the parts of her past that stand in the way of the future she desires. Set in the rolling hills of contemporary Tallahassee, Into Memory explores the relationships that we maintain, for better or worse, with our pasts and what we will do to avoid, restore, or change them.

Ruined

As a young boy, Frankie dreamed of spending the end of the world with his best friend and longtime crush, Stephanie. They’d planned for zombie apocalypses, alien attacks, and World War III, even furnishing a fort for themselves in the woods behind Frankie’s house. When the actual apocalypse touches down in the form of a humanity-altering, violence-inducing infection, nineteen-year-old Frankie is not upset that the world itself is ending, but that Steph no longer wants to spend her last days with him as planned. Alternating between memories of their childhood and scenes from the apocalyptic present, Frankie’s high expectations for the end of the world with Steph are contrasted with the realities of surviving the apocalypse without her.

Snakes Are Terrible At Running Away

This is a steampunk mystery about a runaway heiress shapeshifter pick-pocket (that’s one person, mind you), a Sherlock Holmes wannabe, his (sort of) fashionable seer sister, their perfectly ordinary friend, and a mysterious pair of clockwork earrings.

Dimodae

Dimodae grows up in Seattle, Washington, but as a teenager moves to Seoul, Korea where he must navigate a surreal and violent education system. As he struggles to make sense of the different worlds he inhabits, Dimodae experiences the sudden and horrific loss of his newly found best friend. A bildungsroman that takes place in three continents—America, Asia and Europe, Dimodae, upon graduating from high school, becomes a university student in London where he is haunted by his past and confronted with a question that many of us ask: Who am I, and where am I going?

The Genesis Initiative

The Genesis Initiative is the first part of a planned sci-fi and post-apocalyptic trilogy. Almost seventy years after alien invaders conquer Earth, two young men become entwined in the fight to liberate humanity. Genesis follows two protagonists, Kane and Niklas, in separate but connected stories. Kane fights his way out of a cruel and unforgiving life in Sonara — the remnants of southwestern United States — making new friends and confronting old enemies in the desert. Niklas, having lived most of his life in Kalthem, an isolated portion of Sweden, is forced into a mad dash towards the city of Rome while the tyrannical extraterrestrial government hunts him and his brother Erik.

Emma

For several years, eleven year old Dylan has been taking care of himself and his emotionally compromised mother Anna. In a home where Batman-story-time happens one night and alcohol-infused violence happens the next, Dylan does his best to conceal his mother’s irregularities from the outside world. When it becomes apparent to their extended family that Anna can no longer take care of herself—or her son—Dylan must go live with his aunt and uncle, far away from everything he knows. Isolated and confused, Dylan will attempt to make sense of what his mother is going through, all the while hoping that one day soon, he and Anna can return home and be together again.

Controlled Conversations

Emilia’s life as a telephone operator in the 1982 Poland of martial law, secret police and shortages goes on quietly in a small lakeside town until she overhears a conversation. Antek, a Solidarity treasurer, seeks the town’s calm to protect the opposition’s money. The quiet is shattered by Roman, a secret police major, who wants the cash—for himself, not the motherland—and is happy to kill for it if that’s what it takes. With their desires and fears at odds, what each decides to do will determine who survives, who escapes the autocracy and who dies.

The Buried Society

In a post-apocalyptic world turned to ice, black tiled walls, silence, and torture is all Athena Clark ever knew. As a child of Program X, that’s all she was allowed to know. When forced to take part in an expedition team to the surface, she must act against her morality to survive. Dark secrets unfold in the institute she was forced to live in for her entire life; Athena must choose between doing what is right and surviving to see the next day of the ongoing struggle.

The Second 10 Years

150 years in the future, American finds itself in the grips of a second Civil War. While the first Civil War was sparked over rights of African slaves, this Second Civil War was sparked over rights for artificial humans. Two such artificial humans - Helen and Jack - cycle through the second ten years of the conflict, grappling with what people on all sides of the conflict believe about their place in society and their humanity.

These Bad Things

The barren town of Klickitat, Washington is cursed. After moving across the country to help his mother take care of his ailing grandfather, Conrad Townsend stumbles into friendship with Victor Vigna, a charismatic young man with a reverence for the Black Angel: a haunting old statue that stands in the mountain cemetery rumored to possess the power to kill. The two boys and their cohorts raise hell in the canyon of Klickitat until Victor, inspired by the Angel, takes things too far. Four years later, Conrad is still living with the memory of that one summer and must learn to live with the things he has done.

Blood Omens

Blood Omens is a multiple, first-person narrative that centers around 16-year-old Alice Greaves and her last year alive. After being declared terminal, Alice wants to spend the last year of her life living as much as she can while completing her so-called “Fuck-It” list. A self-professed gamer, Alice decides to venture out one fateful, Friday night to get a fake ID after making a deal with an online friend in her gaming guild for one. What should have been a short errand quickly turns into something else when Alice unwittingly stumbles into the shadow-filled fringes of our society and the ancient, secret race of immortal creatures that inhabit it.

Era of Zodiac

The zodiacs are a group of 13 people who can travel back in time. Sana Hashimoto is the 13th zodiac and has the job of guiding the zodiacs. A faction of the zodiacs called the Nanashi that believe they can change the past for a better future. This worries the rest of the zodiacs because it is unknown what will happen if the current timeline is changed. Thus begins the fight to control time, and Sana's journey to stop the Nanashi before it’s too late. There's just one more problem: her father is the Nanashi leader.

The Dakota Experiments

At Ondi Systems—a prominent New York City biotech firm—molecular biologist and research scientist Amara Cayne, discovers a secret ‘Internet Room’ and a hidden agenda behind the firm’s gene modification experiments.

Tide

Tide follows the life of young David Aarons, who is consumed with the idea of heroes and a longing to leave a legacy through the written word. When he is ripped from his family at the start of WWII, David finds himself confronted with the switch from writing about heroes to becoming one. As he confronts courage and cowardice, both in the hearts of others and his own, he comes to learn what true heroism is.

The Heir of Koninia

Sheltae Oesria Teminre is the favorite servant of Corladon's Duchess, her mysterious past ignored by a community that adores her. But when the Heir of Koninia, the Princess Maya, singles her out as the One Hero prophesied to defeat the Enemy of Koninia, Sheltae must confront her origins in the Enemy's camp, and learn to make peace with the many different identities she's created to keep herself and her sisters safe. Aided by the strange Captain of the King's Guard Marcov Zierin, Sheltae uncovers who she was meant to be while discovering what it is she might become in order to defeat her oldest and most personal foe.