The Friends and Foes of Zenobia by Denise N Tapscott

The Friends and Foes of Zenobia
by Denise N Tapscott (Author), Candace Nola (Editor)
October 19, 2025
From the spellbinding novel Gypsy Kisses and Voodoo Wishes, meet Zenobia Jalio.

Many know her as a grandmother with a few magic tricks up her sleeve from the heart of New Orleans.

However, some believe she is a self-righteous witch, a dangerous judge, and a ruthless tormentor. Others know her as a trusted healer, savior, and kind friend.

History shows she was once the beloved queen of Palmyra.

Read this collection of her deeds, then decide--do you dare approach Zenobia's purple throne?

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Linda D. Addison
Kirk A. Johnson
John Palisano
Robin Reed
Steven Van Patten
Denise N. Tapscott

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Denise N. Tapscott is a California native. She left her heart in San Francisco, but somehow managed to leave her soul in New Orleans.

She is the author of the novel Gypsy Kisses and Voodoo Wishes and the sequel, Enlightening of the Damned. She recently released an anthology called The Friends and Foes of Zenobia and is currently working on a third book in the Zenobia series called Lotus Flowers of the South.

As an actress, she’s known as ‘Tasha’, a sassy vampire featured in the YouTube comedy series ‘The Vamps Next Door’.

Denise is also a co-host of the Beef, Wine, and Shenanigans podcast with fellow dark fiction writers Steven Van Patten, Marc Abbott, and Kirk A Johnson. The podcast is known for being both hysterical and insightful as it deals with a wide range of topics.

*headshot courtesy of Jay Courtney Photos

The Unswitchable by Yoav Blum

A heart-stopping blend of cyberpunk thriller and philosophical mystery that will leave you questioning the nature of identity itself.

The Unswitchable
by Yoav Blum (Author), Ira Moskowitz (Translator)
November 24, 2025
Genre: technothriller, crime, science fiction
What if everyone could become someone else—except you?

In a world where the Switch-Bracelet lets people instantly jump into any body, Dan Arbel is cursed with something unthinkable: he’s stuck being himself. While others hire stand-ins to do their workouts, commute in borrowed bodies, or vacation through the eyes of professional tourists, Dan remains trapped in his own skin—the only person on Earth who can’t switch.

That makes him valuable. And dangerous.

Working as a black-market courier in a society where identity is fluid, Dan thought his condition was just a lonely burden. Then a dying stranger in a borrowed body whispers impossible words—tying Dan to a secret buried deep in his past. Before he can process the revelation, assassins with ever-changing faces descend, hunting for something he carries without knowing.

In a world where anyone can be anyone, how do you know who to trust?

Dan’s unchanging identity, once his greatest curse, becomes the one constant in a deadly maze of deception. To survive, he must rely on the only thing no one else can claim anymore: his own irreplaceable self.

A heart-stopping blend of cyberpunk thriller and philosophical mystery that will leave you questioning the nature of identity itself.

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Yoav Blum is an author known for blending high-concept speculative ideas with gripping mystery, thriller, and philosophical depth. His work explores extraordinary situations—time travel, body switching, orchestrated coincidences—while grounding them in questions of identity, perception, fate, and free will. Beneath each thriller or puzzle lies a reflection on what it means to be human. His tone is introspective, suspenseful, and often playfully self-aware.

In the Blink of an Eye by Yoav Blum

 

In the Blink of an Eye
by Yoav Blum (Author), Galia Vurgan (Translator)
November 24, 2025
Genre: crime, mystery, hard science fiction, time travel
A locked room. A dead scientist. A time machine.

Professor Yonatan Brand, a world-renowned physicist, amateur magician, and hot-chocolate enthusiast, dreamed of unlocking time itself. He mapped every danger, every paradox, every temptation of hubris. But when his body is discovered inside his sealed study, Brand leaves behind one impossible crime—and a machine that might have killed him.

Enter Benjamin “Bunker” Kronovic, a washed-up actor, and Abigail Canaani, a reclusive librarian. They’re not seasoned detectives; their usual cases involve lost pets and unpaid bills. Now they must face something far stranger: a corpse, a time machine, and a circle of Brand’s childhood friends, each guarding secrets darker than the past itself.

As Bunker and Abigail stumble through a mystery where time is as treacherous as truth, they discover that the question isn’t just who killed Professor Brand, but when.

In the Blink of an Eye is a locked-room mystery with a science-fiction twist, blending razor-sharp suspense, mind-bending paradoxes, and two unlikely detectives you’ll never forget.

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Yoav Blum is an author known for blending high-concept speculative ideas with gripping mystery, thriller, and philosophical depth. His work explores extraordinary situations—time travel, body switching, orchestrated coincidences—while grounding them in questions of identity, perception, fate, and free will. Beneath each thriller or puzzle lies a reflection on what it means to be human. His tone is introspective, suspenseful, and often playfully self-aware.

Father of Monsters by Jonah Hunt

Father of Monsters
by Jonah Hunt 
Contemporary Fantasy, Mythology
December 9, 2025
A world once whole, now split in two. The flower patch painted a deep crimson hue. Eyes of flame gaze on red lock and key. For the brothers' misfortune, he is set free.

Anthony and Andrew Redson live an ordinary life on the outskirts of civilization. But their estranged father is anything but ordinary. When his most ancient and dangerous enemy attacks their childhood home, the twins are thrust into a world unlike any they've known. A world of gods, monsters, knights, and magic. Trapped upon paths of bloodshed and tragedy, the brothers' can rely upon no one. Not even each other. 

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 Jonah Hunt is the author of Father of Monsters. Since he was little, he's been enamored with dragons, magic, and storytelling. After ten years of washing dishes and housekeeping, he aims to make his dream of writing full-time finally come true.

He lives in one of Florida's reasonably sane neighborhoods with his two dogs.

Binding the Baron (Alchemy of Desire Book 1) by Charlie Lane

We're celebrating the release of Binding the Baron, a gaslamp romantasy by Charlie Lane! Get your copy today!

Binding the Baron (Alchemy of Desire Book 1) 
by Charlie Lane 
December 19, 2025
Genre: Gaslamp Romantasy

• Marriage of convenience
• Class difference
• He falls first
• "Mating" bond
• Love potion
• Found family

A magical society divided. A web of lies. On the eve of Queen Victoria’s reign, a forbidden love could tear it all down.

In a dark, West London bed chamber, Diana Chester sees the truth—she’s inherited her dying grandfather’s transcendent magic. And she’ll be killed for it. It should be heating up her cousin’s blood. He’s the heir. She’s an aberration. And he wants the magic that’s rightfully his, no matter what he must do to get it.

Diana runs.

And is caught by a disgraced alchemist prince.

Exiled from alchemist society, Temple Grant, Baron Knightly blames himself for his family’s downfall. With no connections and dwindling opportunities, he joins the glamoured, transcendent world of West London to make it right. But the King demands absolute loyalty: Temple must take a wife from their ranks or lose the king’s favor.

Diana Chester possesses the right pedigree to please the king. She’s intriguing, too, and with her own reasons for a hasty marriage.

A convenient binding.
Complicated by desire.
Made almost impossible by a city divided.

The might of metal. The glitter of glamours. Diana and Temple belong to different sides of London. Love can bind them, but is it enough to bridge their dueling worlds?

Forbidden love, class difference, and a marriage of convenience makes for binge-able reading in this historical fantasy romance brimming with magic and a touch of steampunk.

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USA Today Bestselling author Charlie Lane traded in academic databases and scholarly journals for writing steamy Regency romcoms like the ones she’s always loved to read. Her favorite authors are Jane Austen (who else?), Toni Morrison, William Blake, Julia Quinn, and Maya Rodale.

Charlie writes unique stories with unconventional characters who push against the rigid restrictions of their society. Officially, Charlie has a Ph.D. in literature with a focus on the nineteenth-century novel and children’s literature and answers to Professor. Unofficially, she’s a high-flying circus-obsessed acrobat. She lives with her own Colonel Brandon, two little dudes, and a furry fella in East Tennessee. 

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