For a very limited time you can get The Middling Affliction ebook FREE and a deeply discounted Kakistocracy ebook directly from my publisher. You can also snag free books by Alan Smale, Richard Sparks, and others, and many discounted titles. Grab yours at this link!
Meanwhile if you’re into audiobooks, all of mine are discounted at Audible at the moment as well. Just plug my name into search to access them at the lowest prices of the year.
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The UFO Publishing warehouse is full! Here’s a photo of many, many books waiting to be adopted into good homes.
With a couple of new releases anticipated for next year we need to make room. And you need an option for holiday shopping that won’t help fund billionaires’ space flights and pet AI projects. So instead, adopt some of our books!
Select any 10 books from the following list (you may select multiple copies of any title unless otherwise stated). We will follow up to get your selections.
Unidentified Funny Objects
Unidentified Funny Objects 2
Unidentified Funny Objects 3
Unidentified Funny Objects 4
Unidentified Funny Objects 5
Unidentified Funny Objects 6
Unidentified Funny Objects 9 HARDCOVER (Limit 1 per bundle)
Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic
Funny Fantasy
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories
H.G. Wells, Secret Agent
Dreidel of Dread: The Very Cthulhu Hanukkah HARDCOVER
The Rosetta Archive
Future Science Fiction Digest (randomly selected issue)
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Cross-posted from the UFO10 Kickstarter campaign update – please support this project here!)
Today is International Translation Day! Celebrate this by watching a dubbed TV show, reading a translated novel, or simply using common expressions such as “ravages of time” which wouldn’t exist were it not for a decision made by a literary translator centuries ago (though few people realize this.)
As a professional translator, sharing works from outside of the Anglosphere is very important to me. For over five years I edited Future Science Fiction Digest which focused on translated stories and other stories written in primarily non-English speaking countries. The archives are still free to read at the above link.
UFO10 will include at least one translation — “Opacity” by Leo Kaganov, which I translated from Russian. Leo’s stories have previously appeared in Clarkesworld and Asimov’s (also in my translation.)
An entire book of short stories I translated (plus one translated by my friend Anatoly Belilovsky) is coming out from Fairwood Press this October! Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K.A. Teryna is fabulous; her stories remind me of Borges, Le Guin, and Link. It’s not a part of this Kickstarter campaign but I encourage you to check it out. You can sample some of the stories online for free, here and here.
Strange Horizons just published a wonderful review of the collection.
The collection can be preordered at the publisher’s website or on Amazon, B&N, and all the usual places.
International Translator Day is also the perfect time to launch the Kickstarter campaign for the full-cast audiobook of Tales of the Wandering Mists by Oleg Veretskiy.
This enchanting children’s book for all ages was written by a Ukrainian author who is currently fighting on the front lines to protect his country. It’s the first book in the trilogy and I really appreciate Pierce Press for working to support him and to bring Ukrianian literature to Anglophone readers. I had the privilege of blurbing this book and this is what I wrote:
“Mists blends the wild imagination of Alice’s journey to Wonderland with the melancholy wisdom of The Little Prince to create an altogether unique narrative.”
The audiobook samples sound fantastic! Please support their campaign here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/piercepress/tales-of-the-wandering-mists-audiobook
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We’re finally back for the tenth volume in the iconic UFO series! It’s been three years since the last volume as I am super overworked but I just couldn’t let the series languish. We got exciting new (and returning) headliners and, as always, will open our doors to newer writers with a submission window once we fund.
Please help spread the word of this campaign far and wide, and consider preordering your copy this way — it’s the most efficient way to help us rather than waiting for the book to become available online and in stores.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10?ref=d7pen6
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I’ll be launching a UFO10 Kickstarter campaign in September! Please follow this link and click Notify me on launch. Even if you do not generally back campaigns on Kickstarter, we’d like as many people to click this as possible to show others that there’s interest in the book and the campaign. So it’s a small way to help that costs you nothing. 🙂
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufopublishing/unidentified-funny-objects-10
I already have a fistful of headliner stories in hand, with more surely to come by the time we launch. Not announcing them yet, but it’s fiction from people you should be very excited to read.
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In January of this year I joined the new and exciting video game studio, Card Advantage Games, as a Narrative Director. I’ve been working with amazingly talented group of people on our first game — a mashup of science fiction, historical fantasy, and our protagonist’s personal growth.
This week we’ve unveiled the game and will show off an early demo at the Seattle Worldcon. We will soon have the demo video available online as well, so those who can’t attend in person are able to check it out. For now, you can visit our website and follow our social media channels.
But that’s not all! We’ve teamed up with some amazing award-winning and best-selling authors to write stories set in the world of Reclusion and produced a collectable hardcover anthology which you can only get your hands on at exclusive CAG appearances, the first of which is Worldcon!
The book includes stories by Esther Friesner, Alan Dean Foster, R.R. Virdi, Julia Vee, and me. Stop by our booth at Worldcon to get your copy, but hurry because we’re sure to run out of the daily allotment quickly.
Not going to Worldcon or missed your chance? No worries–you can get a FREE ebook of the anthology any time. Simply visit our website and join he mailing list. The EPUB file will be automatically sent to you.
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I’m finally–finally!–moving forward with the next installment in the UFO series. Headliner invitations are going out. We plan on having a Kickstarter campaign in October and, contingent on funds raised, an open submissions window in December.
We have a small team of associate editors. If you wish to get involved by helping with any aspect of the project (reading submissions, graphics design, marketing, etc.) please let me know. These are volunteer positions, though all artists and authors contributing work are getting paid. I’ve raised the pay rate to 12 cents per word for this volume.
Stay tuned for one more really exciting anthology announcement from me in August!
Submission guidelines:
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Order Spidersong by clicking here.
I have a new short story collection out today! This little book collects 31 of my flash fiction stories. Many but not all of them were available in my two full-size short story collections, but I thought it was interesting and fun to have a little book just for people who want to read flash, and to gather many previously uncollected stories therein.
I love writing very short stories, and many of mine used to be available online for free. But Daily Science Fiction archive seems to be gone, and Nature put most of their content behind a pay wall, so this is now going to be the best way to access the stories.
I made the book very inexpensive: it’s just $2.99 for the ebook (which is also included in Kindle Unlimited), or $9.99 for the paperback.
This was also the way for me to experiment with smaller size books, perfect for novellas and other shorter projects. This book is 4.25 x 7 inches, which makes it fairly close to the old-school pocket paperbacks no one seems to be printing anymore. Here it is with the “standard” size 5.5 x 8.5 paperback for comparison.
So, please grab a copy for your collection and please leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads as those really help drive confidence and sales. I’d appreciate it!
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Today is the official release date for the Dreidel of Dread board book! It makes a perfect holiday gift for nerds of all ages!
Please grab your copy from any of the links below.
[Direct from UFO Publishing][Amazon] [Walmart] [Ebay]
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The Kickstarter campaign launched this morning and we’re already over 1/5 toward our goal. Don’t miss out on some really exciting rewards, including buttons that are limited to the first 50 backers who pledge for the print book tiers!
Even if this is not a good time for you to be spending on this at the moment, you can help by sharing the campaign with others. Thank you in advance!
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