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ATDrake · 12-26-2014, 03:16 PM

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlepig by Tad Williams (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a festive novella that's chronologically 4th in his Bobby Dollar series of angels-and-demons urban fantasy novels currently out from DAW.

"Oh, ho, ho!" the demon Chickenleg said, sounding like your drunk uncle trying to get you to laugh at a dirty joke. "Oh, ho! You'll love this one, Dollar!"

Bobby Dollar, Advocate Angel and perpetual thorn in the side of Heaven, is about to save the holidays for a very special someone. Or somewolf. Or maybe even some pig… Bobby is summoned on Christmas Eve to do his part in the heavenly judgement of a man who is not prepared to go lightly. You see, the family of the gentleman in question are victims of Nazi war crimes, and the crimes are still occurring — in fact, the worst is yet to come. With special dispensation from an Angelic Judge named Ambriel, Bobby Dollar has until Christmas Morning to right some serious wrongs and bring some justice (and a little seasonal cheer) into a rotten world…

Also, Book View Café is having a Boxing Week Sale with 50% off selected titles viewable on their dedicated sale page here, no coupons required, auto-discount in checkout.

NB: a few of the books have been cheaper than 50% off as part of various Monthly Specials, especially recently with Irene Radford's Steampunk Voyages collection, which was just 99 cents as part of the December specials which would have lasted until the end of the month, had this sale pre-empted not pre-empted the originally intended bargain price to the more expensive $1.99 this very morning, when I finally remembered to check that I didn't have it already* before going to buy it, which is how I found out about the current sale.

So if there's anything you don't urgently need from authors who regularly rotate their sale offerings, you'd probably get much better prices eventually by holding out and waiting, which is what I mostly intend to do. Or via Kobo, where they're couponable if you've managed to score the good coupons and don't have anything costlier you want to use them upon.

That said, a few BVC authors very rarely participate in sales at all, and you can get some good bargains from authors like Judith Tarr and Ursula K. Le Guin. I myself will be picking up Music and Poetry of the Kesh, which is the multimedia tie-in to her future post-apocalyptic anthropology survey novel Always Coming Home (Wikipedia), which is one of my personal favourites and some excellently-imaginative world-building.

* This is why I don't like their newer account-less checkout procedure which only gives you one format and re-downloads via a link in your email and doesn't keep track of your previous purchases, unlike the old account-based multi-format readily redownloadable system on the old site.

12-26-2014, 03:16 PM	#397
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 from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlepig by Tad Williams (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a festive novella that's chronologically 4th in his Bobby Dollar series of angels-and-demons urban fantasy novels currently out from DAW. "Oh, ho, ho!" the demon Chickenleg said, sounding like your drunk uncle trying to get you to laugh at a dirty joke. "Oh, ho! You'll love this one, Dollar!" Bobby Dollar, Advocate Angel and perpetual thorn in the side of Heaven, is about to save the holidays for a very special someone. Or somewolf. Or maybe even some pig… Bobby is summoned on Christmas Eve to do his part in the heavenly judgement of a man who is not prepared to go lightly. You see, the family of the gentleman in question are victims of Nazi war crimes, and the crimes are still occurring — in fact, the worst is yet to come. With special dispensation from an Angelic Judge named Ambriel, Bobby Dollar has until Christmas Morning to right some serious wrongs and bring some justice (and a little seasonal cheer) into a rotten world… Also, Book View Café is having a Boxing Week Sale with 50% off selected titles viewable on their dedicated sale page here, no coupons required, auto-discount in checkout. NB: a few of the books have been cheaper than 50% off as part of various Monthly Specials, especially recently with Irene Radford's Steampunk Voyages collection, which was just 99 cents as part of the December specials which would have lasted until the end of the month, had this sale pre-empted not pre-empted the originally intended bargain price to the more expensive $1.99 this very morning, when I finally remembered to check that I didn't have it already* before going to buy it, which is how I found out about the current sale. So if there's anything you don't urgently need from authors who regularly rotate their sale offerings, you'd probably get much better prices eventually by holding out and waiting, which is what I mostly intend to do. Or via Kobo, where they're couponable if you've managed to score the good coupons and don't have anything costlier you want to use them upon. That said, a few BVC authors very rarely participate in sales at all, and you can get some good bargains from authors like Judith Tarr and Ursula K. Le Guin. I myself will be picking up Music and Poetry of the Kesh, which is the multimedia tie-in to her future post-apocalyptic anthropology survey novel Always Coming Home (Wikipedia), which is one of my personal favourites and some excellently-imaginative world-building. * This is why I don't like their newer account-less checkout procedure which only gives you one format and re-downloads via a link in your email and doesn't keep track of your previous purchases, unlike the old account-based multi-format readily redownloadable system on the old site.