Sooner or Later in New StoryBundle

Fri 31 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Sarah Pinsker’s award-winning debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of thirteen books in Catherine Lundoff and Melissa Scott’s newly launched Pay-What-You-Want 2024 Pride Bundle.

The bundle is available for 31 days — today + Pride month! The 4-book basic bundle is $5, and is really 5 books as it includes both volumes of Ginn Hale’s Champion of the Scarlet Wolf. The real deal is at $20 (or more, seems to top out at $100, challenge activated?) where you get all 13 titles.

Every buyer chooses how their payment is split between the authors and the platform (StoryBundle) and can choose to donate 10% to the charity Catherine and Melissa selected, Rainbow Railroad whose mission is to help at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety.

Hope you enjoy the bundle and any help spreading the word over the next month would be much appreciated.


Brindles?

Fri 24 Nov 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Discounted Bundled Books for You & Your Reader Friends:

2023: Hard year. Good weird books. ayize jama-everett, heroes of an unknown world “dive in, you will love what you discover.” —victor lavalle, author of the changeling sarah pinsker, lost places ★ “queer, hopeful, and eerie, celebrating the rebellious spirits of both immortal-feeling youth and resilient elder protagonists.” — booklist (starred review) anya johanna deniro, okpsyche “an exploration of ensoulment and embodiment, and the search for both, told by a trans woman in lush sink-into-it prose.” — nina maclaughlin, boston globe kij johnson, the privilege of the happy ending ★ “hugo and nebula award winner johnson (the river bank) returns with 14 dazzling speculative shorts. . . . these boundary- pushing, magic-infused tales are sure to wow.” — publishers weekly (starred review)


DRM-free Ghosts

Thu 18 Aug 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

I saw a poll on twitter yesterday asking when the Halloween season starts* and the answer is obviously right now with this Ghosts & Apparitions Storybundle where they have 4 books for $5 or all 10 books for $25 (you can pay more [or less] — and then the authors get more! [or less]) including Mary Rickert’s World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson award finalist collection You Have Never Been Here. Readers can also choose to donate a portion of their proceeds to Girls Write Now and Mighty Writers.

Get (or gift) your bundle here.

* Some say October 31.
Some say October 1.
Some say mid-September.
Some say it never goes away.


Psychopomps Galore

Mon 29 Jun 2020 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Psychopomp BundleThis is your chance to get a fabulous deal on a dozen books by writers who’ve chosen to investigate life (as it were) on the other side of the veil — including Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Archivist Wasp, and the sequel, Latchkey.

This bundle lasts for the next two weeks or so:

The Crossing the Veil Bundle – Curated by Rhonda Parrish: I’ve spent the last several years curating and editing short stories and poetry for anthologies and this year I’m very excited to expand that into curating books for a StoryBundle. I’m excited to share my first ever StoryBundle which is all about psychopomps and crossing the veil.

A couple years ago I stumbled across a word I’d never heard before — psychopomp. When I looked up its meaning I discovered that I’d been aware of the concept of a psychopomp for a long time, I just hadn’t known the word for it. A psychopomp is a being which acts as a guide for the souls of the recently departed, helping them move from this world to the next and occasionally carrying messages between the two.

It’s kind of impressive that I went so long without knowing the word psychopomp because I’ve always loved stories that involve crossing over from the world of the living to that of the dead. Always. As a kid we took Greek Mythology in school and while all the stories interested me it was those set in Hades that really fascinated me. I would seek them out and devour version after version. And as I grew, that never really changed. I still love stories set in the places we go after we die, or featuring characters that can cross between those worlds, which made choosing that as the topic for this StoryBundle an easy decision.

That’s not all! Read more about the 12 books in the bundle here, and make sure to click on each cover for a synopsis, reviews and preview of each book.


Afrofuturism Bundle

Fri 31 May 2019 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Hey, there’s a week left to get your hands on the current Afrofuturism collection on Storybundle. Ayize Jama-Everett’s debut novel The Liminal People is part of it as well as nine other books, which together make an essential library of recent hits. If you can get it, don’t miss out.