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ATDrake · 01-11-2016, 04:10 PM

There's some pretty good quality backlist sf/fantasy in Kobo's current Buy 1 Get 1 Free sale in Canada & the US which expires today (Jan 11th), from Diversion Books (all eligible for the extra VIP discount), buried in the Page Turning Fiction listing, many of which follow up on freebies we've previously received from them.

At around the $3 USD mark (before discount; most of the books are at the exact same price so it works out to 50% off if you pair them off favourably, so roughly $2 CAD per after taxes), you can get the 2nd & 3rd of Deborah Chester's (former writing mentor of popular urban fantasy novelist Jim Butcher) Ruby Throne Trilogy, for which we've previously received the 1st in series free. You can also pick up some vintage classic Henry Kuttner (ISFDB, Wikipedia; technically public domain in Life+50 countries, but some obscure stuff handily collected into low-cost packages legally available outside), and the 3rd in Geoffrey Huntington's Ravenscliff YA gothic fantasy trilogy for which we've previously received the 1st & 2nd free.

And if you're willing to spring for a little extra, there's Ursula K. Le Guin's classic The Lathe of Heaven (Wikipedia) and Patricia C. Wrede & Pamela Dean's Points of Departure which collects newly-written short stories in the Liavek shared fantasy universe (Wikipedia), which I'll be picking up myself.

They've also some pretty good backlist mystery if you need cart filler to pair off everything you want, as noted by sufue in the Mystery megathread. We've previously received 1st-in-series Diversion freebies from Candace Robb's Owen Archer historical Welsh & Margaret Kerr historical Scottish and Grant Blackwood's Briggs Tanner novels, as well as standalones from David Dodge & Newton Thornburg, in case you wanted to try their writing first (or you already did and wanted to pick up more and were hoping for the good coupons during the next round of contests).

01-11-2016, 04:10 PM	#21
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	There's some pretty good quality backlist sf/fantasy in Kobo's current Buy 1 Get 1 Free sale in Canada & the US which expires today (Jan 11th), from Diversion Books (all eligible for the extra VIP discount), buried in the Page Turning Fiction listing, many of which follow up on freebies we've previously received from them. At around the $3 USD mark (before discount; most of the books are at the exact same price so it works out to 50% off if you pair them off favourably, so roughly $2 CAD per after taxes), you can get the 2nd & 3rd of Deborah Chester's (former writing mentor of popular urban fantasy novelist Jim Butcher) Ruby Throne Trilogy, for which we've previously received the 1st in series free. You can also pick up some vintage classic Henry Kuttner (ISFDB, Wikipedia; technically public domain in Life+50 countries, but some obscure stuff handily collected into low-cost packages legally available outside), and the 3rd in Geoffrey Huntington's Ravenscliff YA gothic fantasy trilogy for which we've previously received the 1st & 2nd free. And if you're willing to spring for a little extra, there's Ursula K. Le Guin's classic The Lathe of Heaven (Wikipedia) and Patricia C. Wrede & Pamela Dean's Points of Departure which collects newly-written short stories in the Liavek shared fantasy universe (Wikipedia), which I'll be picking up myself. They've also some pretty good backlist mystery if you need cart filler to pair off everything you want, as noted by sufue in the Mystery megathread. We've previously received 1st-in-series Diversion freebies from Candace Robb's Owen Archer historical Welsh & Margaret Kerr historical Scottish and Grant Blackwood's Briggs Tanner novels, as well as standalones from David Dodge & Newton Thornburg, in case you wanted to try their writing first (or you already did and wanted to pick up more and were hoping for the good coupons during the next round of contests).