The new Wildside Press freebie for this Tuesday is:
The Melba Marlett Minipack™ featuring vintage short mystery and literary stories by the late Melba Marlett (
biographical obituary at Alliance High School).
Melba Marlett (1909-1994) is an unjustly obscure mystery novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist. I am pleased to have acquired the rights to all of her works for Wildside Press; we will be bringing them back into print over the next year.
In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here is a Melba Marlett collection presenting one of her best-known short stories: “The Second Mrs. Porter” (originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Msytery Magazine in 1986) and a mainstream story, “White Peacocks” (originally published in Ladies’ Home Journal in 1959). Also included are 2 bios written by Melba Marlett at different stages of her career.
Enjoy!
StoryBundle has a new offering for the next two weeks, which is a very nice one indeed for:
The New Worlds Bundle curated by Steven Savile, featuring a very substantial selection of complete trilogies and other short series featuring newer and backlist works by authors including Craig Shaw Gardner (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), Jody Lynn Nye (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), Melissa Scott (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), and Bradley P. Beaulieu (
ISFDB), which were originally printed by Baen, Ace, Night Shade, and Warner's old Questar imprint, and many more.
At the $7 minimum level, you get 12 books, including Bradley P. Beaulieu's The Lays of Anuskaya trilogy (which you may have already picked up the first two of as bonuses from
his Kickstarter a few years ago) which were out from Night Shade Books, and #1-3 of Jody Lynn Nye's Mythology comedic fantasy series out from Questar.
At the $15 top tier level, you get 18 more books, including Melissa Scott's Baen-published Silence Leigh LGBT sci-fantasy hybrid space opera series, which IIRC fellow MR member DMcCunney
once recommended to me, so it'll be nice to finally check these out, and Craig Shaw Gardner's Ebenezum Trilogy, which I picked up as paperbacks from the used bookshop and quite enjoy as a pleasantly light-hearted silly parodic fantasy romp.
This is actually very good value for money just for the backlist stuff which I recognize, and there's over a dozen more new books by newer authors to be introduced to as well, so this is an auto-buy for me.
Also, a reminder that the
Humble Book Bundle Learn Raspberry Pi + Arduino presented by Make, chock-full of books for the aspiring home robotics programmer, expires tomorrow on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific Time.