The Shout-Out

29 October 2026

Four indie books, each by an author featured for the first time. Every title links to its page here, and buying goes straight through the author's own retailer.

Die Another Slay
by FAYE BERG
Thriller/Mystery/Crime
The world stopped noticing women of a certain age years ago. Which is exactly why no one sees them coming. When a beloved drag performer is run down beneath the neon glare of the Reno Arch, the local police call it a drunk driver and close the file. Four tech-savvy women in their sixties, veterans of espionage, engineering, and mountaineering, with a lifetime of undercover charm, are not convinced. Armed with tactical surveillance, elite hacking skills, Moneypenny, a PTSD service poodle, and an opinionated donkey named Stephen Colbert, these brilliant sleuths launch a relentless hunt across the high desert to bring a cartel-backed criminal network to its knees.
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SOUL'S KEEPSAKE: ONE LAST LETTER
by ARCHER LEO
Romance
What if you had only one day left to live? John Dexter has one final chance to speak to the people who shaped his life. Through his last letters, forgotten memories return, old wounds reopen, and love finds words that were left unsaid. A deeply emotional journey through love, friendship, family, regret, and forgiveness. Some stories are read. Some stories are felt.
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To the Moon and Back
by Katie-Jo Gracie
Literary Fiction
Grief, you see, is a heavy thing. It is heavier than dragging a whale's body up onto the ice, heavier than enduring a winter that lingers past all hope, heavier even than feeling the sky itself pressing down, as if full of words you cannot speak. Most people know how to carry it. They strap it to their backs like a pack of furs. They walk, bent double, until the load lightens. They share the weight with their Neighbours. They cry. Then, eventually, they stand up straight again. They look at the sun. They say, Life is for the living. But Kissimi was not like most people. Kissimi's heart was not made of muscle and blood, but instead felt like fragile glass and empty echoes. For Selene, safety is a small, quiet place where the door is triple-locked, and the curtains are drawn. Reeling from a traumatic past, she lives in a carefully constructed sanctuary of silence. But the silence is broken each night by the muffled, terrifying arguments coming from the outside... To the Moon and Back is a heart-wrenching and hopeful story about bereavement, grief and finding your way back home.
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KAT AND MOUSE, GUNS FOR HIRE
by Abner Senires
Science Fiction
HIGH-OCTANE. HIGH-CALIBER. ZERO FILLER. The complete 3-season, 217,000-word cyberpunk pulp action omnibus collecting the entire decade-long (2008–2018) cult-favorite web serial into one epic volume. In the neon-drenched sprawl of Bay City, when you need the best, you hire the best. Kat: the cool-headed marksman. Mouse: her fiery blade-master partner. Because what could go wrong? SEASON 1: High-risk jobs, assorted underworld muscle, and a shadow watching their every move, culminating in a shocking revelation. SEASON 2: Total chaos on two fronts. While an unsanctioned bounty drops on their heads, the watcher who shadowed them in Season 1 suddenly resurfaces to ask a favor. SEASON 3: A slaver ring busted back in Season 1 leads to an enemy long thought dead—and now the tables are turned. No navel-gazing. Just non-stop kinetic pulp action. "When the going gets tough, the tough shoot back."
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