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BUY NOW	THE SECRET ORDER OF THE SCEPTER & GAVEL by Nicholas Ponticello Murder can happen on Mars too. The sudden death of a Martian census worker sparks a murder investigation on the red planet—and everyone is a suspect. To clear his name, janitor Herbert Hoover Palminteri must dredge up the long-buried secrets of his college days as a member of a notorious secret society, the Order of the Scepter and Gavel, where he was witness to scandal and tragedy in an initiation prank gone wrong. As the investigation unspools, Herbert is swept up in an interplanetary conspiracy that proves you are never safe from your secrets—especially in the confines of Mars. Available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover formats.
BUY NOW	A PIG NAMED PAN by Nicholas Ponticello Pan is a pig with many identities: singer, pirate, explorer. Pan can be whatever he wants to be with the right book. This exciting story for early readers was illustrated entirely by an artificial intelligence program called DALL·E. Check out the colorful renderings that accompany a text full of warmth and encouragement. Join Pan on his many adventures and discover just how liberating reading can be! DALL·E is a program from OpenAI that uses artificial intelligence to generate images and illustrations from short text prompts provided by the user. For this project, the author fed phrases like “oil painting of adorable pig singing on stage with trees and stars” into the DALL·E interface to generate images that fit the story he wanted to tell. Hundreds of renderings were generated for this project, and the author chose the 28 best images to illustrate this story about a pig named Pan who loves to read.
BUY NOW	CUCKOO CUCKOO by Nicholas Ponticello $\"I loved the morally dubious main...... review gif$ The darkest secrets never stay buried forever. Charles Abernathy Vanderough has been dead for nineteen years. But when his clone shows up on the doorstep of the old Vanderough estate, a family is forced to confront their troubled past and face their darkest secrets. Cuckoo Cuckoo is the story of Charlie B, a penniless clone and conman, who goes in search of the family fortune, only to find deception and tragedy at every turn. Set against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential primary, the proliferation of gun violence in America, and the apotheosis of selfie culture, Cuckoo Cuckoo reminds us that nobody can outrun their demons in an increasingly technological world. AWARDS & RECOGNITION Cuckoo Cuckoo (Fiction) 2022 • Bronze Winner, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award
BUY NOW	DO NOT RESUSCITATE by Nicholas Ponticello Jim Frost thinks that when you're dead, you're dead. Gone. Finished. Kaput. But on the eve of his seventy-third birthday, his daughter suggests he have his brain downloaded to a microchip for safe-keeping, and Jim is forced to consider what it really means to die, and what it might mean to live forever. Winner in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards and semifinalist in the 2015 Kindle Book Awards, Do Not Resuscitate is the firsthand account of Jim Frost, an aging misanthropist who witnessed the rise and fall of the United States as a world power, the digitalization of the planet, the advent of the water wars, and the near collapse of the global economy. Yet he remains impervious to it all. Concerned more with his plasma TV, high-speed Internet, and continual supply of hash, twentysomething Jim takes an under-the-table job off Craigslist delivering mysterious red coolers to strangers in cafés in an effort to pay the bills. But when Jim's enigmatic employer asks him to fly to North Korea for a delivery, Jim starts to wonder what he's gotten himself into. Do Not Resuscitate received honorable mention at the 2015 Green Book Festival, which spotlights "books that contribute to greater understanding, respect for and positive action on the changing worldwide environment." AWARDS & RECOGNITION Do Not Resuscitate (Fiction) 2015 • Winner, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award • Winner, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award • Winner, 2016 CIPA EVVY Awards • Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards • Semifinalist, 2015 Book Pipeline Contest • Semifinalist, 2015 Kindle Book Awards • Honorable Mention, 2015 Green Book Festival
BUY NOW	THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE DESTINY UNKNOWN by Nicholas Ponticello It is 200 million years into the future, and Earth is devastated by a dying sun whose expanding photosphere has melted the surface of the planet and driven humans underground. In this world, humankind is doomed to extinction. But Marcus Fincus thinks he can secure the survival of the human species. He selects a small crew of brave voyagers from the insignificant but determined planet Earth to set out in search of a new home. Their ship, the Destiny Unknown, is designed to take care of everything. Every meal is regulated to the ounce. Every mile is charted and mapped. Everybody has his or her own unique role in this microsociety: doctor, teacher, electrician, engineer. Then the inevitable happens: the passengers start to behave as people. The captain seduces half the women on the ship, his wife develops a neurological disorder, their sixteen-year-old son runs away in the escape pod, and the doctor dies in a freak scalpel accident. The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown is a dark parable about the nature of human existence. Told from the perspective of an alien observer who follows our heroes like an unsympathetic reporter from National Geographic—he refuses to intervene when our heroes come face-to-face with deadly meteor showers, alien cannibals, and other crises that threaten to destroy them all. Funny and philosophical in its treatment of human nature, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown not only seeks to understand the place of humans in the universe—it also seeks to address the looming question: What makes us so special? AWARDS & RECOGNITION The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown (Fiction) 2016 • Winner, Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award • Finalist, 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards • Finalist, 2017 CIPA EVVY Awards • 100 Notable Books, 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition • Honorable Mention, 2016 San Francisco Book Festival
BUY NOW	THREE WISHES: AND OTHER STORIES by Nicholas Ponticello In this village everyone is granted three wishes. The children learn of this when they are very young and are told, "Be careful what you wish for. It is certain to come true." Some children squander their wishes very early, wishing for a pony or to be taller or to have blue hair, and usually these folks can be spotted around the village many years later because they are still living with some artifact of the wish they made when they were young. Like the Granger Sisters, who wished to be joined at the hip as eight and nine-year-old girls. They used up all of their other wishes before it could be undone. Now they are old ladies joined at the hip, living with a pet tortoise in a nineteen-story polka dot house on Saint George Street. There is also Curly Joe, who wished he could tie his arms in a knot to gross out his third grade teacher. Curly Joe still has the bendiest arms in the village. Most children, however, are taught... Available for purchase in Kindle format on Amazon.com.
BUY NOW	THE BUTTON by Nicholas Ponticello A button that can destroy the world. The one man that guards it, and the enemy within. One of author Nicholas Ponticello's earliest works, The Button originally appeared online in 2006, one of two short stories describing the dark relationship between humans and the world they've created. Nearly a decade later, and for the first time in e-book format, this revised edition offers readers a rare glimpse into Ponticello's psyche in the years preceding the publication of his award-winning novel: Do Not Resuscitate. Available for purchase in Kindle format on Amazon.com.
BUY NOW	THE MISSHAPEN by Nicholas Ponticello At the beginning of the end of time, she was there... One of author Nicholas Ponticello's earliest works, The Misshapen originally appeared online in 2006, one of two short stories describing the dark relationship between humans and the world they've created. Nearly a decade later, and for the first time in e-book format, this revised edition offers readers a rare glimpse into Ponticello's psyche in the years preceding the publication of his award-winning novel: Do Not Resuscitate. Available for purchase in Kindle format on Amazon.com.

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