Find Your Next Podcast: Between Pages & Friends

Hosted by Madix-3 and inviting a different up-and-coming litrpg/progression fantasy author each week, CritRPG is your One-Stop-Shop for everything LitRpg, Progression Fantasy, and Royalroad!

The Vibe Shift: Why Readers Are Falling Back In Love With Indie Books!

By Sarah Kloth At some point, reading started to feel like homework. Not the kind with deadlines or quizzes. The subtler kind. The kind where you finish a book and immediately wonder if you’re supposed to post about it, rate it, rank it, or compare it to five other books you read that month. The […]

The Books We Reach For When Life Gets Loud.

By Sarah Kloth There is a moment many readers recognize instantly… You pick up a book you meant to read. The buzzy one. The important one. The one everyone seems to be talking about. You read a page, then another, and feel it immediately. Your mind drifts. Your shoulders tighten. The words refuse to settle. […]

Feature: New Release Roundup, Spring 2026.

By Corinna Kloth A Compilation of Newly Released Indie Reads. 1. The Opposites Game In his fifth collection of verse, The Opposites Game, poet Brendan Constantine inspires us to revel in the abundance of life by reckoning its many astonishments (and antonyms). Through a simple yet profound framework of odes, lists, memoirs, and classroom assignments, […]