#Pre-order Ebook Sale

[thecatsreaderslibrary]

Author Pavane Ravel Shares A New Release, Author News, & PR With Cat's Readers and Friends. Book 2 of 'The Other Shoes of Larry Martin' Novel Series On Pre-Order Titled, "On Becoming Laurie Roberts."

About the Author Pavane Ravel is an acclaimed influential writer of political literary fiction and is the author of her introductory novel series, “The Other Shoes of Larry Martin” with book one released in Oct. 2021 titled “Revelation of Lies” and book two titled “On becoming Laurie Roberts” in Feb. 2023. Ravel’s books are available for purchase on her official website (pavaneravel.com), Amazon…

[drchucktingle]

hello! I would love to pre-order your book, but which of the pre-order options is the best for you, and gets you the highest cut of the book price? I want to choose the one that will most help you continue to spread love and joy and chaos in this world

here is a little INSIDE BASEBALL. bestseller lists are very important in way of marketing and way of how much bookstores order of your book. when camp damascus came out it was very close in NUMBERS to certain highly talked about best seller list but that list is not just numbers it is also WHERE and WHEN and HOW things are bought and it is also partially editorial (and very complicated). however this time BURY YOUR GAYS could possibly get higher than camp damascus and land on this list who knows but it is within realm of possibility on this timeline. WHOA COOL. i understand this is shrouded in mystery but i think buckaroos can read between lines.

anyway first step in making this happen is PREORDERS. i know buckaroos are used to video game preorders which is a very bad situation, but in world of BOOKS preorders are everything. it is honestly number one way to support a writer for many reasons but top reason is every preorder over year counts towards first week sales which means BESTSELLER LIST PLACEMENT and THAT sets of whole chain reaction into 'mainstream trot' (i like to picture this as queer dinosaurs and bigfeet and living concepts kicking open the doors to a board room in a high rise but you can imagine whatever you would like)

so NUMBER ONE thing you can do is take the time to actually preorder and not just wait even if you want to get it later.

however to answer your question direct: that certain bestseller list mentioned above only counts HARDCOVER SALES not ebook and not audiobook. this is tough for chuck because audiobook is my personal trot however you asked so i will answer directly: this most important thing is FORMAT

so i would say if you want to have the biggest splash as we kick open the door of this boardroom as shirtless dinosaurs bigfeet unicorns and living objects, it would be:

a HARDCOVER that is PREORDERED. and if you can, from an INDIE BOOKSTORE

preorder here

[aninkwellofnectar]

WE WILL DEVOUR THE NIGHT 🌙 cover reveal

The time has finally come for me to unveil the cover for the second book in THE ESSENCE OF THE EQUINOX series.

Since that fateful voyage north, negative sentiments have only grown against chaos magic and the creatures born from its origins. Laila returns to Mortos with the aim of salvaging her dynasty from those who wish to wrangle the throne on a platform of magic-driven bigotry. She finds herself once more crossing paths with her old lover and confronting the whirlwind of emotions that twenty years apart have done little to settle.

The incomparable Eeva Nikunen has done it again! This blood red beauty will look perfect next to WTSA and I love the complementary look of the occassi and all of its symbols.

Sign up for ARCs

Pre-order the eBook (paperbacks coming soon)

WHEN THE STARS ALIGHT is also currently on sale for 99c if you wanted to snag a 2 for 1 deal.

[spacetwinks]

oh shit it's my birthday. happy birthday me

i have finally remembered to post the announcement over on my tumblr too - preorders are now open for the ebook version of my game rec threads! not limited to what's on the latest steam sale, this is 100 personalized game recs of mine covering a wide breadth of genres, platforms and eras, looking to give something for all kinds of tastes out there, as well as hopefully encourage people to try lots of kinds of games outside of their usual faves. wild, weird, strange games as well as plenty of 'this was just straight up a fucking banger but only me and 10 other people played it'.

all pre-orders of The Rec Thread are on sale for $4.95! it'll be $8 on release on March 12th, so get in while the getting's good!

thanks for y'all support, and enjoy video games!

[luninosity]

Coming tomorrow - August 17 - from JMS Books...

...my next full-length novel! Which is a spin-off for a supporting character from the Character Bleed trilogy - after all, Leo deserves his own story, and his own happy ending!

Leo Whyte's a very good supporting actor. The sidekick. The comic relief. He knows what he's good at. But now he's met photographer Sam...and it just might be time for Leo to be someone's leading man.

(This is book 1 of 2, but it's all written - book 2 will be out in a couple months! It was just too long to be one book! The paperback will also be out shortly - JMS is a little behind on paperbacks - but the ebook is out tomorrow!)

Also featuring teacups, first times, and helpful advice from some side characters you might recognize, like Colby and Jason from Character Bleed!

Buy at Amazon here!

Or at JMS Books here! (On pre-order sale!)

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Do you have any recommendations on Dr. Who books/audio format things? I haven't watched the show in a bit because Moffat wasn't my thing and I can't seem to find the old stuff. (If you have any advice on where to find that too I would be very grateful) Following your blog has been a nice reminder of why I liked the show so much. Hope you have a good day!

Aw thank you! Depending on your location, you can find classic who episodes either on BBC iPlayer or Tubi (with ads).

As for books/audios, I'll try to keep this brief as I could write an essay on this.

For books, my favorite author is Kate Orman. Orman writes wonderfully, and my personal favorite is The Year of the Intelligent Tigers. I also really liked Goth Opera, Camera Obscure, History 101, Autumn Mist, Lungbarrow, Divided Loyalties, Somewhere Never etc etc etc etc (so many more but I'm forcing myself to stop here). You can often find free versions of basically every novel (at least all I've looked for) on the internet either as pdfs or epubs or whatever. The Internet Archive is particularly useful. Some examples:

And now for the audios! I personally have sold my soul to Big Finish. I have literally hundreds of recommendations. They do have some audios for free, such as those that came from the Paul Spragg Memorial Competition. You can also find a lot of them (up until Zagreus I think) for free on Spotify. There is also almost always a killer sale going on on the website on top of that too.

As for my recommendations, it's pretty dependent on what Doctor or companion you want to listen to. They even have series centered on UNIT, Romana's Gallifrey, Benny Summerfield, and a ton of other things (including a Masterful special that just had a bunch of Masters fucking around and finding out). I'll put in some of my favorites, one for each Doctor, from what I own (which is far from everything, but I do my best).

One: The Sontarans. It was the first time the Doctor had ever encountered the Sontarans, so he was unfamiliar with them. It takes place during Dalek Master Plan, so Steven and Sara are there.

Two: Lords of the Red Planet! It's a good Ice Warrior origin story and has Jamie and Zoe in it. :)

Three: Terror of the Master. I had pre-ordered it as soon as I heard about it. Three....Delgado Master....what more do you want from an audio? It's narrated by Jon Culshaw.

Four: The Wrath of the Iceni. It was a brilliant historical with Four and Leela and Boudica. Leela gets quite a lesson in this one, first being mad at Four for not helping Boudica and then at Boudica for being cruel.

Okay now we are getting into my favorite Doctors (5-8), so these decisions are going to get difficult.

Five: The Kingmaker! Shakespeare spikes Five's drink to get him absolutely wasted to sneak on the TARDIS, the TARDIS gets hiccups as a result, leading to Peri and Erimem being separated from the Doctor. Shenanigans ensue.

Six: Doctor Who and the Pirates. Six and Evelyn have a really meaningful discussion with one of her depressed students. The third part is a musical!

Seven: The Shadow of the Scourge. Benny Ace and Seven against 8th dimensional eldritch abominations. Seven gets turned into one of these insectoids, and body horror ensues.

Eight: Oh dear I can't choose. At the moment, probably the Great War from Dark Eyes 1. Eight meets Molly and is still grieving here. He is very much doomed by the narrative.

War: The Neverwhen. Lots of the War Doctor is good if you like Time War horror, but this one has a lot of time-as-a-weapon and is well written.

Nine: Battle Scars. A nice short story about that one family Nine saved from the Titanic mentioned in the episode Rose. Has a really fantastic girl in it and a Nine dripping in PTSD.

Ten: The Time Reaver. Ten and Donna! There's this gun that basically slows down time for a single person, so that a few minutes for everyone else is centuries for them. Ten is a self sacrificing dope.

Eleven: The Geronimo boxset is the best in my opinion, but I haven't been able to listen to many of these yet.

Twelve: Another one I haven't managed to buy a lot of yet, but Dead Media is amazing. It's written to sound like a podcast with adverts and everything and is set during his time at St. Luke's. And I cried at the end.

Anyway, I'll shut up now. This was so much fun! Thank you!

[fallloverfic]

내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes that I Raised Korean physical novel pre-order for release 26 December 2024

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A 5-volume physical release of the novel (not the manhwa adaptation) for 내가 키운 S급들 | The S-Classes that I Raised has been announced! It is currently up for order and will be available in December!

Store link (more in the Instagram post; JPLEMEDIA is the publisher for the series)

Twitter link

Onlyraii's post on it, as they drew art for the release (Onlyraii drew the current novel art used for the single chapter release)

A preview of the goods (twitter):

Geunseo also helped to compose a song for this (Track 11).

Unlike the previously unsuccessful crowdfunding physical release, this seems to just be on sale.

The series is 35 volumes in ebooks, so I'm not sure if this is a reformatted version or it's just the first 5 volumes, with more to come. I would imagine it's the latter. All the (current) ebooks in Korean are available on multiple sites, including Ridibooks. More info on the series here.

[tdcloud]

Happy Infaust cover reveal Friday! Give it up for @ambisun for another banger of a cover! But of course, this is only the beginning...

A witch with a dead familiar is an outlier and an ill-omen to every village they pass through. Rehan Nadir is one such witch. The only jobs available to him are terrible ones, and vagrancy is his only recourse… At least, it was until he heard tell of the town of Hamelin’s plight. Stories of a malicious entity, a chaos god, have tormented the village for hundreds of years, and like clockwork tragedy has struck once more: while the adults gathered elsewhere, the children were spirited away. No trace of them has been seen since. The town is desperate to bring them back. Very desperate.

Finding and returning the lost children would be just the thing to give Rehan a new chance at the life he lost after the death of his familiar, and if all it takes is killing a god of chaos, then he’s more than ready to take the plunge and open that door. Unfortunately, he just didn’t anticipate opening a few more in the midst of dealing the finishing blow.

More Info below!

Infaust is a dark romance recounting the tale of the witch Rehan Nadir and the elusive chaos god known only as the Piper. Trapped in a world where even the very dirt wants them dead, the two must depend on one another to escape—and along the way realize that perhaps the definition of a happily ever after really is a subjective one.

This is a story for those of us who know things can always get worse, that there's always still something left to lose. Infaust has been a very long time coming, starting as an initial concept idea back in 2018 and undergoing multiple rewrites over the years to bring it to the state it's in now. But with that long timeline comes bigger pay-offs. I'm incredibly proud of where this story has gone and all that it continues to develop into.

With that said...

This isn't the final cover.

I've had to delay this reveal once already, and nearly did so again last night. My cover artist is currently in the midst of an international move and her time is, as you can well imagine, limited. We thought we'd have the final cover done last night but alas, we had to prioritize elements to meet this deadline. The actual cover will look a little closer to this when it's all said and done.

I don't have a solid date yet on when to expect this full version alongside the full spread. Our tenuous goal is April 10th, but moving to a different country isn't easy, simple, or fun. We'll have it by the time the book launches, so please be patient with us as we navigate this really bumpy timeline!

If you'd like to pre-order Infaust, you have a few options!

For Signed Paperback copies alongside a really cool, limited-run merch box bundle, please check out my Itchio: https://tdcloud.itch.io/infaust

For unsigned pre-orders, the Amazon sales page is the place to go for ebooks, with paperbacks coming closer to the launch date: https://amazon.com/dp/B0CRX5M7TX

Thank you so much for your support thus far and your excitement for Rehan's terrible, no-good dance with the Devil. It means the world, and I'm so excited to unleash this beast May 1st!

[physalian]

I’m sure it’s applicable to so many other fields so here I am (probably over-sharing) trying to raise awareness to burnout and the need for mental health breaks:

Almost a month ago, things weren’t bad, they were going well. I was racing to get my first book up for preorder, knowing that doing so wouldn’t necessarily get me sales, but it did give me time to do a little marketing with the proof copy and leave room to fix the last few things that popped up while I waited.

I was too exhausted from that sprint to even properly enjoy the monumental milestone of getting that preorder submitted on time. I just wanted to go to bed with like, zero human support systems to help me out because everyone I know is too depressed to help themselves. Depression might not literally be contagious but as the only one I know who has their shit together, when I *don’t* have my shit together, I get zero help. I still gotta help everybody else. Like, if the dishes don’t get done, it’s far easier to stack mine on top and say fuck it than ask for/wait for/do dishes that aren’t mine so I have room for mine, you know?

Not even 20 days later and it has just been one gut-punch after another. And the thing is. I’m… pessimistically inclined. Sometimes. Not because I want to be, mind you, but because life + repeat letdowns and disappointments + failures by people close to me to follow through on commitments = a cocktail of hyper-independence, trust issues, and seeing the worst in people.

Day after pre-order go-live and I got family pushing *hard* to get me on social media to market cause that’s where my audience is, allegedly (I write gay fantasy books. My audience is right here thank you very much). But I listened. And it went exactly as I expected it to. And the burnout and cynicism has done a real number on my mental health.

Oh, you got excited naively thinking an influencer actually cares about and wants to read your book? Ha ha, you shmuck. Nope! She just wants your money.

Oh, well at least she delivered a usable ad for your book, right? Nope! That Instagram account is now dead to me, infected with scammers who won’t leave me alone.

Oh, well how’s your new TikTok going? It’s going, right? Kinda! I mean the platform is rigged against you, demanding a style of performance that I hate to catch the attention of people who like shiny clickbait. And no, there’s a very real bubble preventing your videos from reaching larger audiences because the algorithm says so. And no matter how many hours you put into making videos, you *might* get 700 views. Not engagement, just views. Counting those scrolling by.

Oh…. Well you got some sales at least, right? Nope~ but hey I get it ebooks aren’t thrilling. Lacking sales are the least important element here.

You got some friends and family to read it though? One. No one I know reads, or if they do, they don’t have time to remember their promise.

But there are *some* good things that came from interacting with social media right? No? Not really? The few positive interactions I’ve had I can get anywhere.

Oh and I am still tangled up with PayPal from that first scam.

Not to even get started on stress from my day job’s compulsory OT that means no weekends, an upcoming move, a denied ESA request, and a pending new job.

Point of all this being… this was supposed to be a time to celebrate an accomplishment. And all I have taken away from it was 1) I was right, social media is ass, and 2) I was naive to get excited about absolutely any of this. Which is not a good thing to take away from this. Dangerous state of mind to be in.

When you’re pessimistic to keep your emotions safe from bad actors, and those bad actors all show up at once to validate your pessimism, it sucks. A lot. And it hasn’t even been 20 days. It feels like it’s been 3 months.

Phys wants a very long nap and some justice and a little bit of vindication and the permission to say “I told you so” with cathartic contempt. At the moment she’ll take venting to strangers on the internet.

[tobiasbegley]

Hello everyone! I'm announcing the first novel of my new series, Mana Mirror, a slowburn to power, with slice of life / mildly cozy elements, and a magic system somewhere in between classical fantasy and the fun strangeness of the Weirkey Chronicles. To celebrate the audio release, book one is on sale for ninety-nine cents!

This is the novel's description:

When Malachi Baker stumbles into an offer of apprenticeship from the esteemed and powerful Occultist Orykson, he's left in shock and jumps at the chance to learn... Even if it means taking out a few loans.

Unfortunately, his new teacher sees him more as a tool than a student, and has set Malachi near-impossible goals before he becomes worthy of Orykson's full attention, and Malachi's innate power is only somewhat above average.

Worse, it turns out that Orykson has enemies more powerful than Malachi had ever imagined – and now their attention has landed solidly on him.

Torn between the mage who can offer him everything, and a strange old woman who offers him the chance to guide his own path, Malachi is left scrambling to find his purpose as a new mage.

…

"Mana Mirror is an exciting new magical progression fantasy where Malachi, our hero, awakens a long-lost family legacy and trains to unleash its full potential. With a fascinating magic system reminiscent of Sarah Lin's Weirkey Chronicles, but a setting slanted more toward classic wizardry, Mana Mirror is an exciting start to a fantastic new adventure. I couldn't put it down."

- Andrew Rowe, Author of Arcane Ascension

…

If you can, please leave a rating or review. Even if there's no text, having the stars is super critical to the all-powerful algorithm. 

And for those of you who only care about the finale of The Journals series, fear not! It’s up for pre-order now, and will release on September 26th! It can be found here! Audiobooks for book three and four are in the works as well :)

…

Art by the lovely Asur Misoa: https://www.artstation.com/asur-misoa

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Mana-Mirror-First-Tobias-Begley-ebook/dp/B0CYHQG7L4

Audiobook Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Mana-Mirror-The-First-Gate-Audiobook/B0D5SB2784

[aninkwellofnectar]

It is officially ONE MONTH until the release of WE WILL DEVOUR THE NIGHT 🌙.

If you have not pre-ordered your physical copy yet please consider doing so NOW so that I can finalise the number of stock to order in, that’s for both the paperbacks as well as custom bubble mailers and art prints. I want to bulk send all at once and to do that I want to make sure I have the numbers as accurate as possible so that everyone can get their copies by release day or near.

I have also lowered the price of the ebook to 0.99 until release across every ebook platform:

Google Play | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple Books | Amazon

This sale will end on release day so run, don't walk.

[muffinlance]

Is there gonna be an ebook version of fox's tongue released with the print versions? Or is there one already and I missed it somehow?

Amazon is very weird in that ebook pre-orders essentially count against an author's sales rankings. So no pre-order for that, just launching it on March 21st. It'll also be available on my personal site then, for any who wish to avoid our Amazon overlords. (Unsigned physical copies also go live on Amazon then, in all major markets, so no international shipping fees.)

[charlizekkelly]

you didn’t hear it from me…but SoV’s eBook for pre-order will be as cheap as $3–depending on your currency—from Nov 3rd till Nov 6th🤭 (AND SotN will be on sale for those same dates)

[audreywritesfantasy]

Barnes & Noble currently has a sale on pre-orders, so if you’re interested in A Searing Faith, consider pre-ordering the ebook or paperback and get 25% off. With the sale the ebook is only about $4.5. Find the book on Barnes & Noble, or save it on Goodreads or Storygraph. A Searing Faith is an epic dark fantasy story with steampunk elements, the first book in the The Heart Pyre series, and follows 16yo Rena as she finds herself the sole survivor of the fire that destroyed her home town. With a group of new companions, she sets out to figure out what truly happened, and why the Royal Council is trying to cover up the event.

[cottonundiestf]

A Super Bimbofication: Superiorgirl is now available for pre-order at all the big ebook vendors, releasing on June 21st!

It's also available for pre-sale at @smashwords which means you can actually get your hands on it right now!

If you like villains corrupting heroes, mind and body transformations, and super bimbos, be sure to pre-order and share this post!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

#20yrsago Vote absentee, avoid Diebold machines http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/01/22/avoid_diebold_register_absentee.html

#20yrsago Air travel “security” as theater of the absurd https://web.archive.org/web/20040130200202/https://idlewords.com/2004/01/security_as_theater.htm

#20yrsago GOP electronically burgled Dems’ computers https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2004/01/3327-2/

#20yrsago Milne heirs don’t own Pooh https://web.archive.org/web/20040211100427/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/22/11.45.film

#20yrsago DVD cartel backs off, EFF wins, DVD keys aren’t “secret” https://www.eff.org/cases/dvdcca-v-bunner-and-dvdcca-v-pavlovich

#15yrsago Monty Python’s free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent https://mashable.com/archive/youtube-boost-sales

#15yrsago National Film Board of Canada puts its archives online, free https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/

#10yrsago Animal Planet’s “nature” shows: whistleblowers detail crimes, animal cruelty, fakery https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/animal-abuse-drugs-call-of-the-wildman-animal-planet/

#10yrsago Teach your rooted Android phones to lie to apps about whether it’s rooted https://lifehacker.com/rootcloak-hides-root-access-from-specific-applications-1505596942

#10yrsago Eyes on the Prize, famed civil rights documentary series, is back on DVD and Youtube https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/

#10yrsago One Soul: 18 interwoven lives in a graphic novel that pushes the boundaries https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/22/one-soul-18-interwoven-lives-in-a-graphic-novel-that-pushes-the-boundaries/

#5yrsago Senator Mark Warner’s Stop STUPIDITY Act would protect federal employees’ pay during shutdowns https://www.scribd.com/document/398006535/Stop-the-Shutdowns-Transferring-Unnecessary-Pain-and-Inflicting-Damage-In-The-Coming-Years-Act

#5yrsago Republican Arizona lawmaker revives doomed “porn tax” to fund Trump’s doomed border-wall https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyapwj/arizona-porn-blocking-bill-trump-border-wall

#5yrsago An annotated bibliography of anarchism in science fiction https://www.anarchysf.com

#5yrsago The sad history of Livejournal as a lens for understanding the state of social media today https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging/

#5yrsago Teen Vogue explainer: what are “resistance, rebellion, and revolution?” https://www.teenvogue.com/story/resistance-rebellion-revolution-explainer-interviews

#5yrsago English and Welsh Ramblers have seven years left to catalogue the nation’s footpaths, or they will be absorbed into private lands https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-search-for-englands-forgotten-footpaths

#5yrsago A list of all the booze in Casablanca (surprisingly long!) https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/01/booze-gin-joints-crazy-world/

#1yrago Walking the Plank https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/22/walking-the-plank/

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.