Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Paul Ketchum for scoring a copy of Couch by Benjamin Parzybok.
This week, we are giving away a copy of The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum. The Ant King and Other Stories is a dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children’s collective goes house hunting. (Ed. Note: also one of my favorite books. The book is CC-licensed so you can also read the book for free online. I definitely recommend giving “The Orange” and “Other Cities” a read. Actually, you know what, just read the whole thing.)
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Small Beer Press. Gavin Grant and Kelly Link started Small Beer Press in 2000, after putting out a do-it-yourself zine, and working for years in independent bookstores, in order to publish the kind of books they loved handselling. Small Beer Press publishes literary fiction, innovative fantastic fiction, and classic authors whom you just may have missed the first time around. In their catalog, you’ll find first novels, collections both satisfying and surreal, critically acclaimed, award-winning writers, and exciting talents whose names you may never have heard, but whose work you’ll never be able to forget. Joan Aiken, John Crowley, Carol Emshwiller, Angelica Gorodischer, Naomi Mitchinson, and Sean Stewart are among the names on Small Beer Press’ growing list of innovators.
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, October 30. The winner must provide his/her mailing address via email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
Congrats to GINNY MARTYN for winning this week! If you feel awkward about not snagging this book, then try winning some Awkward One by Awkward Press (heh heh heh).
