Urban Lit Magazine.

A place where both readers and writers can hangout. We offer free reads, free publishing within our online creative writing magazine that features both best-selling and new emerging authors. We also share free writing prompts, free book giveaways, and free book reviews. Authors are welcomed to ask us to conduct interviews, book reviews, and promotions within our magazine. Our magazine can be found on Amazon called, Urban Lit Magazine. Our chief editor was a senior publisher. She was also, a junior editor for a global news company called, The Typewriter. Plus, she worked as an editor for an additional three publishing houses. Not only did she edit manuscripts, but also is a top book reviewer for companies such Indie Books, Bethany House, Harlequin, Harper Impulse, Entangled LLC, and many more. Our goal is to help promote authors and their work and to bring readers the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to read.

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Introducing the Gem of the Golden Isles Series by Sandy Malone

What happens when a veteran destination wedding planner loses her successful business overnight in a hurricane? She goes back to writing and creates a hilariously funny series about a young wedding planner starting her career over again on tiny Jekyll Island.  “Treasure on Jekyll,” Gem of the Golden Isles Series Book Three, won a 2025 International Impact Book Award for Women’s Fiction –…

Introducing the Gem of the Golden Isles Series by Sandy Malone

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The Newest Installment of the Killer Series by Rockhill Publishing’s own, James Hill

Synopsis: 1997 – Maria is twenty-two years old. She is leading the Bright Skies Agency, an anti-terrorist/mercenary group, which combats human trafficking around the world. Barry Thomas, a government intelligence agent, working with Maria and her father, MoJo, objects to her tactics of letting herself be captured, then using the GPS within her to direct the BSA mercenaries to their target.…

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Writing The Business Speech: A Practical Guide to Writing Speeches for Business People

A new direction for critically acclaimed novelist, Matthew Hughes Before turning to writing fiction, Hughes spent three decades as the top-ranked speechwriter in British Columbia, writing for leaders of all three provincial political parties and CEOs of the province’s largest corporations. Synopsis: WRITING THE BUSINESS SPEECH . . .. . . is a practical guide to writing speeches for business…

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Safarnameh: More Than a Journey—A Generation's Story by Trevor W. Harrison

Uses first-hand accounts to better understand the experience of those who traveled the popular overland trek from Turkey to India in the 1960s and 70s. Synopsis: Safarnameh—an Urdu word meaning “an account of a journey”—is the story of Trevor Harrison’s overland trip from Turkey to India, a route taken by somewhere between two and six million young people from Western countries during the 1960s…

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Like Water for Weary Souls by Liisa Kovala has been named aSilver Winner in the prestigious 2026 IPPY Book Awards for the Canada-East Fiction Category

The police called it an accident. Essi Kivi calls it murder. Synopsis: *GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL WINNER, WOMEN’S FICTION CATEGORY.**BOOKFEST 2026 AWARD-WINNING HISTORICAL MYSTERY”In Nolin Creek, the water runs deep and the secrets run deeper. In the harsh landscape of a Depression-era Northern Ontario mining town, Finnish immigrant sisters Hanna and Essi Kivi scrape together a living as…

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Wednesday Club: A Novel, the debut novel by critically acclaimed author Kristine Jensen, has been named a Gold Winner in the prestigious 2026 IPPY Book Awards’ Plains Fiction category.

A heartfelt coming-of-age novel set in 1963 South Dakota, Wednesday Club is a work of historical and women’s fiction that explores intergenerational friendship and the power of finding home where you least expect it. Synopsis: Ivy Hanson is pretty sure her life is over. At sixteen, she’s been hastily dumped at her grandparents’ South Dakota farm while her mother chases Hollywood dreams. Stuck…

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The World of Autism Shown from a Different Perspective by Critically Acclaimed Author, Anna Rosner 

Synopsis: Can best friends Aviva and Maddy survive the hardest year of their lives without each other? Twelve-year-olds Maddy Li-Quinn and Aviva Adelman were born on the same street and have been inseparable ever since. The two are innately connected through their love of the arts: Aviva is passionate about poetry and writing, and Maddy is a gifted violinist. However, over the course of a…

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Steampunk Fiction at it’s best by critically acclaimed Author Mandy Eve-Barnett:

Synopsis: Fighting against the Victorian society’s feminine expectations, Owena is unusual in her excellent strategic and swordsmanship skills, which come to the fore after an attack and imprisonment of a village and a narrow escape. Running for their lives, a small group eludes persecution but find new dangers ahead. Propelled into the world of rebel forces, she joins the battle against the…

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Enter the Goodreads Giveaway to Win a Copy of Twilight Tactics!

Synopsis: FBI agent Collin Sullivan arrives at Broken Chains Ranch with Ollie Callahan–a foster teen and sole witness to a mob hit. The ranch, started by Collin’s cousin to provide a trauma recovery facility for veterans, should be a place he can keep Ollie safe until the trial. But what was meant as a peaceful haven becomes a battleground when armed attackers surround the property.  Survival…

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Review: The Convergence

Synopsis: The Winter War is over, but another battle has begun-the tug of war between the purveyor of light and the darkness. Theia, The Goddess of Light, steward of goodness and life, while her counterpart, Omus, The Eternal Darkness, fomenter of corruption and death. Following the ravages of warfare, Esme, the elven queen, is desperate to maintain her hold on her kingdom. Desiring…

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Review: Spindrifts

Synopsis: Racism, climate change, and violence are in the past. The new world values respect and collaboration with others. But are there secrets lurking in the shadows of the Land of Hope? What truth about the past is being covered up? When fifteen-year-old Fania returns from Immersion, she is shattered to learn that the next phase of her education is at home with Alicia, her granny. She had…

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Review: Death on the Rocks

Synopsis: In the mood for an idyllic escape? Death on the Rocks will transport you right to the sunshine coast, where a community theatre event finds its members dying, and only senior citizen sleuth Suzanne must use her experience and intuition to follow the all too human twists to the real killer, before the company runs out of understudies. Delightful summer read! – Iona Whishaw, best-selling…

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Review: Chasing Through Time

Synopsis: In the tumultuous world of high school, Emma grapples with a devastating breakup, a damning social media scandal that threatens her reputation, and an overwhelming sense of isolation. Her parents are distant, she has no true friends, and her despair deepens with each passing day. One fateful night during a sudden snowstorm, Emma forges a connection with Sarah, a girl who navigates the…

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Review: The Midas Touch

Synopsis: “A perfect piece of entertainment with characters and a story that never disappoints. Poignant in places, nail-biting in others, the plot is accentuated by a take-no-prisoners attitude, similar to speeding down a slalom course with all its twists and turns. It’s quite a ride.” -Steve Berry New York Times Best-selling author National Treasure meets Jack Ryan in this heart-pounding…

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Review: North of Broken & Furever Home

Synopsis: Renley Nelsen’s life is unravelling. She’s caught between midlife melancholy, her sons have drifted away, and her mother’s mind is slipping beyond reach. Sully, the youngest in a pack of abandoned dogs in Ontario’s northern woods, knows only survival. Neglected and scarred, his distrust runs deep. When Renley’s closest friend begs her to join a dog rescue mission, she sees an escape.…

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Review: Perfect

Synopsis: One driven woman. Five passionate paths to the perfect love. Chloe refuses to compromise when it comes to romance and success. Powering through her sophomore-level college business classes, she’s done with the effort of distance-dating her high-school sweetheart. But when he proposes just as she hits it off with a hunky basketball player, she worries following her heart could send her…

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Review: Perfect Wives Perfect Lies

Synopsis: For fans of The Hunting A woman in mourning finds renewed purpose in her fake persona for an online mom group—but membership comes at a killer cost. In the wake of losing her son, Becca also lost her marriage and her moorings. Now, work and time spent with her best friend, Lynn, are what gets her through the day. But it’s a private group of moms on social media that gets her through…

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