Here at Blade Red Press we’re very pleased to announce a special offer in conjunction with our good friends, Gryphonwood Press. On October 31st, to celebrate Halloween, both Blade Red and Gryphonwood will be offering their entire catalogues for free in ebook format at Smashwords. The beauty of the Smashwords store is that all books are available in every ebook format, including Kindle-friendly .mobi. That means that you can get any book from Blade Red Press or Gryphonwood Press, in any ebook format, for nothing. Free. No catch, just free.

Here’s the press release for this promotion:

Publishers Provide Halloween Treat!

October 29, 2009 — Ebook lovers will be getting a special treat this Halloween. On October 31, Gryphonwood Press, along with Australian-based Blade Red Press, will be giving away their entire catalog of electronic books for free. The giveaway includes popular speculative fiction titles in a variety of sub-genres, as well as thrillers and an anthology of short fiction. “There is something here for every reader,” says Blade Red’s Alan Baxter.

Books will be available through ebook distributor Smashwords in multiple electronic formats, including Kindle-compatible. Thriller author David Wood sees this as an opportunity for authors from both publishing houses to broaden their readerships. “Ebooks are an integral part of the future of publishing, and I’m excited to be a part of this promotion.” Visit the websites at Gryphonwood Press and Blade Red Press for details.

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http://gryphonwoodpress.com
http://www.blade-red.com

To take advantage of this offer you’ll need to enter special coupon codes at Smashwords. For coupons for all the Gryphonwood titles, check this page of the Gryphonwood blog.

For our titles, use the following codes:

RealmShift by Alan Baxter – DK99C
MageSign by Alan Baxter – HH65A
Ghost Of The Black by Alan Baxter – Already free at Smashwords.

Maggots Of Heresy by Michael Fridman – Already free at Smashwords.

You can find all the books under the relevant publisher’s page at Smashwords:

Here’s the Blade Red Press page.

Here’s the Gryphonwood Press page.

So go and treat yourself to some free ebooks for Halloween. And tell your friends!

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It is with great pleasure that we are in a position to announce the editor for the first Blade Red anthology of dark speculative fiction. Blade Red Dark Pages, Volume 1 will be edited by Brenton Tomlinson. We’re very happy to have Brenton on board and very grateful to him for taking on this role.

Brenton lives in Adelaide, South Australia with his wife and two of his three kids. His oldest child allowed reality to hit him hard earlier this year with the arrival of the first grandchild. Hopefully the second is still a few years away.

While living in a quiet suburb and spending many boring hours ensuring remote connection services remain working for a government department is his daily façade, inside his head is a world of darkness and twisted depravity struggling to emerge.

With over a dozen stories of his own published through venues such as 52 Stitches, Yellow Mama and others, and with new work to be seen in Night to Dawn and in the much anticipated APEX Anthology ‘The Blackness Within’, among others, in 2010, Brenton is finding his voice as a writer. He has been reading and passing comment on works of a dark nature in renowned venues such as HorrorScope, Australia’s Dark Fiction Weblog, and Black magazine, and it is behind the scenes where he has discovered a passion of which he was unaware.

Whether reviewing titles or sifting the slush pile for Aurealis, one of Australia’s most respected venues for the publication of short stories, Brenton has found a strange sensation (a mixture of anticipation, joy and frustration) creeping through his body at the possibility of finding the next gem hidden beneath the often blurry words. After a quick mental check-up and a strong dose of antibiotics, the next logical step was to consider editing an anthology of dark fiction – enter us here at Blade Red Press.

Brenton continues to pen dark shorts and flash fiction, but has recently finished drafting something just a little different. To learn more, visit his blog Musings Of An Aussie Writer.

We’re very please to be working with Brenton and we’re confident that he will put together a stunning collection of dark fiction for our first anthology. With over 150 submissions received already, Brenton certainly has his work cut out.

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Amazon seem to have finally started catching up with their backlog of emails and we’re happy to say that the Kindle editions of RealmShift and MageSign are available again. The price now matches the Smashwords and DriveThru price of US$2.89 each. That’s less than a cup of coffee! It also looks like they’ve kicked in the region coding plan, so if you’re looking from Australia, for example, you won’t see pricing information and there’s a nice green box telling you that you can’t have a copy. Of course, in that case you just go to Smashwords and buy DRM-free Kindle compatible editions from there.

There’s also talk of Amazon rolling the Kindle reader out to other countries very soon, at least including the UK and Australia. Given that there’s no amazon.com.au, it’ll be interesting to see how they handle this situation.

You can find the Amazon Kindle editions of RealmShift here and MageSign here. Tell your friends.

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A reader was kind enough to point out to us recently that the epub versions of RealmShift and MageSign had a formatting error. It seems that the font size switched between 10 point and 12 point fairly randomly throughout both books on some readers.

Having investigated, it turned out to be publisher error. Isn’t it always? The problem has been fixed now, so if you bought a copy or RealmShift and/or MageSign and downloaded the epub version, you can go back to Smashwords now and download the corrected book at no cost. If you have any other problems, please do let us know.

You can get the correctly formatted books on Smashwords at the following links:

RealmShift

MageSign

If you haven’t got them, why not? They’re only US$2.89 each now as ebooks. Go on, treat yourself.

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The first Blade Red Press anthology of dark speculative fiction is now open to submissions. Click on the Submissions tag above to get all the details.

Get writing and good luck!

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Due to action taken by Amazon, Kindle editions of Blade Red Press books are currently unavailable. We’re working with Amazon to rectify this situation as quickly as possible. In the meantime you can find Kindle compatible editions (.mobi format) of Blade Red Press books at Smashwords.com.

Click here for the Blade Red page at Smashwords.

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We are pleased to announce that Blade Red author Alan Baxter has a new project available. Alan serialised a noirish dark future novella on his website over about eight months during 2008. The thriller is still available there. It is also now available as a FREE ebook through Blade Red Press, distributed through Smashwords.com and DriveThruSciFi.com.

Presenting GHOST OF THE BLACK: A ‘Verse Full Of Scum

by Alan Baxter

The book is available in multiple ebook formats, including the Kindle compatible .mobi format.

So head on over to Smashwords.com or DriveThruSciFi.com now and get your free copy of this exciting novella.

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This week is Read An E-Book Week. To celebrate, we’re pleased to annouce the release of Alan Baxter’s novels RealmShift and MageSign in various e-book formats through Smashwords and on the Amazon Kindle.

The Kindle version of MageSign is still waiting for all its details to be updated by Amazon, so bookmark the page of you’d like that edition. The Smashwords versions of both books, in a further Read An E-Book Week promotion, are available half price for this week only. So that’s both novels for the price of one – both are usually US$3.50 each at Smashwords; now you can get them at US$1.75 each until the end of the week.

The Kindle editions are priced at US$3.99, but Amazon usually do an automatic discount on RRP. (RealmShift is available on Kindle for US$3.19, for example, even though its RRP is US$3.99).

Also, don’t forget that both books are available in print from your local Amazon, B&N online, Booktopia and so on, as well as direct from us here at Blade Red Press.

Two great books, so many purchase options. How can you go wrong?

So, get out there and read an e-book.

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We are very pleased to announce that the new edition of Alan Baxter’s novel RealmShift and the new sequel, MageSign, are now both available here in Australia direct from Blade Red Press.

The books are AU$19.95 each and, if you buy both together, they’ll be shipped for free to anywhere in Australia.

For international sales, your local Amazon store is still your best bet and don’t forget the ebook version of RealmShift is available from smashwords.com for US$3.50 as well as from Amazon Kindle.

Please email contact@blade-red.com with your purchase enquiry.

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Blade Red Press is still getting itself organised, so apologies if parts of the website are unclear or inoperative. We’re working on getting an e-store set up here but that’s not yet complete.

Once we have everything in order we’ll be opening for submissions for short stories and novels, hopefully in the first half of next year, so watch this space. We’re doing it all slowly in order to get it right. Any feedback gratefully received.

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