Free Print Editions of The M-Brane Double!

(You can pre-order the M-Brane Double NOW: click HERE)

Some truisms I've discovered over the past couple years:

• Promotion is par for the course for writers & small press editors 
• It's damn hard to attract eyeballs toward your efforts
• Reviewers, professional or reader-level, are the rarest of gems.

I'd like to offer a freebie to anyone so inclined to take me up on a bargain.  I have a pdf of Elegant Threat, my novella included in the M-Brane Double that will be published by month end.  It's lacking some of the final edits and flourishes included in the final version, but is basically the story as you will find it in the print Double.

Anyone who is willing to post a review of any kind (though I am particularly hopeful for reader reviews on Amazon/Barnes & Nobles, etc.), email me at nithska gmail.com and I will send this pdf your way.  If you post a review, follow up with me and I'll send you a copy of the print edition of the Double, including Alex Jeffer's The New People, meaning you will have this very cool book containing another full story waiting to be read.

My interest is simply: most readers will not buy a book lacking reviews or evidence of other readers.  So make no mistake, even a few simple but honest comments are helpful on the retailer listings.

I'll have to limit this offer to the first five or so claimants (but I would find some way to reward any beyond that number!)  In reality, getting one review of a project has been a challenge.  Want to help us hit this one out of the ballpark?!  Wondering why the additional sports metaphor?  I don't know, but I hope you'll let me see you some fun reading material.  Hit me!  

:)

Here's the publisher's introduction to answer the question 'why do I want to read this?':

"I have been telling readers about Brandon H. Bell since I first read his work in the slush-pile the first month I was producing M-Brane SF magazine. In the slightly more than two years since M-Brane SF #1, I have published Brandon’s stories twice more in the magazine and in a couple of anthologies (Things We Are Not and the M-Brane SF Quarterly #1), and I have been gratified to see, as his list of publishing credits steadily lengthens, that other editors are seeing what I see in this extraordinarily imaginative and intelligent writer.
The story you are about to read is a marvel, and the realization in print of a project that Brandon Bell has been working on for a long time. He has created a rich, lavish, fascinating and sometimes frightening Post-Singularity, interplanetary milieu. Some lucky readers have had a chance to peer into it a couple of times already: one of his first published short stories, “Best Gift” (Return to Luna, Hadley Rille 2008) was, as Bell describes it on his website, “a tale about Sterling Suits, Neo-Dromedaries, and the persistence of love, trust, and faith on the lunar surface.” The next glimpse into this strange world was in M-Brane SF #5 (June 2009), with the story “Abraham Discovers an Artifact Impenetrable to All Harm,” an enigmatic and startling story about an unusual family struggling to make their way in the universe at the edges of an impending war between humans and Post-humans. These stories were so fascinating that my only complaints were that they were too short and that there weren’t enough of them. But now, with Elegant Threat, we finally get to spend a longer time in Bell’s world.
Elegant Threat—the story of people who wrangle aquatic fauna from the harrowing tides of the moon Shanama against a backdrop of imminent conflict with the mysterious Post-humans and sectarian strife within their own ranks—was envisioned by its author as the first of a triptych of stories that will eventually comprise a much longer novel. But this story herein—a novella of about thirty thousand words—is also complete, self-contained and will satisfy readers even if the other portions are never seen (though all readers of this one will certainly clamor for the rest and Bell likely shall feel obliged to produce it soon enough).
Bell has deployed an interesting and unexpected literary device in telling this story. Its subtitle, On the Demise of Captain Fantomas Patton-Guerrero and Loss of La Amenaza Elegente, gives the reader a big clue up front essentially how the story is going to end, as does the very first chapter’s final line: “…La Amenaza Elegente dropped toward the planet, beginning its descent toward the place that would soon become its grave.” As with an ancient Greek tragic play or a Shakespeare drama, we go into it knowing that Captain Fantomas and his ship are doomed but the fascination lies in seeing how and why this disaster unfolds. And even though the ending is foretold from the earliest pages, the reader will not see coming the stunning sequence of events that bring about that ending. This way of telling the story, as if it is a recounting of an event that the reader may have heard of before, adds an alluring patina of history to it. But what really makes this story and this way of telling it succeed is the way that Bell draws such lovely, nuanced characters and makes the reader really care about them enough to hope that maybe somehow, against all odds, they will still avert tragedy even though we already know that the Amenaza is not going home again.
Now, without further delay, please visit spectacular, deadly Shanama and witness the fate of La Amenaza Elegente.
—Christopher Fletcher, Editor, M-Brane SF"

The Double is due out at the end of May!

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