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The Age of Michel In 1836, as the Victorian Era stands on the threshold of history, an unexpected soul arrives in the heart of England. Michel Laurent, a postgraduate student specializing in nineteenth-century literature, awakens in a world that should not belong to him. London is cloaked in coal smoke and ambition. The British Empire is ascending toward its golden age. Great writers, philosophers, and revolutionaries have yet to leave their marks upon the world. Charles Dickens is still an obscure journalist. Victor Hugo has not yet written Les Misérables. The future giants of Russian literature are merely struggling students haunted by poverty. Armed with knowledge of the masterpieces, ideas, and historical events of the next two centuries, Michel sees an opportunity to change his fate. What begins as a desperate attempt to escape poverty soon turns into something far greater. A novel published too early alters literary history. A speech delivered at the right moment changes political movements. A friendship with a future genius reshapes an entire generation. As Michel rises from an unknown writer to a cultural phenomenon, Europe begins to change around him. The future he remembers slowly disappears, replaced by a new timeline forged by his own influence. Publishers fight for his manuscripts. Kings seek his advice. Prime ministers fear his pen. Writers across the world measure themselves against his genius. Yet the higher Michel climbs, the more he realizes that history has a price. Every masterpiece he introduces erases another that should have existed. Every change he makes creates consequences no one can predict. Can one man improve history without destroying it? Can a borrowed genius become a true genius? And when the world remembers his name more clearly than those of Dickens, Hugo, and Dostoevsky, will history still belong to its rightful creators—or to the man who arrived from the future? A sweeping tale of literature, ambition, politics, friendship, and the power of ideas, The Age of Michel follows one man's journey from penniless immigrant to the most influential writer in human history. This is not the Victorian Era. This is the Age of Michel. Genre: Historical Fiction Alternate History Literary Drama Transmigration Victorian Era Political Intrigue Cultural Empire Building New Premise In 1836, Michel Laurent, a postgraduate student specializing in nineteenth-century literature, awakens in London. He possesses memories of the literary masterpieces that will shape the next century. However, history is not fixed. The moment he publishes a work inspired by future literature, history changes. Authors who should have written masterpieces now write different books. Literary movements emerge decades early. Political revolutions accelerate. The Europe Michel remembers begins disappearing. To survive, he must become more than a plagiarist. He must become a true genius.

David Selby was born and grew up in Berkeley, California. He taught elementary school in California, Mexico, and New Mexico for thirty-six years. He and his wife live in Northwest New Mexico. He has written many short stories including the Joe the Man with Gills series. Mica is his first novel. Mica, an expert navigator, uses the currents of the Darkstream to pilot his ship across the galaxy to join his love, Olivine. On the way, he befriends Ronnie, a stowaway who can look like a coat or a first aid kit, the mysterious Vuud, and the translucent “Slight People”. They experience the savage planet of Carnage and the whirling destruction of the Moon of 10,000 Drones before they even reach Olivine in the brand-new city of Garner in the midst of an unknown world.

Max arrives in Japan believing he has finally escaped his old life. A new country, a cheap room, and the promise of anonymity feel like a reset—quiet, lonely, but safe. Days blur together as he drifts on the edges of society, unseen and unimportant. Then one day, Max wakes up in complete darkness. With no sense of time, place, or how he got there, his memories begin to fracture. Ordinary moments collide with unsettling gaps, and reality starts to feel unstable. The longer he waits, the harder it becomes to tell whether he is remembering, dreaming, or losing himself. MICE is a psychological thriller about isolation, identity, and the terrifying question of what remains when no one is watching.

Mimic's Might Betrayed. Abandoned. Left to rot in the abyss. Thirteen-year-old Vincent was never the strongest, the fastest, or the most favored. When the village bullies toss him like garbage into the shifting, pitch-black labyrinth of the Deep Dungeons, he was supposed to become just another forgotten skeleton in the gravel. But the dark has secrets of its own. And it was hungry. Instead of death, Vincent finds Malakor, a living, shifting nightmare of a mimic. Bound together by blood and a mutual hunger for survival, the boy and the monster form a symbiotic bond that defies the rules of the world. With Malakor transforming from a supple leather glove into an arsenal of deadly weapons, Vincent stops being the prey. In a world of cold steel, blind predators, and treacherous allies, Vincent learns a brutal truth: the only way to escape a monster's den is to become the greatest monster of them all. You can contact me about my book or if you just wanna chat at my discord. darkest_kinght_01 I will soon be making a discord server for my books community and people who enjoy my work so be on the look for that.

In the chaotic city of Zango, where survival feels like a daily accident and reality itself seems unstable, a scientist named Calado Bento—infamously known as “Doctor Bad Luck”—works at GENE-HIVE BIOTECHNOLOGIES, a biotech corporation experimenting with genetic mutations and insect-based super-organisms. When a series of bizarre incidents leads him to experiment on an ordinary cockroach using forbidden genetic technology, the creature mutates into a monstrous, intelligent entity known as Cockroachman—an unpredictable force that embodies both heroism and destruction. Declaring war on filth and corruption, it becomes a feared and mythologized figure across the city. As chaos escalates, other mutations and human-insect hybrids emerge from the same unstable scientific experiments, including Human-Cockroach, a being shaped by waste, poverty, and survival instinct, further distorting the boundary between human and monster. Meanwhile, Calado himself attempts to gain powers but instead becomes trapped in a cycle of failure, absurdity, and accidental survival, reflecting the distorted logic of Zango—a place where death, science, and comedy blur into one system of existence. The story evolves into a darkly comedic and chaotic exploration of power, mutation, and urban decay, where every attempt to control life only creates new, more unstable forms of it. .

As an interior designer, Erica Leal has a great career and a new condominium. But she has one problem: through the duct work in her bedroom she can hear everything her upstairs neighbor does in his, and with a different woman almost every night! Fortunately, her dry spell is challenged by a handsome new guy named Gianni Sloan, who happens to have a twin brother named Nico. Of course, the siblings are as different as night and day, with Gianni a self-centered player, and Nico a shy artist. As she tries to balance her feelings, Erica finally realizes the twins are actually one and the same—her very own upstairs neighbor! Feeling used, she consults a Latina witch doctor, who gives her an anti-love potion and instructions on how to get him out of her system. To top it off, Gianni has asked her to decorate his condo, and Erica agrees but with one exception: she’ll decorate in a way he’ll not soon forget! Miami Spice is created by Marva Dale, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

An orphan who grew up in the slums joins society in order to grow stronger, using who his superpower to copy other people's superpower.

Shen Lu opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into a wasteland world, becoming the fake young lady who was kicked out of her home. With her is her equally miserable fiancé, the future major villain. Fortunately, her golden finger activates, and in this wasteland world where the average person can't even get a single hot meal, she embarks on the path to riches through food. Egg waffles, spicy hotpot, and crawfish. Braised pork belly, crock-pot soup, and egg fried rice. ... From a small stall to a small shop. Then from a restaurant to a holiday resort, in less than two years, Shen Lu's name became known throughout the world. Countless celebrities and dignitaries hold out Star Coins, begging for just one bite of Shen Lu's cooking. The Shen Family, who had used her up and ruthlessly abandoned her, regret their past actions, crying and shouting as they beg for her forgiveness. Shen Lu crosses her arms: "Sure. Why don't you slit your throats first to show me your sincerity?"

Yunyun is reincarnated into a post-apocalyptic novel with a powerful female protagonist. Unfortunately, she isn’t the heroine. She’s just a minor cannon fodder character… destined to die early. But after awakening memories of the novel, Yunyun accidentally reveals the future through her thoughts— [Mommy, boohoo… your scumbag husband has been cheating on you for years and even has a child with another woman. In the end, they’ll join forces to cripple and torture you to death!] [Uncle, you’ll be betrayed by an ungrateful subordinate and driven out of your own luxurious home, left to freeze to death in the snow!] [Grandpa… Grandma…] In the original story, only her young aunt—the novel’s female lead—survives to the very end, killing her enemies with her own hands… only to live on as something neither fully human nor a ghost. Before they can recover from learning their fates, another thought leaks out— [Sigh, the apocalypse is coming soon. As a three-year-old cannon fodder, can I go offline early? I don't want to suffer through the end of the world…] Looking at the little milk dumpling in their arms, pretending to be silly just so she can laze around… What else can the Bai family do but spoil her? They hoard supplies, renovate and fortify their home, and prepare in advance for the coming apocalypse. Meanwhile, little Yunyun follows her protagonist aunt, accidentally kicking off the base-building plot and helping create a super base where food and clothing are abundant, even in the apocalypse. Step by step, the Bai family rises to power. In the end, Yunyun is dumbfounded: [Wait… wasn't I supposed to be cannon fodder?! Why does this feel like a "pampered lucky baby" story?!] The Bai family: Their little Yunyun is, indeed, their precious lucky baby.

Olivia transmigrated from the apocalypse to the modern era. Not only that, her dimension and superpower came along with her. She felt that the good days were about to begin. But before she could be happy for even three days, the internet was flooded with posts slandering her. Advertisers and directors want to terminate her contracts, and her company wants to blacklist her? How could this be? She wanted to use the money to enjoy modern life to the fullest. Without money, how could she enjoy anything? So, who's slandering her online? I'll find you and dig up all your dirty secrets. Who wants to terminate her contract? Terminate it immediately. After termination, she'll go on to endorse international luxury brands instead. Terminating the script contract? Good, that's great! If the contract isn't terminated, how can she film the blockbuster drama of the year and win awards with it? Modern life is so wonderful, eating and drinking every day. There's just one tiny problem. Why are there suddenly two babies growing in her belly? And who is this ridiculously handsome man who appeared out of nowhere, claiming to be their father?