Mark Thomas - Designer
Cardiff, United Kingdom
A highly collaborative designer, producing impactful covers, interiors and marketing images for a wide range of genres. I cannot scuba dive.
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>SPECIAL NOTICE< I'm currently on a break until the end of August 2019, but will back at work thereafter :-) >END SPECIAL NOTICE<
A book cover and interior format designer, with many (many!) years of multi-discipline creative experience in graphics, illustration, photography, video & marketing.
Happy working for either print or e-book / digital, I like direct, punchy and – occasionally – intriguing (in my book covers!). Oftentimes my work is character-focussed and photographically-based.
On occasion, some of my work may now include little bits of CGI. (Oh, my giddy Aunt... '.' )
Client-centric, highly collaborative and quality driven: your needs are mine to fulfil (and are normally fulfilled quickly, too).
All of my design offers - whether for e-book, print, or both - always include promotional images such as simulated 3D book covers, on-tablet device renders. Nice!
I provide full interior formatting services for both print and ebook; whether with cover design or just interiors only. For such work, a first interior proof is normally back to the client within 2-3 working days from receipt of manuscript.
I can also advise on technical matters, marketing options and even book titles and taglines, if needs be.
My motto: always a pleasure, never a chore. *nods*
:-)
Full Service List:
Any or all of the following services can be commissioned either together, or totally separately from each other (a good example here: if another designer is already doing your book cover design, I’m totally happy to do the interior formatting elements…)
• Print book cover design
• Ebook cover design
• Print book interior formatting & design
• Ebook interior formatting & design
• Book promotional images (ie: simulated images of your finished print book or ebook)
• Author websites: I'm now providing author websites. These include various pages, image galleries, blogs, contact forms and more. Website packages include design, hosting and support for the first year, with further annual support available on the site's anniversary. Ask for details!
Languages
English
Fiction
African American fiction
Crime & Mystery
Historical Fiction
Horror
Science Fiction
Thriller
Women's Fiction
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Work experience
Designer / Owner
Self-employed
July, 2016
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Present
(about 3 years)
I own and run my own busy book design and media illustration company, providing a full range of services to traditional and self-publishers. Services include interior and cover design, marketing imagery and adaptable author website design.
Head of Creative Services
Visit Wales
August, 2012
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June, 2015
(almost 3 years)
Creative Services Manager
Visit Wales
May, 2011
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August, 2012
(over 1 year)
Portfolio (83 selected works)
Code of War
Tom Shepherd
SECURITY NO LONGER EXISTS.Technology's proliferation is complete: cars that control themselves, devices that control your homes, and the death of privacy.Jen Yates is someone who's learned to manipulate these systems. She's a skilled hacker, and her specialty is Cyber Kinetic Eliminations. Her task: killing from behind a computer screen.With a growing success rate, she's given the ultimate tar... read more
Symposion: Parts I to III
Daniel Watkins
Lord Malcotte, a quixotic English aristocrat, is upon a journey of reinvention. After his gardeners and all but one of their wives have been consumed by strange and monstrous worms, the young nobleman sets out to invite a somewhat unlikely bunch of symposiasts to Malcotte Hall in the hope that they might provide advice, support and good company in difficult times. One of the gardener's wives d... read more
The Restoration of Michael Danvers (The Danvers Historical Series Book 1)
Catherine DePasquale
Chicago, 1940Michael Danvers is the newly-hired attorney of a major law firm. He is a rational man, dealing in facts and evidence. He is also an atheist, losing his faith as a teenager during the Scopes trial of 1925. With the aftereffects of World War I and the Crash of 1929 all around him, Michael is certain that God can’t exist. Haunted by the death of the woman he loves, and troubled by th... read more
Bringing Hell: A Tom Ramsay Novella
Larry Igbon
Trained to kill. Fueled by rage. On the warpath for revenge… Tom Ramsay’s two decades of service made him a one-man war machine. So when he learns of his brother’s tortuous murder, the injured Royal Marine Commando burns for full-blown vengeance. With a London crime gang in his sights, Ramsay refuses to be satisfied until he pays back every last drop of blood.Ignoring warnings from the suspici... read more
Housework!: How to do it. And how to share it!
J. O. Lambert
Do you or someone you know need housework mentoring? If you find housework difficult, if you just don’t get it, Housework! is a great place to start. It’s like having your own personal housework trainer…only this is clearer, shorter and more polite! Housework! is for beginner Yellow Belts, whether living alone or sharing a home. No prior know-how is needed. And it’s for housework Black Belts l... read more
Out of the Night
Jonathan Blazer
A father protects his family; he will lose it all for his family. “My name is James, and I was a computer guy all my life. I was the best in the world at solving problems. I had a loving wife and a beautiful daughter in every sense of the word. They were mine, and I was theirs. My name is James. I don’t want to remember anymore. I am a ghost of the man I used to be. I—we—are the ghosts of what... read more
Let In the Dark
Richard Chanter
Jimmy Hollister’s happy life is shattered when he wakes up battered and bruised in an unfamiliar place.With empty pockets and a serious case of amnesia, Jimmy’s priority is to find out what’s happened to him.But the more he uncovers, the further away from his old life he gets. What seems inconceivable starts to become reality.Jimmy soon discovers that he’s lost something far more precious than... read more
A successful life with autism is being wholly autistic, while also living a full rewarding life in a world not set up for autism. This book answers the "why" behind autism: helping autism make sense. This book also provides autism-based solutions for autism-based problems. It bridges the gap between the autistic and non-autistic worlds. Paul Meier's approach to autism is less that of a therapi... read more
The After
Chip Schorr
The United States - as we know it - is no more. Monetary experiments by the Federal Reserve and other central banks - exercised in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis - have resulted in the destruction of the World's economy. Much of the former US has descended into chaos. But, in the South and Midwest, a new and powerful Nation has emerged: The Republic of Texas. The Lone Star State stand... read more
The Throwaways
LS Hawker
Just because everyone thinks you're nothing doesn't mean you've got nothing to lose.George Engle’s lived in the long shadow of his superstar twin brothers since they died in a freak accident when he was thirteen. Now, in the spring of 1986, George and his childhood friends are living lives they never wanted. It's easy to sleepwalk through insignificance, until a second freak accident jolts the... read more
Death Will Find Me (A Tessa Kilpatrick Mystery, Book 1)
Vanessa Robertson
Scotland, 1920.Meet Tessa Kilpatrick; heiress and war-time covert operations agent. Finding her husband - the feckless James - with another woman at a 1920s country house party, she demands a divorce. But when his body is discovered in a lonely stone bothy the next morning, Inspector Hamish Rasmussen sees Tessa as his only suspect.Back in Edinburgh, links to another murder convince Rasmussen o... read more
Convergence
Ann Gregory
Claire Laine is in serious danger. Her affluent employer has given her one job: steal a rare book from a monastic library. American businessman Isaac Knighton is steps ahead of her, however, and his unintentional interference reveals a plot by Claire’s fellow agent, Nazi idealist Karl Wessel, to secure a technology so powerful that it could forever change the course of the world. Appearances a... read more
THE BOY FROM THE PAST
Stephen Greig
An intriguing and captivating mystery novel.Harold Appleby has not seen his childhood friend for over half a century, yet when he spots a young runner on the beach early one morning, it could almost be his old friend incarnate.He treats it as one of life's little idiosyncrasies, but when his wife, Mary, a celebrated but now semi retired psychiatrist, is assigned a boy on psychiatric referral -... read more
Could God change the world through seemingly average, ordinary people like you and me?One Thousand Risks is proof that Jesus can set you up to discover adventure in abundance. With an all-out-fight against comfort, fear, and living half-heartedly present, One Thousand Risks will help you know how to experience a super-powered life of spiritual significance. Your problem is fear––mostly the fea... read more
Arcam
Jason Minick
DCI Jack Robson believes he is hunting a kidnapper…Away from his posting in London, Robson is asked to lead an investigation in the south west of England. But what begins as abaffling local kidnapping mystery, quickly escalates into something far more sinister.In pursuit of the perpetrators, DCI Robson joins forces with Inspector Emma Wilson and the rest of the regional CID team. Together, the... read more
The Prisoner of Thiago
Jamie D'Antioc
A touching tale of determination, female friendship and love against all odds. Inspired by a true story, The Prisoner of Thiago is a gripping historical novel that lays bare the unimaginable suffering and fear endured by the Moriscos of Spain during the sixteenth century. At the heart of the novel is Zaira, a spirited Morisco girl, who refuses to yield to her Catholic oppressors. Separated fro... read more
Vigil
P.B. Obeng
Lemalia is the home of the wonder metal, Duritium, that has revolutionized modern society. When the newly elected president of this small island nation is gunned down, it creates a power vacuum filled by his opponent that sets off a chain of events that reshapes the geopolitical landscape.A world away the U.S. government launches its first superhuman defense initiative, Vigil. The group is com... read more
An original and exciting story containing 3,000 interactive word definitions along with their synonyms and antonyms, in context, on the pages (suitable for CEM and GL 11 Plus).Claire and Ben are ordinary schoolchildren. Life is predictable … until one day when everything changes – forever.Claire finds a mysterious letter asking her to travel to a strange place, alone. Her sister is in danger. ... read more
The Western Establishment has abandoned its Judaeo-Christian roots and adopted an increasingly atheistic stance. Some members of this elite openly ridicule any who believe that life was not due to random processes. Are they right? Is it really that stupid to believe that life might have been the result of intelligent initiation, or is such belief the only rational response to the data?This is ... read more
White Dove (Shadows in Drab and Green Book 1)
Katrina Nowak
A novel of love and war, of legacy and fate, of parallel and colliding worlds. Nora McMahon is a young Irish girl raised by her grandfather on a County Clare tenant farm on the eve of the Great War. Her parents were executed following a failed local rebellion and she inherits their penchant for adventure and their dreams of a free Ireland. She is a witness to the radical political change overt... read more
Dubai : An Insider's Guide
Sujit Shome
Dubai Dreamers .....Many people view Dubai as the place to achieve their greatest dreams: bask in 365 days of sunshine; bag a tax free salary, with huge savings potential; access a red tape free, entrepreneurial economy; create an ideal base to launch the offshore family unit; enjoy a fabulous Dom Perignon champagne breakfast lifestyle in a beautiful Jumeirah beachfront home…All of that is pos... read more
Depression is a constant tug-a-war of your mind and body fighting to live or die. In some spaces there is a stigma where people who deal with depression are shamed when they seek therapy or take medication. The prayers in this book are an invitation to live with depression out loud and to use prayer as a safe place to vent and bring your real self to God. It is not to suggest that you can pray... read more
What do your dating life, financial illiteracy, and the characterisation of Mickey Mouse have in common?These are all factors deeply affected by the environments we developed in as a species. In this thought-provoking and controversial book, financial journalist Richard Amador examines the evolution of human psychology in order to explain the development of trade, civilisation and world financ... read more
Nowhere to hide...What should have been a relaxing vacation in Paris turns into another hopeless situation for expert criminology consultant Leopold Blake. Caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless assassin and on the run from the police for a murder he didn't commit, Blake and his team must fight to clear his name before it's too late.As enemies close in from all sides, Blake is about to learn w... read more
Swift. Silent. Deadly.Leopold Blake, expert criminology consultant for the FBI, had his weekend all planned out - and it didn't involve dealing with a murdered senator, a high-profile kidnapping, and at least three near-death experiences. Three politicians have been murdered in as many weeks, all expertly dispatched, and only Leopold can get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, as all hell brea... read more
Playtime's over...Expert criminology consultant Leopold Blake is having yet another bad week. While tracking a psychopathic serial killer through the streets of London, the reclusive investigator realizes with chilling certainty that history is about to repeat itself - with devastating consequences.Where Scotland Yard and MI5 have failed, Leopold must find a way to hunt down and apprehend a ru... read more
Ratio (A Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers, Book 4)
Nick Stephenson, Kay Hadashi
The Deadliest Game...When an old acquaintance calls in a favor, Leopold Blake finds himself unable to refuse - despite his best efforts. A major political conference is hitting Seattle, and presidential hopeful Jack Melendez is fresh out of bodyguards - a problem that Leopold is in a unique position to remedy.For June Kato, acclaimed neurosurgeon and martial arts expert, a weekend in Seattle w... read more
Karma Wears Versace
Rod Palmer
Atlanta doesn’t have room for both an incomparable serial killer and the phenomenal homicide detective, Aisha Sawyer. The showdown is set with the killer’s first feat: murder by viral disease, contaminating a hip hop icon and a med student. The investigation sends Sawyer and her whole-snack partner after a logical mark, a surgeon with motive and the resume to fit the crime. Sawyer, however, de... read more
Sisterly Advice
Patricia Panara
Sister Lee Naughton is a young Roman Catholic nun teaching health and psychology at the Divine Mercy Academy for girls in South Buffalo. She gains sudden stardom after being asked to host a relationship advice show on a local radio station. Lee’s success makes her the toast of the town even as it brands her the black sheep of her religious order. As her life takes an unexpected turn, Lee must ... read more
Buffalo Winged
Patricia Panara
Nikki Holloway would rather have a root canal than a date…After a nightmare wedding reception and a honeymoon trip with friends instead of a husband, Nikki wants nothing more than to be left alone – forever. Buffalo Winged is a multi-generational story set in Buffalo, New York. The themes of love and loss, betrayal and forgiveness are echoed in their parents’ generation as former friends quest... read more
Paper Cups
Melina Twyman
24-year-old Emerson Delong impulsively decides to pack her bags and move halfway across the world. She has no idea what to expect. Her only concern is getting as far away as possible from the damage she caused back in Texas. You see, Emerson isn’t like most girls her age...She’s an alcoholic.Upon arriving in Melbourne, Australia, Emerson has to do everything in her power to make sure she doesn... read more
Bothy Tales: Footsteps in the Scottish hills
John Burns
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GREAT OUTDOORS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018John D Burns is an award winning mountain author:I can move only with the aid of barrels of anti-inflammatory gel, sticking plasters and real ale anaesthetic. Martin and I descend from hours of walking to the small town of Middleton-in-Teesdale. I walk, stiff legged, into the campsite office and a plump, middle-aged woman looks up from he... read more
SHORTLISTED FOR TGO BOOK OF THE YEARThis is a book for everyone who truly loves the mountains and wild places. John Burns takes you on a journey of over forty years from the hills of Britain to adventures in the Rocky Mountains of USA and Canada. His love for the Scottish Highlands and his intimate knowledge of its wild glens and distant peaks means that this book will resonate with anyone who... read more
Llywelyn
Michael Hill
Dyffryn bendithion daw: … a beautiful valley in Wales, loved by Llywelyn, where he has lived and farmed all his life, but is now losing possession. It has been taken for a reservoir. He has fought all he can, but to no avail, and lost his wife and son in the process. He may also be losing his mind.Nerys, Llywelyn’s daughter, feels alone and isolated, caring for her young son Davie, trying to b... read more
Living in the Middle: Slavery and Beyond Series
A. Robert Allen
Rejected by his race. Hunted by the Klan. Yet, standing up to hatred is still the only choice.New York, Early 1900s: Jimmy Montgomery comes from old New York money and grows up among the Manhattan elite. At the age of eighteen, Jimmy discovers he's been living a lie. He follows his roots back to Tulsa, Oklahoma to answer the burning questions in his life. Who is he? What is he? Where does he b... read more
What if the only way to survive your life is to go back in history and right the wrongs of two other men’s lives?Patrick Walsh finds himself in this precarious position as his time travel takes him from modern day New York City to:˃˃˃ The French Caribbean in 1790Biracial plantation owner Patrice Beaumont is known as a “kinder” slave master and claims to be committed to ending slavery, but his ... read more
A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series
A. Robert Allen
A former slave gets his dream job working on the bridge project, but finds himself at war with the gangs of Irishtown. Will the corrupt Metropolitan Police save or sacrifice him? ˃˃˃ 1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn: The free Black community of Weeksville becomes home to an unusually small boy and his mother who fled Manhattan during New York’s Draft Riots. When his mother succumbs to her injuries, t... read more
Minetta Mornings: Prequel to Minetta Lane
A. Robert Allen
A mother and her stepson assume control of the toughest neighborhood in the city. Their power as well as the survival of their family will be tested. Are they up to the challenge?1879 New York City- Juba, a former slave from New Orleans, and her seventeen-year-old daughter move to Minetta Lane, the most dangerous block in city where both the roads and the rules curve in unusual directions. Str... read more
Day Zero (ENDPOINT Book 1)
J.W. Griffin
A final shadow swallows the Sun and Earth, and in mere minutes, humanity is erased from the cosmos—all save one.When Ryan McBain regains consciousness, he is drifting alone in orbit. He soon comes to realize that life as he knew it is gone. In a handful of minutes, a savage force destroys his home planet, and a dark evil consumes his host star. As he is left in darkness and injured near death,... read more
Endpoint: Book 2: New Life
J.W. Griffin
The Endpoint series continues as Ryan and Violet make first contact with a god-like mega-neutron star. The encounter draws them into a veritable star chamber and a questionable welcome. Using images from Ryan’s own memory, the otherworldly encounter conveys a message and a path to discover long-lost technology.Meanwhile, the Daerk rampage drives on, and countless stellar structures have fallen... read more
GATEKEEPERS TRILOGY (The Fog Chronicles Book 1)
Virginie Bonfils-Bedos
A fast-paced and surprising adventure set against a backdrop intertwining parallel universes with contemporary issues, Gatekeepers is a captivating tale of friendship and self-discovery. If you are a fan of reading science fiction, alternative reality and Slipstream books then this is right up your street. With this first exciting installment of The Fog Chronicles series, Haruki Murakami meets... read more
FOGBOUND: Gatekeepers I (The Fog Chronicles)
Virginie Bonfils-Bedos
‘Maybe it is a change in temperature or a rise in humidity,’ Yoko and her housemates think upon noticing the mysterious fog enshrouding their home that Sunday morning. However, this occurrence is not just an anomaly in the weather. Crossing the mist, they find themselves transported to an unfamiliar and timeless forest. The search for explanations using our modern day oracle, the Internet, onl... read more
POWER: Gatekeepers III (The Fog Chronicles)
Virginie Bonfils-Bedos
‘Maybe it is a change in temperature or a rise in humidity,’ Yoko and her housemates think upon noticing the mysterious fog enshrouding their home that Sunday morning. However, this occurrence is not just an anomaly in the weather. As two different worlds connect, the encounter brings opportunities and hope for the future, alongside fears and dangers on an individual and global level. The Gate... read more
Because of You: A Novel
James Miller
We all have the power to change another’s life!For Rigby Holland, life is vibrant and exciting. She’s living her dream, attending college in the Pacific Northwest and making plans to eventually manage her family’s agribusiness. But a ticking time bomb lurks in her idyllic existence—a disease that will soon upend every aspect of her life and test her and her family in ways they could not have i... read more
Glasdrum
Fiona MacBain
One town. Five women. Dark events.Life is not easy for the women of Glasdrum...A skeleton is unearthed, too many walkers are falling to their deaths off mountain cliffs, and the local pub doesn’t know how to make a decent raspberry daiquiri. Single mother Megan is a hill runner and cannabis dealer, an unlikely friend of well-to-do Finella, whose confident appearance hides struggles with her un... read more
Daughter, Disappeared
Fiona MacBain
Love, death, culture clash, escape... an emotional roller-coaster for anyone who loves a hard-hitting 'women in jeopardy' thriller.1994: Jane has no idea of the horrors in store when she plunges into a new life in North Africa with her recently discovered sister, Crystal. When she falls in love with Ali, she believes happiness is within her grasp. But Ali persists in digging into secrets that ... read more
The Chosen Warrior
Hudson Jr. Stevenson
From the moment the Lord decided to bless us with his presence is the day the world changed.Name me another warrior who has done what he has done at the early age of 25. In Stevenson, I see bravery, I see pride, I see excellence, I see change.For his brief time on this earth he has put the police in their place, started a movement in Atlanta to remove confederate symbols, helped our people in ... read more
Redemption
John Erickson
THE BOY. Far out to sea. Sudden, rogue waves onthe horizon. The sight stunned FreddyHorncastle, just waking.Wait – could that be Tommy, their youngest? Wherewas his wife; the lifeguards, other beachgoers? Hadeveryone left?Freddy later swore to police that he never saw a boyin the water, never tried to signal, get help. Therewere no other witnesses close by. When the waveshit, he prayed his fam... read more
The Closer (Ceiling Smashers) (Volume 1)
Shaz Kahng
The decision was irreversible. . .Vivien would become either the most remarkable female executive in the industry, or the biggest failure. Vivien Lee has spent her entire consulting career helping CEOs look good, so when she finally has the chance to go after her dream of running a business, she grabs it. A lifelong athlete, Vivien arrives at the Smart Sports campus in Portland, Oregon and is ... read more
Depression threw him off course. A detour set his wilder side free.An amusing and life-affirming travel memoir, concluding with tips for managing depressive episodes.Keith Foskett refused to let his dark mood define his limitations. Unknowingly suffering with depression, he took to hiking the wilds of Scotland to face the inner demons that threatened to gnaw him to the bone. From the craggy Hi... read more
Between desert and sky, snow and sun, where few have ventured before, one hiker takes on the six-month challenge of a lifetime.Short-listed for Outdoor Book of the Year by The Great Outdoors Magazine.There are few who can walk a thousand miles in Keith Foskett’s shoes. One can easily forgive such unwillingness considering the places his legs have carried him.Across arid, desolate expanses of s... read more
Sometimes, the best adventures happen by chance.El Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way, is the fabled path that weaves through French and Spanish countryside to its hallowed destination at Santiago de Compostella.Thousands attempt to hike its entirety each year: some succeed, many fail.One man struggling at a crossroads in life meets a stranger in a Greek bar who points him in the right ... read more
Amazing journeys begin with a single step, but only the determined keep hiking.Short-listed for Outdoor Book of the Year by The Great Outdoors MagazineEvery year thousands of adventurers attempt to hike all 2,180 miles of the gruelling and unforgiving Appalachian Trail. Around five months later, beaten and bruised, those who finish are known as thru-hikers.Keith Foskett weaves a true-life tale... read more
After The Flames
Roderic Grigson
A bitter, angry mechanic sits in an old Ford Escort parked in the central bus terminal during evening rush hour, knowing he’s about to die in the next few minutes. Devastated by what’s happened to his young family in his home town, Nadesan doesn’t want anyone living in the capital city to ever feel safe again. A local traffic policeman angrily raps on the car window, gesturing at him to move t... read more
THE SULLEN HILLS (SACRED TEARS TRILOGY Book 2)
RODERIC GRIGSON
Civil war is threatening to tear the island nation of Sri Lanka apart.One of David’s intelligence operatives’ stumbles across a plot by a group of tea estate workers to establish an independent state in the middle of the country. David, on active duty in the north, must convince his superiors that the threat in the hill country is real but then something goes terribly wrong. Priyani in her rol... read more
Three Thriller Boxset
Ted Galdi
Get Three Amazon #1 Bestselling Thrillers in One Kindle Package Do you like fast-paced thrillers with shocking endings?Do you like main characters with big secrets?Do you like novels that appeal to both your mind and your heart? Then you’ll love these three hit books by Ted Galdi, an Amazon #1 bestselling author who’s won Reader Views and Readers’ Favorite awards, and been featured by FOX, ABC... read more
What Really Happened to Steve Nathan
Mary Marchese
While going through her elderly mother’s things, Lindsey Casselton discovers a photo of her mother in the arms of a stranger. The photo is dated nine months before Lindsey was born. The father she grew up with is dead and her mother has Alzheimer's, which leaves Lindsey no option but to embark on a life-changing journey to learn about her birth father—a CIA operative in Vietnam, who went missi... read more
We all want our students and children to reach out and grab sparks of knowledge like fireflies in the night.Capturing and admiring these fireflies of knowledge takes the right environment for them to flourish. This book illustrates ten elements of building authentic tasks in the classroom through rich narratives and engaging projects. These elements encompassed into WE CAPTURED will have your ... read more
「信長殿、その額にある刀傷ですが、いかがなされたのですか」桜の脳裏に鮮やかに蘇る恐ろしい出来事。十三年前、身を挺して自分を護ってくれた少年の姿が瞼に焼き付いて離れない。その少年は位の高い侍の子供らしく、二回りも大きな牢人に果敢に挑み傷を負った。尾張の統一を目指す織田信長は敵陣の攻略と自身の警護を強化する為、甲賀から敵将の暗殺を任とするくノ一桜隊を雇い入れる。那古野城の天守で初めて桜に会った時、何故か初めてでは無いような不思議な感覚にとらわれる。透き通るような大きな瞳は、遠い昔心を惹かれた美しい少女の面影に重なる。「殿の首は誰にも渡さぬと、今此処でわたしに約束して下され」 目の前にいる女は“この戦に勝て”と迫っているのだ。今川義元が率いる圧倒的な兵力を誇る遠征侵略軍を前に自らの死の覚悟をしていた信長は返事に窮した。 「わしと一緒にいてくれるか」絹の襦袢の下から現れた淡い薔薇色の裸体は... read more
Ripples
RJ Sundean
Colin used to have it all until the disappearance of his wife a decade ago caused him to gradually lose everything. The only thing he didn't lose is also the one remaining light in the dreariness of his life, his daughter Penny. Still living in the same small town where he once believed all dreams can come true, Colin works through each day doing his best to provide for his little girl. Until ... read more
A home that once stood tall is set ablaze. A new journey begins in the chaotic Murrieta Territory.Jeannie Morrell is on the run. Chasing behind her is the expanding Keagan gang that just burned her home to the ground. Before her--through the forest of the Riverlands--is the mysterious, native V'ahani clan and the grizzlies they control.With her family now murdered only months after her thirtee... read more
Crystal Eyes (Civilands Book 2)
N.B. Austin
A resistance borne in a wolf's icy glare. Welcome to Harran!** A BooksGoSocial Gold Quality Mark Earning Novel **Turmoil continues to reign in the Murrieta Territory.Just as the Riverlands fall under control of the Keagan gang, Daniel Keagan is faced with a mysterious new threat. Meanwhile, William Keagan is ready for his journey back to the east Duresian city of New Berkeley, where he will fi... read more
Crescent Heart (Civilands Book 3)
N.B. Austin
An ultimatum goes unfulfilled. War is coming to the Murrieta Territory.“You’re breathing for the same reason I am. For the only thing we’ve ever truly had in this world—our brothers."The negotiations with the natives of the Riverlands have failed as Clovis Keagan heads north.However, the truth will finally be revealed to Daniel Keagan about the fire at the Morrell home. How will he maintain th... read more
2094. The successful testing of the Alcubierre metric makes faster-than-light travel possible. For Michael Vahlroos, CEO of V-Space, this is the start of a new era. Not only will his company be able to sell new spaceships, but it will also spearhead the exploitation of extraterrestrial resources, a must to ensure welfare to our overpopulated earth. Private corporations are the right players to... read more
2095. UN Diplomat Ralf Åhman has successfully championed the creation of the World’s Agency for the Regulation of Space Exploration and Colonization (WARSEC) to keep outer space under UN supervision.Outrageous! thinks Michael Vahlroos, whose corporation V-Space has seen its business opportunities shrink. In the short term, however, V-Space’s business is closely tied to WARSEC’s success.And whi... read more
2097. Phosphate peak on overpopulated earth has jacked up food prices. The European Union threatens to invade Morocco in an attempt to break their monopoly on phosphate extraction.For Michael Vahlroos, CEO of V-Space, the EU would not have to threaten military force if the United Nations legal framework had encouraged the mining of extraterrestrial resources.Meanwhile, the World’s Agency for t... read more
2100. The first interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri has been successful, and the next interstellar exploration wave is about to begin.While the UN and WARSEC (World’s Agency for the Regulation of Space Exploration and Colonization) dispatch exploratory missions to Sirius, Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani and 61 Cygni, the space economy in Earth’s orbit is booming.V-Space and V-Travel are getting t... read more
The Measurements of Decay
K. K. Edin
In the far future, Earth’s nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to escape into hallucinations at will, people spend most of their time withdrawn into their own minds. Tikan Solstafir, a renegade who refuses the illusory life enjoyed by others, lives in self-imposed exile on a starship. When a mysterious enemy attacks the ship, Tikan embarks on a mis... read more
Do you find it hard to share your faith? Is it difficult to believe in God, or practice your faith, when contemporary society maintains He doesn’t exist? Are you living with the joy that comes from having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? After walking away from her Catholic faith, Carol Kelso tells the story of her journey back to God; how He took her from a business career into the ... read more
Timewise
Robert Leet
Ron Larsen started as an unassuming teenager with no more ambition than winning a little extra cash playing chess when he met a beautiful, eccentric physicist, Regina Russo, with whom he falls in love. Eventually she becomes his mentor and launches him into a journey of discovery of what time is—and what it is not. As they plunge into experiments too dangerous to be revealed, they find themsel... read more
She'd worked hard and accomplished fast. However, by 43, 'Superwoman' Cindy Moussi was burnt-out; exhausted from trying to prove herself. She yearned for the slow life. So, she decided to take a gap year! Little did Cindy know what this choice would bring. It would be a time of profound joy and loss, anxiety, overwhelming dread, and an unrelenting terror that would become her permanent compani... read more
The Dust Will Answer
Richard Risemberg
1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned by the sterile trench of the city's concrete-clad river.Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow type with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world to discover that sometimes the only distance between two points is a very crooked line. When Lenny's frien... read more
Crossed in Love
Krys King
Darcy plays no games when it comes to men. In her eyes, men are only good for one thing and that is what they carry between their legs. She is a proud mad black woman and likes to thank her fiancé that left her high and dry just months before their wedding for that. Mickey has heard the story way too many times, she loves her girl but is getting tired of telling her love is money and to hell w... read more
The Fruit Fell Far
Krys King
As First Lady of Alpha and Omega Church of Worship, Kathryn Hill thought she knew how her life would be. But when she catches her husband, Pastor Eric, cheating on her with one of their members, life as she knows it is changed forever. Confronted with his infidelity, Eric claims to be doing God’s will. Witnessing the lack of remorse from the self-proclaimed prophet, Kathryn does some dirt of h... read more
The Watcher
David Wheeler
Richard Marsh has a comfortable life. A manager in a pharmaceutical company owned by his wealthy father-in-law, he has the wife, children, house and car that many would envy. But he’s trapped. Trapped in a sterile marriage. Trapped in a monotonous job. He’s gripped by cycles of obsessive compulsion, envying the people he watches through the lens of his camera at night. People who don’t know he... read more
The Bloodline Artifacts: The Bloodline Saga
Howie Erickson
He wanted some father-son time. What he got instead could change mankind…Kurt Sigurdson just wants to be a good father. The Canadian intelligence officer takes his son, Robby, on a buggy adventure trip for some quality time together. In the middle of the desert, they discover something incredible: an alien spacecraft. What’s even stranger is that there’s some kind of link between Robby and the... read more
The Lonesome Tide (Trajectory Book 3)
Cassie Rhodes
Twenty years from today, the world careens further along today's path to tragedy. Trajectory unfolds a harrowed future, one where nightmares take tea and dreams dissolve in the rising tides of insurrection. Weaving the eerie passions of magical realism into a dilapidating dystopia, this quilt of interlacing stories offers a gleaming lens through which to view the world and thus the shortfall b... read more
Dangerous Brains
Erik Hamre
Brilliant computer scientist, Vladimir Sorovis, is packing up his office when his day is interrupted by a military helicopter carrying a highly unexpected guest.Ushered to a secret location deep in the Nevada desert, Vladimir learns how his former employer, billionaire and serial-entrepreneur Andrew Kevorkian, has been siphoning off hundreds of millions to fund a clandestine deep tech research... read more
What do you do when you find yourself in a strange body and a different life?Lottie and Charlotte are not having a good morning. They’ve woken up in unfamiliar beds. Not to mention, unfamiliar bodies. What is going on?At least Lottie’s boyfriend, Josh, is by her side. If only Lottie didn’t have this nagging feeling that something important happened last night, but she blew it… Charlotte feels ... read more
Beyond The Chain
Maya Middlemiss
A woman trapped in a marriage of secret violence and fear, where she has no control over her future and her own resources, connects with another woman thousands of miles away who is increasingly coerced and controlled by political and religious forces beyond her control. How will each throw off the chains which bind them to circumstances they can no longer tolerate?United by their dreams of a ... read more
Dead Girl's Ashes (Dying Ashes Book 1)
Annathesa Nikola Darksbane, Shei Darksbane
What does it mean to die?For Ashley Currigan it means waking up, opening her eyes, and discovering what she's truly made of. But being dead isn't easy. Not when the woman she loves most in the world goes missing. Not when a myriad of supernaturals want her dead, and she doesn’t even know why. Not when the very monsters who gave her eternal life want to take it away. And not when her only allie... read more
For so many years, Sandra had worked and strived toward her ideal of the perfect life. By most people’s standards, she had it all – the handsome, upwardly-mobile husband; a respected career at the university; and a nice home, that was ready to receive a child or two under its roof. Like so many of us, Sandra had a vision of the ideal future she’d wanted to create. She thought she knew where li... read more
Finding Wallace
R. Thomas Rankin
Elisabeth and Tom Rankin can't imagine one second without their son, Wallace. He is everything they've ever wanted--and so much more. Like all parents, Elisabeth and Tom experience many twists and turns as they embarked upon parenthood. Join them on their life-changing journey as they adopt their son from Russia and return home where hilarity and heartbreak begins.Share their joy and setbacks ... read more
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A pleasure working with Mark, whose deep experience and knowledge was a great help to this novice. His ideas and advice brought the project to life, and helped me realise the critical visual elements that a writer's brain does not not relate to as easily! I am particularly grateful to Mark for applying himself with great professionalism despite challenging personal circumstances, and highly rec...
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Maya Middlemiss, July 2019
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Daniel Watkins, June 2019
I am a first time author and had no idea what to do when I got to the formatting stage of my book creation. I went to Reedsy and found Mark. He held my rookie hand through the entire process, worked rapidly and created a book that looks beautiful. In addition, during the proofing process, I found several mistakes made by me—typos—that I didn’t catch before sending him the original manuscript. H...
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