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Satire of an Indie Author
You spent twelve years pouring your soul onto the page—autobiographical confessions, inside jokes, every doubt and late-night revision distilled into a magnum opus. You placed it proudly on the family bookshelf centerpiece.
And the response? Crickets. Polite deflections. Topic changes faster than a Chicago expressway detour. Your relatives love you unconditionally… except when the condition is to read or market the book.”
Welcome to the dark comedy of indie authorship: the desperate, cringe-inducing art of trying to guilt your own bloodline into supporting your dream. This faux handbook—part National Lampoon parody, part basement-exile confession—catalogs every failed tactic with ruthless precision.
Along the way you’ll discover the cold reality most indie authors face.
If you’ve ever handed a free copy to a relative and watched their face arrange itself into polite dread, if you’ve ever stared at a KDP dashboard showing three lifetime sales and wondered if one was you refreshing the page, if you’ve ever turned the pain of being unread into a joke so sharp it almost stops hurting—this book is for you.
It’s not a marketing guide.
It’s a mirror.
And it’s laughing at both of us.
Young Readers
RUFF TRADE
Crown has it all: a perfect pedigree, professional grooming, and a shot at the International Dog Show Championship. There’s just one problem—he’s lost in the city with three days to get to the biggest show of his life.
Rusty has nothing: no home, no family, just his street-smart pack and three rules for survival. But when he stumbles into an empty dog crate that looks like heaven on earth, he’s about to get the ride of his life.
One mix-up. Two dogs. Three days to switch back.
With help from a ragtag crew of street dogs (including a limping deputy, a fast-talking charmer, and a tracker who never loses a scent), Crown discovers what it means to be truly free. Meanwhile, Rusty learns that having a real family—especially ten-year-old Sophie, who just wants a dog to love her back—might be worth giving up the streets.
But when showtime arrives, both dogs face an impossible choice: reclaim their old lives, or risk everything for the family and friends they’ve found. With the world watching and the spotlight shining, Crown and Rusty will have to work together for one unforgettable performance.
Because sometimes the best champion isn’t the one who follows all the rules—it’s the one who knows when to break them.
A tail-wagging adventure about finding where you truly belong!
Mid-grade YA with chapter art.
At sixteen, Silas Locke wrote a poem.
Forty-nine lines of formal verse — seven stanzas in rhyme royal, the form Chaucer invented for lamentation. Beautiful. Precise. A masterwork of grief written in a Virginia kitchen the week his mother died.
Then he spent twenty-six years performing it in human lives.
Each stanza maps to a person. Each person is a canvas. Each canvas is methodically destroyed — not through violence but through the careful dismantling of everything that makes a life a life. Employment. Marriage. Community. Trust. Faith. Voice. Self. Seven stanzas. Seven lives. One architecture of escalation that leaves no fingerprints, no evidence, nothing but the wreckage of people who appear to have simply fallen apart.
Retired FBI analyst Leland Bryce, working cold cases from his home in Fredericksburg, finds the pattern no one else could see. The cases are connected. The destruction is composed. Someone is writing human suffering in iambic pentameter.
The seventh canvas is a Portland archivist named Nora Arden. She doesn’t know her life is a poem. She doesn’t know the apartment was placed, the job was engineered, the relationships were composed. She doesn’t know that every ordinary thing about her ordinary life was designed by a man she has never met.
She is about to find out.
“And break, or bloom beyond what I intend.”
The poem’s last line offers two endings.
The question that drives the trilogy: which one does she choose?
For readers of Thomas Harris, Donna Tartt, and Tana French.
Literary psychological thriller.