IASFA Fantasy Story Promotion
 

The IASFA runs one promotion a month and to see the numerous titles on sale, all you have to do is sign up for the IASFA newsletter. As an added bonus, you’ll get five free books in a variety of SFF genres. https://iasfa.org/free-books

It’s as simple as that. Give us your first name and email address. It’s a great way to meet your next favorite SFF author. For August, we have bundles of short stories – you can quickly look through an author’s story and see if they match your taste. Then you can look on your favorite bookselling site for more stories and books by the same author.

Wached the Subspace Rhapsody Episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds (click on the picture to link to the soundtrack) and have seen some headlines comparing it to Once More With Feeling, the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (click on the picture to link to the soundtrack). But many of you may not know that Nerf Herder (the band that created the credits music for Buffy and played at the Bronze occasionally) once did a song called Mr. Spock (you can find it and the admittedly cheesy video for it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHt2jVh26tY). I imagine the lyrics "You don't want a boyfriend. What you want is Mr. Spock." playing over a visual of Nurse Chapel drinking Diet Dr. Pepper as the credits rolled. You can find the song on Nerf Herder's CD, American Cheese.

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The Dick Thornby Thriller Series

The omni version of The Dick Thornby Thriller Series became available this year. Now you can give an entire series of exciting spy thrillers about a regular guy who takes on some of the biggest and most bizarre conspiracy and disaster theories you can find on the world wide web in one honking big book. If ebooks aren't your thing, you can grab Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive in print here. And, both Net Impact and Wet Work are available in audio. See the links at the end of this newsletter. And, if you want to start off an Audible subscription with either Net Impact or Wet Work, go here or here, respectively.

Dick Thornby isn't Hollywood's idea of a spy. He's a new kind of spy for a new kind of world.

Donald J. Bingle is the author of seven books and more than sixty shorter works in the horror, thriller, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, steampunk, romance, comedy, and memoir genres. His books include Forced Conversion (near future military scifi), GREENSWORD (darkly comedic eco-thriller), Frame Shop (murder in a suburban writers' group), and the Dick Thornby spy thriller series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive). He also co-authored (with Jean Rabe) The Love-Haight Case Files series (a three-time Silver Falchion winning paranormal urban fantasy about two lawyers who represent the legal rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco; Book 2 just came out). Don also edited Familiar Spirits (an anthology of ghost stories). He also put out the oddest book you've ever seen. Morse Code Mysteries and Missives has three tales (two stories by Don and a relevant piece of non-fiction) presented in Morse Code text, then via links in audio dots and dasher, then in plain English.

Many of Don's shorter works can be found in his Writer on Demand TM collections.

Get the audiobook version of Net Impact at Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes and the audiobook version of Wet Work at Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes.

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