A year of excellent reading!
Tags: chuffed!, FableCroft
We just got the loveliest email from Allen L. who says:
Another tidbit. I bought more products from and through your site than from all other sites combined last year. Your vendors would have gotten no sales without Weightless to introduce them.
In return I’ve learned an amazing amount on topics that I did know existed, been introduced to authors that have held me spellbound for hours and hours at a time, and had the pleasure of being introduced to other sites like Weightless where “unknown” authors have a forum for their voices and their work.
Thanks for a great year of excellent reading. I’m looking forward to an an even better 2014.
Thanks, Allen!
That reminds me I haven’t posted a Bestseller list for either December or 2013, better get cracking on that. (Hmm. So, Thursday, then?)
To tide you over: FableCroft just dropped the price of the anthology One Small Step from $9.99 to $7.99.
Updates, we gots updates
Tags: FableCroft, Prime Books, Small Beer Press, Tachyon
Hey, that was a fun week. We ran a quick test on the upcoming Weekly Weightless One-Day sale and it was very successful. Suffice to say I think I know which book will be #1 this month. We’re skipping next week (it being Thanksgiving!) and WW1day1book sale will be back on December 5th with a bang!
Two collections came out this week and immediately found happy readers: Kabu, Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor (the reviews on this are terrific) and Beyond the Rift from Canadian (“banned in the USA) science fiction writer Peter S. Watts. Kage Baker fans should not miss her final collection, In the Company of Thieves.
There are four new books from FableCroft—getting in all these Australian publishers’ work is awesome!—and a couple more from our friends at Aqueduct, including Lori Selke’s The XY Conspiracy which kicks off from this intriguing UFO-hunter’s question: Why Are There No Women in Black?
Over at Small Beer we launched another book into the litmosphere, Alan DeNiro’s new collection Tyrannia and Other Renditions. You can listen to an interview with Alan and hear him read from the book on this KFAI interview.
And in more price chopping news: Livia Day’s foodie mystery (the one with the fun video) A Trifle Dead has dropped to $6.99.
New titles from FableCroft and Chelsea Station
Tags: Chelsea Station Editions, FableCroft, O'ReillyCheck out the dark science fiction stories in Joanne Anderton’s The Bone Chime and Other Stories, one of a number of new Australian collections and anthologies that have just been added from FableCroft, who previously brought us the popular anthology After the Rain.Their two new anthologies are One Small Step, an Anthology of Discoveries edited by Tehani Wessely and Canterbury 2100: Pilgrimages in a New World, edited by Dirk Flinthart.
This week we added issue 3 of Chelsea Station, and for fans of this new magazine of gay writing, the good news is that issue 4 is coming out next week. There are 2 other new CSE titles, a book of essays, Love, Christopher Street by Thomas Keith and Lambda Award winner Tom Cardamone’s Pacific Rimming. I really liked his novella Green Thumb, which was published by Lethe Press. If you want to know what’s coming up from Lethe, check our their catalog here.
Freebies
There are also two freebies available from O’Reilly: The Human Side of PostMortems by Dave Zwieback and Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything by Jeffrey Needham.
Coming next week
Tags: Christopher Barzak, Circlet Press, FableCroft
More than a dozen new titles from Circlet Press.
This week: FableCroft dropped the price on their anthology After the Rain, which features stories from Jason Nahrung, Thoraiya Dyer, Peter M. Ball, Kathleen Jennings, Robert Hoge, and more.
And: check out the prices on some of the Small Beer Press backlist titles.
More good reading: Chris Barzak—he of the upcoming Jamie Marks is Dead movie starring Liv Tyler et al—has been posting sneak peeks into his new collection, Before and Afterlives.
ChiZine!
Tags: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ChiZine Publications, FableCroft, Kathleen Jennings, Robert Hoge, Steampunk, Tachyon
Fans of Apex and Nightmare rejoice, today we added 30+ titles from ChiZine Publications with books from Tim Pratt, Gemma Files, Nick Kaufmann, and, you know, many more. For instance, check out Imaginarium 2012 which is the first in a series, The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction, and James Marshall wins catchiest title award with Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies.
Actually, Rick Klaw may win best title with his Tachyon book, The Apes of Wrath, which collects stories from Pat Murphy , the late Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, Karen Joy Fowler, among others. (Karen has a new novel coming this summer from Penguin Putnam: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Read it and weep—but don’t read the spoiler-y jacket copy!)
Also new today: The Steampunk Megapack, Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #113, and The Transcriber by Kristen Witucki.
We added two titles from Australia’s FableCroft, Epilogue and After the Rain, both edited by Tehani Wessely.
I like the sound of Epilogue: “Twelve writers take on the end of the world and go beyond, to what comes next” but I want to recommend (unread as yet!) After the Rain as it has stories from two favorite people, Kathleen Jennings (whose art has graced a number of Small Beer books) and Robert Hoge, whose memoir, Ugly, I am reading right now. It comes out from Hachette Australia in August and it is fabulous. I don’t know that we’ll have it here to sell—hey, you never know—but I’m going to be rec’ing it again and again so you might as well preorder it now!
(Got totally distracted there by Kathleen’s “Dalek of the Pigeons” post.)