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Earthrise

Earthrise

Two quick purchases from Kobo:

Welcome to Night Vale, the new novel from Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the folks who’ve brought us the amazing podcast by the same name. (Which I heartily recommend if you haven’t gotten into listening to it already.) I’m going to be plowing through this pretty soon!

Also, Earthrise, which I nabbed when I saw James Nicoll post about it. The cover attracted me, both for having a heroine of color and an elven-looking male who seems to be a primary other character and possibly a love interest. Also, set in space, which apparently means ELVES IN SPACE, and I’m down with that.

BONUS: Earthrise is apparently book 1 of a trilogy, and at least as of this writing, it’s FREE. Which I’m also down with. And the covers on the other two books are also lovely, so I’m hoping it’ll be a fun read!

77 for the year.

October 29, 2015 by
Short Pieces

The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen: free until 9/19!

As I announced yesterday, I have re-released the short story “The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen”, exclusive for the Kindle for the next ninety days! Which lets me do things like “set the price to free”–which I have now done, and this will be in effect through 9/19! So if you’re a Kindle reader and you’d like to snarf a copy of the story, you can do so on all the Amazon sites, both US and International!

Amazon US

Amazon CA

Amazon UK

Amazon AU

Amazon DE

Amazon FR

Amazon ES

Amazon IT

Amazon NL

Amazon JP

Amazon IN

Amazon MX

Amazon BR

I will be updating the Short Stories page with all of these links. Please spread the word around if you’re so inclined!

If you’re on Twitter, this is the tweet I used:

#Free till 9/19: The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen, a Rebels of Adalonia universe story, available for Kindle: http://amzn.com/B015C8TTZQ

September 15, 2015 by
Books

A Boosting-the-Signal-y ebook roundup

Stormseer

Stormseer

And now, in the spirit of recent Boosting the Signal posts, behold, some Boosting the Signal books I have acquired!

Picked up from Amazon since its official release date is tomorrow (so it showed up in my account at 9pm tonight as I write this):

Picked up from Kobo, and might I note that I am grateful that the book is in fact available on Kobo:

Last but not least, sent to me by the author for an upcoming Boosting the Signal post:

  • Stormsinger, Stormshadow, and Stormseer, by Stephanie A. Cain. The author emailed me out of the blue asking if she could submit to Boosting the Signal–and as it happened, I’d already seen her post about Stormseer on Mary Robinette Kowal’s My Favorite Bit column. And since I thought the book sounded rather awesome and I VERY much liked her cover (as y’all might guess, given Faanshi and all), I was delighted to receive this email. Not to mention the books, which the author was kind enough to send me!

50 for the year.

August 7, 2015 by
Books

Christmas ebook roundup bonanza

This is an unusually large book roundup, because hey, lots of amassed online credit!

Grabbed from Barnes and Noble (and most of these were because I got a VISA gift card from work for my next yearly anniversary, and blew it on an ebook spree, woo!):

River Marked

River Marked

  • Rise of the Spider Goddess, by Jim C. Hines. Fantasy. Got because I thought it was hysterical that Hines published the manuscript of his very first novel ever, complete with snarky commentary about his younger self’s work.
  • And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. Mystery. Got this as a freebie when I bought my new Nook.
  • The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Amused to actually get this as a freebie when I bought tickets to see Five Armies. I already have an ebook copy, but this one was the non-enhanced version.
  • Wanderlust, Doubleblind, Killbox, Aftermath, and Endgame, by Ann Aguirre. SF, books 2-6 of her Sirantha Jax series, re-bought in ebook to replace them in my library.
  • The Spymaster’s Lady, by Joanna Bourne. Historical romance. Re-bought in electronic form to clear out space on my shelves.
  • Genuine Lies, by Nora Roberts. Romantic suspense. Another digital re-buy of a previously owned print book.
  • River Marked, by Patricia Briggs. Book 6 of her Mercy Thompsons, another re-buy.
  • Blue Diablo, also by Ann Aguirre. Urban fantasy. The first of her Corine Solomon series.

Grabbed from iBooks since I did another run to empty the coin jar into the Coinstar machine at Safeway:

  • Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente. Fantasy. Grabbed because I wanted to read her take on the Russian myth of Koschei the Deathless.
  • 7th Sigma, by Steven Gould. SF. Grabbed because I liked the concept of mysterious metal-eating machines, and the desert territory they’ve overrun.
  • Motherless Child, Glen Hirshberg. Horror. Grabbed because I am periodically in the mood for horror, and this sounded pretty creepy–and challenging the recent idea of the vampire as romantic hero.
  • The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. SF. Grabbed because I was very curious about this as it got talked up on Tor.com, and because I want to get a taste of Chinese SF.
  • A Soul for Trouble, A Soul for Chaos, and A Soul for Vengeance, by Crista McHugh. Fantasy romance trilogy, picked up because I know the author via Carina Press.

Nabbed from Kobo:

  • The Secret Heart and The Lover’s Knot, by Erin Satie. Historical romance, first two books of her No Better Angels series. Grabbed because Book 2 was positively reviewed on Dear Author, and because I really like the author’s covers. Also, bonus points for her having a hero named Julian in Book 2! Had a delightful exchange with her on Twitter about both of these things!

From Carina Press, since we had a 50% off sale yesterday:

  • The Siren’s Song, by Jennifer Bray-Weber. Historical romance. With PIRATES. YARR.
  • Soul of Kandrith, by Nicole Luiken. Fantasy. Book 2 of her series.
  • Journey of Dominion, Journey of Wisdom, and Journey of the Wanderer, by Shawna Thomas. The rest of her fantasy/fantasy romance series.
  • The Guardian’s Witch, by Ruth A. Casie. Paranormal/historical romance. Grabbed this one because I thought the cover was gorgeous, and because I’ve featured this one on Boosting the Signal.
  • Firewall, by Sonya Clark. Paranormal/futuristic romance.

163 for the year.

December 24, 2014 by
Other People's Books

An I have no brain but I do have new books book roundup

Acquired in print from Norwescon:

  • Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Novelization, by A.C.H. Smith. This is a special hardback re-release of the original novelization of the movie, with illustrations by Brian Froud. To which I went, WANT, so yeah.
  • The Wild Girls, by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Science of Herself, by Karen Joy Fowler; and Report from Planet Midnight, by Nalo Hopkinson. Bought from PM Press in their Outspoken Authors series.
  • The Warrior Who Carried Life, by Geoff Ryman. This was a freebie in the Norwescon swag bags.
  • The Second Ship, by Richard Phillips. Another freebie from Norwescon swag.

Acquired in ebook form from B&N:

  • Luna: La vengeance des elfes noirs, by Élodie Tirel. Book 2 of her Luna series, picked up since I finally made it through book one. More reading in French, woo!
  • Fugitives from Earth, by Brad Wheeler. SF. I’ve got this in trade already from fellow NIWA member Brad Wheeler, but I grabbed the ebook too now that I’ve met Brad–and having it in ebook will bump up the likelihood that I’ll read it faster.
  • An Eighty Percent Solution, by Thomas Gondolfi. SF with some magic involved, grabbed because I chatted with the author at Norwescon and it was fun to basically go ‘okay, tell me about your book’!
  • Thomas Riley, by Nick Valentino. Steampunk. Another Norwescon-inspired purchase, from talking directly to the author.
  • Insomnium, by Zachary Bonelli. Alternate-universe SF, and my third Norwescon-inspired purchase, following chatting with the author along the indie tables outside the dealers’ room.
  • Other Systems, by Elizabeth Guizzetti. Again, SF, and the last of my Norwescon-inspired purchases.

Acquired in ebook from Kobo:

  • Valour and Vanity, by Mary Robinette Kowal. Pre-ordered, the latest in her Glamourist series.

And last but not least, acquired in print from B&N:

  • William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope, and William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: The Empire Striketh Back, by Ian Doescher. Pretty much what it says on the tin, here–these are the author’s adaptations of the stories of the original Star Wars trilogy into Shakespearean-style play format. And I’ve already read ’em at this point and can attest that they’re quite delightful! Very much looking forward to The Jedi Doth Return now, coming out later this summer.

52 for the year.

April 24, 2014 by
Books

Solstice book acquisition roundup

Immortal Lies

Immortal Lies

And now, for a quick post-Solstice roundup of stuff I’ve recently acquired for my electronic reading amusement!

Scarfed off of Project Gutenberg (yay! Project Gutenberg! Because free books are awesome!) because of this article about women doing horror writing in the 19th century, and I wanted to check out some of the titles they mentioned:

A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest, by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards. Grabbed this one in no small part because of this woman being the model for the character of Amelia Peabody, who, as you know, is EXTREMELY relevant to my interests.

The Uninhabited House, by Mrs. J.H. Riddell.

A Phantom Lover, by Vernon Lee.

And, grabbed off of Kobo (to whom I must give props for FINALLY implementing an actual shopping cart, because WOW it annoys me to have to buy a bunch of ebooks one at a time!):

Immortal Lies, by S.L. Gray. A.k.a. my Willowholt tribesmate userinfoshadowhwk, whose official site now lives right over here! This is her first urban fantasy and I look forward to reading it.

On a Red Station, Drifting, by Aliette de Bodard. SF. Grabbed this one due to Tor.com speaking well of it, and also because I want to expand my horizons a bit. The thought of some SF written with non-Western sensibilities appeals.

181 for the year.

December 22, 2013 by
Books

Post-Thanksgiving book roundup post

This is super-quick, but here you go, a couple of books I’ve picked up lately, both in electronic form.

From B&N: Fiddlehead, by Cherie Priest. The latest and last of her Clockwork Century books. Looking forward to reading this QUITE a bit.

And from Smashwords: The Governess Affair, by Courtney Milan. Historical romance. A novella that’s the prequel to her Brothers Sinister series. This is actually available for free, and it’s self-pubbed by Milan, so I opted to pull it directly down from Smashwords.

176 for the year.

November 29, 2013 by