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FREE AUDIOBOOKS

For a limited time, free review copies of audiobooks are available on a first come, first served basis, including Hangtown, Palindrome Hannah, and Our Children, Our Teachers.

Hangtown is now available as an audio book, read by Randy McCarten.

Returning to his hometown, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and editor Michael Bailey fills in the missing pieces of a town’s dark past in this homage to Charles Portis’ True Grit and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

Based on a true story, Hangtown is a historical western about the hangings in a placer mining town that once went by that moniker, one of the first established diggings during the chaos of the Gold Rush. Set from 1848 to 1850, the unlawful were punished and hanged swiftly for crimes of theft and violence, haunting forever what is now Placerville, California.

For a limited time, 25 free review copies will be given out in the United States, as well as 25 free review copies in the United Kingdom. Simply email hangtown@nettirw.com with your preference and a link with a code to download will be made available.


Palindrome Hannah, the debut novel by Michael Bailey, is still available as an audiobook, read by Lawrence Alexander.

Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are interchangeable. Within, characters influence each other through macabre arrangements of involuntary happenstance, and learn the inevitabilities of coincidence. A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others. This hidden sixth story, assembled from the five separate narratives, uncovers the sad life of a child who carries a palindrome name, and her struggling teenage mother. With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, the story unfolds like a palindrome. A puzzle within a puzzle.

For a limited time, 25 free review copies will be given out in the United States, as well as 25 free review copies in the United Kingdom. Simply email palindrome@nettirw.com with your preference and a link with a code to download will be made available.


Our Children, Our Teachers, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novelette by Michael Bailey, is also now available as an audiobook, read by Sherry L. Neiman.

Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In Our Children, Our Teachers, a high school is taken hostage by a gathering of unlikely students trying to teach the world a new lesson … a foreshadowing, perhaps, to darker times ahead for the American education system if gun control is not addressed properly.

For a limited time, 25 free review copies will be given out in the United States, as well as 25 free review copies in the United Kingdom. Simply email ocot@nettirw.com with your preference and a link with a code to download will be made available.