DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVORITE READ
Welcome to the Kickstart Together Showcase! This page is your gateway to discovering amazing indie books launching right now on Kickstarter.
What is Kickstart Together?
It’s a special collaboration between Reader Nation, Author Nation, and Kickstarter, designed to amplify indie authors and help YOU find exclusive new books before they hit the shelves.
These authors are creating collectible editions, offering bonus content, and inviting readers like you to be part of their creative journey.
Why back these projects?
Because when you support a Kickstarter campaign, you’re doing more than just pre-ordering a book.
You're empowering authors to create bold, innovative stories (while getting special perks and rewards you won’t find anywhere else).
Special Bonus
Back three (or more) campaigns in the Kickstart Together Showcase, and you'll receive a VIP Swag Bag packed with five books from featured signing authors — a $100+ value!
How to claim:
Back three or more campaigns
Email [email protected] with links to the campaigns you supported
Pick up your VIP Swag Bag at Reader Nation — November 7, 2025, at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas
We've organized the campaigns into two sections:
Signing Authors: Connect face-to-face with the authors you back and take home signed editions at Reader Nation
Featured Projects: Back other incredible campaigns within our wider indie community
Check out the live projects below — and check back often!
New campaigns will be launching throughout the summer and fall, so there’s always something new to discover.
SIGNING AUTHORS
3 snort and swoon-worthy clean Holiday RomComs about the magic of Christmas and the power of love.
Welcome to Snowflake Falls, where the magic of Christmas and the machinations of Cupid work together to not only make it the ‘most wonderful time of the year’, but the best time to fall in love, often in the most mysterious ways.
This series follows Hannah, Ellie, and Alice as they find their person at the most magical time of the year. There's plenty of hot cocoa, comfy blankets, and unruly pets ready for a good snuggle after being outside in the snow. Plus, there's also forced proximity, second chances, fake dating, a wedding or two, and grumpy-sunshine dynamics.
This Kickstarter is specifically designed to make receiving the most droolworthy book, possible. I'm talking foiled jacket, foiled hardback, printed endpages, tailbands and headbands, a ribbon bookmark, and sprayed edges (with room for more if we hit some stretch goals... dual covers, anyone?).
Did I mention there's a book box?
Well, there is and it is going to be packed full of goodies, including, but not limited to: handmade ornaments by me the author, a collectible mug that says 'I fell in love in Snowflake Falls', and a candle!
There's more, but you'll have to wait a while before I'm going to reveal it. Muhahaha!
A Humorous Science Fiction Book Blended with Horror Comedy, Movies, Monsters, Clones, and Sci-Fi Fun
Season One might be in the books (pun intended), but the adventure continues for Post-Apocalyptic Joe! Join Joe and his clones on a new journey into a world full of monsters inspired by their favorite movies.
Top Secret Shop of Horrors kicks off Season Two of this sci-fi comedy serial book series that readers are calling “Hilarious and Addictive!”, “A Fantastic Sci-Fi/Comedy”, and “Perfect for Anyone Who Loves a Good Laugh and a Crazy Story!”.
Fat Vampire: 12th Anniversary Special Edition Omnibus
It's been 12 years since I wrote my underdog story, which became a SyFy TV show. It's time to honor it with a sexy special edition.
Fragments of Affection: A Psychological Thriller
Fragments of Affection wasn’t a book I planned to write—it was a story that found me. It came in fragments, like a whisper in the dark that grew louder the more I tried to ignore it. The characters arrived with their secrets, their trauma, and their truths, and I knew from the start that this wasn’t just fiction. It was something that needed to be told.
In creating Jess, I felt a responsibility to get it right. I’ve interviewed over 75 people living with Dissociative Identity Disorder and spent dozens of hours researching, listening, and learning—not just about the diagnosis, but about the humanity behind it.
Hollywood often paints people with DID as unstable or dangerous, casting them as villains. But the reality is so different. The people I spoke to are not monsters—they are survivors.
Their brains found a way to survive what no ever should. For many, life without their headmates is unimaginable—even with all the complexities that come with the diagnosis.
Fragments of Affection is a psychological thriller at its core—dark, twisty, suspenseful—but beneath the bloodstains and fractured timelines, it’s also a quiet, burning love story. Not just between characters, but between a woman and the parts of herself she was taught to fear. It’s about reclaiming identity, rewriting memory, and realizing that survival is heroic.
It’s still a thriller. The stakes are life and death. There’s a murder, a mystery, and an unraveling mind. But it’s also about the kind of tension that lives under your skin—the kind that doesn’t just ask who did it, but who am I?
This story doesn’t shy away from the genre. It leans into it. But it also redefines what a thriller can hold.
It can be gritty and intimate.
Terrifying and achingly human.
A chase for truth—and a reckoning with love.
Even the love of the self.
This book is, at its core, a love letter to those who’ve been misunderstood. It’s time we restructure the narrative around mental health—especially the stories of those who’ve lived in the shadows for too long. I’ve always been drawn to underrepresented protagonists, and Fragments of Affection is no exception. It’s been a labor of love, a process of deep empathy, and a fierce act of advocacy. When the book is published, a portion of all proceeds will be donated to An Infinite Mind, an organization that does incredible work supporting people with DID.
This story is not about brokenness. It’s about survival, identity, and the courage it takes to face what’s hidden—and to love yourself anyway.
5th Anniversary Edition of Soul Jumper
A love strong enough to challenge death.
The Primal Fetish Paradox
A luxury multi-author dark romance why choose box set and special edition experience.
A gorgeous limited-edition box sex and special edition of this dark and sexy why choose romance trilogy by Sherelle Green, Shae Sanders, and Stephanie Nicole Norris.
Welcome to The Primal Fetish Paradox, where they thrive off the thrill of the chase, unapologetic in their pursuit to always hit their mark - or get their woman. Businessmen by day, hitmen by night, these frat brothers live, work, and kill together.
They’re dangerous, raw, and too ruthless for their best friend’s little sister, who should be off-limits to them, especially with an enemy who is always circulating in their orbit. They could get her killed if they aren't careful. Yet, one by one, they each get sucked deeper into her intoxicating web as the morally gray lines begin to blur and they realize that the only way to move forward is to succumb to their desires ... and share her.
All three 200+ page stories in this forbidden love trilogy have been beautifully recreated into an original box set, a 700+ page luxury special edition, and more, including an author-curated experience!
Marmalade's First Murder: New Cozy Mystery Paperback
A brand-new novel to launch a brand-new cozy mystery series: Jailhouse Cat! Starring a loveable Maine coon cat with a [redacted] skill!
I took a break from writing cozy mysteries, and I am so glad to be at it again with my new series: Jailhouse Cat.
I'm celebrating with a Kickstarter to launch a special edition paperback with art on the page edges! Thank you so much for your interest and support! I hope you love the story!
FEATURED PROJECTS
Travel is Murder: Exclusive Special Edition Cozy Mysteries
Three twisty whodunits starring a travel writer turned accidental sleuth, where the bad guys always get it—and the good guys always win
Some people travel to find themselves. Alex Paige finds killers.
If you...
🕵️♀️ Love cozy mysteries with smart, strong female sleuths
🏘️ Think small-town secrets and scenic destinations are the perfect backdrop for murder
⚖️ Want more justice, charm, and travel-packed intrigue in your TBR pile
Then pack your bags—this 3-book volume is your next great escape.
Bewitchery: Cozy Tales of Love and Magic
Love cozy witch vibes and a dash of suspense? How about clean romance with a taste of the supernatural?
For fans of all things witches and cozy familiars, comes a collection of short stories filled with magic, love, and intrigue, written by the Empty Table Writers.
When a yarn shop weaves more than warmth into its hats and scarves, a witch must find the source of a deadly spell before it claims the life of her newest student, Cassy—and Cassy’s single dad.
Ophelia Dreadwood volunteers to man the Department of Creatures and Haunts portal desk on All Hallows Eve to catch a glimpse of her crush, the dreamy vampire Viktor Andrei. But when he invites her on an impromptu outing, will it be her dream date or a nightmare?
Cecily Taylor owns a private island and a global skincare brand, but finding true love is never easy, even for a witch. Will participating in a reality dating show bring her Mr. Right or trouble only witchcraft can fix?
Witch-in-training Lydia is ecstatic about her new lease—a killer deal, fully furnished, and pets allowed (she’s not going anywhere without her cat, Muffin)! But the supernatural inhabitant of the attic is more than this not-so-fortunate fortune-teller bargained for. And he isn’t going anywhere.
When serially single Robin Russo lands a date with Carson, a kind man with a steady job and a childlike sense of fun, she’ll do anything to get that next date, including race through the rainy woods at midnight on Halloween toward an abandoned house rumored to be haunted by the White Lady. What could go wrong?
If you're looking for:
Cozy fall vibes with a little bit of suspense
Legends & Lattes vibes with portals
Knitting shops full of magic
First dates in haunted forests
Hot vampires, single dads, and gardeners
Witch sisters against the world
A fortune-teller and her cat on a mission against old spirits
The Bachelor in Paradise meets Practical Magic
Then Bewitchery is for you.
Some Dark Force: A Victorian Thriller
Jack the Ripper meets Dracula in this spine-tingling tale of murder, madness, and the supernatural.
Step into the fog-shrouded streets of 1888 London where evil lurks beneath a veneer of progress.
A brutal murderer calling himself Jack the Ripper preys on women in London’s East End. Who can stop him?
Lucy Rutherford, the daughter of a powerful lord, is plagued by strange dreams and nocturnal wanderings that upend her privileged world. Lurking in the shadows is an immortal fiend with a thirst for vengeance—a monstrous force that will stop at nothing to claim Lucy as his own.
As London reels, Lucy forms an unlikely alliance with Maude Hepworth, a doctor's wife harboring her own secrets. Together, they are drawn into a web of conspiracy that reaches from the glittering salons of Mayfair to the squalid tenements of Whitechapel.
Will Lucy be the next victim? Will evil continue to reign unchecked in London? Or will Lucy and Maude and a band of like-minded women be able to stop the dark forces?
We are Christina Boufis and Victoria Olsen, two good friends with PhDs in Victorian literature who have co-written this meticulously researched historical thriller. Some Dark Force weaves together fact and fantasy in a spine-tingling tale of murder, madness, and the supernatural.
Come join us on this Kickstarter campaign to get early access to Some Dark Force, the first book in a series starring Victorian female detectives who fight the restrictions of their society as well as the forces of evil.
WW2 French Resistance Duology
Historical fiction novels for adults & middle grade set in Occupied Paris to read together or as standalones.
Welcome to the Rebels and Resistance Series – a duology of WW2 historical fiction novels, designed for two audiences. Same characters, setting, and secrets, but written to appeal to different age groups so you can discover thrilling stories of intrigue, suspense, and espionage with your middle-grade child. Read one, or the other, or both!
The Interconnecting stories also provide an opportunity for adults and young people to have sometimes-difficult conversations about wartime, oppression and speaking out when something seems unjust.
The Rebels and Resistance Series contains two fantastic reads, perfect for...
Adult fans of historical suspense stories - World War 2 French Resistance and espionage fans - with courageous heroines and plenty of action. ‘Sewing Resistance’ also features well-known historical figures as part of the plot.
And... Children aged 10-14 who love tales of daring adventures with strong, brave characters they can identify with. Oh, and lots of humour and illustrations to help explain or comment on the quite serious setting of Occupied Paris.
Boy, Resisting also ties in with learning about WW2 in educational settings and showcases history through a tween’s eyes.
If these books sound like your sort of read, or your child’s, please support our campaign to bring our books (and the extra reward bonuses) into the wide world!
Curse Breaker in NY Special Edition Omnibus
2 hardcover special editions drag a mage & his family to NY to save their scribe w/gold foil, printed edges, & unique character art.
If you love Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, or Douglas Adams' genre-bending humor, you'll be enchanted by the Curse Breaker Universe!
Six Epic Books. Two Stunning Omnibus Editions. One Universe Where Fiction Fights for Its Life.
Welcome to the ultimate meta-fantasy adventure where characters literally depend on readers to stay alive! This Kickstarter brings you 4 brand-new books plus 2 gorgeous special edition omnibus hardcovers that will make any fantasy lover's shelf shine.
What This Campaign Launches:
Tropes You'll Love:
🌟 Meta-Fiction Magic | 🐉 Sentient Dragons | 🌍 Portal Fantasy | 👨👩👧👦 Found Family | ⚔️ Fighting for Existence | 📝 Author Insert Done Right | 🔮 Wish Magic | 💻 Digital Worlds | 🗞️ Breaking the Fourth Wall | ⚡ High Stakes Adventure
Oracle of the Slavic Soul: 78-card Deck, Hardback, Art Book
Discover ancient herbal wisdom through the whisper of the 77 1/2 magical herbs in this 78-card Oracle deck.
Begin your journey back to yourself.
Healing and wisdom live in every card. The Oracle of the Slavic Soul is more than a deck. It’s a sacred experience.
Rooted in folklore and blooming with plant magic, each card guides you to heal, explore, and grow.
And beyond the cards?
You’ll unlock rituals, stories, and soul-deep practices to reconnect with your intuition and the natural world.
Step into the Wildwood of Spirit — Where Every Leaf Whispers Wisdom
This oracle deck is a spellbound fusion of botanical magic, elemental power, and ancient lore. Born from the earth and woven with intention, each card serves as a living talisman, offering guidance, enchantment, and healing to those who seek.
Within this deck, nature speaks in symbols, and every plant holds a story. You’ll uncover:
Oracle Wisdom – Mystical messages from the green world to illuminate your path: your present, past, and future. These glimpses through time help guide your journey. A reversed card shows you shadow meanings that reveal hidden truths and obstacles.
Magical Properties – Folk traditions and spirit uses of each herb ally
Rituals & Affirmations – Earth-based practices to awaken your power
Whether you're a witch of the woods, a keeper of ancestral wisdom, or simply drawn to the quiet magic of the natural world, this deck invites you to listen deeply. Let it become your guide and guardian, an oracle rooted in the wild, whispering truths only nature can reveal.
Ice Pop Bath: Children's Picture Book
A hardcover, humorous, character-driven book about twin kittens who are certain they were promised ice pops. In the bath.
🐾 What Is Ice Pop Bath?
If you've ever casually suggested something to a kid – like, say, having ice pops in the bath – you know what happens next: moral obligation.
Any chance you can't deliver? AND said child is overtired?
Tiny problems become ENORMOUS disasters. And patience? GONE. Vanished. (Probably hiding under a couch cushion.)
That’s where P & V and the Ice Pop Bath begins: two little cats, worn out and impatient, just want one thing: ice pops.
The big problem? No ice pops. Try explaining that to two kittens who are emotionally committed to justice and frozen treats.
🎨 Why Is It Special?
So what are we creating? It's a book that makes kids want to play – and a play kit that makes them want to tell stories.
Wait, what? In addition to the book, there’s an optional activity kit with cut-out characters and props. Ideal for storytelling, meltdown prevention, or just surviving the afternoon.
Ice Pop Bath is a 32-page picture book with hand-drawn illustrations, and it's full of everything kids love:
♡ Big feelings
♡ Ridiculous worries
♡ The kind of chaos that only happens when everyone's tired, wet, and waiting for frozen things
It's a playful and heartfelt story that celebrates the sideways nature of kidlogic and the superhero-ness of parenting.
It’s funny. It’s tender. And, yes, there’s a cat dad in goggles with a wooden spoon and a dish towel cape.
P & V are adorable, and they can't wait to join your family!