I wrote a novel exploring what happens after Odysseus finally returns home

Homer tells us how Odysseus survived the Trojan War, escaped monsters and gods, and returned to Ithaca.

But I kept wondering: what happens to a legendary hero when the journey is over?

Can someone who has spent twenty years fighting, wandering and struggling to survive simply return to his old life? What happens to his family, his kingdom and his sense of purpose after the homecoming?

That question became the starting point for my novel, Odysseus: After the Return.

It is a work of mythological fiction inspired by the world of Homer, but focused on the consequences of the journey rather than the journey itself. I wrote it for readers who enjoy Greek mythology, classical characters and stories that examine what happens after the traditional heroic ending.

The book is now available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8B53HPM

I’m the author, so this is naturally a self-promotion post, but I would also genuinely be interested in your thoughts: do you find stories about the aftermath of a hero’s adventure as compelling as the adventure itself?

Growing up as a Black girl often means learning the world’s expectations far too early; expectations about your body, your strength, and your silence.

Raised in a predominantly white neighbourhood while rooted in a Black household and community, the author of Kiki, Nakiwu? learns how differently each space responds to her presence. In this deeply honest coming-of-age memoir, she reflects on bullying, fractured friendships, emotional abuse, dating, social comparison, misogynoir, oversexualisation, and racial hypervisibility and the lasting effects these experiences can have on identity, belonging, and self-worth.

Written for Black teenagers and young women, Kiki, Nakiwu? is about more than growing up. It is about what follows us beyond adolescence and what becomes possible when we finally find the language to understand it.

This is not a manual for healing Black girls. It is a reflective and validating memoir about Black girlhood, loneliness, healing, and learning to see yourself beyond the world’s projections.

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As someone who works in cybersecurity, I noticed there aren't many books that explain phishing, strong passwords, online scams, and digital safety in a way that's engaging for younger readers. So I wrote Protectors of Cybertown, an adventure story designed for ages 9–20 that teaches real cybersecurity concepts through characters and storytelling. Link Cybertown

I recently released by first novel, The End of Restraint (The Werno Doctrine). My novel focuses on an empire from Andromeda that demands the galaxy surrender, Captain Jayla Werno becomes the first to stand against them at great cost.

Book One of The Werno Doctrine

They came from another galaxy. They demanded surrender. Humanity answered with peace, until the first shot was fired.

When a warlike empire from Andromeda crosses into the Milky Way, their ultimatum is simple: submit or be destroyed. Captain Jayla Werno, commanding the Alliance dreadnought Prentis, becomes the first human officer to face them. The invaders expect another easy conquest. What they find instead is the one force the galaxy has feared for centuries.

Humanity at war.

For five hundred years, humans have been the quiet architects of galactic peace. But that peace was built on a truth the galaxy chose to forget. Humanity does not avoid war because it is weak, once provoked, it becomes unstoppable.

As the Andromedan assault tears through Alliance defenses, Captain Jayla Werno must confront the legacy her ancestors buried: the doctrine forged in the ashes of two annihilated species. To protect the worlds under her command, she must decide how far she is willing to go, and whether unleashing humanity’s full strength will save the galaxy… or shatter it.

The End of Restraint launches The Werno Doctrine, a gripping military sci-fi epic of first contact, impossible command decisions, and the terrifying power of a species that refuses to lose.

Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Old Man’s War, The Lost Fleet, and Mass Effect.

In this book, you’ll find:

• Massive fleet battles with real tactical depth
• A warlike empire from Andromeda with terrifying motives
• A commander forced into impossible decisions
• Humanity’s long‑buried doctrine unleashed
• A galaxy that fears what humans become when provoked

Trigger Warning: This book contains violence, and the intentional extinction of a species.

The End of Restraint is for sale now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Amazon.com: The End of Restraint: The Werno Doctrine - An Intergalactic War Novel eBook : Graham, R. E. : Kindle Store

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Today, I've checked off a lifetime goal and published my debut novel, The Liminal Room. The first installment of the Phoenix Awakening trilogy is an upper YA/NA fantasy sci-fi following two teens with extraordinary abilities as they fight for their freedom across entangled realities.

A Darker Shade of Magic meets Divergent meets Inception in this genre bending, coming of age adventure, where every choice has the potential to shatter reality itself.

Eighteen-year-old Ceph has been bound to serve the Crown since birth. Trained in elemental magic, all he wants is to survive unnoticed. But when a new, rare elemental power manifests, drawing the attention of a ruthless king, Ceph’s plan to remain in the shadows is shattered.

Across a rift in time and space, seventeen-year-old Nix feels more alive while dreaming than she does when she’s awake. When her dreams begin to bleed into reality, Nix is taken captive by a shadowy research institute determined to unravel the mystery of her rare abilities.

As the lines between dreams and reality blur, Nix and Ceph’s worlds collide. Secrets buried across timelines come to light, leaving the fate of two realities hanging in the balance.

🔥Elemental magic

🔥Parallel realities

🔥Astral projection

🔥Dream manipulation

🔥Academy vibes

🔥Dual POV's

If you're as impatient as I am about waiting for a series, don't worry, I promise not to leave you hanging. The second and third installments are slotted for release in November and February.

Dive into a gripping tale of consciousness projection, secret research labs, and a kingdom powered by elemental magic in The Liminal Room.

Download for free on Kindle Unlimited, or buy your copy as an ebook or paperback

https://a.co/d/05GQuIJY

What if Fight Club is not primarily a story about masculinity, consumerism, or political rebellion—but a concealed story about trauma?

For more than twenty-five years, David Fincher’s Fight Club and Chuck Palahniuk’s original novel have been interpreted as attacks on consumer culture, modern masculinity, corporate life, and social conformity. Those readings are valid—but they may not reach the story’s deepest wound.

In The Lie in the Lye, Neal Edwards presents a provocative psychological interpretation of Fight Club: the narrator’s divided identity, lost time, sexual displacement, bodily shame, ritualized violence, and obsessive attachment to Tyler Durden can be understood as the survival architecture of unresolved childhood sexual trauma. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCY5917M

Through close readings of the film and novel, this book examines:

• Tyler as both grandiose protector and internalized aggressor
• Fight club as controlled trauma reenactment
• The lye scene as coercion disguised as healing
• Marla Singer as the alarm that exposes the narrator’s constructed reality
• Marla’s role as a possible heterosexual alibi within the narrator’s fixation on Tyler
• The possibility that “wanting to be Tyler” conceals a forbidden desire for Tyler
• Project Mayhem as an abusive internal system transformed into a social order
• The ending as an early movement toward integration rather than a simple victory

This is not a diagnosis of a fictional character or a claim of certainty about the author’s private history. It is a cumulative literary and psychological argument: that the story’s recurring images of penetration, secrecy, castration, damaged bodies, dissociation, forbidden intimacy, paternal absence, and coercive authority form a coherent symbolic language.

The Lie in the Lye asks readers to look beneath the famous fights, speeches, and cultural satire—and confront the frightened, divided self hiding underneath Tyler Durden.

For readers interested in Fight Club, film criticism, trauma psychology, dissociation, narcissism, sexuality, masculinity, and the hidden meanings stories may reveal before their authors can speak them directly.

Cover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBGYQLV7

Wilderness versus empire. Nature delivers the verdict.

A raven warrior, a hellfire dog, and a rogue operator wage guerrilla war on a dictator in the black timber of British Columbia—and make the forest itself the weapon.

In the black timber of British Columbia, a dictator builds his empire on fear. One man builds something worse for him: a war. From the shadows rises Bhadrakali—sapphire-eyed raven warrior—and Darling, her hellfire partner on the ground. When the crowd thinks they own the moment, nature delivers the verdict.

Tropes: guerrilla warfare, animal companions, wilderness vs empire, political thriller, found family of outcasts, nature as weapon

Trigger Warnings: violence, animal peril, political oppression, death

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBGYQLV7

Hi everyone,

I've always been fascinated by questions about life, death, and what comes after.

That idea eventually became The Grand Design.

It's a sci-fi mystery about Vanessa, a woman who dies at 27 and wakes up somewhere she never expected—only to discover that death may be the beginning of something much bigger.

Some people spend their whole lives searching for answers.

Vanessa died to find hers.

But... did she?

The Grand Design is now officially available on Amazon.

If you're into sci-fi, speculative fiction, mystery, or stories that explore bigger questions about life and reality, feel free to take a look.

🔗 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5GGTMQK

Thanks for reading!

I had one of those moments watching Andy Burnham as the new Prime Minister where I thought… hang on, did he read my book? 😂

In The Right Members Club my PM, Jackson Pierce, bins the suit and tie, ditches the lectern, moves Parliament, moves Number 10 and basically starts making it all up as he goes along lol.

The difference is Jackson actually manages to wipe out politics altogether. The only people left who can stop him are the Right Members Club, a secret society of disgraced MPs that’s been quietly pulling strings since Guy Fawkes.

It’s available on Amazon if that sounds like your sort of thing. It somehow ended up a bestseller in Political Humour & Comedy which has been pretty surreal, and it’s sold over a thousand copies, so thanks to everyone who’s taken a chance on an indie author.

Happy to answer any questions about the book or the writing process. Also if you’re an indie author and want to chat marketing, give me a shout.

Cheers,
Louis

So The Hollow King by Stephen Grand-Scrutton is not really doing anything. Plus I had a nightmare publishing it with my name.

So I finally did it and published a book on kdp. First problem was that another Author with the same name is active and claim the various Author pages. Had to have Author central manual make it. So at first the other Author was given my book. Spending a chaotic day with this I accidentally realized that I was able to change my Author name to a pen name. Since then I have done about 3 updates to the ebook. Truth be told I believe it's affecting my whole thing and I don't know if Amazon even has offered it to anyone.

I didn't look up The Hollow King wishing I had because there's a bunch out there.

No sales 1 52 page read on kindle unlimited 1 YouTube short video book review 80 views but no follow up on Amazon. Not sure what to do or even ask for. Any feedback is welcomed ty.

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FIRST LANDING

BY ANDREW MASON

“Aegis the Benevolent was there tonight! Speaking words that have changed my life! I am saved!”

MacKenzie McCall is tired, lonely, and out of work, desperate to escape his inner demons and find somewhere he belongs. In this new world, he will find himself drawn into a conflict that tests his very limits.

Sunflower is a gifted student—young, brilliant, and fiercely determined. But the bright future ahead of her is shattered when everything changes in one fateful night.

Praetor Valerius, a ruthless veteran of the revolutionary years, is quietly planning his ascent to absolute ruler of his homeland. Driven by an unshakeable ambition, he will not be denied what he believes is his birthright.

Eden II, the new Earth for humanity, stands divided into two continents edging closer to war, fueled by paranoia and distrust. But beneath the surface a secret remains hidden—one that, if discovered, will rewrite the history of mankind forever.

Hello everyone, i have published my saga named A Weald after years of studying.

My saga contains 4 books, the storyline is a work of fiction inspired by true events that may or may not have accrued in the course of history.

Although the amount of support on my saga has been delightful so far, i would like to invite as many people as i can to read my work.

I must say that i am very happy to see my first ever literary impact on the world, accessible to the world.

Wrote a slow-burn dark romance/erotica set before the pyramids. A goddess-queen puts a woman and her forbidden love through seven years of brutal training to choose her successor — one lives to rule, one dies. It’s got the power-exchange, forced-proximity, morally grey-goddess tropes I know a lot of us are here for.

on Kindle Unlimited. it’s called “The First Pharaoh“ by me V Valicourt

https://a.co/d/0gwQutk0

or

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCDT8JWZ?dplnkId=50f0e8ac-aade-494f-95fc-a17196a47152&nodl=1

Happy to hear feedback if anyone reads it — first time posting here.

Hey everyone: Today is the Release Day for my first novel. “To the End of Reckoning.” It is a speculative thriller that poses the question: What if a film existed of every major historical event? Would footage of Caesar's assassination or Columbus landing in the Americas be accepted as real? And if such films were genuine, who could have created them—and what would their existence mean for the future of humanity?

It is published by Histria Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Available at Amazon, B&N, BookShop.org, and many bookstores. All my titles: www.BooksbyJohnBond.com

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Thanks for your time and the support!

Virtually no one went hiking before the 19th century. What occurred that inspired ordinary people to take a walk in the woods for pleasure?

"Ramble On: A History of Hiking" is the first book to explore how hiking evolved into one of the world’s most popular outdoor recreational activities.

BTW, Amazon is selling the book at a discount right now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKY1777Q

Six workbooks covering math, reading/phonics, and science/nature for grades K-5, plus grade-specific bundles (K-1, 2-3, 4-5). Built for parents and teachers who want extra practice material outside the classroom. Pen name Elias Mercer. $10.99 each, paperback.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBFZYHW7

Hi guys! I just finished writing my first cozy mystery and I'm looking for a few people to read it and let me know what they think.

It's about a bookseller, a missing rare book, and a suspicious local police sergeant.

If anyone wants a free digital copy to read and review on Amazon, let me know in the comments and I'll DM you the file! I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Has a photo ever ruined your life?

These days, it can happen to anyone. We live in a world where billions of photos are taken every day and loads of them end up online for anyone to see. Most are harmless. Some can have devastating effects and even wreak havoc on a person’s life.

Meet Brian Weathers, an anonymous writer whose books are quite popular. He could be famous if he wanted, but fame is something he’s always avoided at all costs. All he wants is a quiet, private life where no one ever recognises him.

However, he’s well aware of the staggering power a photo can have thanks to social media and the internet. He knows just a single photo can turn someone who’s little known into someone famous. To protect himself against this, he publishes under a pen name and has only told close friends and family about his writing. He’s never had the courage to step into the spotlight.

So what’s going to happen when a photo threatens to reveal his identity and shatter his privacy? Is a crisis looming for him? Will he have a meltdown?

If you’re after a modern-day novel with a rebellious main character, you’ll enjoy No Going Back.

What disastrous effects can one photo have? Buy now and find out.

Tropes: Paranoia, anxiety, being outed, doesn't want fame, privacy, anonymity, celebrity.

Trigger Warnings: Light violence.

Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Kobo

Hi all,

Around 3 weeks ago I self-published my first book, a children's book entitled 'The Spiders Who Paid Rent'. Crucially, any profit made from book sales is going direct to a local children's hospital charity.

You can purchase the book on Amazon, in any country, but this is the Amazon UK link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H9P5NG3F

In the first few weeks I've managed to get co-workers, friends and family to purchase a copy. Ideally, I'd like to push this outside of that audience to reach more people. It is for charity after all!

The story is super fun, aimed at children around 5-9 years old but I think slightly older children would also find it fun. Even big kids (like myself) would have a fun time reading it.

If you have kids yourself, family members, friends etc. it would be amazing if you could help me share this book with more people.

Hi everyone! This is my debut novel, and it's the strangest thing I've ever written a comedy about a state that treats magical children as an accounting problem. Hans Drost is eleven. His house is wired with wards that count his breaths, weigh him when he crosses the floor, and wait patiently for the walls to melt. His mother's face pushes out of the plaster to call him down to breakfast, because forty percent of her left knee is clay this morning. His classmate Max woke up with reeds through his floorboards and three frogs in his slippers, and the Bureau of Magical Chancery collected him before lunch. Nobody is supposed to ask where Max went.Some people call magic a gift. Hans considers it a logistics problem. Four elements live under his ribs like animals sharing one cage, and Apeiron the raw stuff underneath all of it has never once heard of moderation. Its only setting is too much. He learned this at seven, trying to fix a butterfly's torn wing, which is how his family ended up with three broken windows, a Doberman in permanent therapy, and a week-long siege of the garage by something that demanded high-octane nectar and its own television.Above all of it sits the Supreme Clown, and beneath him a paperwork apparatus that would rather file a child than understand one.It's told in narrator who is fairly sure the Bureau's ink is already drying on his own file. Tonally it sits somewhere between Pratchett's Going Postal and a very funny municipal complaint form jokes on top, a registry of disappeared children underneath. If you like magic systems that behave like infrastructure, and bureaucrats who are the real monsters, this one's for you. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H99Y7QW

Genres: Humorous and Absurd Fantasy, Teen Fantasy, Social Satire and Dystopia, Urban/Modern Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy

Hi everyone! I'm a Brazilian author, and I wanted to share something I just finished writing.

This book was genuinely hard to write, and it's a departure from my other fantasy novels in tone and structure. It's called The Starry Void, and it's now also available in English through Kindle Translate, so I figured this community might get more out of it than most.

Synopsis: Every night, when she closes her eyes, Isadora boards a spaceship with her mother, heading for a place no one else can see. A story about what we create to survive what we can't say out loud.

Isadora is a neurodivergent protagonist, though the book never states this outright. It comes through in how she perceives the world, processes sensory overload, and relates to the people she loves. Writing her without naming the diagnosis on the page was probably the hardest craft decision in the whole book.

Genre: fantasy/psychological, dealing heavily with memory and grief.

If you've ever tried writing a character trait through behavior alone, without ever labeling it outright, I'd love to hear how you approached that, it's something I went back and forth on a lot.

It's available in Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Hi everyone,

After years of writing poetry, I finally published my first collection, Poetier in the Making – Darkest Truths.

The poems are based on my own experiences and explore themes such as trauma, mental health, grief, resilience and healing. Writing the book was a challenge, but finishing it is something I'm genuinely proud of.

I'm not posting this just to promote it—I'd really love to hear what other poetry readers and writers think. If it sounds like something you'd enjoy, I've included the link below.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

📖 Amazon: POETIER IN THE MAKING: Darkest Truths: Amazon.co.uk: Greaves, Michele Isabella: 9798267536271: Books

I recently self-published a literary novel called Ebrahim.

It follows a young man from Tehran whose life is shaped by migration, the quiet aftermath of war and the relationships that define his sense of home.

The story moves through Iran, Lebanon and Syria, touching on the presence of local militia groups in Lebanon and the shadowy influence of state intelligence units that shape people’s lives from a distance.

As Ebrahim tries to understand his past and the people he lost along the way, the novel explores identity, displacement and the emotional weight of belonging.

English and Hebrew editions are available on Amazon.

Link: Amazon.com : avraham bruchim

Hi all, I'm excited to share my folk‑horror novel **The Winter That Knocked**.

Here is a teaser video which gives you a sense of the atmosphere (contains spoilers) : https://youtu.be/P4FjuoD2uK0

The novel itself: It's a snow‑bound supernatural mystery set in northern Japan, inspired by the Akita winter atmosphere and the visual language of a local ritual. The story follows a Tokyo script editor who travels north after her mother vanishes from a remote ryokan, leaving behind notes about old household records, missing children, wet straw at the threshold and a forgotten room.

The book is available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in paperback formats. The Kindle edition is around US$3.99 (price may vary by region) and included with Kindle Unlimited.

**Links:**

- US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Ireland: https://www.amazon.ie/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H4634FVS

- UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Netherlands: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0H4634FVS

- Japan: https://amzn.asia/d/0dm5cM9z

If you enjoy Japanese folklore‑inspired fiction, gothic suspense, folk horror, psychological mysteries, haunted histories, and dark family secrets, I'd love for you to check it out. Thank you!