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Free Fiction Monday: Kindred Souls
She calls herself Linda, although it’s not her name. She travels from nursing home to nursing home, fixing problems, helping others. Until she meets Eloise Mortimer. Rich, famous Eloise Mortimer. Dying Eloise Mortimer, who fancies herself a latter-day Miss Marple, but who might simply be something much more dangerous. Much more destructive. “Kindred Souls” by Edgar award nominee Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for 99 cents on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other e-bookstores. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: Songbirds
One hunter. One songbird. He must convince her to sing for the king once again. But in so doing, he makes a bargain that could change everything he knows and understands about his world. And his life. And the decision could change the world itself. To sing or not to sing. The price might be too high. On both sides. “Songbirds” by World Fantasy Award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for $2.99 (with a bonus story) from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and in other ebookstores. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: The Observer
They send the best and brightest to war, then observe them when the soldiers return. Only someone else observes too—someone closer to the soldier, someone quite surprising… Published with bonus story “Elites.” “The Observer,” written by Hugo-award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available (with a bonus story) for $2.99 on Kindle, Smashwords, Nook, and in other bookstores. Also available in the collection, Lightspeed Year One, edited by John Joseph Adams, available in trade paper and as an ebook. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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Mid-Month Novel Excerpt: Boneyards
Once per month, I’ll publish an excerpt of one of my novels, and I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to buy the rest of the book. I began this practice in February of 2011. Unlike the free fiction I put up every Monday, the novel excerpts will remain on the site. If you want to read the opening to the previous twelve novels, click here. This month, I’ve excerpted Boneyards, which is the third novel in the Diving series. You don’t have to have read any of the other novels in the series to read this one, but you might enjoy it more if you read the others first. You can read an excerpt from the first novel in the series, Diving Into the Wreck, here. You’ll find ordering information for Boneyards at the end of this post. Here’s the back … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: Cat Nap
Triwell doesn’t adopt strays. He is a stray, a man who has lost everything even though he has a house and an antiquarian bookstore in Seavy Village on the Oregon Coast. The cat adopted him. She’s a mystery, a mystery who lives with him, a mystery he will solve one summer in a surprising—and deadly—way. “Cat Nap” by USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available (with a bonus story) for $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other e-bookstores. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: The Karnikov Card
Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade faces an impossible mission: He must save Celebcon Five from itself. The convention that’s trying to out Comic-con Comic-con has decided to make Dmitri Karnikov its guest of honor. Spade doesn’t want the mega-celebrity anywhere near a science fiction convention. When a celebrity of Karnikov’s wattage agrees to attend, something’s wrong. Then Spade’s mysterious friend Paladin reveals the secret to Karnikov’s attendance, and Spade must act quickly—or Celebcon Five might become a crime scene of the worst possible kind. “The Karnikov Card” by Shamus Award nominee Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other e-bookstores. If you like “The Karnikov Card,” you might like the first Spade/Paladin adventure, “The Case of the Vanishing Boy” (Kindle, Nook, Smashwords), and … Read entire article »
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Free Fiction Monday: E-Male
Gavin spends his morning reading the email of his ex-girlfriend, Stella. He has a restraining order, so he can’t approach her. The email has to do. Until it stops. Until Stella disappears from the world. Gavin thinks he knows what happened to her, but how can he help her? He’s not a hero—or is he? “E-Male” by Edgar-nominee Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for $1.99 on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and in other e-bookstores. The free story will only be available for one week. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around this site. Track it down, read, and enjoy. Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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More Free Fiction: Craters in Lightspeed
Oh, I just love the puns I can make with the name of this magazine. Lightspeed is wonderful, in case you haven’t been reading it. And my story, “Craters,” is available on the site for free this week. If you want to read the entire Issue (which I would suggest), you can order it on the site itself. Or you can simply read the story for free by clicking this link. Enjoy! Tweet This Post … Read entire article »
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