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Free Book Friday: Awkward One

JK Evanczuk / Friday, October 30, 2009 View Comments

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 Ginny Martyn for scoring a copy of The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum.

Awkward One by Awkward Press

This week, we are giving away a copy of Awkward One by Awkward Press. Be prepared to tumble headfirst into a collection of five imaginative fiction pieces by Clay McLeod Chapman, Jeffrey Dinsmore, Kyle Jarrow, Honor Rovai, and Michael Cipra. During your trip through the salty brambles of Awkward One, you’ll meet such characters as: Mrs. Havermeyer, a woman whose son gets up to some very naughty business; Beatrice Throop, a girl on the verge of womanhood whose mother suffers from a thoroughly obnoxious malady; James Fitzgerald, a young man with a knack for turning trash into art; Jeff and Janie, a honeymooning couple who are about to experience a profound shift in consciousness; and Caroline, a grieving mother with a deadly secret.

This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Awkward Press. Awkward Press was founded in 2009 with one simple goal: to print imaginative fiction by incredible writers at an affordable price. The oft-repeated credo “write what you know” has given us a world of literature where we already know everything we read. Awkward Press believes in writing what we don’t know. As the major publishing houses latch onto flavor-of-the-month trends in search of the next blockbuster, readers must turn to smaller houses to find writing that’s risky, original, and alive. And that’s what Awkward Press is all about—bringing a sense of adventure back to reading. Exploring the fringes of literature. And selling their releases for less than the cost of a movie ticket.

To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is comment in the space below or send an email directly to contact@litdrift.com. Make sure to tell us your email address so we can contact you if you win! We also recommend doing any or all of the following:

  • Reading Awkward Press’ blog
  • Signing up for Awkward Press’ mailing list
  • Following Awkward Press on Twitter
  • Becoming our friend on Twitter, Facebook, and/or StumbleUpon
  • Tweeting about this week’s giveaway
  • Signing up for our newsletter
  • Translating War and Peace into emoticons

Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, November 6. The winner must provide his/her mailing address via email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.

Good luck!

Congratulations to BRANDON TRUETT for winning this week! Try your luck again with the New York Writers Coalition’s The Hidden Chorus.

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  • http://henrypowderly.com Henry E. Powderly II

    Though the emoticon challenge looks like a blast, I’ll stick with, “Hi friend.”

  • Eric Silver

    Awkwardness? I’m in!

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  • http://wisb.blogspot.com/ SMD

    Well, I’m strangely intrigued. Sounds interesting!

    Thanks for the opportunity,
    Shaun

  • http://entomologyofabookworm.blogspot.com Kerry

    “Imaginative fiction by incredible writers”? Count me in!

  • pearl

    Thanks for this great feature. It is intriguing.

  • http://TheGreatAmerican Florine

    Always love a great deal, this is a great offer.

  • http://TheGreatAmerican Florine

    Always love a great deal, can’t get much better than this.

  • Nicole

    Would love to have it!

  • http://semanticpressnj.wordpress.com Catie

    Awkwardness is awesome, the word itself is awkward! A great name for a press : )

  • http://magnelephant.blogspot.com Chris

    “.Yes, erm, please, maybe, you could, possibly, if you don’t mind, enter me into your contest thing,” he said, awkwardly.

  • http://www.mattybyloos.com Matty Byloos

    I’m an instant fan just for the sake of the press’s title!

  • Brandon Truett

    I’m awkward too! I have a feeling I’d connect with these stories.

  • http://gruyere.livejournal.com Seth Christenfeld

    You should totally give it to me.

  • lt

    neat!

  • http://celestebarnard.wordpress.com Celeste Barnard

    PICK ME! i CAN BE AWKWARD..REALLY.. :} WOULD LOVE TO READ!

  • http://yvettewardhorner.blogspot.com Yvette

    a girl whose “mother suffers from a thoroughly obnoxious malady”? I have to know! Count me in.

  • Erica

    I’m awkward, so I’d love this book!

  • http://www.lulu.com/bencampbell Ben Campbell

    How awkward can awkward be? Definately awk…awk…awkward as a hawk, hawk, hawkward! Okay, so pull my name out of a hat to win the Awkward One.

  • http://www.hesterglock.com paul

    count me in pliice

  • http://dirayat.blogspot.com Imran

    Akward, count me in.

  • AbbieRd

    “mother suffers from a thoroughly obnoxious malady”

    I think I wrote this story.

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    [...] have to construct a short-story-or-other within the given time limit. Also: see Lit Drift’s Free Book Friday – one title from indie publishing per week, for absolutely nothing. Category: Linked [...]

  • Stephanie

    This is a brilliant idea!

  • Gretchen

    Awkward people are thoroughly awesome people.

  • Candra

    I like free books.

  • http://www.murraydunlap.com Murray Dunlap

    As a co-editor for an anthology coming out in Spring of 2010, I’d love to see another one!
    -Murray Dunlap
    “What Doesn’t Kill You…” by Press 53

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