One-Week E-Book Sale

This week only! A bunch of SFWA authors are knocking down the prices on their e-books. Here are eight books for three bucks or less, covering all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy, short and long form–something for everybody, as long as everybody likes SFF and awesome things.

Petals and Thorns – Jeffe Kennedy

In exchange for her father’s life, Amarantha agrees to marry the dreadful Beast and be his wife for seven days. Though the Beast cannot take Amarantha’s virginity unless she begs him to, he can and does take her in every other way. From the moment they are alone together, the Beast relentlessly strips Amarantha of all her resistance.

Wolves and Witches – Amanda C. Davis and Megan Engelhardt

Witches have stories too. So do mermaids, millers’ daughters, princes (charming or otherwise), even big bad wolves. They may be a bit darker–fewer enchanted ball gowns, more iron shoes. Happily-ever-after? Depends on who you ask. In Wolves and Witches, sisters Amanda C. Davis and Megan Engelhardt weave sixteen stories and poems out of familiar fairy tales, letting them show their teeth. Sample the contents here.

The Worth of a Shell – M.C.A. Hogarth

Born to a harsh world, we Jokka have evolved three sexes to survive: neuter, male and female. Twice in our lives we may change from one to another. A change we accept with grace… or resignation. It was our way. …until one female defied all tradition: Dlane Ashoi-anadi, revolutionary, intentionally childless, runaway.

This is not her story.

This is mine.

Near + Far – Cat Rambo

Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo’s masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Cats talk, fur wraps itself around you, aliens overstay their welcome, and superheroes deal with everyday problems. Rambo has been published in Asimov’s, Weird Tales, and Tor.com among many others. She was an editor for Fantasy Magazine, has written numerous nonfiction articles and interviews, and has volunteered time with Broad Universe and Clarion West. She has been shortlisted for the Endeavour Award, the Million Writers Award, the Locus Awards, and most recently a World Fantasy Award.

The Lair of the Twelve Princesses – Amanda C. Davis

Bay has nothing to show for her years of military service but the clothes on her back, a bad leg, and a sardonic imp in a bottle who’s more harm than help. When she hears an open call for bodyguards for the twelve headstrong princesses, she thinks the job could reverse her fortunes. Unfortunately, her new charges are under a nightly curse, and everyone seems determined to keep the details a mystery–including its victims.

The Eighth Succession – Don Sakers

In the tradition of the Theodore Sturgeon and James H. Schmitz, a new tale of galactic intrigue and adventure . . . Rikk Hoister is the first of new breed of cloned, paranormal geniuses, able to defeat the Imperial Navy with his mind alone, bound only by a rigid sense of ethics . . .  His cousin Yewanda is equally powerful, and also able to teleport herself anywhere. She’s innocent, inexperienced . . . and just six years old. When Yewanda sets out on her own to visit Rikk, the galaxy better watch out!

Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight – Cat Rambo

A collection of fantasy short stories by Cat Rambo. Includes “Her Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight,” “The Accordion,” “Magnificent Pigs,” “Narrative of a Beast’s Life,” “Sugar,” “The Dead Girl’s Wedding March,” “In Order to Conserve,” “The Towering Monarch of His Race,” “I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said,” “Eagle-haunted Lake Sammamish,” “Heart In a Box,” “In the Lesser Southern Isles,” “Up the Chimney,” “The Silent Familiar,” “Events at Fort Plenitude,” “Dew Drop Coffee Lounge,” “A Key Decides Its Destiny,” “Rare Pears and Greengages,” “A Twine of Flame,” and “Grandmother’s Road Trip” (only available in the e-version). Also includes author’s notes and a chronology of Tabat.

Master of the Opera, Act 1: Passionate Overture – Jeffe Kennedy

In the first tantalizing installment of Jeffe Kennedy’s ravishing serial novel Master of the Opera, an innocent young woman is initiated into a sensual world of music, mystery, passion–and one man’s private obsession. . .