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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 8 years ago

Recommend to me good self-published ebooks on the Kindle store?

I'm interested in reading some self-published novels, but it's a bit hard to find good ones when you're stuck aimlessly wading through pages of the Kindle store. If you've found something worthwhile, I'd be interested in reading it. Genre isn't important as long as it isn't plain old romance, though I do favor fantasy, scifi, and horror.

You can recommend your own work, but I'd rather you list books you've read, not written.

I already have all of Steven J Pemberton's books on my list.

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  • 8 years ago
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    <blushes> Thanks.

    One I would definitely recommend is Wool by Hugh Howey. You could also take a look at my "read" shelf on Goodreads. Most of the fiction on there is self-published.

    http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6339283-steve...

  • chorle
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I am fond of the podiobooks.com authors Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League books are self published. I think you might like Paul Elard Cooley, Phil Rossi, and Nathan Lowell who also have work on podiobooks.

    Paul Elard Cooley has two short stories free on smashwords Canvas and Breakers as well as having most of his stories audio version on Shadow Publications website.

    Wool by Hugh Howey (that Steven mentioned) was reviewed favorably in recent episode of StarShipSofa that his story The Walk Up Nameless Ridge was orated in.

    I think you might like Walk the Fire that John Mierau is putting together and Tales form the Archives short stories form The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences world so you can try several authors mostly indie or are doing combination of indie and traditional publishing

    you might want to try a copy of emag Flagship Magazine

  • 8 years ago

    Check out "Gardens and the Warrior of Heaven" it's on Kindle and it's awesome. I love it.

    Here's the plot:

    It was sometime in the twenty-first century, when one discovery revolutionized the world further than any ever before it. This was the discovery of a nonlinear power, which lies inside of every living and nonliving organism on the planet. Its discoverers termed it Meteora. With it came the ability to tap into a clean, seemingly unlimited source of energy.

    With further study, it was found that only a few genetically gifted individuals could use this power World War III was fought between these new beings and the United Governments of the world. After fighting to a stalemate, the governments and the beings who had access to this power, now known as Homospiritus, came to an agreement called the Accords.

    Code 23: By law, all children born who are capable of using Meteora will be taken for safety reasons to Gardens to learn to control their powers, and serve the greater good of the commonwealth. Which meant to become a soldier in the army of the new world order. Tenchi was four years old when they came for him. Despite the best efforts by his mother to keep him hidden and safe, he was taken by force to Juneau Gardens, which is the home of the Homospiritus and the new governing order of the former United States of America, now named Juneau.

    Eventually, he is sent on a mission where he encounters terrorists with nuclear arms who have also taken their own dark dive into the use of Meteora, only to corrupt it. Tenchi is given the chance to abandon his mission and continue his own, which has always been to return to his mother. But now he is faced with a choice, to return home or to fight to secure and prevent the misuse of The Sword of Heaven, an ancient weapon of unparalleled power forged of Meteora itself. If not kept in check, The Sword will throw the world into an apocalyptic age from which we may never recover, a fate that will visit both Homospiritus and humankind alike.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Afterlife saga by Stephanie Hudson.

    One word, BRILLIANT

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Why not go to GoodReads.com, and YA Central? They are good Young Adult book review sites.

    Source(s): Kindle Young Adult Author, Self-Publisher, and reader, See my profile in Yahoo Answers.
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