Happy Black Friday, Book Lovers

Any one of the following deals would have been good enough to post about, but that there are so many has convinced me to take this moment to share. Many of these were originally found through this Google Play page.

The Way of Shadows (The Night Angel Trilogy #1) by Brent Weeks $1.79! (add $2.99 for Audible)

From New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks…

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city’s most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he’s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly – and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins’ world of dangerous politics and strange magics – and cultivate a flair for death.

(I saw this deal on Google Play and Amazon Kindle. Might be elsewhere too.)

George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast … Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire)
For $9.99!

Five books for $10 is a steal. Add that this guy is a master at characterization and scene writing (to name a few of his skills) and I was all over this deal. Anyone familiar with how long a book is based on Kindle locations? A big book has 8k. This book has 84,000. Wow. I can only imagine how long it will take to make 1% progress.

Ender’s Game: 1 (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card for $1.99

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

Ender’s Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

These deals are getting nuts. I don’t have time to format all the pretty covers. Here are links to the rest I’ve seen on Kindle:
The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer) by Brent Weeks $2.49
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson $2.49
The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive, The) by Brandon Sanderson $2.99
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks $2.49
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill $3.29
Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill $2.99
Darth Plagueis: Star Wars by James Luceno $1.99
Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt, Book I: Bk. 1 by R.A. Salvatore $1.99
John Dies at the End by David Wong $1.99
Legend by Marie Lu $2.49
Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher $2.49
The Shining by Stephen King $1.99
A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson $4.29
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn $3.29

Amazon is offering a 30% discount on select paperbacks between now and Dec. 1, so these deals aren’t only for eBook readers. Enter BOOKDEAL at checkout to get your discount.

Timothy W. Long, author of Z-Risen: Outbreak has a list of authors teaming up to offer their zombie books for $.99 today.

ChiZine Publications is having a Black Friday until Sunday. Great books by Nick Mamatas, David Nickle and Paul Tremblay, only $.99!

Black Friday Ebook Sale – 50% Off Angry Robot Ebooks at the Robot Trading Co.

Dark Regions Press is offering Up to 60% off books of horror, fantasy and science fiction in ebook, trade paperback and signed limited edition hardcovers from authors like Ramsey Campbell, Mort Castle, Tom Piccirilli, Rick Hautala, Jeffrey Thomas, W.H. Pugmire, Tim Waggoner, Angeline Hawkes and many more!
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Timothy C. Ward
Executive Producer

Timothy C. Ward has been podcasting since 2010, first as AudioTim, and now with AISFP. His first publication, Cornhusker: Demon Gene (A Short Story), is available on Kindle for $.99. His novel in progress, Kaimerus, is described as “Firefly crashes on Avatar and wakes up 28 Days Later.”

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