4 more days to get a free LCRW sub!
Tags: DRM-free—yay!, free ebooks, LCRW, Livia Llewellyn
We really don’t want you to miss this offer: Buy any ebook on Weightless this month and get a free 4-issue LCRW subscription. (More here. Why? Here.)
Here’s today’s rec: Livia Llewellyn’s new collection Furnace. My own wife says about this book:
I am very excited about this collection! As I am about everything that Livia Llewellyn writes. https://t.co/Lc5K6iCy1s
— kellylink (@haszombiesinit) February 23, 2016
Yes, but Today Is Wednesday!
Tags: free ebooksReaders of Joan Aiken’s The Serial Garden will recognize the above allusion. In these stories, “Monday was the day on which unusual things were allowed, and even expected to happen at the Armitage house.” And around here we release new ebooks on Tuesdays. So why are we breaking the rules today?
Because we have something absolutely amazing—even though most of our readers won’t be able to read it. Today we’re releasing a Chinese language edition ebook of two stories from Chinese writer Xiaoda Xiao’s forthcoming autobiographical collection of stories, The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life—our first ebook from another favorite indie press: Two Dollar Radio.
As Eric Obenauf, publisher of Two Dollar Radio writes: The recent recognition of the struggle of Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo by the Nobel Committee, as well as the Chinese government’s attempts to mute the story, underlines the fact that the oppression and suppression of the Chinese population is on-going, and that Xiao’s writing of his prison experience from over a quarter-century ago is as timely as ever. By making Xiao’s work downloadable for free in Chinese, his tale will be made available to members of the population still affected by the extreme policies and daily hardships that Xiao describes who are only receiving and exposed to heavily censored news and stories.
The English language edition of The Visiting Suit: Stories From My Prison Life comes out from Two Dollar Radio next month and we look forward to being able to bring it to you. In the meantime, we’d love for you to spread the word to any Chinese language readers you might know—or, in fact, just to spread the word about this book so that it has a chance to reach Chinese language readers here and around the world. Thanks for posting, linking, and anything you can do to spread the word.
What I Didn’t See + Unicorns! Pegasus! Kittens!
Tags: Fairy Tale Review, free ebooks, Ginn Hale, Karen Joy Fowler, site update blatheringsToday we’re very happy to release the ebook of Karen Joy Fowler’s awesome new collection What I Didn’t See and Other Stories. Karen’s stories are some of the best you’ll read in any genre: science fiction, fiction, historical, alternate history, fantasy. . . . Two of the stories here received Nebula Awards and “The Pelican Bar” received the Shirley Jackson Award. It’s a subtle and stunning collection and I think this might be the first site the ebook is available on (I’m probably wrong!). Hope you enjoy it!
We’ve been working away on a few things trying to see how we can bring lots of presses on without us having to put in more than the occasional afternoon every three or four weeks (come on, it’s publishing, we’ve got tea to sip and deep obscure novels to flash around coffeeshops).
And: we’ve been talking to Blind Eye Books about making 2011 the Year of Ginn Hale and being able to publish something new every month. It will be gobsmacking! All will be revealed later this fall. It will be huge! A rift will form in space time! (At least in yours and ours!)
The new Red Issue of Fairy Tale Review is coming soon. We also need to add Michael’s (et al) Homeless Moon chapbooks. There are more magazines to bring on board. Still working on electronic subscriptions—anyone who has a good fix for this, feel free to email us!
I remembered a story that Kelly and I published a while ago, “Sea, Ship, Mountain, Sky” in Altair, that I doubt will ever end up in any book (besides The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror) so we’ll probably put it up here as an ebook. That will be an interesting experiment to see if we should do more of that sort of thing. What do you think the price should be?
In the meantime there are Unicorns! Pegasus! Kittens! What does it mean? I have no idea! But you should go here (check out this url: http://unicornpegasuskitten.com!) and download the DRM-free completely free ebook with stories from Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi, Cat Valente, Rachel Swirsky, and many others. The book is free but please consider making a donation as it’s a fundraiser for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. You can also donate and get a tax receipt for it here on Gretchen Schafer’s donation page.
