Fictionwise Code 55% - valid to 05/14/12

[DuskyRose]

Originally Posted by greenapple

Do fictionwise mail out this coupon code to subscribers? I don't receive any promo email from fictionwise anymore. The last promo code I received was for 60% 3 weeks back (or was it 4 weeks?).

Did I do anything wrong?

I've had an account for several years, and was a member of their rewards program. I used to get emails, but haven't gotten one in several years, even though I still buy from them now and again.

I think their email support is hit-or-miss. I'd even sent them a couple of emails (or submitted to the web site, can't remember which) a couple of years back about not getting notifications, but never got a response.

I have to watch for coupons here.

[greenapple]

The only reason I could think of for not receiving promo email from FW is that during the last 60% discount promotion, I finally used up all my micropay credit.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by greenapple

Do fictionwise mail out this coupon code to subscribers? I don't receive any promo email from fictionwise anymore. The last promo code I received was for 60% 3 weeks back (or was it 4 weeks?).

Did I do anything wrong?

I haven't seen an email from them for a year or two.

Originally Posted by greenapple

The only reason I could think of for not receiving promo email from FW is that during the last 60% discount promotion, I finally used up all my micropay credit.

Maybe, I haven't had an MicroPay since shortly after they discontinued the program.

[Blue Tyson]

Originally Posted by greenapple

The only reason I could think of for not receiving promo email from FW is that during the last 60% discount promotion, I finally used up all my micropay credit.

I'd been signed up for years, even went and checked last year that everything still ok - haven't seen an email from them for years as far as the promo stuff goes.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by DuskyRose

I think their email support is hit-or-miss. I'd even sent them a couple of emails (or submitted to the web site, can't remember which) a couple of years back about not getting notifications, but never got a response.

I have to watch for coupons here.

Very hit-and-miss. I sometimes get the coupon codes, and sometimes don't. So I too watch MR for codes.

And, I also sent their customer support a message about not getting the e-mails, with no response. Sigh - they used to be so good.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Thanks for the recommendations; I bought the 10 "Gideon Oliver" books by Aaron Elkins; with the voucher code they were $1.80 each, which is a bargain.

Elkins' Gideon Oliver books are great, and I also like his Chris Norgren books about an art curator in Seattle. The setting and field are different, but there is the same sort of logical thinking in the mysteries. If I didn't already have them, I would have bought them

Although you asked about SF, you bought mysteries , so here are a few more mainstream (older, but previously published by a major publisher) mystery series that still exist at FW (some DRM, some not):

Nancy Herndon (pen name for Nancy Fairbanks) – several books in the Elena Jarvis series – a police officer in a town which looks to me to be a thinly disguised El Paso

Gillian Roberts – the first two Amanda Pepper (schoolteacher in Philadelphia) – hopefully more will appear in discountable ebook if Ms. Roberts has had the rights to more early ones revert, which is why I presume the first two are available here

Lora Roberts – Liz Sullivan, a writer in Palo Alto or thereabouts

Ted Wood – series with Reid Bennett – a police chief of a tiny town in Canada

Helen Chappell – a cozy ghost-based mystery series, set in (on?) the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but from before the recent paranormal craze, and well done IMO

Colin Cotterill – first couple in the Siri Paiboun series, set in Laos

Magdalen Nabb – the “Marshal” books set in Florence

[TheLongshot]

I still sadly stare at all of those Microsoft Reader books in my library that I can no longer download...

For me, it is pretty safe to stick with back issues of Analog. I'm still catching up.