Thursday, March 19, 2020

Corvid (NOT COVID! BECAUSE!!!) total giveaway mar 19-24


Corvid (You heard me) giveaway! All my books, free for kindle users (which is a free app also) starting FRIDAY, March 19th, though to TUESDAY March 24. (Except Rubberman's Citizens, which is only eligible for 19th-20th, due to a recent giveaway) -oh, and as always, they're on kindle unlimited for those who have that, and miss the giveaway, or just wanna credit me some points.. :P

SO, this entails the entire Lifehack series including the short Cassidy's Ladder, the Rubberman series as it exists thus far, and The Many Grape.. glib descriptions:
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Lifehack: Girl meets nano-controlled zombies, doesn't like em. Meets another girl, other girl doesn't like HER, love, death, techno zoms. My zombie stories aren't as gory as many zombie fans might like, tastes vary, many non-zombie readers have really enjoyed Lifehack.

Watching Yute: Lifehack's world, 2 years later. Different girl, melancholy angst, finds love, and more angst, and more angst. This is not a happy book. I love it, but people who need a happily ever after story can steer clear. Contains some zombie-type content, but not much, really. I guess they were feeling too angsty.

Cassidy's Ladder: A short story, with zero sci-fi, and zero zombies, that focuses on the main character dealing with all that sticky angst she was left with. For those who realllly need that happy ending. -although this can be read and make sense even if you haven't read Watching Yute

Echoes of Erebus: Last book in the Lifehack world. Another 2 years later. Different girl, who technically isn't a girl, trying to figure out what that means, and what to make of the fact that her dad/creator LIVES IN A CORNER OF HER BRAIN, and was responsible for all the zombie fun from Lifehack. And she's made largely from reconstituted fish bits. Zombie content: Notable. But moreso for zombie-related abomination thingies. May contain a talking lizard.

All of the above constitutes the entire Lifehack series. They can all be read independently and they make sense. On to the Rubberman series-
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Rubberman's Cage: Boy grew up in an environment about the size of a house with 3 Brothers and a guy in a rubber suit in his ceiling who controls their daily routine. And that was all he knew to exist. A couple of people die, hero goes exploring through what turns out to be a 40 story deep facility that's been running independently for generations, resulting in fractured sub-cultures that all hold dear to their own versions of ignorance as to what's actually going on. And our hero learns about such crazy things like... like papayas, and elevators, and these lumpy men called …. wo-men. And somehow a tree is going to eat his Brother, but that's hard for him to get his head around.

Rubberman's Citizens: One of the areas in the Facility is the Citizenry. They were once the luckiest around, but over time, they've degraded into a brutal little society where systematic abuse is inescapable and expected. They used to lock everyone else in the facility out. Now everyone in the facility keeps them locked in. -but seeds of rebellion were bound to take root eventually. Leena leads against an increasingly insane local dictator, but keeping her friends and loved ones safe as the next dictatorship begins in the wake of the last one- will take some out-of-the-box thinking.

Rubberman's Exodus- SHUT UP, It's not done yet!
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Also in the giveaway is The Many Grape. It's really better in paper form, due to being made more than 50% of illustrations, but it's still readable if you click and zoom and all that junk as you go along. So what is it? I've been fOrTuNaTe enough to have done many a month of time in the hospital. Meals come on a tray, and on the tray is a packing slip. These packing slips are often worded in odd ways, such informing me I was getting ONE GRAPES. Or HALF BANANA. Not half A banana... but HALF BANANA. Begging the question, half banana and half WHAT? In response, I began doodling stupid little things on the packing slips to amuse myself in the short time between finishing the meal and the tray getting picked up. Th staff liked them, so... BOOK. In contains pictures of the packing slips and their defacement by me, and some kind of comment about it, and/or hospital life. It's a goofy little thing.

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