Scrolls and Screens
By Melissa Matos
Find the latest indie fantasy and science fiction and geek out over your favorite speculative fiction topics.
Scrolls and ScreensFeb 27, 2021
Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd. with Christy Nicholas
Meet Christy Nicolas, an author with great ties to history, and a talent for snark. And who refused to leave saving the world to the teenagers.
Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd.
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Tourist-Outfitters-Christy-Nicholas-ebook/dp/B07TWYF5C2
A deadly virus, a rogue time machine. Can a retired Time Agent brush up her skills before the clock runs out on the world?
Retired First Nations Temporal Agent Wilda Firestone wants nothing more than to run her Toronto costume shop for Time Tourists, spoil her cat, and drink her coffee. Her world is shaken when a deathly ill rogue time traveler falls on her doorstep and Wilda is dragged back into the fray to find the plague’s source. As she traces the traveler’s footsteps through time with her assistant, Mattea, they must travel to the luxurious court of Mansa Musa, the dark forests of pre-Columbian America, and fight against the heartbreak of true love. As they navigate politics, camels, and bandits, events take a dire turn when Wilda and Mattea discover a much larger conspiracy.
Website
Facebook: greendragonauthor
Twitter: greendragon9
Instagram: greendragonartist9
Ring of Fire with Stevie Rae Causey
Meet Stevie Rae Causey, who loves epic fantasy and retellings, and believes that myth and story play a big part in our emotional development.
Ring of Fire
Betrayal. Forbidden love. A human girl must choose between safety and truth when she falls in love with an elven prince. Kala was only 8 when Mystics killed her parents. At least, that's what she'd been told. Her uncle-one of the king's soldiers and the only witness-had never had the heart to burden her with the details of the night that had changed him forever. Still, she should have known better than to wander in to the woods alone. An encounter with a pair of elven enemies leaves Kala even more confused about her past, and uncertain of her future in the human world. "Love had blinded me to all logic, wrapping me in my own denial..." Ring of Fire is a companion novel to the Amasai Rising Trilogy. If you like magic, adventure, and forbidden interspecies romance, you’ll love Ring of Fire.
https://www.amazon.com/Stevie-Rae-Causey/e/B01N5JNSU8
Author Website: https://stevieraecausey.mailerpage.com/
Random Walk with Rachel Lulich
Meet Rachel Lulich, author of Random Walk, master of languages and survivor of the Oregon Desert. (Ok, so maybe a slight exaggeration, but she is really cool.)
Random Walk
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085ZC3X4M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Derek Williams, Jacob Mendez, and Vicky Abrams have trained for years to helm the first manned spaceflight launched by US Air Force Space Command. The Pioneer’s mission is simple – test the experimental new Hawking Engine, designed to take them to Mars faster than any manned craft has traveled before. But when the engine reaches full capacity, the craft unexpectedly hurtles into the unknown.
Website: www.rachellulich.com
Twitter: twitter.com/rmlulich
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rmlulich
Tales of Elhaani with Nicole Patrice Thomas
Meet Nicole Patrice Thomas, poet and author of the Tales of Elhaani and lover of chocolate. Learn about the dream inspired epic fantasy about an insecure hero who isn't sure he needs to be the chosen one.
Tales of Elhaani
A baby switched at birth. A false queen desperate to rule. A lust for power that could destroy the entire kingdom. A crown lost, A prince found, a journey to reclaim destiny.
IG/FB/Twitter @nicolepatricet
Tracker220 with Jamie Krakover
Meet Jamie, author of Tracker220, a YA sci-fi dystopia about the use and abuse of technology. Also we geek out about Star Wars, cosplay, and DC TV.
Tracker220
When everyone has a brain-interfacing tracking chip, one glitch threatens the entire network. Kaya Weiss is that glitch.
Blog – http://jamiekrakover.blogspot.com/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/Rockets2Writing
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/jamiekrakover/
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16483406.Jamie_Krakover?from_search=true
Bookbub - https://www.bookbub.com/authors/jamie-krakover
Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Jamie-Krakover/e/B08G1QHCY1?ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vu00_taft_p1_i0
Awakening with Brett Humphrey
Meet Brett Humphrey, author of the Dragonborn series, as he combats bullying and cheers on the geeks.
Awakening (book 1 in the Dragonborn series)
I soared high in the night sky in the most realistic dream I'd ever had. At least, I think it was a dream.
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On the eve of his thirteenth birthday, Alister Drake believed he was a typical middle-school-aged boy—until he grew four inches overnight. Developing superhuman abilities that rivaled those of characters in books and movies he and his friends cherished, he struggled to understand how his life had turned upside down so suddenly and so completely.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082GCWGMS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
bretthumphreyauthor.com
Instagram @bretthumphreyauthor
Rise of the Dragon Queen with Darrah Steffen
Meet Darrah Steffen, author of truly epic fantasy, and she has the appendices to prove it. Also a fan of prehistoric squids and the Cosmere.
The creatures of old have vanished. Dragonia was once a kingdom where magic roamed freely, but now magic wielders are hunted without mercy. A resistance has formed to fight against the king’s oppression. Legend holds that one called the Dragon Queen will rise to return Dragonia to its former glory. When Crown Princess Sammaria is kidnapped, the land is thrown into chaos. Her sister Jennica is determined to bring her home safely. Jennica will have to rely on her friends – and the gods – to save her sister, but an ancient force has returned to take control of a weakened Dragonia and threaten her quest. Will Jennica be able to bring her sister home? Will the gods interfere? Will the Dragon Queen rise in time to save the world from destruction?
www.darrahsteffenwrites.wordpress.com
Instagram - darrahsteffenwrites
Facebook.com - darrahsteffenwrites
Twitter.com - steffen_writes
Memory Reborn with Steven M. Nedeau
Meet Steven M. Nedeau, lover of deep science fiction, with a set of book shelves that made me jealous.
Memory Reborn
At his new job at the memory storage facility Darien Mamon is stunned to discover that he is the intended storage device, and has been all along.
Darien thought MemorSingular hired him for his brain. They did. They just don’t need what’s in it. After discovering details of a century old knowledge retention program Darien learns an old classmate, Nancy, could be his only chance to escape MemorSingular before his mind is overwritten. Unfortunately, Nancy hates his guts, and if she doesn’t change her mind, the company will change his.
Author Website
https://www.stevenmnedeau.com
Twitter @stevenmnedeau
Instagram @stevenmnedeau
TikTok @stevennedeau
Facebook StevenMNedeau
Aerovoyant with P. L. Tavormina
What if you could see the air? How differently would you treat the environment? Meet P. L. Tavormina, a biologist and science fiction writer who loves Star Trek and talking genetics.
Aerovoyant: The Industrial Age, Volume One
On planet Turaset, droughts ravage farmlands, cyclones rip through coastal cities, and with every barrel of oil the combustion industry pumps from the ground, the climate worsens. Alphonse has just refused a council seat because taking it means serving that rapacious industry. He leaves the city to seek solace in the wilderness, and there, a power to live the past awakens within him. Alphonse walks the steps of his distant ancestors on long-dead Earth, soon growing plagued with memories of its collapse, and he's left with a troubling certainty: He must infiltrate the combustion industry to secure proof of its treachery, or Turaset will be next to fall.
Buy it on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Aerovoyant-The-Industrial-Age-Volume-One/dp/B081X4T51G/ref=cm_wl_huc_item
Author Website
https://pltavormina.com/
Social Media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pltavormina?lang=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patricia.tavormina.7
Princess Avenger with Bernadette Rowley
An author from Down Under brings us an epic fantasy romance between an avenging princess and a defending shifter. Bernadette Rowley is a healer, a romance writer and a Dr. Who fan.
Princess Avenger
A princess in disguise. A shifter with a hidden agenda. Will they uncover the truth in time for romance to blossom?
Alecia Zialni has sworn revenge against her father for having her first love murdered. Masquerading as a man to pursue her vendetta, the prince’s headstrong daughter is soon in over her head. And when her handsome rescuer is assigned as her protector, her secret double life becomes complicated by their rapidly growing chemistry.
Captain Vard Anton struggles to control his budding lust for the determined princess he’s supposed to defend. And as an animal shapeshifter charged with killing her father, he knows he can never reveal his true identity. But the violent beast form he cannot master threatens to expose him and risk her safety.
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QM64D6K
Learn more about Bernadette Rowley and the Queenmaker's Saga here: https://bernadetterowley.com/
Or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/bernadetterowleyfantasy
Subscribe to her newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/w8m6z6
Heartmender with V Romas Burton
In the land of Barracks, the economy thrives on the barter of their citizens' most precious commodity—a human heart. Each year, the Heart Reign festival is thrown for those who have become of age to trade their hearts for their deepest desires. And this year is Adelaide Tye's year to trade.
On Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TKZ5KCS
Author Website
Social Media
Facebook https://facebook.com/vromasburton/
Twitter https://twitter.com/vanana44
Instagram https://instagram.com/vromasburton
The Black Sky with Tim Minneci
Meet TImothy D. Minneci, author of the The Black Sky, a thrilling ride through a post-apocalyptic landscape. From power ballads to fighting the power, discover the author of The Black Sky, his love for obscure 90s music, and how to show up and do the thing.
The Black Sky https://www.amazon.com/Black-Perseverantia-Timothy-David-Minneci/dp/1734521309
Bishop and Tessa Dawes survive on opposite sides of the Manhattan Island seawall, one of fifteen corporation-controlled cities across the United States in the post-asteroid apocalypse. While Bishop works off citizenship debt in the drone command center, slowly building credit to secure her entry in two years, Tessa survives in the lawless boroughs surrounding the city, reconditioning knives for the black market Free Zone controlled by bullet gangs. On a cold January day, an offer from management - Bishop has forty-eight hours to drive to the free city of Bangor, Maine and kidnap a doctor capable of saving the life of Manhattan's ill CEO. Upon his successful return, his debt will be wiped clean, and Tessa will be granted entry, their year and a half separation ended, a new life within their grasp.
Find Timothy D Minneci online:
On Instagram and Twitter: @timminneci
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timothyminneci
And Dig Me Out Podcast: http://digmeoutpodcast.com/
The World's Revolution with Chris Tavenor and Tyler Hanson
The World's Revolution: A Climate Crisis Anthology is a Kickstarter project directed by Chris Tavenor involving several fantasy and science fiction authors concerned about our planet. They have an ambitious plan for this shared world anthology, and you can be a part of it.
Favorite Fandoms - Steven Universe, Wheel of Time, and Godzilla = climate change?
The Kickstarter ends March 4th, 2021, but you can still participate as an author after that. Find out more at the links below.
The World's Revolution Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cdtavenor/the-worlds-revolution-a-climate-crisis-anthology-0
The World's Revolution Website: https://www.theworldsrevolution.com/
Chris Tavenor: https://www.twodoctorsmedia.com/
Facebook: C. D. Tavenor, Twitter @tavenorcd
Tyler Hanson: https://tylertypesterriblethings.blog/
Facebook: tylerhanson14, Twitter @Tyler_Types, Instagram @tylertypesterriblethings
Algorithm Teaser
What is Scrolls and Screens podcast all about? We are an Indy-scovery podcast, helping you find and fall in love with indy authors of fantasy and science fiction. What is Scrolls and Screens not about? The Altorithm.
Thanks to Tim Gonzalez for lending his voice to this trailer.
Find out more at scrossandscreens.com or find out more about our host at melissamatosauthor.com
Big 4 Teaser
What is Scrolls and Screens podcast all about? We are an Indy-scovery podcast, helping you find and fall in love with indy authors of fantasy and science fiction. What is Scrolls and Screens not about? The Big 4.
Thanks to Tim Gonzalez for lending his voice to this trailor.
Find out more at scrossandscreens.com or find out more about our host at melissamatosauthor.com