Hey, you like ebooks?
Smashwords, one of the few remaining competitors with Amazon when it comes to ebooks, is having a big end of sale! Tons of books are discounted from now until January 1st!
Here are a few books you may be interested in picking up:
THE LAST DAY
It's the morning after Ronald Lawrence's high school reunion. He's woken up next to an old crush, listened to her speech about how this was a one-time thing, and now he's stopping for coffee before he leaves this town and his more successful peers and heads back to his own life of mediocrity.
Then a man with yellow eyes beats him to death.
It's the morning after Ronald Lawrence's high school reunion, and he had the weirdest dream last night. He dreamed he was attacked by a giggling maniac with yellow eyes, after he woke up to his old school crush's speech about this being a one-time thing—the same speech she's giving him right now.
A plague of homicidal insanity is spreading across the world. It's the end of civilization, and Ron is reliving it over and over again. Always they catch him. Always they kill him. Always he wakes back up in that hotel room, next to his old school crush.
It's the morning after Ronald Lawrence's high school reunion.
Forever.
Usually $2.99, but discounted to $2.24!
DEAD DROPS AND DRAGONS
Terry Graham is a loser. But that changes when he and his buddies find a trash bag full of cash stuffed beneath a dumpster. Now they're rich, and everything they ever wanted is within their grasps. But before they can enjoy more than a taste of that high life, the money's original owners track them down-- and they're mad. Terry and his buddies will need to pay back what they stole, but they might not survive the experience. After all, now they know things that they were never meant to…
The world is full of secrets, and secrets have keepers. The mysterious Paktritter now have Terry in their sights, and they won't rest until they have him in their hands. At every turn, he is hunted; by a man with too many teeth, by a billionaire who saw the fall of Rome, by a woman who can turn into a wolf. He'll have to fight tooth and nail to survive in a world that's nothing like he thought it was.
His life will never be the same.
Usually $3.99, but discounted to $1.99!
IN OUR HEARTS WE'RE DREAMING
Fantasy is vast and it is varied. In fantasy we find the infinite and wondrous possibilities that humanity has always yearned for, that humanity has always feared and always desired. Fantasy is our dreams and it is our nightmares.
In this book you will find well over a dozen tales of fantasy, of all varieties. You will find fairy tales and tales of terror. You will find stories of adventure and of love. These stories will take you to worlds undreamed of and to mysteries hidden within our own reality. This is a book of fantasies, and fantasies of all stripes can be found within.
Some stories included in this collection:
I WAS A CHANGELING CHILD: a bittersweet fairy tale about a child different from all the others in the village
WHEN THE STARS FELL: an Aztec-inspired story about what happens when love and duty collide
THE MOON OF SIEGFRIED-7: in a future filled with magic and technology, a distress signal leads to an ancient legend
THE ASSASSINATION OF OUR LORD GOD: an account of a contract killer with a most ambitious target
Also included are two brand new, never before published stories: "The Art of Dreamcraft" and "Dead Legions."
Explore the limits of the human imagination. Explore fantasy.
Dream.
Usually $3.99, but discounted to $1.99!
MAD SCIENTIST LOVE STORY
They are called Inventors.
Those with the Spark possess a special gift: they can create machines and contraptions that bend the very laws of the physical world, performing feats that should by all rights be impossible. But each Inventor also suffers some sort of unique "Spark Madness," and because of this they have a reputation as Mad Scientists; wild and unpredictable.
To help young Inventors develop their talents to serve mankind, the International University of Inventors (or IUI) was founded. Each year, new students arrive at the University, ready and eager to hone their special talent.
This year sees two such young Inventors: Dillan, an unassuming young man with dreams of world conquest, and Noreen, a girl who views the world through the lens of anime tropes and cliches. Their lives are irrevocably changed when they are both assigned to same Workshop class, and Noreen realizes that Dillan is the sole male student. This could mean only one thing: Noreen is a living in a harem show. But, strangely, nobody is acting like they should.
Well, if they won't behave accordingly, then Noreen will just have to pick up the slack.
WARNING: Mad Scientist Love Story contains depictions of the following: foul language, mature content, misapplication of quantum mechanics, diversity, hurt feelings, young love, racial tension, homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, awkward conversations, aromanticism, romanticism, frank discussion of emotions, college life, blasphemy, hypocrisy, neurodivergence, strange new feelings, technobabble, fragile masculinity, legally-distinct parody names, violations of the laws of thermodynamics, alternate history, graphic sexual content, punk rock, embarrassing situations, anime jargon, drunk and disorderly conduct, robot on robot violence, polyamory, numerous affronts to good taste, and Canada. Reader discretion is advised.
Usually $3.99, but discounted to $1.99!
THE GHOSTS IN THE FLAMES
For centuries, the Four Kingdoms have lived in fear of the dragon Raksen-Kal, who roosts upon the peak of the Black Mountain. To satiate his hunger, a noble maiden is sent to the dragon as tribute every Autumn, with each of the kingdoms trading off the duty of sending the sacrifice year by year.
Shivuri is the youngest princess of Endaru, the smallest and poorest of the Four Kingdoms. Today, her cousin is sent to the dragon, and in four years' time, she will be as well.
As the day of her death draws ever closer, the young princess seeks solace in darkness, and explores the forbidden art of witchcraft. In doing so, Shivuri learns of secrets that would once have filled her with terror-- and of freedom that she never before could have imagined.
Usually $3.99, but discounted to just $0.99!
JAMIE CHRISTMAS
Jamie Christmas tells the story of Jamie, a gothy elf who gets kicked out of the North Pole for being too weird and morbid. Together with her robotic assistant and friend, Death Leopard, she moves to the American countryside, where she meets a girl named Billy Jo and a boy named Seth; who just so happens to be the son of the Devil.
From there things get pretty crazy, and Jamie finds herself on a grand adventure involving involves sharks, demons, helicopter crashes, machine guns, communist elves, assassinations, bad puns, satirical critiques of evangelical Christian culture, mechanical spiders, teleportation, references to rock music, higher education, ghosts, a guy named Old Jim, very rude bouncy balls, and The True Meaning of Christmas ™.
Usually $3.99, but currently FREE!
If any of these books catch your eye, don't miss out on these discounts! You'll not only be getting some great new reading material, but you'll be supporting an indie creator as well!
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50% off the When Dealing with Wolves eBook at Smashwords between Dec 15–January 1
Estene, mother of the Deothwicc pack, knows a reckoning is coming. She can also see what few want to believe: if either side wants peace, they must find a way to co-exist. Her youngest child, Grae, despises this notion. He craves revenge for the pain humans have caused him. And he’s willing to do whatever it takes.
As Dannaskeld of Erdansten, Rostfar is supposed to protect her people from magic; as a wyrdsaer, someone who is able to commune with magic, she is the very thing they fear. For years she has kept a delicate balance between her duty and her secret, but her daughter Arketh’s growing magical affinity has tipped the scales …
The Wyrdseren is a duology that chronicles the rise of a new era from the ashes of a stolen history. In When Dealing with Wolves (Wyrdseren #1), Humankind and Wolvenkind have long maintained an uneasy truce by keeping apart from one another. The humans dwell to the south, while the wolves and their magic remain far to the north. It's far from ideal, but it works — until a child goes missing, and their worlds start to creep towards collision.
If any of these —
fantasy plot initially inspired by little red riding-hood (if Red's mother had gone into the woods and befriended the wolves);
polyamory and non-traditional family structures;
autistic, non-binary and disabled main characters, plus varying other flavours of queerness and disability throughout the cast;
sapient fantasy wolves whose pack structure isn’t based on the alpha/dominance theory bs;
characters learning to reconcile with their grief, anger and trauma while forming unlikely friendships
— appeal, then When Dealing with Wolves might be the book for you!
Get the discounted eBook here
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read an ebook sale on smashwords
Belatedly remembered I am supposed to be doing some promo for the Smashwords sale and (very clearly) threw something together about it for Facebook and Instagram. Then didn't bother to do even that much on Bluesky and now here I am, just writing this.
uh. What was it? Well stuff is on sale there this week. They also promote all the stuff that is usually listed as "Free or Readers Sets the Price" as just FREE! So you will likely find a bunch of new free things to read, if that's your jam.
All of the "A Suitable" stuff is on sale right now. And all my usual Readers Sets the Price stuff is now f r e e as well. (It was before but I guess now it feels *more* free. It's extra free. Bonus free. DELUXE FREE.)
And uh... I think Tit for Tat might be free? in a regular sale way. The coach version. The no frills package free.
I am good at selling things.
And maybe Taji is on sale?
IDK I can't remember or focus today. The point is--Smashwords is having a sale and it has DEALS and some of those deals are actually just FREE STUFF, and everyone should go get some books to add to their tbr piles for years and years!
www.smashwords.com
go forth and download
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