by Philip Eliot | Feb 3, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
DECEMBER 2024 INDIE NEXT PICK! LIBRARYREADS TOP PICK FOR DECEMBER! Rosie writes romance novels and listens to Taylor Swift on loop. Aiden is a literary fiction writer who doesn’t believe in happy endings. They’re about to write a book together—what could go wrong? The Hating Game meets Beach Read in this sexy and hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance from a debut Peruvian-Tennessean voice. Rosie, an idealistic and passionate Peruvian American, leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington—an obnoxious, surly, and gorgeous literary fiction writer who doesn’t have much patience for the romance genre or for Rosie. Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must cowrite a novel that blends their genres. The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings—and explore their attraction toward each other. When Rosie and Aiden find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite, and their once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved—unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms.
by Philip Eliot | Feb 3, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times w ins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! ‘Wonderfully dark, extremely funny’ proclaimed ADAM KAY, author of the No.1 bestselling This is Going to Hurt ‘A filmic romp with great characters, a jet-propelled plot, and a winning premise’ said the GUARDIAN JASON MANFORD thinks it’s ‘Hilarious. You’ll never look at Manchester the same way again.’ The Chronicles of St Mary’s series author JODI TAYLOR declared ‘I loved this . . . great premise – great story – great characters . . . hugely enjoyable.’ And THE TIMES called it ‘ripping entertainment from start to finish.’ There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . . A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that’s their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor . . . well, that job is a revolving door – and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who’s got problems of her own. When tragedy strikes in her first week on the job The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they’d previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined. The Stranger Times is the first novel from C.K. McDonnell, the pen name of Caimh McDonnell. It combines his distinctive dark wit with his love of the weird and wonderful to deliver a joyous celebration of how truth really can be stranger than fiction. Readers love The Stranger Times : ***** ‘A delight from start to finish – laugh out loud funny yet with plenty of thrills.’ ***** ‘Full of wit and humour, and knows how to keep the reader hooked.’ ***** ‘You’ll soon fall in love . . . fans of Pratchett, Gaiman, Aaronovich will be blown away.’ The Stranger Times and This Charming Man shortlisted for a ‘Dead Good Reader Award’ – the ‘The New Kid on the Block Award for Best New Series’!
by Philip Eliot | Feb 3, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Sometimes opposites attract so hard they miss. Lucas Barclay—charismatic Californian and fastidious photographer—is impatiently waiting for his commitment-phobic boyfriend to . . . well, commit. In the meantime, he rents a shared apartment, which is fine , except for the nocturnal cryptid also living there. Lucas spends his days working at his family’s horse sanctuary, contemplating the unexplained doodles left on his bathroom mirror, and dodging inkwells. Left on carpet . Armand Demetrio’s grim-dark comic Surrogate Goose has catapulted him to unexpected fame, and the British artiste finds himself abroad, teaching a workshop in California. He spends his nights dreading the international convention at the end of the summer (and the celebrity it entails), tarnishing his hard-won sobriety, and wallowing in the mystery of his elusive flatmate. Why would anyone need so much kale? And why does everything smell of lilac? Though conflicting schedules keep Lucas and Armand from meeting in person, tentative communication begins through text, Post-it notes, and muffins. But Armand will return to London soon, and he and Lucas might get clock-blocked. Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met? **See this title’s page on RiptidePublishing.com for content warnings.**
by Philip Eliot | Feb 3, 2026 | Fantasy |
The ebook version of “A Bad Spell in Yurt” is the special twentieth-anniversary edition of this cult classic. The tiny kingdom of Yurt is the perfect place–or so it seems–for someone who barely managed to graduate from the wizards’ school, especially after all that embarrassment with the frogs. But Daimbert, newly hired Royal Wizard of Yurt, senses an evil spell at work. But who could be responsible? The beautiful young queen? Her flighty aunt? The dour chaplain? The old, retired Royal Wizard, who seems to know more than he’s saying? Or someone from out of the castle’s past? Daimbert quickly realizes that finding out and saving his kingdom may take all the magic he never learned properly in the first place, with his life the price of failure–good thing he knows how to improvise!
by Philip Eliot | Feb 3, 2026 | Science Fiction |
A Recursive Singularity is the complete three novella series composed of The Hypersleep Chronicles , Hope for Humankind , and An Arbitrary Algorithm . The Hypersleep Chronicles : The year is 2302. Isaac Jackson is a former CEO of a successful company and has gotten to the point in his life where Earth has nothing left to offer him. He was fed up with the complacency of society that has prevented humanity from truly establishing its footprint outside of Earth. Isaac decides it is time to use the services provided by another private company, Tarax Corporation, to find a new exoplanet to move to in a different star system. Hope For Humankind : Hope has awoken on a spaceship in a dissociative fugue and is immediately awarded the title of Interplanetary Communications Specialist. It soon becomes apparent that the subsequent direction of the entire multi-century operation rests on the success of this role. After undergoing a procedure to induce memories lost from hibernation, Hope soon realizes the desperate need to ensure success. An Arbitrary Algorithm : With the fate of life on Earth uncertain and the ultimate survival of humankind hanging in the balance, the order of their society on the new planet Cardea is now being questioned. Cardea’s new leader, Ravena, is facing rebellion from Ormr, a visionary fanatic of their planet’s founder, Isaac. Ravena races to save an unprepared people while long-buried secrets from Earth’s past begin to surface.
