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[close] The book trailer for the poetry book Unscrambled Eggs by Nadia Brown. http://alturl.com/ns4rj

[close] Author Reading Book: Andrew's First Act Available now on Amazon! 👉 Paperback & Hardcover: https://amzn.to/3EbcxsW 👉 Audiobook & eBook: https://shorturl.at/HOMKA Connect with Author Sunshine Rodgers www.sunshinerodgers.com Facebook: @SunshineRodgersBooks Instagram: @AuthorSunshineRodgers Twitter: @Writer_Sunshine TikTok: @AuthorSunshineRodgers Follow Sunshine on Goodreads and Amazon!

[close] Hello, and welcome to Authors & Readers Book Lounge! This is a community created for authors, readers, writers, and book lovers who want to connect, discover great stories, and share their love of books. If you're an author, this is a place to introduce yourself, talk about your writing journey, connect with readers, and share your books in the appropriate discussions. If you're a reader, you can discover new authors, recommend books, join book discussions, ask authors questions, and share what you're currently reading. We'll also have conversations about writing, publishing, new releases, author experiences, and the stories that inspire us. Most importantly, we're building a community based on genuine conversations and meaningful connections. Everyone is welcome, and we ask members to be respectful and contribute positively. So, whether you've written ten books, you're working on your first story, or you simply love getting lost in a good book, you're welcome here. Join the

[close] Jeff Bailey Reviews Pale Face by William Kilpack #paleface #williamkilpack #jeffbailey #disneyland #booksandreviews #bookreviews #booktok #booksandauthors Welcome to my World

[close] Meet Syed Akbar Hassan, author of Life’s Echo, Light Upon Light, Quiet Habits, and The Woman Who Kept the House Awake: A Memoir in 25 Stories. His writing explores ordinary lives, family, faith, memory, human relationships, social realities, and the quiet choices that shape us.

[close] In this video I give tips on how to create character arc in your stories.

[close] In this video I give tips on how to create story arc in your storis with the help of a successful Hollywood screenwriter.

[close] In this video - Part 1 of a series I will be doing about this topic - I talk about the first red flag when you get an email from an annoying scammer/spammer pretending to care about you and your book/s.

[close] Caleb Reinhart has never been alone. Long before ARCANE. Long before he understood the hidden world. Before he even knew their names... there were two voices. URIEL — The Anchor. Order. Discipline. Restraint. ASMODEUS — The Catalyst. Chaos. Instinct. Action. One tells Caleb to breathe, observe, and calculate. Read Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... The other wonders why the hell he's still standing there. They argue. They challenge him. They see the world differently. And sometimes? They're both right. Caleb's answer is simple: LISTEN TO BOTH. OBEY NEITHER. Because this isn't a story about an angel sitting on one shoulder and a demon sitting on the other. The hidden world is older than those labels. And then there's Bastet. Caleb's green-eyed companion can perceive things most humans cannot. She sees patterns others miss—and while Uriel represents order and Asmodeus thrives in chaos, Bastet has her own opinions about both. Sometimes she agrees

[close] Humanity has been reset before. The signs are appearing again. Caleb Reinhart was never supposed to survive. Born three months premature and declared stillborn, only to return with a heartbeat that defied medicine, Caleb has spent his life sensing something behind everyday reality. Read Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... And Bastet—the mysterious black cat who has guarded him since birth—knows far more than she's telling him. Werewolves. Reptilians. Archons. Corrupted ley lines. Secret organizations. Ancient technology. Underground facilities. Hidden history. And a system capable of manipulating perception, consciousness... and perhaps even reincarnation itself. What if reincarnation isn't simply a journey of the soul? What if the cycle can be manipulated? Civilizations have been reset before. Something survived. And the pattern is beginning again. Caleb and Bastet aren't trying to discover what caused the last Reset. THEY'RE

[close] THEY ARE NOT PETS. THEY’RE THE GUARDIANS. Read Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... Cat people have always suspected something. The staring at empty rooms. The sudden reactions to things you can't hear. The way they seem to know you're coming home before you ever reach the door. Maybe they're not watching nothing. Maybe they're watching everything. Meet Bastet, Ma’at, Sekhmet, and Tefnut—ancient Lyran Guardians who volunteered to come here, each bonded to a human partner and each carrying a very different responsibility. 🐈‍⬛ Bastet — protection, intelligence, and enough sarcasm for the entire team. 🐾 Ma’at — truth, judgment, and balance. Calm, incorruptible, and thoroughly unimpressed by excuses. 🐾 Sekhmet — combat, courage, and protection. When everyone else hesitates, she commits. 🐾 Tefnut — healing, restoration, and renewal. Because winning the battle doesn't matter if nobody survives it. And w

[close] Meet Bastet Some companions walk beside you. Others protect you before you even know their name. Meet Bastet—the ancient guardian, loyal companion, and heart of the Caleb & Bastet universe. Every adventure begins somewhere... Read Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] Meet Clarissa Claiborne. Patient. Disciplined. Always watching. Every member of Arcane has a role in the unseen war. Clarissa and her feline companion, Sekhmet, stand watch from the shadows—protecting others long before danger is ever seen. This is only the beginning. 📖 Read Chapter One FREE: https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] ARCANE BRIEFING B-005 THE WORD THEY WOULDN'T SAY Across decades, witnesses from different backgrounds have described one recurring warning. Different people. Different places. Different generations. The same report. Arcane doesn't tell you what to believe. We investigate what repeats. Read Chapter One FREE: https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] ARCANE R&D CATPACK MARK IV Behind every Guardian is technology designed with one purpose: protection. Explore the classified engineering behind the CatPack Mk. IV, the Orbital Drone System, Guardian integration, and the technology that helps Arcane defend humanity from the hidden world. 📖 Read Chapter One — FREE at https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... VERITAS • LIBERTAS • HUMANITAS

[close] They thought they were hunting Caleb Reinhart. They annoyed the wrong cat. A rain-soaked mountain highway. Six motorcycles closing fast. Three drones overhead. One ancient guardian with absolutely no interest in diplomacy. And this is only one night in Caleb & Bastet: Recognition — Volume One. Caleb Reinhart was never supposed to survive. Now he and Bastet are being pulled into a hidden war involving Reptilians, werewolves, corrupted ley-line nodes, secret underground facilities, ancient technology, frequency-based weapons, consciousness manipulation, reincarnation—and evidence that human civilization has been reset before. The patterns are appearing again. Arcane has one mission: prevent the next reset. But this war can't be won by simply destroying the enemy. Humanity must recognize the system manipulating it, reclaim its free will, and choose a different future before the cycle begins again. And somewhere in the middle of all that? There's Caleb. There's B

[close] ARCANE BRIEFING: Bastet's Dramatic Entrance READ THE PROLOGUE + CHAPTER ONE FREE: https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... They declared him dead before he was ever born. One week before Caleb Reinhart's premature birth, there was no heartbeat. Then, at 1:11 AM, the monitor beeped. Once. Again. And a child who wasn't supposed to survive drew breath. But Caleb wasn't alone. A mysterious black cat found her way into the hospital. Something impossible appeared above his incubator. Two operatives entered under disguises. And somewhere outside the room, people were waiting to confirm that another Indigo child was dead. So Caleb Reinhart died. On paper. His survival became a secret. His identity became a classified problem. And the forces searching for children like him moved on believing they had arrived too late. They hadn't. This is only one file from the hidden world of Caleb & Bastet: Recognition. Because Caleb's story doesn't stop with Indigo children. Reptilians. Archons

[close] Every operative has a partner. Some partners just happen to have claws. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE at https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... CALEB & BASTET: RECOGNITION — VOLUME ONE ARCANE doesn’t fight the hidden war alone. Behind every mission is a bond between operative and guardian—human instinct paired with something far older. They watch together. They fight together. And when the world beneath ours pushes back… they answer together. Meet the team of Caleb & Bastet: Recognition. The hidden world is closer than you think. Caleb & Bastet: Recognition goes far beyond one supernatural encounter. Ancient guardians. Werewolves. Alien Greys. Reptilians. Black magick. Secret underground facilities. Ley lines and corrupted nodes. 963-frequency weapons. Reincarnation. Hidden technology. Civilizations that have fallen before—and evidence that whatever controlled them survived the resets. Arcane knows the resets happened. They still don't know what causes them.

[close] THEY DON’T NEED TO INVADE They don't need to invade. They don't need to announce themselves. They only need to make sure the system survives. 📖 Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE at https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... In Caleb & Bastet: Recognition, humanity is caught inside a hidden war far older than any government, religion, or modern civilization. Reptilians. Archons. Alien Greys. Werewolves. Black magick. Lyran guardians. Secret underground facilities. Ley lines and corrupted nodes. 963-frequency weapons. Hidden technology. Reincarnation. Forgotten civilizations. ARCANE knows civilizations have fallen before. They know the resets happened. What they don't know is what causes them—or who benefits when humanity starts over. And beyond Earth, others are watching. Andromedans. Pleiadians. Lyrans. Forces capable of intervening—but restrained by humanity's right to choose its own future. Because the real battle isn't simply about who controls Earth.

[close] What if the cycle wasn't natural? What if something learned how to redirect it? Beneath recorded history lies a system older than the civilizations built above it—one connected to consciousness, resonance, and questions humanity was never supposed to ask. Reincarnation was never supposed to be a prison. Some systems were built to keep the cycle going. Enter the hidden world of Caleb & Bastet: Recognition. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE at https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] SCENES FROM THE HIDDEN WORLD — BASTET ARRIVES Ancient guardian. Lyran volunteer. Protector of humanity. Currently stuck in an air vent. Before Bastet became Caleb Reinhart's partner, before Arcane, before the hidden facilities, before Caleb understood what was happening around him, she had to make an entrance. It wasn't particularly dignified. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE at: https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] One week before Caleb Reinhart was born, every scan agreed. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... There was no heartbeat. Three months premature. Stillbirth protocol prepared. Medicine had already decided how the night was supposed to end. Then the monitor beeped. Once. Then again. And again. Caleb Reinhart entered the world alive when every medical expectation said he shouldn't have. But his survival wasn't the only impossible thing happening at St. Augustine's Hospital that night. Something appeared above the hospital. An ancient guardian found her way inside. A mysterious object arrived to recognize the child. The CIA came expecting confirmation that an Indigo child had died. And before sunrise, a conspiracy was already being built around making the world believe Caleb Reinhart never survived his birth. That night is only the beginning. Because Caleb & Bastet: Recognition eventually leads from one impossible heartbeat to Archons

[close] At 1:11 A.M., inside a hospital in Yakima, Washington, a child who should never have survived lay inside an incubator while a snowstorm buried the world outside. His name was Caleb Reinhart. His grandfather stood watch. Bastet refused to leave his side. And then something appeared above the incubator. It didn’t enter through the door. It didn’t descend from the ceiling. It didn’t move into the room at all. It was simply there. Suspended perfectly still above Caleb was something that should have been impossible. Not a sphere. Not a machine anyone in the room recognized. A head. A cat’s head. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] At 1:11 A.M., inside St. Augustine’s Hospital in Yakima, a child who had already been declared impossible was still breathing. But Caleb Reinhart’s survival created a problem. Someone knew what he was. Someone had been expecting his death. And if they discovered the truth—that the Indigo child had survived—they would make certain the mistake was corrected. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c...

[close] ARCANE has spent decades studying civilizations that disappeared, ancient knowledge that survived them, corrupted nodes beneath the Earth and forces that may have been influencing humanity far longer than anyone realizes. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE at https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... Archons. Reptilians. Greys. Black magick. Ancient guardians. Hidden facilities. Ley lines. Corrupted nodes. Lost civilizations. Different names. Different centuries. Pieces of a hidden war over something much larger: humanity's free will. The enemy doesn't need to conquer humanity if humanity can be convinced to destroy itself. And ARCANE has begun to suspect that what history calls collapse may only be one stage of something larger. THE RESET. Caleb and Bastet aren't trying to save one city. They're trying to break the cycle and prevent the next Reset. And somewhere inside this file is a face readers won't understand yet.

[close] One operative. One ancient guardian. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... Civilizations have fallen before. Arcane knows the resets happened. Evidence suggests pieces of the control system survived from one cycle to another. But there is one question Arcane still cannot answer: What causes the reset? Now the patterns are appearing again. And somewhere beneath Washington State, children are disappearing, impossible materials are being transported into the mountains, and something is being built where nobody is supposed to be looking. That's where Caleb Reinhart and Bastet come in. And a war that may ultimately have less to do with defeating an enemy than whether humanity can recognize what's manipulating it—and make a genuinely free choice.

[close] Caleb Reinhart and Bastet aren't trying to understand the last reset. They're trying to prevent the next one. Read the Prologue + Chapter One FREE https://calebandbastet.com/download-c... But apparently preventing civilization from being reset requires a 963-frequency weapon and what Bastet insists is absolutely not a backpack.

[close] Author Reading Book: Just Brooke: No Stage Name Needed! Available now on Amazon 👉 eBook, paperback & audiobook: https://tinyurl.com/8hpnkfhe 👉 hardcover: https://shorturl.at/8UrV2 Connect with Author Sunshine Rodgers: linktr.ee/sunshinerodgers Twitter: @Writer_Sunshine Instagram: @authorsunshinerodgers TikTik: @authorsunshinerodgers Facebook: @SunshineRodgersBooks www.sunshinerodgers.com Follow Sunshine on Goodreads and Amazon!

[close] The first copies of Ascendant – How To Reshape Reality From the Inside Out arrive, and I talk through what the book is, how it unfolds, and why I abandoned four years of manuscript and started again.

[close] I discuss how I came up with the Angler and how a third act chapter took a life of its own.