I recently enjoyed a pair of novellas by Masto author @CaraBruar — lowkey, straightforward fantasy with neat worldbuilding and no-nonsense older (sometimes *much* older 😊) female leads. They’re set in the same world but hundreds of years apart, so the orders not so important.

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#Today (March 3) begins the Smashwords ebook sale. You’ll find lots of indie authors there, including me. 😀 My books are all 50% off this week. It’s a great time to start a new series, whether mine or another.

Go here to browse or search:
https://smashwords.com/shelves/promos

The vendor link under each book on my site will take you to its Smashwords page.
Woodspell series: https://crcollins.org/books/
Tales of Ardonna: https://crcollins.org/tales-of-ardonna/

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The Smashwords Read-an-Ebook sale has started — which is very convenient timing for anyone maybe looking around for alternatives to Amazon right now.

There’s heaps of DRM-free indie books on sale or even free for the next week:
https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos

Mine are here, all 50% off (making them the massive investment of US$2 to try out) for escapist queer romantic fantasy fun:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
All proceeds to Ukraine 🇺🇦
Content warnings on my website: https://wendypalmer.au/content-warnings/

There’ll be plenty of other #MastoAuthors on sale there too (feel free to tag yourselves).

Give it a browse, you might discover your next favourite writer

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#Wordweavers Aug 5 #IndieAuthors recommendations

I tend to count an author as indie if they’re self-pubbed, extra-small press, not a “TikTok made me buy it sensation!!!!!!”, and/or if they don’t show up at my bookstore/library and I get side-eyed for requesting them.

Sometimes I think an author is indie, and then I go check and they’re a NYT bestselling author and have thousands of reviews, so I’m no real judge 🤷‍♀️

But by that accounting, my original indie favourites (KJ Charles, Alexis Hall, TJ Klune, T Kingfisher) have all crossed into wider audiences to varying degrees, so I obviously have impeccable taste, and also a burnt mouth*.

These days, with the caveat that I don’t read Amazon-only books, hesitate to start series that are already longer than a trilogy, and generally don’t like YA, contemporary, paranormal, dark, or horror (all of which probably wipes out 90% of indie authors for me 😂), and have a very long TBR list with more indies to try, I am liking:

AJ Demas/Alice Degan, KL Noone, Lisa Henry, Felicia Davin, EH Lupton; and outside that loose category of queer light romantic fantasy, Neve Maslakovik and Julie Bihn (the last four names being #MastoAuthors)

Also, my Kobo Plus reading tends towards the indies, and K+ unlike KU lets authors go wide so you can find them at your preferred provider:

https://wendypalmer.au/tag/koboplus/

*you know, because I ate my pizza before it was cool 😎 😉

I promised myself I would celebrate a little more when I publish a book, so for my latest release, I ordered a bookmark with my cover on it (well, it’s DL sized, so about twice as wide as a bookmark should be).

On the back I put a picture from Pixabay which reminded me of one of my main characters - small, cute, innocent-looking…but also looking quite determined, if not defiant, about something (pretty sure it’s AI, so I’d never use it for anything but this sort of personal use).

And it arrived today (well, actually 10 arrived today, I guess that’s the real minimum order), I love the way it turned out, and it gives me quiet pleasure whenever I see it.

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#KoboPlus subscribers: here, in no particular order, are a few #MastoAuthors I’ve enjoyed on my Kobo Plus subscription, you could maybe check them out some time:

George Penney & Tony Johnson (Overlondon)

Neve Maslakovic (All the Whys of Delilah’s Demise)

E.H Lupton (Dionysus in Wisconsin)

Elliott Hay (A Little Murder Between Friends)

Hannah Steenbock (series)

C.R. Collins (series)

Sandra Schwab (The Gladiator’s Passion)

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Would any fellow subscribers like to add recommendations?

Hope springs eternal!

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