As part of Aurealis magazine's upcoming celebration of 25 years of continuous publication, they are offering ABSOLUTELY FREE HALF-YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS for 2014. To get your free subscription to the last 5 issues of the year (Aurealis #72 to Aurealis #76), go to their Subscriptions Page.
Hurry, the offer is only open until the end of July!
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How’s this for an early Christmas present? Saladin Ahmed, author of Throne of the Crescent Moon, and finalist in both the Nebula and the Hugo is giving away a collection of his short stories for free.
Engraved on the Eye features stories that been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, stories that have graced The Year’s Best Fantasy and other anthologies. This is a great chance to get all Ahmed’s stories in one place for free
The collection is available through Smashwords – here.
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So in honour of Australia day I thought I would push some Australian content.
In DVD’s, First Australians is a good series. Anyone proudly wrapping themselves in an Aussie flag today should gain an understanding of our less than proud history. It’s not all poppies and slouch hats.
But for the Speculative Fiction peeps it might be worth taking a look at Threshold , a series that come out in 2005, starring none other than Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner
For the Margo Lanagan fans it might be worth checking out the hardcovers of some of her books, including the overseas editions.
Have a happy Australia Day.
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Here’s the link to his story.
Check them out if you like quality sort fiction delivered to your inbox.
Oh and don’t forget the xmas giveaway.
Issue 8 of the Luna Station Quarterly can be read below through the embedded Issu.com link or you can go to their website. Read it, it’s free.
What is the Luna Station Quarterly?
From their about page:
The on-going mission of the Luna Station Quarterly project is to display the vast and varied talents of female genre fiction writers.
The Hal series earned him the moniker of Australia’s Terry Pratchett. So, dear readers you are in luck. Simon’s first book in the Spacejock series is available free on Amazon for a limited time.
Not a Kindle user. You should be able to convert this title using Calibre as it doesn’t have DRM.
Click the link below:
Hal Spacejock
These works have all seen the light of day in published pro-zines. This is your chance to check out some quality work from an Australian speculative fiction writer at no cost.
Seriously its a couple of clicks away
[Okay enough already, take me to the downloads]
Here we have a Australian Speculative Fiction author, traditionally published, and who has the skill set to really take advantage of the self publishing phenomenon. I will be following his progress over the coming months and blogging about it here. I have also been invited to guest post on his blog next month.At the end of this month, I’ll be self-publishing seven (7!) e-books directly ontoAmazon (via their Digital Text Platform, an excellent tool for self-publishing authors) and Smashwords. The titles will be available on all the major e-readers: Kindle, Kobo, Apple, PDF, etc. – although Amazon’s Kindle is my focus.These new titles, along with my existing novella Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves, mean that I have a decent sample of eight titles with which to build my reputation and sales. I have another few titles in the works, but Mum’s the word on those for now. I’m saving them for later …At the end of every month, I will post sales figures on this blog/website.The goals of the Grand Experiment are:
- My primary goal (to determine whether the experiment is a success) is to sell 1,000 e-books in total (across all of these titles) by December 31, 2011
- My secondary goal is to sell 1,000 copies of each title (i.e. 7,000 copies) by December 31, 2011.
- I’m also hoping to demonstrate that word length is far less important when it comes to selling e-books. Novels are the dominant form in bookstores, but I propose that novellas are a better length for e-book readers and that short story collections, when marketed and published the right way, will sell just as well.
for free. Its horror from the author of Urban Gothic
- which won the Bram Stoker Award.One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness.
for free.
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