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George R. R. Martin brings the freebies. Sample content from the upcoming Wild Cards book SUICIDE KINGS can be found live and cost-free up at his webage. (Edited to add: I’m contributing to the one after SK, not this one. But that’s no reason you shouldn’t go check it out.)

Cat Valente brings the YA badassery. The divine Ms. V. will be serializing a young adult novel — The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making over on her website, and you can sign up to read it on an