Free books and giveaways

[Charming, Order theorist]

I don't see any free GSF on Amazon at the moment, but here are a few others I like. First some longer works that are part of a series:

Do Over is here: http://www.gayauthors.org/dkstories/d... (time travel).

Mind Fuck is here: http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/i... (dystopia)

The Syndicate: Volume 1 is here: http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/syn... (goofy space opera).

[Charming, Order theorist]

And here are some short stories:

Mike Dies at the End: http://s2b2.livejournal.com/61440.html (paranormal flavored time travel)

Cheesecake and the Art of Political Warfare: http://s2b2.livejournal.com/100813.html (goofy space opera loosely based on the 2008 elections).

Being Evil: http://s2b2.livejournal.com/110334.html (umm . . . goofy dystopia maybe?)

There are also several in the Hot Summer Days collections and/or by group authors. I'll dig around and post some later.

[Meghan]

The link for free GLBT (mostly gay) books on amazon is
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-Gay-Lesbian-Fiction/zgbs/digital-text/172503011#1.

It's updated hourly, but it seems like checking 2-4 times a day gets you most of the changes. I've gotten a few really good books from there, not a lot of sci-fi but a couple of books.

[Meghan]

lulu.com is having a sale ending after Feb 23. "SWEET" and "SALTY" are legitimate codes; I tested them. But I'm not sure if you can use both, or if it's one or the other.

[Meghan]

Samhain is having a $5 any $15 order or more. Use coupon code PRES12 at the Samhain Store . Deal ends Feb 20 at midnight EST.

[Meghan]

Amerber Allure- Amber Kiss Sci-fi

Through the end of February, you can buy any Amber Kiss,
Novella or Novel (Regular or "Extended") at a 25% Discount!

[Meghan]

Sony Ebooks President's Day Sale


35% off select titles
Use the coupon code: 35OFFPD0217

[Charming, Order theorist]

Per Jason at MMR:

FW has a code for 55% this week! Code is 022412

FW = Fictionwise

[Duane]

Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure. The brilliant scientist Taldra loves her twin gay sons and sees them as the hope for Valchondria's future, but one of them becomes entangled in the cult of Degranon, while the other becomes stranded on the other side of a doorway through time.

Coupon Code REW50 through 3/10/12 at Smashwords.

I'm revising the sequel now.

[Charming, Order theorist]

Duane wrote: " Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure. The brilliant scientist Taldra loves her twin gay sons and sees them as the hope for Valchondria's future, but one of them becomes entangled in the cult of D..."

Ooh; thanks Duane! I see it won a StoneWall Society Pride in the Arts Award. I grabbed it for $1.50.

[Duane]

Thanks, Charming!

[Meghan]

The sale at Smashwords is actually fairly extensive, although not much in sci-fi.

Jason Huffman-black (Slavetopassion) wrote: "Tons of other titles are 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% off with codes at Smashwords this week to celebrate 'read an Ebook Week'. go see what is on sale: https://www.smashwords.com/books/cate...

[Charming, Order theorist]

Meghan (mm_reads) wrote: "The sale at Smashwords is actually fairly extensive, although not much in sci-fi."

Is there any way to select for both? I am not seeing it.

[Meghan]

I'm not sure what you mean for 'both.' You can only choose one category at a time: free, 100% off, 75% off, 50% off, and 25% off. Is that what you mean?

https://www.smashwords.com/books/cate...

[Duane]

Meghan (mm_reads) wrote: "I'm not sure what you mean for 'both.' You can only choose one category at a time: free, 100% off, 75% off, 50% off, and 25% off. Is that what you mean?

https://www.smashwords.com/books/cate......"

Meghan and Charming,

Try clicking science fiction on the left, and then click one of the price choices at the top.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/categ...

http://www.smashwords.com/books/categ...

http://www.smashwords.com/books/categ...

The same should work with other categories.

[Charming, Order theorist]

Meghan (mm_reads) wrote: "I'm not sure what you mean for 'both.' You can only choose one category at a time: free, 100% off, 75% off, 50% off, and 25% off. Is that what you mean?"

Both science fiction and gay. :-)

[Meghan]

You can type "gay science fiction" in the search box, but that doesn't let you look those books up with the sales info. Smashwords has never seemed to have a very sophisticated search engine that I've been able to find. Anyone else know otherwise?

[Meghan]

There are quite a big number of new books for sale or free at Smashwords too. That is for their "Read an Ebook a Week" sale. https://www.smashwords.com/books/cate...


This is sort of sci-fi and evocative of Ray Bradbury:
Lost Cowboy Moon Time, free at Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Dare Not Ask The Dead, free at Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

[Charming, Order theorist]

I haven't read this, but it mentions an alien and it is free at the moment (warning - erotica):

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Milita...

[David]

My novel The Fall is 99c on Kindle for a few days. Pick it up if you can, the sequel is out in august!

http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Gods-Slaye...

[Carole-Ann]

Charming wrote: "I haven't read this, but it mentions an alien and it is free at the moment (warning - erotica):

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Milita......"

Just checked - 10 pages???? WTH????

[Meghan]

Right now, free on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Year-of-the-Ram...

Haven't read it, but I think it's at least a novella, maybe a novel.

[Charming, Order theorist]

Meghan (mm_reads) wrote: "Right now, free on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Year-of-the-Ram...

Haven't read it, but I think it's at least a novella, maybe..."

I grabbed it - what the heck?

[Charming, Order theorist]

By "what the heck?", I mean "why not?" as opposed to "what is this thing?"

[Meghan]

ah! thanks!

text + mental translation = huh?
I tend to think of posts as verbal exchanges and sometimes there are too many possibilities.

[Meghan]

The Fictionwise discount this week is 50%!!
The code is 040612.

[Charming, Order theorist]

Wow; the Fictionwise code this week is even better: 60%

Code: 042012

May I suggest books from our current and upcoming Authors of the month? :-)

Angel Martinez, Anne Tenino, and Ravon Silvius all have at least some of their books available on Fictionwise. Not the place for new releases, but if you want to catch up on backlists . . .

https://store.fictionwise.com/home.html

[Charming, Order theorist]

Free gay scifi book at Amazon:

One Good Turn

http://www.amazon.com/One-Good-Turn-e...

I haven't read it, so no guarantees.

[D]

Charming wrote: "Free gay scifi book at Amazon:

One Good Turn

http://www.amazon.com/One-Good-Turn-e...

I haven't read it, so no guarantees."


Thanx!

[Anne]

Hey folks!

I'll be doing a "Giveaway on the Downlow" for members of the group in a couple weeks. The giveaway will be for 18% Gray, the first Task Force Iota book. The week after the giveaway, Dreamspinner will have it on sale for a significant amount off (I want to say 40%, but silly me I forgot to double check that).

This is all in preparation for the June discussion of 18% Gray and the forthcoming (May 30) Turning Tricks, the next in the Task Force Iota series.

Don't worry, I'll keep everyone updated. But remember—members of the group only.

[Jen4607]

I've been wanting to get this for a while now. I'll be looking forward to details on the giveaway. Thanks!

Anne wrote: "Hey folks!

I'll be doing a "Giveaway on the Downlow" for members of the group in a couple weeks. The giveaway will be for 18% Gray, the first Task Force Iota book. The week after the giveaway, Dre..."

[Charming, Order theorist]

Free today:

Sunset

http://www.amazon.com/Sunset-Pact-Arc...

[Charming, Order theorist]

Anne wrote: "Hey folks!

I'll be doing a "Giveaway on the Downlow" for members of the group in a couple weeks. The giveaway will be for 18% Gray, the first Task Force Iota book. The week after the giveaway, Dre..."

I've added a topic for you in Author Discussions - you might want to repeat this there.

And may I say I am annoyed with Dreamspinner for not having a page up for Turning Tricks yet? Grumble.

[Anne]

Charming wrote: "Anne wrote: "Hey folks!

I'll be doing a "Giveaway on the Downlow" for members of the group in a couple weeks. The giveaway will be for 18% Gray, the first Task Force Iota book. The week after the ..."

Thank you!

And I don't have a cover yet, so possibly that's the reason...

[Anne]

So, as promise, here's some info on the giveaway for 18% Gray. The giveaway is for members of this group only.

The giveaway will begin next week, on Monday the 14th of May. I'll give interested parties until Friday to enter, then I'll announce the winner on Saturday in this group, in the "June Author of the Month" thread.. I *think* this will be just your standard "email me and I'll put you in the hopper" giveaway, unless I get all creative...

The prize is one ebook copy of 18% Gray in the format of your choice.

The following week, there will be a sale on the books of all authors who signed with Dreamspinner in their fourth year of business, so anyone who's interested but didn't win can buy a copy of 18% Gray there if they wish.

Then, on May 30th, the sequel to 18% will be released, Turning Tricks. I'm planning another giveaway for that, details TBD.

[Rhi]

I'm hosting a two-copy giveaway of my co-authored gay military scifi on my blog as part of the "Hop Against Homophobia" to promote awareness of the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia.

Giveaway closes 20 May. Stop by and leave a comment with an email address to enter the drawing!

[Charming, Order theorist]

Rhi wrote: "I'm hosting a two-copy giveaway of my co-authored gay military scifi on my blog as part of the "Hop Against Homophobia" to promote awareness of the International Day ..."

Thanks Rhi. The entire blog against homophobia sounds like a great source of give-aways for us readers.

[Charming, Order theorist]

The M/M Romance Group is holding its Love is Always Write event here:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

Many free short (and long stories) are posted every week. Not all scifi, certainly, but some are.

[Charming, Order theorist]

Charming wrote: "The M/M Romance Group is holding its Love is Always Write event here:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_..."

And note that several of our group authors have stories in this event: Andrea Speed, Megan Derr, Cherie Noel, Eve Ocotillo, Ravon Silvius, Stuart Wakefield, Jaime Samms, Mark Alders, Sylvia Violet, Erica Pike, Casey K. Cox, Valentina Heart, Andi Lea, and Belinda McBride.

[Charming, Order theorist]

http://www.amazon.com/Shockbox-ebook/...

I haven't read it so caveat emptor.

[Arshad]

I am hosting free giveaways of my four novels on Amazon over the next month:

Sunset (Pact Arcanum #1) will be available for free download from Amazon from Sat, May 26 to Mon, May 28.

Sunrise (Pact Arcanum #2) will be available for free download from Amazon from Sat, Jun 2 to Mon, Jun 4.

Moonlight (Pact Arcanum #3) will be available for free download from Amazon from Sat, Jun 9 to Mon, Jun 11.

Starlight (Pact Arcanum #4) will be available for free download from Amazon from Sat, Jun 16 to Mon, Jun 18.

So if you downloaded one of the later books in the series, here’s your chance to round out your collection and start from the beginning.

All books can be accessed through my Author page at:
http://www.amazon.com/author/pactarcanum

[Charming, Order theorist]

Arshad wrote: "I am hosting free giveaways of my four novels on Amazon over the next month:

Sunset (Pact Arcanum #1) will be available for free download from Amazon from Sat, May 26 to Mon, May 28.

Sunrise (Pac..."

Thanks Arshad!

[Charming, Order theorist]

from Jason's thread:

SAMHAIN PUBLISHING: FREE E-BOOK (ANY) UP TO $5.50 VALUE
www.samhainpublishing.com
Coupon Code: RT2012
Expires: 05/31/2012
Limit: 1 per customer

Here's a link to their gay alternate worlds page:
http://store.samhainpublishing.com/al...

I am seeing several sci fis there:
Angel 1089, Hemovore, a series promisingly called Men in Space, etc.

[KimE]

Thank Charming for the code. I got Angel 1089 since I'm apparently on an Angel kick today...

[SheReadsALot]

is free for Kindle

[Meghan]

SheReadsAlot wrote: "is free for Kindle"

This is a fantasy book, but in any event, the link to buy it is http://www.amazon.com/Lancelot-Wolf-K...

[Charming, Order theorist]

This might be more paranormal than scifi (I haven't read it yet) but there does some to be an alternate reality aspect:

http://www.amazon.com/Me-Myself-Dark-...

[David]

Can you please list books that are available on the nook and other devices as well? Not everyone has a Kindle.

[Charming, Order theorist]

David wrote: "Can you please list books that are available on the nook and other devices as well? Not everyone has a Kindle."

Yeah, I hear you. Since I do have a Kindle I tend to only look at those lists. But I expect that a lot of books that are free on Kindle are also free elsewhere. Please feel free to add any links you find.

[Charming, Order theorist]

I haven't read this one - sounds like a paranormal flavored scifi.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Species-Ble...

(sorry David - I don't know if is free elsewhere).