Happy Buy-Whatever-You-Want-We-Ain’t-Judging Wednesday!

You’ve survived Black Friday, Buy-Local Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday– congrats! You’ve safely made it to Buy-Yourself-Something-Without-Feeling-Like-You-Need-to-Justify-It-to-Anyone-‘Cause-It’s-Your-Damn-Money-and-You-Earned-It-DAMMIT! Wednesday. You’ve been a good enough boy or girl all year. You didn’t stab anyone over the turkey, tofurky, or turdogducken this year. You didn’t riot at Best Buy in order to snatch the last cut-rate flat-panel TV from the frail hands of a palsied child. You didn’t systematically destroy the solvency of the middle class while larding corporate profits to an all-time high, or gut any semblance of regulation on corporate political spending, extra-Constitutionally track and analyze the communications of of hundreds of thousands–if not millions–of law-abiding US citizens.
You deserve a tiny little something extra, a tiny treat that you don’t have to justify to another living soul: A fancy cup o’ coffee, an afternoon cookie, a new game for your phone, a couple MP3s, or perhaps . . .

The New Guys Always Work Overtime: An award winning time-portal short (first published in Asimov’s last year). Taylor works for Just-in-Time Fabrication and Fulfillment. Instead of outsourcing production, his company is 100% MADE IN AMERICA—and keeps prices down by bringing in cheap labor through a time portal. Training these quaint temp workers seems like a good job—until Taylor meets the latest batch of New Guys. (Also available from other ebook retailers and DRM-free, if that suits you better.)

The Giant Squid presents A Tahitian Tale: Chronicles of the Giant Squid – Volume 1: The first in a series of autobiographical two-fisted tales narrated by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid–a sorta sinister, sorta steampunk squid just trying to get along in a world not of his making (and also recover Tycho Brahe’s cursed golden nose for his Nazi masters).

Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate (Clockie American Steampunk Book 1): In this celebrated steampunk novella, a lonely veterinarian recounts a crippled, alcoholic, Confederate infantryman’s attempts to teach decommissioned clockwork soldiers to make nice (*wink, wink*) with their Mormon neighbors. (Also available in a multi-format pick-what-you-pay DRM-free bundle.)

Treat yourself!