Kokoro Press

26/12/2024

Cover reveal for book 3! First draft almost finished. 🙏🥰

26/09/2024

Hope this current ad is tempting! 🥰

12/09/2024

An unedited snippet from A Boy's Guide to Ghosts, Michael DiSanto, Profiler/Ghosthealer, Book 3) IN PROGRESS! Yay! Here goes: I was nervous enough about starting school. Like Jimmy said, at sixteen. So being younger than everyone else there felt weird, not to mention having Jimmy with me, while a relief, also drew lots of looks, mostly from women passing by, and some guys, not just because he’s buff, but he admittedly has a kind of energy radiating off him, probably built up from his line of work that just pulls the gaze. But I digress.
Jimmy parked his corvette in a space in front of Berkeley Law where my first class, Intro to Criminal Procedure Investigations, was. We were forty minutes early and there’s a little café attached to the school building in front so we went to get a cup of coffee first. The place was basic, small café tables for two inside, men and women in suits and briefcases, sipping and chatting, or reading and marking papers, students with backpacks, sipping and discussing. At one table, sat the guy Jimmy mentioned, pink leg warmers, off the shoulder Flash Dance shirt. He too, had a white cup and saucer and was chatting to another guy who looked like a student, pile of books, jeans and a neat oxford button down.
I figured they were having a chat with the professor who sat at the table with them, an elderly man, also in a white button down dress shirt and slacks. I was wrong. In the next second, the elderly man looked up, gaze connected with mine and he blinked a few times. Then he stared some more.
S**t. Our turn at the walk-up part of the café came up and Jimmy ordered for us, since he knew by now what I always had. Coffee, milk, no sugar. I turned back to dig for the money in my pocket, but Jimmy waved it away. Coffee on the Suzuki’s dime, along with Jimmy’s services. Orders of Kiku back in Tokyo.
I pressed in a bit closer toward Jimmy, although this was potentially one of those situations he could do f**k all for me, since he couldn’t see or hear them. I looked away, then back. The old guy was still there, staring at me. Except, now, he was standing up. The guys at the table remained engrossed in their conversation. The one in leg warmers, however, must have sensed eyes on him because he looked up now too, and saw me watching him. He narrowed his eyes then turned back to his companion.
The elderly man, at this point, definitely identifiable as a ghost, was pointing to me. “You see me! You see me, right?”
I cleared my throat. “Jimmy, is the coffee ready?”
“Almost.” He looked at me, then frowned. “What is it? A deadling?” His word for the mortally-challenged. Again, a surprise of wit I ignorantly hadn’t credited him with. Not good to stereotype people, ever.
“Yes.”
The elderly man reached his tether a couple tables away from me and got yanked back to the table he’d been sitting at with the two young guys. There were two options here. One, he was haunting that table, two, he was haunting one of the guys sitting there.
The coffee was ready and Jimmy handed me my cup, but not before Leg Warmer Guy looked up again and caught me staring in his direction. “Hey, you got a problem?” he called to me.
“Time to go,” Jimmy said. “If that as***le comes over here…”
“I know. I’ll just be really early for class.”

16/08/2024

Shameless self-promo moment - looking for anyone who'd want to nominate The Boy on the Lawn for Book of the Month on this Goodreads group for YA LGBT fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/49526-ya-lgbt-books 🥰

27/07/2024

Good news - The Boy Who Loved Ghosts was accepted at Bookbub for a New Releases For Less promotion. Back in 2022, I'd submitted The Boy on the Lawn for this promo and it didn't get accepted. I'm guessing that part of the difference is the awesome new covers by Ricky Leung Design. Fingers crossed the promo really gives this series a ton more visibility! 🙏

21/07/2024

07-22-2024! Woot! Woot! “I think this is my new Heartstopper. The tenderness of the teen love story is so sweet. I love love love uncomplicated queerness in a story, where the characters' problems are utterly unrelated to their sexuality, and the plot isn't driven by it. – K, Goodreads

This is book 2 in the series and let me tell you, I could not put it down. I thought the first one was good, but this one might be better. Love this series! I read both books in just a couple of days, I could not put them down. Definitely a new favorite for me! – Sunny, Goodreads
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6183MJ2

22/05/2024

Coming Summer 2024 - Book 2 of Michael DiSanto, Profiler/Ghosthealer. A ghost comes to Michael for help, his first case since discovering his special skill set. The problem is, he unleashes an evil that’s been in hiding and will do anything to stay that way…

My life has always been strange. Now, it is strange on steroids. In my first night of the grief counseling support group for teens, there's a girl who looks like she walked off the set of The Brady Bunch even though it's 1985. Turns out, I’m the only person in the room who sees her. After the meeting, she comes up to me, wanting me to get her closure with the boyfriend who thinks she abandoned him seventeen years ago.

But she’s not the only one here who needs help. This gorgeous kid from Japan, hiding in the meeting from people who are planning to murder him, and who doesn't speak English, has something to tell me only I will believe.

I promised my family I’d stay out of dangerous situations and now, the first time I set foot outside since my life blew up weeks earlier, I’ve already broken that promise ten times over.

27/04/2022

Available now for Amazon Kindle! His brother disappeared off their lawn. Then he came back. That was only the beginning...

I’m not even sixteen yet and already had the worst day of my life: the day my younger brother, Stevie disappeared off our lawn. I was only gone a few seconds, getting change for the ice cream truck. I didn’t want to leave him but when he begs, I’ll do anything for him. In the...

03/04/2022

Pre-order your copy for Kindle today! Only 3.99. I’m not even sixteen yet and already had the worst day of my life: the day my younger brother, Stevie disappeared off our lawn. I was only gone a few seconds, getting change for the ice cream truck. I didn’t want to leave him but when he begs, I’ll do anything for him. In the time it took me to grab the change off the kitchen counter and run back out, he vanished. Thank God, he came back after less than a day. For whatever reason, whoever took him must have had a change of heart and returned him. Though, not after drugging him. He’s been acting weird ever since, even more so than when he displays that bizarre superpower of his.

Not only that, but my parents are acting weird too. I thought they’d be so happy and grateful, especially when, a few days later, other Asian boys began to disappear, and not come back. Not only aren’t Mom and Dad thrilled Stevie is back, they shuffled us off to live with our grandfather. I don’t have time to worry about that though. Now I know how it feels to have someone I love snatched away, all I can think about is finding those boys and getting them back home, which also means working with my grandfather’s former student, ultra-handsome Detective Ito (who leaves me tongue-tied and I’m sure my family has figured out now I’m gay because of it). Then Stevie and I can go back to our weird but more peaceful life of haunting the library stacks for homeschooling and Stevie’s beloved Spiderman comics… Fast forward a few weeks… Why did I ever think Stevie and I could have our life back? We won’t, not ever. Not only that, Stevie’s superpower is actually contagious and I’m going to have bad need of it…

The Boy on the Lawn: Young Adult Suspense (Young Michael DiSanto Book 1)

03/04/2022

Pre-order your copy from BN Nook Now! Releases April 26, 2022! I’m not even sixteen yet and already had the worst day of my life: the day my younger brother, Stevie disappeared off our lawn. I was only gone a few seconds, getting change for the ice cream truck. I didn’t want to leave him but when he begs, I’ll do anything for him. In the time it took me to grab the change off the kitchen counter and run back out, he vanished. Thank God, he came back after less than a day. For whatever reason, whoever took him must have had a change of heart and returned him. Though, not after drugging him. He’s been acting weird ever since, even more so than when he displays that bizarre superpower of his.

Not only that, but my parents are acting weird too. I thought they’d be so happy and grateful, especially when, a few days later, other Asian boys began to disappear, and not come back. Not only aren’t Mom and Dad thrilled Stevie is back, they shuffled us off to live with our grandfather. I don’t have time to worry about that though. Now I know how it feels to have someone I love snatched away, all I can think about is finding those boys and getting them back home, which also means working with my grandfather’s former student, ultra-handsome Detective Ito (who leaves me tongue-tied and I’m sure my family has figured out now I’m gay because of it). Then Stevie and I can go back to our weird but more peaceful life of haunting the library stacks for homeschooling and Stevie’s beloved Spiderman comics… Fast forward a few weeks… Why did I ever think Stevie and I could have our life back? We won’t, not ever. Not only that, Stevie’s superpower is actually contagious and I’m going to have bad need of it…

I'm not even sixteen yet and already had the worst day of my life: the day my younger brother, Stevie disappeared off our lawn. I was only gone a few seconds, getting change for the ice cream truck. I didn't want to leave him but when he begs, I'll do anything for him. In the time it took me to...

11/03/2022

Disponsible en Amazon - Vampiro, horror por David Gonzalez La Hermandad: Sangre Caliente...

La Hermandad: Sangre caliente (Spanish Edition)

06/01/2021

Proximamente en Kokoro Press! Un nuevo relato corto del autor y cineasta de terror, David González. Nadie conoce el lado oscuro de los que están cerca tuyo…

Un joven nuevo en el pueblo acude pidiendo trabajo al casero donde alquila una habitación. Comenzará como camarero en un bar de carretera donde la carne es muy solicitada.

Poco a poco el casero y dueño del local acabará convirtiendo al chico en su esclavo personal y sexual.