Stay Indoors and Read

Nov 29, 2025 5:06 am

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I'm not a big fan of shopping and even less of a fan of crowds. Holiday sales are like two pain points in one. So every year, I campaign for you not to go shopping and stay home and read instead. You'll be less stressed and may even enjoy your time more. Unless of course you like fist fighting for a Play Station 5 Pro or a Nintendo Switch 2.


In order to help facilitate your reading from home endeavors all the books in this email are either free or 99 cents!


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Maxi’s first week in a groundbreaking gamified workplace is disrupted by a snarling, drooling printer with large, pointy teeth and a murderous disposition.


After nearly becoming the red toner liquid refill during a killer inkjet’s afternoon snack, Maxi investigates the mysterious company that’s more associated with slimes, zombies, and dragons than office work.


Luckily, she is equipped with an interface that is similar to her favorite RPG-style video games. For once, being a gamer will be good for more than just getting a couple bucks during her live streams.


Maxi normally enjoys LitRPG Urban Fantasy adventures, just not the dying part. Hopefully she can max her levels before the end is nigh and the beasties devour humanity.


Read Office Maxi today!


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Necromantic rituals, murderous ogres, battle-scarred rangers: not a typical Saturday detention for unsuspecting teaching assistant Petra and her delinquent teen charges.


The Beaverton High School Breakfast Club show up for what they thought would be cleaning the locker room with a toothbrush when the morning goes horribly wrong, and they fall victim to a deadly, dark spell.


Some jerkwad moon mage shoves the consciousness of Petra's three-year-old into the body of a musclebound barbarian, and she is transformed into a halfling. The kids get stuck as a cleric, fire mage, and other stalwarts of your typical fantasy gaming party.


Now they must quest through a land of pissed-off warriors, angry giants, a pompous vampire, and a necromancer out to kill Petra and her child.


Despite being in a world where everything threatens to shuffle off her mortal coil, the hardest part is convincing a hulked-out man that the battle axe is not a toy, the undead are not cuddly, and he should use the potty.


Read My-Three-Year-Old is a Barbarian and Other Parenting Problems today!


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Every time a bell rings, an elf gets his Glock.


As one of Santa’s Elite Fixers, Jing spends most of his time waterboarding greedy toy manufacturers or responding to terrorists holding Rudolph for ransom.


While not on the job, he relaxes in the North Pole, a paradise where he can forget all the killing and bloodshed and curl up to some Christmas music and hot cocoa.


Until a rogue group of elves betrays Santa and threatens what should have been a pleasant Christmas.


Read Xmas Elf: Secret Agent today!


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There is nowhere to run. There is nowhere to hide. The state is watching.


Olson lives in a city that has been sealed from the outside world. He’s an Eleven Year and close to citizenship. His life is upended when one of the few adults who cares about him commits suicide - or so it appears at first.


While investigating, Olson meets a girl named Natalie snooping around his school. He soon learns that one of her friends died under similarly mysterious circumstances.


Together, they start looking for answers, and end up discovering the city's darkest secrets.


Read Atmospheric Pressure today!


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A young, idealistic financial crimes investigator finds a body in a ditch.


Reese investigates corporate fraud and discovers some joker has been giving away free couches to the needy, because when a person can no longer afford the subscription service fees, all their furniture disappears.


The bearer of sofas ends up in a ditch when blunt force trauma snuffs out the poor’s best chance of not living in an empty room their whole life.


Reese rolls up his sleeves. Time to get to work... until a drone strike almost wipes him out.


Maybe he's onto something bigger than he thought?


Read the Robin Hood of Couches Today!

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