Felony & Mayhem Press, who have the rights to an eclectic collection of authors/books, have just sent me an email announcing 30% off of all of their ebook titles. Unfortunately, some of their better/more interesting titles, they don't seem to have rights to the ebooks, so are only in paper; and also their ebooks tend to be in the $9.99 range, so are still pretty pricey, even with the 30% off. But if you've been wanting some particular book or books of theirs for a while, 30% off is better than nothing off. And the eclectic collection does include some pretty good authors IMO: Patricia Moyes (maybe in my top five, definitely in my top ten), Simon Brett's Blotto & Twinks series (maybe top ten, definitely top twenty), Ngaio Marsh (somewhere up there too), Tony Cape, Caroline Graham, Elizabeth Daly, and some others...
Info is here, from the email:
Spoiler:
Quote:
Dear Felonious Friends,
First, like many of you, I suspect, I’ve been getting emails over the past few weeks from every business that has ever sold me anything. These are terrible, scary times, the emails say, and it’s important to wash your hands. These are terrible, scary times, and we should all be scrubbing up like Lady Macbeth, but I don’t need to hear it from the company that sells me cat kibble, and you don’t need to hear it from me. With that in mind...
The short version of today’s email: We are offering a 30% discount on our ebook titles, every single one.
The long version: As some of you know, for many years I owned a bookstore, less than a mile north of the World Trade Center. On September 12, 2001, my partner and I met in the basement. Our plan was to load up all the napkins and bottles of soda and bags of chips left over from years of bookstore parties and haul them over to the local hospital serving as a supply depot for people working at the site. Opening the store was not even remotely on our agenda. After all, we agreed, who would possibly want to buy mystery books at a dreadful time like this?
Our customers, as it turned out. They showed up in droves, knocking diffidently on the front door and piling their picks by the cash register in teetering heaps. A number of them were embarrassed to be buying books, especially in such quantity, but they shouldn’t have been. They showed us what we should have known all along: For many of our customers, for many passionate readers, and heck, for us, too, books are the drug of choice. They are what we run to when reality is more than we can cope with.
In fact, we did land-office business all throughout that hideous September, as one client after another showed up needing to escape to…somewhere else. It’s that escape we’d hope to offer you today. In 2001, our customers seemed to want a very particular sort of escape, and we’re working on putting together some Get Me Outta Here bundles of books, possibly even in the print we know you love. But for now, please enjoy the discount, please wash your hands like you just murdered Duncan, and please say hello to our Marketing Intern. His name is Melvin, and I have to tell you, he doesn’t look particularly useful, but right now he’s saving my sanity.
{Melvin says, “Discount is applied automatically in the cart, yawn...”}
See you—and we WILL see you!—in the stacks,
Editrix
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And a link to their website:
https://felonyandmayhem.com/