YSKAIPE publishes fiction set in real places, and every series crosses over into a trip you can take. Start with the book and the companion guide at its end, or start in the trip guide online, a virtual world to explore before you go. The journey is the reward.
Deb Conenna · Historical fiction · Southport, NC
Three novelettes, plus a virtual world to explore first: the real Hurricane Hazel of 1954, the year on the Cape Fear river, and a trip guide to the places behind the books.
Forthcoming in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. $5.99 for all three novelettes on Kindle.
Nick Conenna · Sports romance · Six real festivals
Book One, Stoppage Time, is out now. Then step into the virtual world: a map, the festival calendar, and the trip guide behind every book.
Ebook now. Paperback coming soon. Audiobook in production.
More from Nick Conenna: To Stay and The Pace, both on Amazon in ebook and paperback.
The Tidewater Novels, Book One
by Deb Conenna
Hurricane Hazel put a cargo schooner on the oyster shoals behind Battery Island in October of 1954, and something went down with her that never made it into the harbor log. What a nineteen-year-old deckhand sealed inside a brass cylinder and threw into the marsh that night was found by morning, and hidden ever since.
Seventy years on, Charlotte Lynch comes home to Southport to bury her grandfather and settle a house full of nothing much, until a codicil in her briefcase names her family heir to the island itself, and a neighbor on the next porch over makes it clear the marsh has been waiting for someone to come asking.
Three novelettes, one price, two timelines.
A virtual world to explore before you visit Southport.
Forthcoming in ebook ($5.99 for all three novelettes on Kindle), paperback, and audiobook. Bonus material will be added to the series as it's made.
A sports romance series in three countries
by Nick Conenna
One hot summer on the Costa Brava. A pitch, a rivalry, and the ninety minutes, plus stoppage time, in which everything can still change.
Each book in the series is played in a new place, in a new key: heavy stakes in Spain, a season of second chances in Portugal, and a lighter, funnier turn in the Swiss Alps. Read them in order, or start wherever you'd like to travel.
A virtual world to explore before you book a festival.
Ebook available now. Paperback coming soon. Audiobook in production. Bonus material will be added to the series as it's made.
Soccer season, festival season: follow the series on X and Instagram.
Standalone alternate-history space fiction
The Apollo astronauts went to the Moon to visit. What if, the next time, we had gone to stay? From Siena and Florence to the far edge of the solar system.
Ebook and paperback. Audiobook in production.
The Cubit and the Quark, Book I · Thriller
Money, measurement, and time are the oldest things people agree on, and the easiest to quietly rewrite. From the Reed Gold Mine in North Carolina to the law now deciding what counts as digital money.
Ebook and paperback. Audiobook in production. Books II to IV, The Fathom, The Breath, and The Standard, are in the works.
Each YSKAIPE book is published as an ebook, a paperback, and an audiobook. The audiobooks are in production. Each series also gets bonus material as it's made.
| Title | Ebook | Paperback | Audiobook |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tides of Battery Island | Forthcoming | Forthcoming | In production |
| Stoppage Time | Available | Coming soon | In production |
| To Stay | Available | Available | In production |
| The Pace | Available | Available | In production |
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Finish a book and turn the page: a few pages of practical travel notes on the real towns, coasts, and landmarks you just read about. Where to stand, what to see, what the characters would have eaten.
Prefer to start on the ground? Each series also has a trip guide online, a virtual world of maps, calendars, and itineraries. Explore it before the book or after, and the story is waiting either way. Open the trip guides.
Sample: the places in The Tides of Battery Island
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