#smashwords

[nothwell]

Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook collection for a steal at Smashwords as part of their End of Year Sale through the end of 2024!

Including… ♡ Oak King Holly King, a Victorian fae romantasy between a fae warrior and a mortal clerk. ♡ Fiorenzo, a fantasy-of-manners romance featuring swordplay, hurt/comfort, and a happily-ever-after. ♡ Mr Warren's Profession, a Victorian cross-class romance featuring hurt/comfort and a happily-ever-after. ♡ Hold Fast, a Victorian romance between a whaling harpooner who inherits a baronetcy and the estate agent tasked with turning him from sailor to gentleman. ♡ The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall, a Victorian gothic romance rife with horror and heartache, wherein an American heiress makes an ill-advised marriage to bring herself closer the woman who’s stolen her heart.

[masonhawthorne]

Now is your best chance to find both of my ebooks for 25% off at @Smashwords as part of their 2024 End of Year Sale! Find my books and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ through January 1!

Earworm: A walking tour of the ends of worlds

Lockdown. 2020. Hector has discovered a way to escape the confines of his one-room flat; a way to travel between worlds. He has also brought something back with him…When restrictions ease, Hector is able to share this secret with his friends, who are at first awed, and then horrified by the things Hector has seen, the things he has done. But that's nothing compared to what he will do next…

Am I the Thing that Pounded Me in the Butt in Antarctica?

Antarctica. 1982.

The hard, masculine men of the American Scientific Research Station discover that a hot, throbbing alien presence has escaped from 100,000 years of entombment in the Antarctic ice sheet.

How do you fight an invader that might already be inside you?

With guns and a lot of cool explosions!

Two very different books, but one big sale!!

Check it out!

[caranox]

If you're looking to support a disabled author during Disability Pride Month, it'd be greatly appreciated if you bought any of my books or shared them around 🌈♾️

And you can get the ebook editions at 75% off for the rest of July on Smashwords! 📚💜

(pls I'm really struggling with my job and it would mean the world)

[conchoronzon]

Voretober continued (I'm so behind ahhhhh I meant for this to be a flash fiction piece to help me but oh well). When I think of drowsy, I thought of someone being woken up in bed. So here, a man's adult son tries to wake him up for breakfast in bed. But the sleepy dad has a different idea: his son should be cock food.

Excerpt:

The flesh pulsed gently against the sides of my head with each pounding heartbeat. Warmth massaged my skin. It was like slowly making your way into a sauna.

Hands grabbed my sides, my legs, and shifted me around. My slippers fell off. I lay on top of Dad. I could feel his stomach pressed against my wood. A wet, swallowing glrrk burrowed into my ears. The flesh around my head pressed in and down on me. The urethra let go of my neck and stretched over my shoulders. With another swallow, the top of my chest entered my father’s ravenous dick. Forceful fingers pulled at the waistbands of my pajama pants and boxers. They yanked them down until my crotch smacked down against my father’s gut. My bare legs laid atop his chest.

Those same hands wrapped around each of my ankles. The tight grip kept me from kicking out and doing any damage. I wasn’t going to kick. But getting grabbed like that, restricted at both ends? Some sort of fearful instinct took over, and I bucked. My hips slammed down onto Dad’s stomach.

Rather than free me, each makeshift thrust of mine seemed to inch me further and further into Dad’s hungry cock.

I couldn’t hear anything outside the rush of blood inside Dad’s dick and the swallowing noises as the muscles dragged me down towards those growling testicles that created me once upon a time.

[jessicamdawn]

Now is your best chance to find my books, The Paladin's Path and The King's Course, available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their 2024 End of Year Sale! Find my book and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ through January 1! #SmashwordsEoYSale #Smashwords

[scarlettgauthor]

Do you want 270k of femdom fantasy romance at an incredible savings? Then you're in luck, because I'm in the Smashwords "Read an Ebook Week" sale, and the Warrior's Guild is on sale for 50% off through March 9th! Shop tons of other authors, while you're at it!

[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!

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

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!

[malcolmschmitz]

Hey, all! Smashwords has an annual sale for Read an Ebook Week from March 3 - March 9.

As part of that sale, you'll be able to get The Cats and the Cockatrice for half off, and all my other books for free.

Watch this space for further developments-- and until then, you can pick it up on Amazon, Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and more.

[nothwell]

Happy book birthday to Gothic Lesbians!

Five years ago I hit publish on my gothic lesbian Victorian romance, The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall.

Perfect for readers who enjoy…

sapphic yearning

mutual pining

hurt/comfort

goth x sunshine pairings

practical approaches to supernatural problems

angst angst angst and then happily-ever-after because i'm not a monster

Victorian ghost photography

Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

New England history and folklore such as the New Bedford whaling industry, the Mercy Brown vampire panic, the Lizzie Borden murder trial, and the Newport Mansions.

You can find The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall wherever fine books are found - but if you get it thru Smashwords it's 50% off (along with all my other books)!

And thank you for reading!

[praeobscura]

Cross-posting from my mention of this on Pillowfort.

Yesterday, Draft2Digital (which now includes Smashwords) sent out an email with a, frankly, very insulting survey. It would be such a shame if a link to that survey without the link trackers were to circulate around Tumblr dot Com.

The survey has eight multiple choice questions and (more importantly) two long-form text response boxes.

The survey is being run from August 27th, 2024 to September 3rd, 2024. If you use Draft2Digital or Smashwords, and have not already seen this in your associated email, you may want to read through it and send them your thoughts.

Plain text for the image below the cut:

D2D AI Rights Licensing Survey:

This survey is going to all authors and publishers of Draft2Digital and Smashwords. We seek feedback from our community regarding potential rights licensing opportunities.

This survey is anonymous and should take only about five minutes to complete. Survey responses will be accepted until Tuesday, September 3, 2024.

Introduction:

In recent months, a growing number of AI developers have begun approaching large publishers, seeking to license books for the purpose of training Large Language Models (LLMs).

Books – both fiction and non-fiction – are highly prized for LLM training due to their long form narrative structures which teach Natural Language Processing.

Common uses for these LLMs include powering personal productivity applications such as customer service chatbots, virtual assistants, and the drafting of written communications for marketing, customer service, and internal communications.

What are your AI training rights worth? There’s no hard and fast rule to answer this question because each licensing deal is different.

Some early compensation models for news publishers suggest the equivalent of about $100 per license for LLM training rights for a 75,000-word novel, which works out to a little over 1/10th of a cent per word.

Some experts believe training rights for long-form book content justifies higher compensation for training rights than news content.

[ladzwriting]

"In Ice Upon A Pier, Ladz sets bare the beating, albeit slowly, heart of their lesbian ice magic assassin with both clinical true crime precision and piercing pathos giving us a character doomed from birth but still defiantly set upon a path to change their stars . . . . one frozen corpse at a time."

-Jordan Shiveley, HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA

Use code SSW50 on Smashwords until Wednesday to get 50%

[tryslora]

Smashwords summer sale!

Want to score a copy of Finding Their Roots for 50% off? Pick it up on Smashwords for only $1.99 and while you're there, check out the other books on sale in July and load up your ereader!

[keydekyie]

Smashwords Sale! Dec 15th- Jan 1st!

I'm excited to announce my books (The Moth and the Bear books I and II) will be part of the Smashwords End of Year sale starting this Friday, December 15th. If you've been waiting to read, this is a great opportunity to get them for a bargain and support an independent author!

Sale runs December 15th through January 1st!

[eamusgrove]

Free books!

All my currently-available books (except the anthology I'm in, I don't control the pricing on that one but I assure you the 21 other authors in that are absolutely worth whatever is being charged for it) are currently free in the Smashwords sale.

I'd love for more people to read them! Here's what I've got:

The Man Left Behind and The Boy Left Behind - a twofer, first the story of Henry (who would probably identify as a trans man now) in World War I and then revisiting him in World War II.

Margaret - f/f Jane Austen fanfiction following the younger sister of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood (from Sense & Sensibility) as she takes her first steps into adulthood and helps solve a problem for Colonel Brandon.

The Highwayman - f/f, based on the poem of the same name by Alfred Noyes, with a few tweaks to give poor Bess a kinder ending.

They're all fairly short, I don't believe any of them could be described as steamy, and I think that's all the main points covered - except of course that, again, they're all completely free at the moment. (Until July 31st!)

(And the aforementioned anthology, Queer Weird West Tales, is half price and was already frankly a steal given that there are, as far as I remember, 22 stories in there from 22 authors)

[pretensesoup]

This is too funny not to post

Academic friends assure me that current academics also love it.

If you're intrigued but wary of getting into a new writer, books 1 and 2 are currently 75% off at Smashwords. Check it out here.

They're also up on many other sites. Many are listed here. And there's a café AU short story in the extras section for free that could use some love.