This is very fortuitously timed as just last week I got around to reading some of the George Alec Effinger I'd been buying last year when it was new release 15% off + 50% or greater coupon.
I'd been mainly going on his reputation and association with Barbara Hambly, one of my favourite authors, and the fact that I really liked his
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson short stories but otherwise had not read and decided after finally doing so that I liked his work enough that I wanted to read more and buy the lot when the next 60% coupon appeared.
And lo and behold, it has! Thanks to the OP for sharing.
Preliminary purchases below. I mainly just picked up the interesting-looking new release stuff which will probably never be cheaper and the things which I'd already determined last year from having sampled early-in-series that I did in fact want to get the rest.
I'll do the next round of "early-in-series" sample-volume getting and continuing-series-fills once the next batch of new releases are out tomorrow.
I freely admit I got some of the "Ravenous Romance" books, especially that "Virgin Billionaire" thing, almost purely for the lulz.
Apparently there's an entire series of those which are soap-opera-plotted like a line-up of classic Harlequin clichés (time-travel! evil twin! secret baby! Amish escapades! "sexcellent" adventures!), complete with the appropriate type of
ADJECTIVE-NOUN-POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE-NOUN title, only all happening to the same m/m couple in an LGBT milieu.
I sincerely hope that it is both well written and cracktastic enough to pick up the rest of the set for the lulz during a future FW extreme-discount coupon sale. And possibly also the same author's gay porno parody mashup of
Pygmalion and
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil because I'm now kind of morbidly curious about that.