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All of the books published by DarkWinter Press are available on Amazon worldwide in both paperback and e-version for Kindle, as well as through Ingram Spark. For bulk purchases/discounts, please contact DarkWinter directly at darkwinterlit@gmail.com
New Release! Hopper, a poetry collection, by Steve Denehan!
A collection of poems based on the endlessly evocative paintings of Edward Hopper.
New Release! The Book of Maggie by Stephanie Wyeld
The Book of Maggie is an unapologetic implication of the damaging patriarchy within the fundamentalist Christian church, told through the voice of Maggie, a girl finding herself in the middle of it all. She tries to be perfect, as perfect as her sister, as perfect as her father tells her to be, but failure seems to follow her all her life. With a nod to the deletion of the Mary Magdalene recently found by scholars in the oldest existing biblical text, The Book of Maggie tells a story of the coming-of-age of one woman, living in recent times, who does her best to be what the men in her fundamentalist Christian family want her to be. Can she escape or will they disappear her, too?
New Release! Conflict: Mars by Gordon K. Jones!
In the mid 2100s, a new mineral, Expelerite, is discovered on Mars, capable of producing an abundance of clean energy. Soon, Mars is settled. The European Federation and United North America, are the first to arrive. The Zhong arrive years later, taking over an expanse of territory on the opposite side of the planet, but soon discover it lacks the abundance of Expelerite that the other factions possess. Their response? Attack and conquer the UNA.
Squadron Commanders Neco Cooper and Martian-born Zully Candor are part of the UNA’s military space force. When the Zhong attack, they and the rest of UNA’s squadrons are tasked with defending Mars Station, the UNA military installation above the planet, as well as the Artemis City below.
The two commanders, when not fighting the enemy from space, are busy back on the station trying to start an exciting new life together. First though, they must protect the station and the planet, and defeat the enemy.
Squadron Commanders Neco Cooper and Martian-born Zully Candor are part of the UNA’s military space force. When the Zhong attack, they and the rest of UNA’s squadrons are tasked with defending Mars Station, the UNA military installation above the planet, as well as the Artemis City below.
The two commanders, when not fighting the enemy from space, are busy back on the station trying to start an exciting new life together. First though, they must protect the station and the planet, and defeat the enemy.
Dark Thoughts & Other Stories by Hope Thompson
Dark Thoughts & Other Stories is a collection of eleven stories linked by a noir aesthetic; characters are cornered, caught and facing their own demise. An advice columnist receives a letter from a murderer and discovers she is the next intended victim. A drifter obsessed with the exploits of a serial killer falls in love, and into a trap. A painter contemplates her final brush stroke—with death. Set on city streets from the 1930s and 50s, to the present day and beyond, these stories bristle with the grit of noir. While some are lighter, and others darker, all are about people forced by circumstance to escape their situation—or die trying.
The Wreckhouse by Christopher Butt
What awaits you as you travel along a dark stretch of highway on the southwest coast of Newfoundland? Horror, strangeness and dark humour. This legendary road shares the same aura of uneasiness as the macabre tales in this collection. So, on a dark winter’s night, are you prepared to travel through the Wreckhouse?
Harold Koenig by Christopher Klassen
Harold Koenig lives in a small rooming house. Financially secure, his purpose in life consists solely in observing his surroundings and trying to discern and record philosophical truths. He is a genius and an outcast and sometimes a challenge to tolerate. And while Harold is mostly a kind man, he’s not always what he seems. Occasionally his insecurities cause him to react erratically when he feels he or others have been wronged. The deeper he retreats into his own head, the more he starts to question. "Is philosophy, are my efforts, nothing but an intellectual pastime?" he asks in his journal. "Perhaps I'm only filling blank paper and using up my days." As his doubts about life and truth grow, his grasp on reality seems to fade. Ultimately, what he thinks he experiences may be nothing but his own delusions.
The Ballad of Omega Brown by Tom Vaine
A mercenary and fighter adrift in the galaxy, Omega takes life as it comes. No job too far flung, no problem that can't be solved. Omega moves from planet to planet, completing contracts, fighting monsters, and making a fair paycheque along the way. From the jungles of Krildar, where he meets his towering new bodyguard Hoonra, to the junk-fields of Telleria, there's little of the galaxy Omega hasn't explored.
That is, until Omega and Hoonra take a job working for The Galactic Syndicate, and stumble across an ancient and eldritch curse. Suddenly, even the most remote corners of the galaxy are no longer safe. As Omega and Hoonra are drawn deeper and deeper into a battle they have no way to avoid, both will have to choose who, and what, they will become. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
That is, until Omega and Hoonra take a job working for The Galactic Syndicate, and stumble across an ancient and eldritch curse. Suddenly, even the most remote corners of the galaxy are no longer safe. As Omega and Hoonra are drawn deeper and deeper into a battle they have no way to avoid, both will have to choose who, and what, they will become. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
little town blues by Paul Robert Mullen
little town blues documents Paul Robert Mullen walking the crumbling streets of post-everything Britain with his eyes wide open. This poetry is rooted in places most people overlook: towns running on fumes, where shop shutters speak louder than slogans and silence says everything.
Beyond Hover by Janet Frances Lopes
After escaping a shadow invasion that swept them from their parents’ arms and took them from their home in the Orfa Dimension, Ben fights his own tormenting shadows in his new home on Earth. Travels to the Myrra Dimension trap him in a retro-return that locks him in a replay of the same event over and over. Time wasted prevents Ben from finding his lost twin, Lacey, who's gone missing.
Grace Before the Fall by Geri Lipschultz
Grace Before the Fall is a reminder that every girl has a little Joan of Arc in her wheelhouse. It is the time of the hostage crisis in Iran, and in New York City, it is long before the fall of the towers, just before AIDS has found itself a name, although young men are mysteriously dying, and Grace Rosinbloom is inheriting their furniture. In Geri Lipschultz’s virtual love letter to the metropolis, Grace—a former actor, a former grad student, currently a civil servant by default—becomes a lover with a mission, an accidental activist whose search for love and meaning opens up doors to her dreamworld. Here is a picaresque novel that veers into magic realism as it enters the mind of a woman called upon to take a stand. Although set in pre-9/11 NYC, the novel's concerns still hold: environmental corruption, the threat of nuclear war, the rise of whistle blowing, and cyber hacking.
A Thousand Miles of Road by Joseph Kraus
A Thousand Miles of Road is a collection of eight stories, including three novelettes, which take us through the lives of everyday people whose journey is upended by the existence of another.
Melanie escapes her ruthless husband the only definitive way possible, and from behind the counter of a jewelry store years later, she helps a man take the same dark path out of his own prison.
Maggie has a disease growing inside her and is forced to search through the abuse of her childhood to find her own escape from what is killing her.
When Mary comes to, a hundred miles from where she was the night before she must find her way back to where she started, if that place even exists anymore.
In these and other stories, Joseph Kraus explores the duress of being alive through characters whose struggles feel like a thousand miles of hard road.
Melanie escapes her ruthless husband the only definitive way possible, and from behind the counter of a jewelry store years later, she helps a man take the same dark path out of his own prison.
Maggie has a disease growing inside her and is forced to search through the abuse of her childhood to find her own escape from what is killing her.
When Mary comes to, a hundred miles from where she was the night before she must find her way back to where she started, if that place even exists anymore.
In these and other stories, Joseph Kraus explores the duress of being alive through characters whose struggles feel like a thousand miles of hard road.
Quantum by Irina Moga
Quantum is a collection of poems meant to anchor readers in light-heartedness and serenity. In Quantum, the author moves us through layers of sensorial cues and a discourse whose ultimate goal is healing - an everyday catharsis for life’s tough moments, held in balance by the power of words.
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