If it all fell apart tomorrow, what would you do to survive? Marcus Adair was marking time as a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then the Omega virus swept across the face of the world leaving a catastrophic death toll in its wake. One of the rare few to survive the plague, if only barely, Marcus finds a world irrevocably altered and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory. Gas has become a precious and ever diminishing commodity. With his family dead or lost to the breakdown in communication systems, Marcus needs a purpose, a goal, a reason to survive. His thinks of Hidden Acres, the old family farm tucked away in western Indiana. It is a place of fond childhood memories filled with golden, summertime adventures. It may also be the last place where he has family. With nothing to lose, he packs his few worldly possessions into his old backpack and starts the long trek across the remains of the American heartland. Can he get there safely? Will he find family if he makes it that far or merely the ghosts of what once was? This is the story of Marcus’s journey and the people he meets along the way, who are each just trying in their own way to survive. This is the first book in the Hidden Acres series. Book 2 is “Ashes to Ashes”, followed by “When the First Bird Sings”. The fourth and final book of the series will be published in 2027. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Road to Hidden Acres (The Hidden Acres series Book 1)
Free: Head Fake
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2024. A tale of high schoolers and their coach creating a basketball team that may save them in ways therapy and medication can’t. Free on Kindle.
Free: How Hot It Be in Hell
How Hot It Be In Hell descends into the hidden impulses people try to outrun—jealousy, obsession, violence, desire, and the quiet urges that twist a life off course. Each poem opens a door into a different human fracture: a lover’s fatal rage, a predator’s watchful hunger, a drunk stumbling toward chaos, a homeless man recounting the slow collapse of everything he held dear. Even the act of writing becomes a reckoning with the shadows that shape meaning, rendered through Drummond’s surreal imagery and genre?bending voice.
As the collection deepens, the tone grows darker, more unflinching, until the final poem, HOT FIRE, tears past individual sins and imagines hell itself breaking loose upon the earth. Drummond blends romance, horror, mystery, and lyrical experimentation into a haunting exploration of how easily humanity slips toward ruin. The result is a compelling, fire?lit journey for readers drawn to poetry that stares directly into darkness and refuses to look away. Free on Kindle.
Hannah Bloom: Dream Juggler
Hannah Bloom longs to claim the title “poet.” With her daughters at camp, she expects time to write—until heartbreaking letters arrive, an unexpected pregnancy upends her plans, her mother considers moving back to Europe, and a lawsuit threatens the family business. Now Hannah must hold it all together—and find her voice. $0.99 on Kindle.
Going to Zossen
NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER
“Gripping” – Kirkus Reviews
Based on true accounts of children’s penal colonies that emerged during the 1990s post-Soviet chaos, Going to Zossen is a raw exploration of the bargains ordinary people make under oppressive systems – necessary reading for fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys.
The year is 1993. In a collapsing post-Soviet mining town, a former serviceman, Vasily Mikhailovich, accepts work as the director of a remote juvenile prison colony. Determined to bring order and empathy to a brutal system, he starts a rehabilitation program for the young boys. But he is soon thwarted by the corruption around him; as he watches the people nearby prosper through deceit and cruelty, he is forced to make a choice: to uphold his principles and risk everything, or surrender them to save his family.
Going to Zossen achieves almost surgical precision in its depiction of the brutal wave of mass child homelessness that swept through Russia after the fall of the USSR – a collapse that produced up to four million “street children,” the quickest deterioration of living standards to happen in any country during peacetime.
PRAISE
“A timely revelation” – BookLife
“Will embrace even readers who held little prior familiarity with and interest in Soviet affairs” – Midwest Book Reviews
“Compelling … Historical fiction in the richest sense” –Creation Mag $0.99 on Kindle.
Where the Heart Meets the Sea: A Novel
An emotionally rich love story with themes of lost and found family in a stunning Norwegian island setting. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Zenith’s Peak: Journey of a Light Shaman Book 1
This is not a book about trauma. It is a book about what is born through it. Thaddeus Harold Pierson is a disabled, queer orphan raised inside institutions that alternately erase him and weaponize him. His survival requires a splitting of self: the dissociated observer during confinement, the intimate narrator when free. Through shifting narration and bilingual prose in English and French, Zenith’s Peak mirrors that fragmentation—inviting the reader into a consciousness attempting to reassemble itself. When Thad escapes to Montreal in the early 1980s in search of a shamanic anthropologist, his journey feels like spiritual ascension—until he wakes years later in a hospital, missing time, on trial for acts he cannot remember. A freakish man named Walter appears only in the mirror. His mother speaks from the thin places between worlds. And his final courtroom monologue forces the reader to decide whether Thad has gone mad, or simply stepped into a frequency society has no language for.Zenith’s Peak is a visionary literary novel about madness as a rite of passage, language as a code technology of consciousness, and the fractal journey of becoming whole. For some, this book will be fiction.For others, a transmission. Free on Kindle.
Free: Freshman DAYS
A coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy and the trials and tribulations he experiences at a private all-boys high school during his freshman year. A diverse combination of family, friends and fellow students guide him through nine months of sports, dances, teenage shenanigans and Latin. Free on Kindle.
Free: Welcome Darkness
Experience the heartbreak and turmoil of a suppressed population through the eyes of a Black man. Follow this grieving widow as he struggles to find a meaning for life. Witness a tumultuous presidential election; these powerful poems delve into themes of loss, heartbreak, and the struggle for justice. Join our protagonist, a Black writer, as he navigates the darkness and despair of his world. Don’t wait any longer; pick up your copy today and immerse yourself in another raw and poignant journey of Aubrey E. Drummond as he Welcomes you to Darkness. Free on Kindle.
Such a Bad Influence: A Novel
In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong? In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls every day. Until she gets a call back. It’s the number’s new owner, Alex Norse, a surly, homeless teenager who has aged out of the foster care system with no one to turn to except the stranger who’s been leaving rambling voicemails for a dead woman. Felicity takes Alex in on one condition: She has to help scare off some kids vandalizing the fields. Not only does it work, but news spreads, and soon locals are lining up to solicit justice for their own grievances. Best of all, an unexpected friendship blooms for the two young women, who have found in each other the family they’ve been yearning for. But revenge has a funny way of getting out of hand, and when things go a bit too far, Felicity and trouble-prone Alex must stick together to confront the heartbreak of their pasts and whatever new calamities may lie ahead. $1.99 on Kindle.
Tourist
Fresh out of a mental hospital, Jake returns to Lake Placid as the 1980 Winter Olympics ignite the town. Haunted by his friend’s death and the stigma of illness and poverty, he reconnects with former love Laurie. As USA faces USSR on the ice, Jake must choose despair—or peace within. $0.99 on Kindle.
IMAGINING MORE and Other Stories
New Release! A kaleidoscope of flawed, searching characters, among them actors, writers, troubled artists, strive to make sense of themselves, their relationships, and their place in the world. “The sheer narrative daring in the title story… is superb.” San Francisco Book Review “acts of cruelty or betrayal coexist with moments of profound insight or aesthetic clarity.” Kirkus Reviews $0.99 on Kindle.
Death Magnanimous
Charlie Chessman begged them to let him die. The paramedics who pulled him from the flames. The ER doctors who raced to mend his mortal wounds. The surgeons, psychiatrists, nurses, and physical therapists who reconstructed his burned and broken body. Assisted suicide the only way out, an unexpected question emerges: Is the life Charlie can’t wait to end also the life he’s been waiting to begin? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Threads of Becoming: A Memoir in Poems
At once triumphant and vulnerable, this memoir in poems describes Tamara’s journey through surviving childhood neglect, becoming a mother, navigating grief, reaching new heights in her career, and ultimately, discovering herself. $0.99 on Kindle.
Whaling Town: Poems
A simultaneously rough and tender exploration of the American experience in observational prose poetry that spans rural and urban existence, infused with the rhythms of the Mississippi Delta blues and perfect for fans of Demon Copperhead and This Tender Land. $0.99 on Kindle.
CLOUDED THOUGHTS III: Poetry Thoughts After the Storm
Surviving the Tempest: A Journey from Darkness to Renewal
Are you ready to dive into the storm? The third installment of the Clouded Thoughts saga by the most clouded author of this time has done it again.
Step into a world where pain meets poetry and survival becomes an art form. This deeply moving collection paints the vivid landscape of addiction—not just as a battle lost or won, but as a complex journey marked by storms, scars, and ultimately, the promise of clear skies. Let these poems be your guide through the shadows and light of a struggle many face but few dare to voice.
Every verse echoes the raw truth of the human spirit wrestling with compulsion and the haunting aftermath it leaves behind. From the fractured glass of regret to the fierce clash between addicts and their addictions, each page unfurls a tapestry of feelings—anguish, hope, love, and healing. Discover moments of fragile tenderness and soul-crushing isolation woven together with honest reflections that refuse to shy away from the darkest struggles.
Feel the tension of clouded minds battling for clarity, the delicate heartbreak of Band-Aid Love, and the invisible scars etched deep within. This is more than a book; it’s a testament to resilience, offering solace to those who know addiction’s gales firsthand and to those who seek understanding of its relentless grip. The journey doesn’t end with survival—it transforms into a powerful narrative of reclaiming the self and embracing the strength that rises after the storm.
Are you ready to witness courage in its rawest form and glimpse the faint light breaking through the darkest clouds? Embrace these hauntingly beautiful poems and find your own path toward hope, healing, and renewal today.
$9.99 on Kindle.
River Talk
“Yes, the inquisitive hermit out in the delta seems to have unlocked the greatest secret of them all.”
All Mankind once shared the same instinctual connections to the planet as all the other species that thrive, here, on earth. Threading ourselves into the wind, the light, the electromagnetic field and the rhythm of the ocean tides, we were a delicately woven pattern in a wonderous tapestry. In “River Talk (fables of connections lost)” the reader is introduced to Marchon Baptiste, a hermit living in the delta who still possesses these instinctual connections and more. He possesses the ultimate gift and connection to the planet: the language of water. “River Talk (fables of connections lost)” is a journey of profound rediscovery. An epic tale wherein the reader encounters a host of enchanting, humorous and illuminating characters who are attempting to restore a personal and spiritual connection to their wellspring? Earth.
$2.99 on Kindle.
Gajarah
With stunning lyricism, Gajarah tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds—Pakistan and Canada—whose life is upended by sexual violence. $0.99 on Kindle.
Mijo: We Bend, Not Break
Three generations of Mexican men carry unspoken pain across borders and time. Mijo: We Bend, Not Break is a moving story of fathers, sons, and the silence between them—where masculinity, love, and healing collide to show that bending isn’t weakness; it’s how we finally learn to heal. $2.99 on Kindle.
My Life as a Gorilla
When mortal illness threatens Alan Parkman’s life, his only alternative is to undergo experimental head transplantation. However a human body is not immediately available and so he reluctantly agrees to have his head temporarily transplanted onto the body of a gorilla. The transplant proves to be a success but now he must deal with the dissonance between mind and body, and the reactions of others. My Life as a Gorilla is an emotional, sometimes darkly comic, and always thought-provoking tale which explores the ethics of advanced medical procedures and the fragility of human identity. $2.00 on Kindle.
Grace and the Wolf: A Brief Tale on the Kindness of Strangers
A standalone novelette inspired by Kat Goss’s The Client
She wanted to find herself. Someone found her first.
Grace is starting over. Leaving behind a life that wasn’t truly hers, she seeks solace and self-discovery on a challenging hike to Cragspire Peak. But the small town at the mountain’s base holds an unexpected encounter: a charming wolf who seems a little too comfortable in human company.
Can the secret to enlightenment be found at the top of a mountain?
Grace and the Wolf is a surreal tale of self-discovery gone wrong. A suspenseful exploration of trust and betrayal set against the backdrop of a looming, unforgiving wilderness. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Crystal’s Ball
An offbeat love story between a writer and a mysterious woman from his past that takes place in a northern California coastal town. Their story is paralleled with a similar romance between a logger and a schoolteacher in the 1890’s from the same coastal town. Free on Kindle.
Free: Toadvine: A Prequel To Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
TOADVINE follows the branded outlaw Louis Toadvine through his pivotal teenage years in the frontier. Long before he drifted south and joined the infamous Glanton Gang in Cormac McCarthy’s epic novel Blood Meridian he was just a boy with a dream. Based on historical events that took place around Ohio in the early 1800s, where hard times created hard men. Free on Kindle.
Boy, Kant You Read!
Feel the guilt a twin feels for his lost sibling, or how it feels being a young child growing up in a Jim Crow state. Celebrate love grown old, enjoy the rocking spirit of praising the Lord in church. Engage in the fear of what one man can do to a country. Remember the joy of celebrating the first black president, and the accomplishment of homeownership. All this a more in Aubrey E. Drummond’s First book of poetry, Boy Kant You Read. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: ROAR
A famous debutante known as The Philadelphia Rocket, a sensational murder trial, Prohibition, Bolshevism, Socialism, and the aftermath of a world war, the 1920’s had this all and more. Come and bear witness to the 20’s ROAR. Free on Kindle.
