A bundle of stories

blairmacg introduced me to StoryBundle, a site that puts together groupings of indie-published books on different themes, and invited me to be part of a bundle. And that bundle is available today.

Here are all the beautiful covers:



With StoryBundle, you can choose how much you want to pay for an initial bundle of four ebooks. The minimum price is $3.00, but you can pay more if you want (if you bought each book individually, the cost would be between $12 and $20). If you pay more than $12, you get an additional four books. The idea is to expose readers to a variety of high-quality indie fantasy that they might not find otherwise, since self-publishers and micro presses don't have large marketing budgets.

Here are the first four books:

The Winds of Khalakovo (Bradley P. Beaulieu)
Pen Pal (me)
The Five Elements (Scott Marlowe)
Lhind the Thief (Sherwood Smith)

Here are the second four:

Sand of Bone (Blair MacGregor)
The King's Sword (C.J. Brightley)
Arrows of the Sun (Judith Tarr)
The Worth of a Shell (M.C.A. Hogarth)

And here is the link: Fantasy StoryBundle

You all know about Pen Pal, but let me call your attention to sartorias's book, Lhind the Thief, which I'm reading now, and which is *excellent*. I'll be doing an interview with her about it in the upcoming days. And in the bonus category is blairmacg's Sand of Bone, which has an awesome review by sartorias and which I've just started. And while I haven't yet read haikujaguar's The Worth of a Shell, I read and really enjoyed three short stories in the same world, which were published in Strange Horizons (links here, here, and here).

Judith Tarr (who is dancinghorse on LJ) I know of from Book View Cafe; her Living in Threes is on my to-read list, so I'll be glad to try this new title as well. And the remaining titles are equally intriguing.

There's more information at the StoryBundle site, so check it out if you're curious, and spread the word!