Books and Bevies
Established in 2022, Books and Bevies created a community where authors could connect with their readers on a different level, through beverages! From coffee to cocktails, writers of fiction and nonfiction alike have found their readers across the globe right here on the blog.

Nikki Knight and Live, Local, and Dead
LIVE, LOCAL, AND DEAD (Crooked Lane Books) follows New York City DJ Jaye Jordan’s new start at a tiny Vermont radio station, after her husband survives cancer but their marriage doesn’t. She thinks she’s got enough trouble with protests for replacing angry talk with love songs…

Nitya Neelakantan and Rudrabaan: Cursed Elements 1
A café owner who is haughty and entitled. An event planner who is earnest and acquiescent. A curse that was cast an eternity ago…

Kyrie Wang and Forbidden Ties
The orphans. The outcast. In a country torn by rebellion, they will rise as heroes. 1075 A.D. England, nine years after the Norman Conquest…
C.P. Lesley and Song of the Sinner
After surviving marriage to a brute, Solomonida Sheremeteva has sworn never to take another husband. As a boyar’s widow, she at last has the right to choose her own destiny, and she intends to devote her attention to securing a happier future for her daughter. Never mind that she has feelings for a handsome official. His inferior rank means that any association with him can only damage her own child’s prospects.

Inez McClenton and Dre’s Big Game
This children’s book author hopes to inspire kids to reach for the stars.
Mark Schorr and The Master Mind
Is he crazy or really living a crazy dangerous life?
When geeky Tom Lord tries to stop an attempted assault, he is in over his head. He’s getting beatdown until he is saved with ease by the near victim’s sister, Diana Wynne. Impressed by each other’s bravery and different skill sets, the two become an awkward couple.

Caroline Rebisz and A Mother’s Deceit
Set in 1840s English countryside. Mary, young and naïve, marries the local innkeeper, John. Unfortunately her husband's best friend wants her too and will stop at nothing to destroy the young couple's happiness.
Helen Aitchison and The Dinner Club
Five people. Five secrets. Each needing healing, support and acceptance. Derek's life has changed suddenly. His wife of the past few decades has left him, unable to live with his secret anymore. Inspired by a TV show, he decides to start a dinner club to make new friends, the kind that might accept him if he can be brave enough to tell them the truth.

Helen Trevorrow and New Brighton
WHAT IF THE TRUTH ISN'T OUT THERE? WHAT IF IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND? During a vicious storm, a battered ship runs aground on Brighton beach. While the city on the sea comes to a ghostly standstill, the unusual event triggers an epic journey for young waitress, Robyn Lockhart. First, Robyn needs to find the ship’s mysterious cargo, but…

Lucy A. McLaren and Awakening: The Commune’s Curse Book 1
The Kingdom of Septima is ruled in all but name by the Commune, a ruthless cult that seeks control of an ancient power that has taken root in unsuspecting children in Septima. To maintain their hold on the kingdom, the Commune will stop at nothing to capture children who show signs of this power, to be weaponized or eliminated. 18-year-old Evelyn Folksman is in hiding. Taken in by a tavern-owner, she is haunted by the horrific events that drove her from her home years before.

Michael Westmoreland and Sons of osiris: The sword of kings
The kingdom of Hostellus stands along the brink of war as two Osirian royals claw at each other for an advantage. The feared Black Prince sends an expedition to retrieve his ancestor’s long-lost artifact while the king scours the lands on a similar campaign. Lost in between his brothers…

Christina Kilbourne and The Limitless Sky
Rook and Gage live worlds apart ― but somehow they must find a way to help one another survive.
Trapped in a life she didn’t choose, Rook struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as an apprentice Keeper of ArHK. Even though her mam soothes her with legends of the Outside and her da assures her there are many interesting facts to discover in the Archives, Rook sees only endless years of tracking useless information. Then one day…

Martin Kearns and Beneath the Veil
In a battle between two ancient evils, can one naïve young man become the last hope against powerful creatures of legend?
David Dolan thinks he's already got the world figured out. But when a collapsed bridge plunges him into the icy Hudson, he's pulled deep into the deadly realm that exists between life and death…

Alan Baxter and The Fall (Tales from the Gulp 2)
The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.

Courtney Davis and A Spider in the Garden
Aranha is a spider shifter who's been alone for a hundred years, living in the shadows thinking that she's the last of her kind. She hates what she has to do to survive and wonders if she deserves to exist…
Iris Kain and Blood Tribe
What's worse than finding out you're a vampire? Learning that the father of vampires wants you back. Vivian Black awakens in a coffin fifty years away from her earliest memories, and that is only the beginning. She is a vampire wanted by a deadly, international cult of the undead‒the Blood Tribe. With a new, handsome friend who has vowed to protect her, Vivian flees for her life…

Shailja Sharma and Dear Mama: An Immigrant's Secret Cry
DEAR MAMA: AN IMMIGRANT'S SECRET CRY is a poetry collection that many hearts have been waiting for. These poems will speak to you if you experienced moving far away from home, or know those who have moved…

C.E. Hoffman and Sluts and Whores
A jealous girlfriend trips on acid; a spa worker is challenged to take control of her fate. A haunted jeep parks in front of student housing; a sex worker grows wings; and a hitchhiker is picked up by someone she’d never expect…

Leani M. Lopez and Slip of the Hand
When Alice is hired to gather information on a group of thieves called the Collectors, she immediately finds herself working with the crew against her boss. Along with the crew’s handsome, ex-marine, James, Alice enjoys her time as a double-agent…
Tim Riley and Lennon: Man, Myth, Music
LENNON: MAN, MYTH, MUSIC is a musical biography, the history of rock'n'roll through John Lennon's ears…