What the Well Read Reed - Finding Hidden Gems With Eight Reviews or Less -
What the Well Read Reed - Finding Hidden Gems With Eight Reviews or Less -
Suddenly Super is a cozy read that is a great unique vision on the saturated superhero genre.
The biggest war of our lifetime is being fought and no one knows about it.
In Book One of the Dimension Series join Ian Alcock as he discovers that there is an ongoing war for a place know as The Dimension. A once lush garden of life, The Dimension is now a desolate, sandy waste. A mysterious place, cast in constant twilight that connects over three hundred worlds to one another.
The Life Taker is a gritty fantasy novel with a protagonist you are going hate to love, but will find yourself rooting for in a realistic fantasy world.
Turning Forward is a mystical work of literary fiction, that explores the evolution of life through a three part story and a clever use of allowing a narrator to break the fourth wall.
The Nominal Echo Chronicles is a scientific and sociological exploration of what it would take to colonize another world, while asking the question if humanity is ready for it.
One rainy Tuesday morning an emt discovers a crash that will change her life forever.
Trial is a work of philosophical fiction that follows three characters, two trials, in one engaging narrative that gives the reader a way to explore the complex social issues we face today, while allowing them to question and discover their own beliefs.
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At The Uncovered Author we curate great books, ideas, and stories lost to the algorithm.
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This site is the web home for The Uncovered Author Reviews and D.C. Reed (Stories, Blog, Books)
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Sometimes it takes a lifetime to meet yourself. Uncover the journey of self discovery in The Legend Me.
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to meet yourself. Uncover the journey of self discovery in The Legend Me.
It's never day when you need something. The middle of the night is home to creepy, and need. Join Ashen as he searches for the potion that will change his life.
The technology of the future is already mundane. What happens when the future strikes back at our insolence and contacts you from what is yet to come.
When conflict, stress, and danger comes how do you cope? In Lack of Leave, we explore the idea of healing and how we navigate the medical process of loss.
Order and chaos mean nothing to Onix Rock Harden (his third, maybe fourth name). He’s just an actor trying to survive the rewrites of his creator, trying desperately to find a win in an existence that changes at his author’s whims.
Alex is stranded in an airport in lockdown. The planes are grounded and doors are locked, but the airport itself is open. With nothing better to do, she searches for an answer for why the world is ignoring their plight and how an airport can be open, but completely shut down.
You expect five stars when you hear fine dining. Sometimes it’s not. Dive into a conflicted review of fine dining meal with a sweet twist.
Enter a world of magic, wonder, and flight in a magical bookshop. The opening chapter, in what will become a modern interpretation of the Odyssey, finds a young woman on her last shift working in the magical store.
Dating, relationships are difficult. Finding that right person is hard, but the community, religious, and societal expectations can make it even worse. In this short lesson story, see how the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same.
Suddenly Super is a cozy read that is a great unique vision on the saturated superhero genre.
Do you remember your reunion? HS, maybe college, or even family. What about the last time you met someone who you hadn’t seen in a year, five or ten?
In this short story, join Claire as a trip to her past allows her to discover herself.
Who is the out person? Think about a friend group and that one person that when you all get together tries to hard, or don't fit for whatever reason. Like a sweater that's just to tight or a meal that's a tad to salty.
In Dice we explore that dynamic and what that person can bring when given a chance.
280 characters is how society is defined. Novels, newspapers have been thrown away for 280 characters.
See an imagining of what our society could become if we let this standard become law.
Our world knows how to condemn and praise. We know how to pick the winners and losers, but is it always that easy? Is the homeless person lazy? Is the doctor heroic? Explore the gray inspired by this Reedsy Prompt.
I would say it started when we were young. Brothers. Destined to fight over anything. To compete over everything. But now, now brotherly conflict seems silly. Bullets whizz around me, wondering how we got here.
It’s fair to say that the winding road of life doesn’t always turn how we want it to. Through no fault of our own, we find rock bottom, and sometimes just as uniquely find a way out.
Is our way of addressing problems cultural? In this piece, we dissect the differing ways people address the roadblocks in life.
Did you hear about the Pandora Papers? Yes? No? Let's dive into why corruption at the highest order isn't news anymore and how it passes from the consciousness so fast.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever could. More importantly, why do we allow doubt to derail us from success?
In this lesson not learned, we look at how a simple mask can define a person and our entire culture.
Where is the line of wealthy and happiness? Do we even know how to find that line where we have enough vs pursuing wealth as a means to itself.
What is worse doing something wrong or lying about it? Can lying be worse than the actual crime?
Reflections, in many ways is how we grow and develop. Explore how reflecting is how we take a step forward.
Are our violent tendencies meant to be? Is there a deeper cause? Maybe there are a select few bringing out the one of the worst functions of humanity.
In this Lesson Not Learned, explore the true cost of family vs right. The gray area where the hardest moral decisions can and have to be made.
Spend less and find more happiness. Wealth, and financial security are a foundational part of survival. In many ways though the path to happiness doesn't seem to go through spending money.
Empathy starts with language. Discover why a universal translator is the foundational piece to lasting peace.
Every moment is ready to start something new. Join us on exploring what it means to start and start anew.
Traveling can be one of the most important and life changing experiences. This is my philosophical perspective of an outsiders trip to Dubai.
Who are you? What are you? Step inside the global halfway house and see where your expectations lie vs. these children’s reality.
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Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
Get your daily dose of joy with Doughnut Man. Your morning cup of joe is best with Doughnut Man.
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Our core mission is to discover and deliver great stories and ideas that you probably wouldn’t find on your own. This is not a slight on authors who have broad success and is not a critique of the system as a whole. We are not here to bash successful authors or publishing houses. But to find and share stories that you may have missed.
Our goal is to shed a little light on the stories that get lost in our content deluge and, too, hopefully connect people to authors, stories, and resources they would have otherwise missed.
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The books chosen to read for review starts with a simple rule:
A book can have 8 reviews or less.
I start by going on kindle unlimited and searching through hundreds of books looking for ones that catch our eye and fancy.
A) I look for books that have been out at least three months, but preferably over a year.
B) I check the number of reviews during the initial search and before I start reading. I do not punish authors who gain reviews after that point which can lead to a book with more than eight reviews being recommended.
After selecting the book we check good reads and the web at large for reviews to see if it has more than 8 reviews. If it doesn’t then it goes in the queue.
We read. Before starting the book we check number of reviews one more time.*
If we like a book it gets a spoiler free review and video.
This site about sharing stories I find and write and is not about negativity. If a book doesn’t hook me that doesn’t mean it was a bad book, just that it wasn’t for me. I will never bash a book or an author. The process of creating, writing, editing, and publishing is to hard and life is too short for that type of negativity.
I have finished books I do not recommend. I have started plenty and put them down for different reasons. This is why only books I would recommend are added to my good reads account. I never want to imply that if I stop reading a book or don’t review it that it was a bad book.
My good reads account represents books I recommend or books that fall outside of the parameters of the Uncovered Author.
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On this site you will find spoiler free book reviews and the books, short stories, and collected works of D.C. Reed.
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At last check 4 million books a year, roughly 11,000 a day and about 7,500 kindle books are published. Thats a lot of books. Inside those numbers are thousands of authors looking for a way to shine through the noise. Authors dreaming of a hundred, fifty, or even a handful of people finding their book.
So why 8 reviews or less? Because there are too many great books lost to the algorithms that run our lives. Lost because they don’t have thousands, hundreds, or even ten reviews.
Beyond that I truly believe that a good book is always new. Unlike sports, or the latest gossip if you find a book you love a year, two, or even decades after it was first published it doesn’t diminish the value and joy of that work. Publishing, like everything else has become a game of volume and speed in many respects and hopefully this site can help you find some stories you would have otherwise missed.
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D.C. Reed is a father, and independent writer and author based out of Atlanta, Ga. When not writing you can catch me walking with my son, playing music, or enjoying a video or table top game. That is if the Winnipeg Jets aren’t on. Go JETS GO!!!