Show-and-Tell Contemporary

So, since I don't have any physical copies of contemporary Indie fiction, I went over to my blog and did a listing of my favorite digital reads. Click the pic below!


And now for our role call of contemporaries written by our Indie e-Con authors. Again, listing below isn't necessarily an endorsement, as I haven't read every single book by every author, but those I have read have been beautiful.

Mild caution for tastefully-handled drug use and child abuse

 
Mild caution for violence and references to drug use
Mild caution for violence
Mild caution for blood/medical bluntness, as well as some crude humor



Mild caution for reference to suicide

Comments

  1. Sarah PenningtonMay 24, 2018 at 12:53 PM

    I'm surprised there aren't more books in this post, honestly . . . I feel like a lot of people would tend towards contemporary just because of the whole "write what you know" thing.

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    1. Kendra E. ArdnekMay 24, 2018 at 1:36 PM

      Ah, yes, but also "Attract what you write," and I don't write contemporary...

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    2. Sarah PenningtonMay 24, 2018 at 9:19 PM

      That is very true. And thank goodness, because if you did write contemporary, I probably wouldn't read your books. (No offense, but I like dragons better than drama. xD)

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    3. Kendra E. ArdnekMay 24, 2018 at 9:37 PM

      I should dig "Dollhouse in the Attic" out... Also "The Prodigal Daughter"

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    4. AngieTMay 25, 2018 at 7:58 AM

      Sarah, have you tried A.J. Sky's StormBreathers series? It's dragons meets contemporary but without the angsty modern drama. :)

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  2. Deborah O'CarrollMay 24, 2018 at 1:07 PM

    Love Kelsey's books! <3

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