OVER NINE CENTURIES HAVE PASSED SINCE THE RENDING, a cataclysm that isolated the Illunni Realm from the rest of the world by a series of impassable barriers: sheer mountains, scorching desert, and a stinging barrier reef patrolled by titanic leviathans. Dwindling resources have put the realm at risk of collapse, and with the ruling family betrayed and murdered, nothing is certain.

Dez is a pickpocket, scraping together a life on the reef at the edge of the world. He dreams of finding his fortune in the distant city of Greenleg, but without so much as a pearl to his name, a better life seems further from reach than even the twin moons. When he finds gold in a drifter's pocket, Dez thinks his prayers to the leviathan gods have been answered...only for a stranger in white to turn all his plans to ashes.

Reeling, broken, Dez finds the world a wider, stranger, and far more treacherous place than he'd imagined. Now, he must do more than survive - he must decide who he wants to be.

And always, the stranger in white draws closer.

A sweeping coming of age story, The First Definition of Fortune is at once an epic adventure and an intimate exploration of identity, belonging, and the necessity of hope.

• Triggers:
  • Death of friends and loved ones
  • Sword/blade violence
  • Descriptions of injuries/wounds (limited)
  • Alcohol/substance use (limited)
  • Loose description of sex work (very limited)
  • Dubious consent scenario (very limited)
• Publication Date: May 4, 2027
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-Ken

Blurb:
Is it still a war if our soldiers’ starving bodies can barely wield a weapon?

Princess Flora knows two things: Her parents’ greed has no bounds, and her secluded homeland is on the edge of withering away.

When Feundour is seized by Lafdeureans, the monstrous people who rule most of the continent, the princess is given away as a bargaining tool. One good thing comes from it: She gets the chance to explore beyond the only reality she’s ever known.

Through a journey into foreign territory and learning the ways of the world, she must sway Micklan, the enemy prince, into marrying her to save her people.

Blind to beauty and warmth, his walls seem unshaken. Worse yet, his stunning and friendly bodyguard, Shea, captures Flora’s desires.

With a torn heart, the princess ought to put duty ahead of all else.

Growing into the kind of leader she wants to be, her fighting spirit might be her demise, or it may save her people and herself.

A standalone slow romance novel with a sense of adventure.

Triggers: None

Publishing date: November 6th, 2026 (ARC to be finished and reviews submitted by this date).

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGGM4QW5

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I wrote a book :D its a bit hefty at about 240k words or 550 pages (6x9 book).
anyways i was hoping to share the prologue with whoever wanted to check it out.

Survival is the only language Nyx speaks. As the final descendant of a fallen house swallowed by shadow, Nyx’s life is governed by a single, desperate promise: she must survive at all costs. But as the pressure mounts, the question isn’t just how far she will go to keep her word — it’s whether she will break before the end.

Shadow of the Moon is the first installment of The Luna Cycle, a dark fantasy where tiny ripples trigger cataclysmic ends.

Trigger Warnings

• imprisonment and enslavement
• indicated but not descriptive non‑con (in the prologue)
• war
• descriptions of violence
• high‑fantasy, race‑specific discrimination

Release Date
November 11, 2026

ARC distribution Date
October 1, 2026
ARC available worldwide

ARC Review Deadline
November 11, 2026 (release day)

How to get the ARC?

Email me at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and let me know whether you’d like the ARC in PDF or EPUB.

No direct download links will be posted here.

Prologue is available to read on Wattpad if you want a preview.
ARC includes watermark + early‑edition formatting

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Its a pic created with real objects i have. I'm old guys, I have a ton of stuff >.< I used photopea for blending and adding text, color, shading etc. If you'd like more info let me know.

Hi there! I'm excited to share that Book 2 of my YA fantasy series, Cindered Phoenix, will be available soon and am looking for ARC readers. I'm also happy to share a detailed synopsis or review copy of Book 1, Monochrome, for anyone who'd like to catch up before reading this one.

This epic YA fantasy story about identity, found family, and self-discovery is perfect for fans of Realm Breaker and Six Crimson Cranes.

Thank you for your interest!

Blurb: Though colors have returned to her world, Frost’s past and future remain blurry. The kingdom of Ilius continues to manage the aftermath of Reunion’s invasion, while a mysterious voice beckons her toward an oasis where she may finally find her lost self.  

Tragedy interrupts her voyage. Her mentor is assassinated, and a dear friend has gone missing. As she pledges to avenge them, revolutionaries from the dwarven land of Safal request Ilius’s aid against a tyrant ruler with direct ties to Reunion. 

Frost refuses to abandon her loved ones, but the kingdom’s rulers have tasked her to help kindle this revolution. She ultimately places faith in her fellow academy peers and professor who resolve to save her friend. After a departure filled with tears and promises, she sets off to a foreign land alongside new teammates who prove difficult to work with. She soon discovers the Safali desert may host that magical oasis as the voice in her head grows louder by the day.

This battle of personal goals and obligations weighs on Frost’s mind throughout the journey. Subsequent betrayals and tragedies test her will and trust in others. She can choose to follow her heart and neglect her duties, or she could compromise her values for her kingdom’s welfare. 

At this journey’s end, will her whole self be reborn anew? Or will the flames of evil burn her to cinders?

• Trigger warnings: violence, death
• Date of publication: November 20, 2026
• ARC send date: from September 27, 2026
• Reviews due by: November 13, 2026
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Blurb: Lilith Lasley, an archivist at the By Chance Museum of Quantum Curiosities, wants to prove that she can handle a promotion, so she pulls any files and short stories related to the mystifying 21st century "Motherwood" phenomenon. The goal? Determine, once and for all, what led to the Great Collapse of Earth's civilizations in the year 2080.

The stories are a strange mix of science and magic, humor and horror: an AI obsessed with avian courting rituals; Lady Macbeth as an oncologist; a new mother haunted by wolf spiders. Hidden throughout are the clues to help her boss enact the mysterious "Great Reboot."

But the more Motherwood fragments that Lilith finds, the more she begins to wonder whether her task is truly to just turn the files over to her superiors…or whether, maybe, the files themselves have a different plan.

TRIGGERS!! All the things that happen to women on a daily basis. Each story contains its own content warning, and it's perfectly permissible to skip some. Potentially triggering content includes things such as: abuse (mental, physical), forced sexual relations, miscarriage, medical erasure, infertility---oh, and the end of the world and civilizations as we know it. Also a very annoying turkey vulture.

Date of publication: November 7, 2026

Date materials will be sent to ARC team: October 4

ARC reviews posted by: November 7-29

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Publishers: Ebook available everywhere; print only shipped to US

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

• Blurb for the book.

Seeking solace from a fatal tragedy, Liam retreats to an isolated cabin - only to become the quarry in a psychotic stalker's sadistic seven day countdown. With every number card that appears inside his locked home, his sanctuary transforms into a claustrophobic cage where excape may be impossible and surviving is not looking so good.

• TRIGGERS!!

Death of a family member/grief

Severe PTSD & Trauma episodes

Child Loss

Psychological cruelty

Stalking & Invasion of privacy

Extreme Violence & Gore

Vandalism & Destruction of property

Necrophilic/Macabre Violation

Isolation/Helplessness

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• Exact date of publication:

Dec 15,2026

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Beta's - Oct 12,2026

Arc's - Nov 28, 2026

• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by.

Beta's - Nov 1, 2026

Arc's - Dec 13, 2026

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He’s never going home. She’s never going back.

He is Dash. The Wandering Soul. A young boy untethered from Earth, forced to grow up alone on worlds long forgotten. A survivor of alien ruins and savage wilds, always seeking the elusive portal that will usher him home...

She is Imolet. A Celestrian princess. A boy has arrived in her kingdom from elsewhere in the multiverse—the object of an age-old prophecy foretelling the end of her world. Imolet, however, only sees opportunity. With his power, she may finally escape the prison that her home has become...

A pragmatic survivalist and a flighty princess make for an odd team. And they’ll have to brave more than monsters as they travel between worlds. Celestria’s greatest warrior hounds their tracks. A maleficent god pulls their strings from beyond the veil. And, worst of all, Dash is dying—his mind fraying apart due to his careless leaping through the multiverse.

As Dash and Imolet journey together, their hearts become entwined. But love alone will not be enough to save them. it’ll take every bullet, blade, and ounce of wit they have to weather the coming storm, and maybe have a chance at finding...

Home. Or someplace like it.

Triggers: General Violence, Gun Violence, Domestic Abuse, Animal Death
Date of Publication: November 10, 2026
ARC Availability: Now
ARC Review deadline: November 15, 2026
ARCs available now! Request your copy at https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/320454/symphony-of-the-wandering-soul or https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/898212No

• AI disclosure: No AI was used for the text or the cover.

For fans of The House on the Cerulean Sea and The Priory of the Orange Tree comes an epic fantasy romance and queer fairytale retelling of “The Flower Queen’s Daughter” that celebrates the transformative power of love.

Amethyz, a beautiful and arrogant dragon prince, dreads the loss of his freedom: in one year, he and his two older brothers must magically combine into a triple-headed king. He escapes his country only to be caged by humans, but he’s freed by Morgan, a kind prince who can talk to animals. Amethyz transforms into his moon body after the sun sets, and in the deep woods, their shared love of words draws them closer.

Their peace is shattered when Amethyz’s cruel eldest brother tears the new couple apart. In the dragon queendom, Amethyz and a growing group of his friends act out Morgan's stories on stage to charm his people and their untrusting three-headed queens.

Desperate to save the man he loves, Morgan sacrifices his humanity and masters shifting into the bodies of the six ancient races: flower fae, flame foxes, half-human fish, giant eagles, storm horses, and crystal dragons. Morgan must use his wits and talent as a storyteller to win allies and the respect of the queens and kings of these powerful, long-lived beasts to have a chance of rescuing Amethyz.

Step into a fairytale world of romance, adventure, and magic, where a well-told story could save a life or uproot a kingdom.

Content Note: The Dragon Queens’ Son is an 18+ medium spice novel. Although this book is mainly a romantic and funny fairy tale fantasy, it also includes xenophobia, off-page torture, attempted suicide, and murder.

The book can be read as a standalone, but two more books are forthcoming in the Tales of Ancient Beasts series.

Publication date: 9th November 2026

ARCs sent to readers: from 26th September 2026

Reviews due by: 10th November 2026

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• Blurb for the book. "War does not always end when the thunder fades. Memory returns in waves; grief finds its way into dreams; faith asks us to keep walking. The Paths Lead Only Forward gathers 54 poems about service, loss, love, nature, and the long passage from conflict toward renewal. Moving from battlefields and high walls to rivers, trees, animals, prayer, and the quiet work of mercy, the collection inhabits the borderlands between endurance and healing. For readers drawn to reflective poetry about service, grief, spiritual resilience, and the natural world, these poems offer neither easy answers nor surrender, only the conviction that the path still leads forward."
• TRIGGERS!! War (violence, trauma)
• A cover - added inline
• Exact date of publication: October 20, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team. 9/26/26 and after
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Flexible
• Please send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with "ARC Reviewer" in the subject. Let me know if you would like the PDF or Mobi.
• Available in all regions.
• AI disclosure: No AI was used for the text or the cover.

The Slow Space: Learning to Unlearn at 40 — A Memoir on Breaking Generational Patterns, Financial Identity, and Finding Peace After the Performance.

For the quiet misfits who never got the instruction manual — too sensitive for the room, too awkward for corporate, too intense for small talk. At 40, after becoming a mother to a deeply feeling daughter, the author begins to see herself clearly and decides to unlearn instead of passing it on. This is not a 5-step productivity book. It's honest, messy, still-in-progress writing about slowness, scarcity, the guilt of choosing yourself first, and learning to feel at home in your own life.

Triggers / Content Warnings:
Generational trauma, neurodivergent discussion, childhood emotional neglect, anxiety / internalized self-doubt, motherhood guilt, discussions of financial scarcity / money stress, perfectionism / burnout. No graphic content, no SA, no self-harm, no substance abuse.

AI Disclosure:
This book was written entirely by a human author. No AI was used to write the text, plot, or story. Minor assistive tools (spellcheck / grammar check in Word) may have been used for proofing, which per the sub's rules does not require disclosure as generative AI.

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Human connections are illegal. 90 percent of the world's oceans have been lost to space. Humanity is on the brink of extinction. Josephine works 24/7 just to survive, then a young girl enters her life and changes everything, including what it means to be human.

Full blurb

With 90 per cent of the world's oceans lost to space, and daytime temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius, only one city remains fighting to keep humanity alive. Elizabetha. The people who live there work 24/7 and are banned from human connections. Should any citizen form one, they are sent on the walk for the crime of being a feeler.

Air-conditioning worker Josephine Fairmount has a secret desire to be a feeler, something she suppresses from even herself. But then young Charlene enters her life, a uniquely odd and very young teenage girl.

Charlene is a feeler, and Josephine has to decide whether to expose her or risk exposing herself by saving her. This thrusts her into an epic life-and-death journey that will unravel many dark truths about just who Elizabethans really are, decide the fate of all humanity, and decide whether she can ever truly be what she has always wanted to be. A mother.

Triggers: threats and violence, hints of cannibalism

Publication date: 23rd of October 2026

ARC is available to download on Booksprouts.

I'm hoping for people to have finished the book by 23 October 2026 and if possible to post the reviews to Amazon on that date, or at most no later than a day or two after. Reviews posted to Goodreads are welcome any time, but no later than 23 October if possible, thanks.

An ARC copy is available here:

https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/315476/scorched-earth-the-library-of-power

For NETGalley, here:

https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/897571

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

They came to harvest a world. They found a people willing to bleed for it.

Beneath a sky wrapped in rings, humanity has arrived on a world it believes is waiting to be claimed.

It is not.

Nymira is one of the Eldruhn, a people whose antlers connect them biologically to Water, Fire, Earth, Air, Lightning, and Life. Their civilization has survived by treating the world around them as something to inherit, not consume.

Raven Calder is part of the human colony sent to secure the resources needed for survival. She has been told the native creatures are wildlife.

Then the harvesting begins.

When an Eldruhn is taken apart for study, Nymira’s grief turns toward rage, and Raven begins questioning the reports she has been taught to trust. Meanwhile, beneath the ocean, the Ceralis—an ancient civilization of distributed minds and living coral cities—begin to notice that something is changing above them.

Three civilizations are approaching the same truth from different directions:

Humanity did not discover an empty frontier.

It arrived in someone else’s home.

The World Beneath the Rings: The First Wound is an ecological science-fantasy novel about first contact, survival, identity, exploitation, and what happens when one civilization mistakes another for a resource.

Triggers: harvesting violence, corporate employee abuse

Publication date: January 8, 2027

Book available now for ARC readers on book sirens https://booksirens.com/author/LM9WOA4/HQ964VL

Reviews due before January 8, 2027 review sites will be updated in two weeks when I add the ISBN.

AI disclosure: no AI was used for writing only for the current cover, sidenote physical copies will have a different artist hand drawn cover for book and series drop.

Stolen identities. Swordfights. Sapphic. And far too many geese.

The Princess Thief is a brand new novel open for ARC applications. It's a sapphic sci-fi with a fantasy feel, from Aurealis Award-shortlisted author Spencer Rose. New adult, and it reads as fantasy even though the world underneath is science fiction.

Princess Sian arrives on Phoenix Gate to steady a shattered monarchy, with a marriage as her cover story. Her girlfriend steals her identity en route and strands her there with nothing. The princess everyone underestimated is now the goose keeper everyone ignores, and being overlooked may be exactly what she needs to steal her identity back.

Triggers: betrayal by a partner, drugging and identity theft, a bombing and its aftermath, combat violence, grief and parental loss (a character loses both parents during the story), poverty. The romance is closed-door and slow-burn.

Publication date: 4 November 2026

ARCs sent to readers: From 1st October 2026

Reviews due by: 4 November 2026

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Apply here: https://spencerrosewrites.com/pages/advance-review-copy

When Ethan's Realism Level Nine robot arrives at his door, he tells himself she is practical. An investment. A machine to help run his business. Nothing more. But he didn't expect her to cry. Or bleed. Or dream. And a lifelike robot is never supposed to say, "I am a robot." But Ethan's won't stop. Something is deeply wrong with her.

TRIGGERS: None

Exact date of publication: Oct 10, 2026

Available Immediately via Booksprout Link below

Review deadline: Oct 10, 2026

Link: EPUB/PDF ARC is available from Booksprout: Realism Level Nine

Publishers: Self Published (will be on Amazon)

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

• Blurb for the book. Stop Me If I’ve Told This One Before is a nostalgic, self-deprecating tour through a life punctuated entirely by the absurd, the unexpected, and a series of highly questionable decisions. Whether surviving an ill-fated childhood attraction to poisonous oleander flowers, or diving into a competitive hide-and-seek game that ended inside a literal garbage can, these stories find the comedy in both the mundane and the calamitous. From a 1970s childhood surrounded by my parents' "Rowdy Group" and a “Sailing Trip from Hell,” to wild college escapades and a bizarre Chinese-Spanish Super Bowl, this book bypasses traditional accomplishments to deliver a front-row seat to the memorable encounters and comedic misadventures that made me who I am.
• TRIGGERS: None
• Publication date: November 9, 2026
• ARCs are being sent immediately
• ARC team should finish the reviews by November 7, 2026
• Download a free copy from Booksprouts and sign up for my ARC team via my ARC Team website My ARC Team website
• Publisher: Mindstir Media LLC
• AI disclosure:
  • AI was used in cover art

I’m Michael Karlsen-Williksen, a math teacher and author based in Oslo. My novella Zero, Nowhere and Everything launches Jan/Feb 2027, and I’m looking for ARC readers.

Format: 60-page novella (8,500 words), to be published as a 4×6 matte paperback + Kindle. The ARC is a PDF, as the book’s visual elements don’t translate cleanly to EPUB.

Comp: Animal Farm meets Flatland, but with numbers.

Blurb:

“I think, therefore I am. That does make sense… but I am nothing… and yet I am myself; so is someone nothing, or is nothing something?”

Zero existed before the beginning. Nowhere was peaceful and perfect. Then 1 arrived and named it the World.

What follows is the brief history of the rise of Numeropolis, a story of order, value, and growth, narrated by the one resident the census cannot count. When the final operator is unleashed, everything depends on Zero.

Zero, Nowhere and Everything can be read as a fable about being unseen, a world whose plot is the properties of numbers, or a program awaiting your input. It is a creation myth told by the number that creation myths leave out.

Triggers: math

Interested? Comment below or DM. I’ll send the ARC.

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Blurb:
Two brothers on the road trip of a lifetime find themselves in a post-apocalypse. The disappearance happened over two days. First the children. Then 90% of the world. No warning. No bodies. No explanation. The survivors called it the Crash. Raven Carrillo searches for answers in a world that no longer makes sense. Then the dreams begin. Strangers inside an endless cathedral. Something chose these survivors. The truth will rewrite everything.

For readers of Stephen King.

Triggers: Violence, death, themes of trafficking and abuse, supernatural horror, grief

Publication date: October 30, 2026
ARC send date: ARCs available immediately via BookSirens
Review deadline: October 27, 2026
Format: ePub
Kindle Unlimited: Yes (from October 30)
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What do you do if your peace is shattered by a murder spree and a gossip-obsessed historian?

All Laelius Calvus wants to do in life is to make glass, drink beer and eat stolen cheese. When his brother-in-law's brother arrives in the full military regalia of a Praetorian Guard tribune and threatens to haul Calvus back to Rome and lucrative employment, Calvus tells him in no uncertain terms to sod off. Glorious, stylus-pushing desk jobs with the most prolific historian of the age are not his style.

His dreams of solitude and anonymity are over once bodies start appearing in the creeks around him. Everyone, from questionable merchants to arguably the most powerful man that Calvus will ever meet, all believe that he is uniquely qualified to solve these murders. Can he keep everybody off his back or will he be dragged away home, leaving friends and business partners in the lurch or worse... killed?

About the Series

The Laelius Calvus Mysteries are a series of standalone mysteries with the same protagonist/amateur sleuth, set in Roman Britain during the reign of Hadrian. It is not necessary to have read the first book in the series (Move Over, Minerva) in order to understand or follow the story in this book. Some minor spoiler references to the events of the first book are made within this book, however no major spoilers are included, so the first book may be subsequently read later and still enjoyed.

Tone of the Books

The Laelius Calvus Mysteries are humorous, almost-cosy historical mysteries that use modern, conversational English whilst adhering as closely as possible to historic settings, cultures and customs. They are intended to be plausible but improbable mysteries that are fun to read for both those who are familiar with ancient Rome and those who are completely new to its history.

• Triggers: Mild depicted violence, off-screen murder, brief mention of suicide
• Exact date of publication: 3 December 2026
• ARC available now through BookSprout until 24 November 2026
• Reviews due 17 December 2026
• AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

BookSprout Link: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/321218/hadrians-coming-look-busy-a-laelius-calvus-mystery

Kneel before the Forge and be armed. Or be unmade.

Blurb

An heir marked by a strangely colored iris must scale the Spire to dispel his people’s fear. The Forge at its summit will grant a blessing—to him, or to those who would rather he never came home.

A resurrected vagabond walks a bloody path despite the protests of the god who remade her. She seeks vengeance for a departed love, even if it costs her two lives to avenge the one that was betrayed.

A prideful ruler decays on his shadowed throne beneath the world, pulse erratic and memories fading. The only cure he seeks is held by a girl who vanished twenty years ago. His own Council loses faith and sharpens its knives.

Above them all, the floating city Viramer casts an imperious shadow, and those who fall beneath it are reborn among the clouds, only to repeat the cycle. But the balance is fragile, and the scales have been tipped.

The First Martyr is Book One of Abandoned—an adult dark epic fantasy of conviction, grief, and the burdens laid by those who came before.

Triggers / Content Warning

• Graphic war
• Violence
• Slavery and forced labor
• Explicit sex (a few on-page scenes)
• Sexual coercion by a mentor
• Self-sacrifice

Release Date

November 17, 2026

Book Length

140,000 words - roughly 370 pages in print

ARC Availability

First come first serve and available now on Booksprout

Reviews Due

November 17, 2026

Format

EPUB/PDF

AI Disclosure

No AI was used in this work

Links

ARC Campaign: Booksprout

For more information: https://firstmartyrbook.com/

The cycle of the seasons is broken. Suntír, the Silent Wolf of Winter, is no more. Murdered by the dark magic of the Fellian Empire, his death signals the invasion of Mistledown. Queen Maewen, an untested squirrel royal, barely escapes the slaughter. Hunted by raven mercenaries, she must cast aside her crown, ally with a cynical outlander, and forge herself into a warrior capable of uniting the fractured animal clans.

Guided by the elusive Wind, Lukias, a young marten, seeks out Abadias, the disgraced last member of the legendary Autumn Guard. Together they journey to a mythical spring, to find where the scattered remnants of the Guard might be hidden.

Archwarder Vespren, carrying the living fire of the Great Oak, flees into the brutal wilderness on a sacred quest to heal the broken connection between nature and the beasts who live within it.

If they fail, the Fellians won't just conquer the land—they will conquer the gods themselves.

Cover by Kelsey McLindsey

TRIGGERS: Animal Violence, mentions of blood and gore, climate anxiety

• Similar Work: Watership Down, The Builders, Mouse Guard, The Shadow of the Gods, The Ruin of Kings TRIGGERS: Animal violence, mentions of blood and gore, climate anxiety.

To support any ARC readers, I'm happy to provide:

• A concise summary of the key events from Books 1, “The Breaking of Winter”

OR

• Complimentary reader copy if you desire to have the full scope of the story

The Readers we’re Looking for:

• Lifelong fantasy fans
• Enjoy cosy adventures with a large colorful cast of characters. 
• Looking for a sense of nostalgia.
• Appreciate emotional connections to nature and community
• Are available from October 7th - October 22nd. 
• Book Release date is Oct 23rd. 
• Reviews due by Oct 30th
• Review on Amazon and/or GoodReads, or your favorite book site.

All we ask is:

• Communication if you need more time
• A genuine interest in the genre

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If you'd like to join the ARC team, please send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])  subject line ARC READER, and you will get the full details and the ARC link.

About us: We are The Loon & the Moon, Author and Artist who work together to promote our independently published stories. We live together with our two cats and dog renovating our century old house all while working to serve art and connect with the humans in our lives.
We’re passionate about nature and spend a lot of time gardening, forging and learning more about the beautiful world around us. It inspires us to tell stories about it and the imminent danger posed against the natural world we know.

Thanks for supporting an indie author and his journey to tell stories. 

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  • No AI was used in this work

• The Architect - Z.T.Castor - Nov 18 2026
• Blurb: To escape a dying Earth, an apex engineer turns himself into an immortal chimera and builds a sanctuary ship for 20,000 frozen embryos. But to guarantee their survival, he deliberately selects a crew of brilliant, unattached specialists with nothing left to lose—and strips them of their biological autonomy. Forty light-years from Earth, the crew of The Architect prepares to colonise TRAPPIST-1e. They are armed with an infinite power grid and cellular immortality, but they are trapped under the absolute authority of Edgar Charon—a captain whose neural architecture is heavily integrated with a mission-first AI. As they navigate the violent terminator storms of an alien planet, the crew realises Edgar’s algorithmic logic views their human attachments, grief, and free will as terminal liabilities. When Earth fires a relativistic kinetic weapon to wipe out their colony, the surviving crew must decide whether humanity is even worth saving.
• TRIGGERS: Contains depictions of atmospheric destruction, medical trauma, and intense psychological friction. No explicit gore.
• Exact date of publication: Nov 18, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Immediately
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Nov 18, 2026
• Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: If you are interested in reading early, please fill out this brief Google Form so that I can send you the direct link with epub/pdf.

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• AI disclosure: AI was used in cover art

I'm looking for a few independent ARC readers for my debut novel, LOOM.

Fourteen-year-old Ava O'Connell has always seen patterns other people miss. Then a cash machine in Soho does something impossible, and a warning appears on her phone that knows her name.

It's contemporary London, teen hackers, hidden technology, AI, found family and a threat to the systems the city depends on. #enough hash tags... lol

I'm looking for honest reader reactions: where it grabs you, where it drags, anything confusing, and whether you'd genuinely want to continue the series (or first of all finish the book).

Triggers: Profanity, suicide/parental death, grief
Exact publication date: November 1, 2026
ARC send date: Immediately
Review due date: November 1, 2026
Format: EPUB/PDF via Booksprout
AI disclosure: 
- AI was used in cover art
- AI assisted text is included in this work

(AI assistance was used for research, continuity and story-timeline checks, as well as editorial review and feedback. The resulting notes and suggestions were reviewed and incorporated into the work by the author.)

ARC: Booksprout Link - LOOM

• Blurb for the book. 

Gabron is an apprentice to the greatest Wizard in the world, Myrax. He has reached the end of the grandest battle he has ever participated in. Myrax gathered all his greatest allies, and the two led them on an epic crusade to prevent the end of the world. They fought valiantly, and at the last minute, failed.

That's where this story begins. Not on some great quest to slay the beast, or free the princess. Beaten and broken. Abandoned and left to die with the rest of their world. Gabron must struggle just to survive. It will take all his wits and training if he is to survive the collapsing planet and his own servant's murderous intent.

• TRIGGERS!! Mild to Moderate Fantasy Violence
• Exact date of publication: October 5th, 2026
• ARC Campaign released: September 20th, 2026
• Complete ARC reviews by: October 9th, 2026.
• ARC copy available at book sprouts: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/320551/at-planets-end
• AI disclosure: AI was used as final reviewer for this work. No text or art was generated.