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Dum de Dum

by Gavin Grant November 11th, 2013

Tomorrow: new books from Prime and FableCroft, today, well, definitely inside brewing.* We updated the Slightly Weighty links on the left hand side to include links to the mailing list (i.e. where to sign up to get the weekly sale email) and a link to dollar ebooks (i.e. 99 cent ebooks) as we don’t want readers to miss when books such as Splashdance Silver by Tansy Rayner Roberts go on sale. (It’s 99 cents to celebrate the third book, Ink Black Magic, coming out tomorrow.)

Anyway, here’s an exciting replica of the menu with exciting additions:

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Introducing Masque Books

by Gavin Grant July 23rd, 2013

This week we added three new books from Prime Books new imprint Masque Books which will be publishing three sf/fantasy and/or sf/f romance per month. The launch titles include two names that might be familiar to Weightless readers: Erzebet YellowBoy (Land of Dreams) and E. Catherine Tobler (Rings of Anubis: Gold and Glass) as well as newcomer Sally McBride (Water, Circle, and Moon). Serial fiction fans, keep an eye on the middle title . . .

Also new this week, three big anthologies from Prime. I expect After the End: Recent Apocalypses to fly out of here. Yes, it’s a book of apocalypse stories, but Paula Guran had the great idea of only collecting stories from the last five years and she has put together a very well received book. The other two books are Superheroes edited by Rich Horton and Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations, which, like After the End, was edited by Paula Guran.

Best news for readers of international fiction: we’ve just added three new Flipside titles! The first is A Bottle of Stormclouds by Eliza Victoria, a refreshingly contemporary take on weird happenings and everyday life. Also added: the latest in the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 8, as well as a great way to catch up on thirty stories that have been selected for previous volumes: The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005-2010.

And I should not let another week go by without noting for fans of Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Splashdance Silver that we recently added the followup: Liquid Gold (“Liquid Gold – the most seductively dangerous substance in the history of the cosmos – has just been discovered in the Mocklore Empire . . .”).

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FTR at 50% off (and disappearing soon)

by Gavin Grant February 28th, 2013

If you’ve ever fancied picking up DRM-free copies of  the Fairy Tale Review, now is your chance—and they’re 50% off. As of March 6th, the journal is disappearing from Weightless, although FTR books will stay. Use coupon FTR when you check out.

Also! J. M. McDermott’s Women and Monsters is 50% off, too. Grab it here.

We added a whole lot of Small Beer preorders last week as well as a couple of new Chelsea Station Editions titles. Also a new ebook edition of Splashdance Silver by Tansy Rayner Roberts, which looks like a it would be a great way to lighten the day here. (The sky is so low it’s about to touch the trees. Go on and fall, snow!)

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First and last for 2012

by Gavin Grant January 2nd, 2013

In the same way that it can be fun to see the first and last word or sentence of a book, I thought it would be interesting to see what the first and last orders of 2012 were.

The very first book bought on Weightless in 2012 was for Ginn Hale’s incredibly popular novel Wicked Gentlemen and the very final one was Tansy Rayner Roberts’s alternate history collection Love and Romanpunk (“History is not what you think it is.”).

First and last sentences? Ok:

Wicked Gentlemen:

1st: “The night hung in tatters.”  Last: “It fit me well enough.”

Love and Romanpunk: 

1st: “Let us begin with the issue of most interest to future historians: I did not poison my uncle and husband, the Emperor Claudius.” Last: “Where do we start?”

Ha! Both of those are fantastic. (Although the second sentences are even better than the first.)

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