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Because I know some of y’all got e-readers for Christmas

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Yesterday ended with a massive allergy attack– fun!– so I’m kinda lethargic today.  But not too lethargic to pimp my books:

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Both of these are links to PayHip, which means that the money goes directly to me without any intermediary other than hosting fees. Benevolence Archives is listed as “Free+,” meaning you can have it for free or you can pay what you like. The books are available as ePub files. If you’d prefer to buy from Amazon, you can get Benevolence Archives for $2.99 here, and Skylights for $4.99 here.

(And, while I’m at it, a reminder that I’m also published in the 2014 World Unknown Review, available for a mere ninety-nine of your Americapennies from Amazon here.)

Descriptions follow:

The Benevolence Archives:  Troll evictions! Dwarf pirates! Daring rescues! Angry gods! Impossible technology! Oversized bars! Pissed-off ogres! Disrespectful spaceships! All this and a mild disregard for proper wound treatment!

THE BENEVOLENCE ARCHIVES, VOL. 1 is a novella-length collection of six short stories set in a common universe. Combining elements of space opera-style science fiction and high fantasy, THE BENEVOLENCE ARCHIVES tell the adventures of Brazel, Rhundi, and Grond, a gnome/halfogre team of smugglers.

THE PLANET IT’S FARTHEST FROM: A simple job in a saloon goes poorly for Brazel.
THE CLOSET: Brazel and Grond are hired to teach someone why gambling can be a bad idea.
YANK: Dwarven pirates. ‘Nuff said.
REMEMBER: Brazel and Grond are hired by one of the galaxy’s most powerful people for a suspiciously easy job.
THE CONTRACT: Rhundi tries to get through a simple business negotiation without anyone being shot.
THE SIGIL: Brazel and Grond encounter something horrifying on a frozen rock in the middle of nowhere.

SKYLIGHTS:  August 15, 2022: the Tycho, the most advanced interplanetary craft ever designed by the human race, launches from Earth on an expedition to Mars. The Tycho carries four passengers, soon to be the most famous people in human history.

February 19, 2023: The Tycho loses all communication with Earth while orbiting Mars. After weeks of determined attempts to reestablish contact, the Tycho is declared lost.

2027: Journalist Gabriel Southern receives a message from a mysterious caller: “Mars.” Ezekiel ben Zahav isn’t talking, but he wants Southern to accompany him for something– and he’s dangling enough money under his nose to make any amount of hardship worth it.

SKYLIGHTS is the story of the second human expedition to Mars, sent to find out what happened to the first.

Good news!

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I’m meeting with terrifying federal compliance-type people today, so send some good thoughts my way and go read this new review of Skylights.  People like this book!

SKYLIGHTS gets a well-timed new #review

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…and once again, I’m finding that my four-star reviewers tend to seem like they liked the book more than my five-star reviews.  Have I mentioned Skylights is on sale?  Check out the review and the book here.

Luther Siler Thanksgiving Weekend Sale: LIVE!

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(NOTE:  I’m leaving this pinned to the top of the page during the sale.  Scroll down a touch for new posts.)

Starting NOW RIGHT NOW and going until I get bored with it, the following AMAZING DEALS are available to you:

At Amazon:

At Smashwords:

  • The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 is… free.  Still.  And you should really be getting it from Smashwords and not from Amazon, unless you really really want to send me money or you’re not sure how to load files onto your Kindle.  You can download the Kindle version of the file from Smashwords, remember.
  • Skylights has set-your-own pricing.  Which means that you can have it for a penny if you want.  You can have it for nothing if you want.  Or if you’ve been reading me for a long time and you have way more money than you know what to do with you can pay a thousand dollars for it.  I will cheerfully take any percentage of All Your Money, from 0 to 100.  It’s up to you!

I have a brief Thanksgiving post that is planned but not yet written; other than that and a reminder or two of the sale, expect tomorrow to be quiet.  Enjoy your holiday, folks.

SKYLIGHTS out now!! Who wants to go to Mars?

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Final Cover Mock MedAugust 15, 2022: the Tycho, the most advanced interplanetary craft ever designed by the human race, launches from Earth on an expedition to Mars. The Tycho carries four passengers, soon to be the most famous people in human history. 

February 19, 2023: The Tycho loses all communication with Earth while orbiting Mars. After weeks of determined attempts to reestablish contact, the Tycho is declared lost. 

2027: Journalist Gabriel Southern receives a message from a mysterious caller: “Mars.” Ezekiel ben Zahav isn’t talking, but he wants Southern to accompany him for something– and he’s dangling enough money under his nose to make any amount of hardship worth it.  

SKYLIGHTS is the story of the second human expedition to Mars.  Their mission: to find out what happened to the first.

You can purchase SKYLIGHTS for only $4.99 at Amazon.com here and at Smashwords.com in a variety of formats here.  Remember, you don’t actually have to have a Kindle to read it– apps are available for smartphones, tablets, and computers.

In which awesome things are awesome

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The most excellent D. Emery Bunn took an ereader along with him on a plane ride and this happened.  An excerpt:

I was too busy chuckling to myself and thinking “I hope he keeps this up, I need more Douglas Adams style humor in the books I read.” And then it was over. Scumbag short story collection, cutting off and making me want to read the next thing. You hear that, Luther? Write and publish the next one already, before I force you to read it to me personally.

Want a way to guarantee it’s gonna be a good day?  Get compared to Douglas fucking Adams.  Wheee!  Reviews with threats in them are the best kind!

Give in to inevitability, join the kool kidz, and download The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 from the retailer of your choice.  99 cents!:

THE BENEVOLENCE ARCHIVES now only $0.99!

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The announcement’s right there in the title, but let’s put it here too– now that I’ve pulled The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 from Amazon’s KDP Select program, I’ve dropped the price to only ninety-nine cents, which is so cheap it’s practically free.  Just not actually free.

In addition, very soon the book will be available everywhere— I have some reformatting stuff I have to do tonight to comply with Smashwords, but I think that by the end of the weekend you will be able to download it through virtually any ebook service anywhere.  The Smashwords version is available now, but I’m not going to link to it yet because of the aforementioned formatting errors.  If you want some other version, hold off until I let you know everything’s working okay.

But:  99 cents!  Let’s sell some books, eh?

Author nerd post!

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bacover3dSo this has happened– Amazon has introduced a new program called “Kindle Unlimited,” where for a flat fee of $9.99 a month you can download and read as many books as you want on your Kindle and keep them for as long as you’d like, so long as you keep paying the $9.99 a month.

I’m not sure what kind of deal they worked out with the actual publishing companies, but apparently us lowly independent folk get paid the same way we did for the Kindle Lending Library– if you’re enrolled in Kindle Select, you’re in, and you get a portion of the money they set aside for KS people every month each time your book gets borrowed.  Which, I should point out, isn’t a bad deal at all, or at least it doesn’t sound like one on paper.

Except:

The Benevolence Archives has moved nearly 500 copies– significantly more as a free book than paid, but that’s still not nothing– and has never once been downloaded by someone on the lending library.  So this is not really a thing that appeals to me as an author, although as a reader I’m thinking about checking it out.

Here’s the interesting thing, though: since they’ve altered the terms of the Kindle Select deal by creating this program, they’re allowing anyone currently involved in Kindle Select to remove their book from the program even if they’re not through with their 90 days yet.  Mine don’t run out for a few more weeks, but I’d already decided that I didn’t see the advantage of the program, so I’m gonna pull it early.  Which means that 1) I can make it available at the various other online services (Barnes and Noble! Smashwords! Apple!) and 2) I have a bit more flexibility about price.

I’ll let y’all know what ends up happening with that as soon as it’s happened.