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ATDrake · 12-25-2011, 04:39 AM

Well, once again that KDP select exclusive-or-else-but-5-days-out-of-90-free thing brings us nifty backlist sf/fantasy.

I still think it's one of those things which will backfire in the long run what with locking stuff into Amazon thereby increasing their increasingly virtual monopoly market dominance and reducing overall availability marginalizing people with other readers, but for now I'm quite content to take advantage of stuff which shows up.

I'm also sticking a backlist literary fiction and a romance and a crime thriller freebie afterwards, because I don't feel like cluttering the forum with extra threads for stuff I don't really care about which will probably disappear in a day and isn't an official time-limited publisher promo offering anyway.

As a reminder, that yellow exclamation!yield icon next to a thread title means something which I have reason to believe will disappear Real Soon Now, so grab it while you still can if you want it.

In Legend Born by Laura Resnick, daughter of prominent sf writer/editor Mike Resnick and a pretty decent sf/fantasy/paranormal author in her own right, judging from what little I've read of her work, is the first in her epic fantasy Silerian Trilogy, originally published by Tor Books in 1998.

This new edition includes a whole bunch of maps and extras, and is free for an increasingly limited time @ Amazon main, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT (DRMed).

The other books are a not-too-unreasonable-for-relatively-recent-late-90s-work $5.95 each, and available in the Kindle Lending Library.

Description
"I CAN TAKE CARE OF MY ENEMIES, BUT DAR SHIELD ME FROM MY FRIENDS..."

For a thousand years, the mountainous island nation of Sileria, wherein dwells Dar the destroyer goddess, has toiled under the yoke of one foreign conqueror after another. But now, as the empires which surround the Middle Sea battle for supremacy on the mainland, Sileria's long-forgotten dream of independence is reborn in the mystical visions of a fiery young sorcercess. The subjugated nation's perpetually feuding factions make their violent bid for freedom when a bold mountain bandit, a mysterious exile with a deadly bloodvow on his head, a seductive aristocrat, and a notoriously vengeful water wizard are all reluctantly united by prophecy, destiny, and necessity. If these treacherous enemies can maintain a truce, they might change the world; but betrayal has always been a way of life in Sileria...

** The first book of the critically acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy which continues with THE WHITE DRAGON and concludes with THE DESTROYER GODDESS

** This ebook edition contains Color Maps, as well as Directories of Characters, Settings, and a Glossary

There's also Shepherd Avenue, a literary fiction coming-of-age novel by Charlie Carillo, who's been freebied twice previously by Kensington books, which was praised as one of the best books of the year 1986 by the American Library Association, according to the blurb.

And True North, a contemporary romance novel by popular author Marie Force, who's had previous freebies offered from publishers Sourcebooks and Carina Press.

ETA: Dead Space (apparently not available to Canadians, and possibly not elsewhere; I thought KDP Select stuff was not supposed to be geo-restricted?), some sort of comedic crime thriller originally published by St. Martin's Press by fellow MR member Lee Goldberg who's probably the only one of us to have the distinction* of having his own dedicated Fandom Wank page, which I freely admit has provided me over the years with a level of entertainment which I sincerely hope his novels can similarly bring.

He's got a bunch of them available in the Kindle Lending Library, but at $2.99 a pop regularly, if it turns out you like his writing, you might as well just buy them outright and save your once-a-month borrow for the pricier more dubiously-enjoyable stuff.

* And totally not a glorified fanfic writer† despite having authored a whole bunch of Monk TV show spinoff tie-in books, because he got paid for them. Or something.

† Not that there's anything wrong with being one. Some of my favourite authors are actually glorified fanfic writers, whom I might not have discovered were it not for that.

12-25-2011, 04:39 AM	#1
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free (Kindle) In Legend Born by Laura Resnick [Epic Fantasy] + 2 KDP backlist finds Well, once again that KDP select exclusive-or-else-but-5-days-out-of-90-free thing brings us nifty backlist sf/fantasy. I still think it's one of those things which will backfire in the long run what with locking stuff into Amazon thereby increasing their increasingly virtual monopoly market dominance and reducing overall availability marginalizing people with other readers, but for now I'm quite content to take advantage of stuff which shows up. I'm also sticking a backlist literary fiction and a romance and a crime thriller freebie afterwards, because I don't feel like cluttering the forum with extra threads for stuff I don't really care about which will probably disappear in a day and isn't an official time-limited publisher promo offering anyway. As a reminder, that yellow exclamation!yield icon next to a thread title means something which I have reason to believe will disappear Real Soon Now, so grab it while you still can if you want it. In Legend Born by Laura Resnick, daughter of prominent sf writer/editor Mike Resnick and a pretty decent sf/fantasy/paranormal author in her own right, judging from what little I've read of her work, is the first in her epic fantasy Silerian Trilogy, originally published by Tor Books in 1998. This new edition includes a whole bunch of maps and extras, and is free for an increasingly limited time @ Amazon main, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT (DRMed). The other books are a not-too-unreasonable-for-relatively-recent-late-90s-work $5.95 each, and available in the Kindle Lending Library. Description "I CAN TAKE CARE OF MY ENEMIES, BUT DAR SHIELD ME FROM MY FRIENDS..." For a thousand years, the mountainous island nation of Sileria, wherein dwells Dar the destroyer goddess, has toiled under the yoke of one foreign conqueror after another. But now, as the empires which surround the Middle Sea battle for supremacy on the mainland, Sileria's long-forgotten dream of independence is reborn in the mystical visions of a fiery young sorcercess. The subjugated nation's perpetually feuding factions make their violent bid for freedom when a bold mountain bandit, a mysterious exile with a deadly bloodvow on his head, a seductive aristocrat, and a notoriously vengeful water wizard are all reluctantly united by prophecy, destiny, and necessity. If these treacherous enemies can maintain a truce, they might change the world; but betrayal has always been a way of life in Sileria... The first book of the critically acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy which continues with THE WHITE DRAGON and concludes with THE DESTROYER GODDESS This ebook edition contains Color Maps, as well as Directories of Characters, Settings, and a Glossary There's also Shepherd Avenue, a literary fiction coming-of-age novel by Charlie Carillo, who's been freebied twice previously by Kensington books, which was praised as one of the best books of the year 1986 by the American Library Association, according to the blurb. And True North, a contemporary romance novel by popular author Marie Force, who's had previous freebies offered from publishers Sourcebooks and Carina Press. ETA: Dead Space (apparently not available to Canadians, and possibly not elsewhere; I thought KDP Select stuff was not supposed to be geo-restricted?), some sort of comedic crime thriller originally published by St. Martin's Press by fellow MR member Lee Goldberg who's probably the only one of us to have the distinction* of having his own dedicated Fandom Wank page, which I freely admit has provided me over the years with a level of entertainment which I sincerely hope his novels can similarly bring. He's got a bunch of them available in the Kindle Lending Library, but at $2.99 a pop regularly, if it turns out you like his writing, you might as well just buy them outright and save your once-a-month borrow for the pricier more dubiously-enjoyable stuff. * And totally not a glorified fanfic writer† despite having authored a whole bunch of Monk TV show spinoff tie-in books, because he got paid for them. Or something. † Not that there's anything wrong with being one. Some of my favourite authors are actually glorified fanfic writers, whom I might not have discovered were it not for that. Last edited by ATDrake; 12-25-2011 at 05:09 AM. Reason: Found another one.