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 Meagan for getting a free copy of Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler.
This week, we are giving away TWO chapbooks: Typewriter by Jimmy Chen and Less Shiny by Mary Miller. Chen’s Typewriter is a collection of thirteen flash fictions by Jimmy Chen concerning the fluctuating technologies of writing, searching, and finding unlikely things in an all too likely world. Chen’s fiction has appeared in Best of the Web 2009, McSweeney’s, Fourteen Hills, No Colony and many other publications. He is a regular contributor to HTMLGIANT. Less Shiny is a collection of short short stories from the author of Big World (short flight/long drive books 2009). Mary Miller’s stories have appeared in the Oxford American, New Stories from the South 2008, Mississippi Review, Black Clock, Quick Fiction, Barrelhouse, Hobart, and elsewhere.
This week’s Free Book Friday is sponsored by Magic Helicopter Press. They are focused on publishing across platforms, mediums and “the universe.” Their paper books are collectible art items, not unlike Dale Earnhardt commemorative plates. Their e-books are not paper books melted onto the screen but books aware of their digital space. They also publish experimental multimedia projects: poetry videos and poetry video games. But they call them all books. They are literature with feet—for open mics and reading tours—and fingers—for online workshops and collaborative projects. But they call it all live. They are literature with a daisy for a rotor. They land on your head.
To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is comment in the space below. Make sure to tell us your email address so we can contact you if you win! We also recommend doing the following:
- Checking out Magic Helicopter’s free online books
- Subscribing to Magic Helicopter’s blog
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Winner will be chosen randomly at 12pm on Friday, June 25 and notified via email. The winner must respond to our email within 48 hours, or a new winner will be randomly selected.
Good luck!
EDIT: Giveaway now closed. Congrats to this week’s winner DWW. Check out the new Free Book Friday, which includes The Drunk Sonnets by Daniel Bailey and We Were Eternal and Gigantic by Evelyn Hampton.
