Squidtastic Steampunkery: Free Fiction this Thursday! #steampunk #kindle #scifi

ATTENTION: My steampunk short “The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond” will be free for Kindle tomorrow and Friday. Here’s the official link:
http://amzn.to/1Q7iPcU
Please do me a solid and help spread the love far and wide; thanks! If you read the story, please hit it with a review–even if you don’t like it. Bad reviews help readers just as much as good reviews and, let’s be real, you ain’t gonna hurt my feelings (scroll down for details).

ADDED BONUS: My celebrated steampunk novella set in the same universe, Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate, will be steeply discounted next week.
FUN FACT: The most negative review I’ve ever received was in response to “The Bold Explorer”–which was also my first big break in publishing. That review begins:

“The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond” by David Erik Nelson, reads like a sick joke. …

and ends

… It’s a dark day in the history of science fiction when such an offensive and ridiculous story appears in one of the pillars of the genre.

It is, to date, my absolute favorite review of one of my works. This guy may not *like* me, but he certainly *gets* me.
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