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Old 11-01-2015, 02:34 PM   #141
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StoryBundle has a few new offerings:

The Dark Justice Bundle curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (ISFDB, Wikipedia) contains a mix of mysteries by established and new authors, including at the top-tier a collection of short stories by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block (SYKM, Wikipedia).

$5 minimum gets you 5 novels, including an Anthony Award-finalist 2002 1st-in-series novel by fellow MR member author Libby Fischer Hellman (SYKM). Two of the other novels, A Fatal Twist of Lemon, and Code Blues have previously been offered free in various venues. FWIW, I mildly liked Code Blues when I read it after that Kobo promotion and would consider picking up further volumes in the series on deep-discount sale, since they did seem to improve quite a bit as they went along.

$15 top-tier adds 4 novels + 1 collection, including recently-written works by multiple award-winner Rebecca Cantrell (SYKM, Wikipedia) and multiple award-winner Julie Hyzy (SYKM, Wikipedia), an offering by Rusch under her penname of Kris Nelscott, etc.

The 2015 NaNoWriMo Writing Tools Bundle contains Exactly What It Says In The Title. This is an unusual triple-tiered bundle, since the top-tier price will net you the complete contents of last year's 2014 NaNoWriMo bundle as well. The books give you practical advice on storytelling, worldbuilding, and professional considerations.

$5 minimum gets you 6 advice books, mostly about storytelling and worldbuilding, from authors including the late science fiction great Algis Budrys (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a long-time instructor at the Clarion Workshop which produced such writers as Ted Chiang and many other notables in the field.

$15 bonus tier gets you an additional 7 books with some practical pitching & marketing advice from authors such as successful Star Wars tie-in authors David Farland aka Dave Wolverton (ISFDB, Wikipedia) and Kevin J. Anderson, and others.

$25 bonus tier adds the 12 additional books that were featured in the 2014 bundle, including an anthology featuring both the stories written by, and notes about the making of, award-winning sfnal authors such as Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal, et al.

NB: A number of the titles in the 2015 set have been previously offered in other recent StoryBundle author writing advice collections, so if you think you might have gotten one of those, you should probably check your archive to see if this new bundle is cost-effective for you.

Also, a reminder that their Monsters Bundle ends in a few days, if you haven't already, and think you might be interested.

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