In celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary, for today only on Canada Day, Canadian small press specialty publisher
ChiZine Publications is holding a giveaway of all their ebooks from their Canadian authors for free (modest pay-what-you-want donation suggested). Here's the
dedicated promo page and their
blog announcement for it.
Their catalogue includes many award-nominated and -winning genre authors, both local and international. Although the bulk of it is tilted towards horror, there's also a generous selection of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal mystery, and even some sfnal speculative punk and literary fiction and poetry in the lot.
Overall, the selection is quite high quality (and you shouldn't miss picking up the offered
Imaginarium anthology volumes of yearly best-of feature short stories) and anything you pick up will likely be pretty decent (click on the covers to go to the descriptions of the books). Some of the download file sizes (combined ePub/Mobi/PDF in zip) are very large, so be warned. Everything seems to be sorted by publication date and I had to scroll for a while to find stuff I didn't already own.
I especially recommend out of the authors I've previously purchased (for sf/fantasy; I don't really read horror, although their selection for that is supposed to be very good indeed): Quebec author Claude Lalumière (excellent multi-genre short stories), Caitlin Sweet (some traditionally epic fantasy, others mythology-based), Gemma Files (steampunk magical western with LGBT elements, also horror shorts), Nancy Baker (paranormal dark fantasy with legendary creatures), Geoff Ryman (Hugo nominee for science fiction, but he has a fantasy novel in this), Quebec author Yves Meynard (Aurora Award-winner with quite good multi-genre short stories).
Also, French publisher Bragelonne has extended their GrosseOP sale for over 500 books at just €0.99/$1.99 CAD at multiple international retailers (with extra 5x Bonus Points promotion at Kobo CA where they are sold DRM-free) through the end of Sunday, July 2nd (probably European time even in Canada, where Kobo sometimes expires sales early). Their sfnal offerings, which are probably roughly 70% of the whole, read like a who's who list of Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire alumni (
Wikipedia), and they've an extensive selection of bestselling translated authors as well. ETA:
Chapitre.com's sale listings for the event &
Kobo CA dedicated promo page.