Carlton Kenneth Holder
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Carlton Kenneth Holder is a former stuntman, produced Hollywood screenwriter, and author of the horror graphic novel “The Curse of Monte Cristo,” which was acquired by Andrews McMeel Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster in 2025. In his present-day incarnation, Holder wanders the world as an expatriate, wordsmith, and filmmaker.
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Diary of a Girl at the End of the World
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Young Adult
Noa Ash, a lonely, biracial teenage girl, makes entries into her personal journal during an alien invasion of the Earth. Orphaned during an attack, she is sent to live with a stern grandmother she has never known on Shadow, a once-sunny beach that was warped into a hellish place of fog and darkness by a meteorite shower. There, Noa finds an old surfboard and begins riding the beach's cruel waves. As she learns how to surf, Noa begins to undergo a true transformation of body and soul that changes her from a helpless "noa-body" into a true heroine. But fate has an even stranger destiny in mind for Noa when she discovers an underwater cavern where an archaic robot from World War Il lies rusting. Only the robot is not a robot. It's a vessel. To resurrect it, the only weapon on Earth Noa believes is powerful enough to stop the alien occupation, she will have to transfer her life force, her very soul, into the battered metal hull to pilot it. Aiding Noa in her mission is a teenage boy from another time, a stranger named Aren to whom Noa finds herself inexplicably drawn. 
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Mindbender: From Harlem With Love
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Espionage
In 1959, a stolen film reel of renowned Russian psychic Nina Kulagina demonstrating her abilities was smuggled from the Kremlin to Washington, setting in motion not an arms race, not a space race, but a race to acquire psychic spies to engage in espionage behind the Iron Curtain. In 1961, during the hottest days of the Cold War and at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, John, a young African American, came to the attention of the CIA for his remarkable ability to remote view (mentally perceive what a person is seeing or thinking). He was broken out of a hellish prison in the Deep South in the dead of night. And John has one more gift: the ability to bend the will of a targeted subject. After being indoctrinated into the art of spycraft, John, in his freshman outing, becomes embroiled in a deadly affair in Los Angeles involving the Mafia, President John F. Kennedy, and starlet Marilyn Monroe. He is then whisked to Istanbul, where John is tasked with eclipsing (assassinating) scientist Pyotr Liukin, who is building nukes for Castro in Cuba. However, John runs afoul of Soviet bombshell remote viewer Ursula Sobieski, a woman with her own agenda, as well as a troika of psychic spies from rival superpowers who have united to hunt him down and kill him. 
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