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$2.99 eBook Sale: April 25-May 1

April’s almost up, but the it’s not over yet! We’re closing out the month with some HUGE eBook deals! Get’m while they’re hot! (before the sale ends on 5/1/22)


opens in a new windowThe House in the Cerulean Sea opens in a new windowImage Placeholder of - 48 by TJ Klune

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

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Welcome to the latest Deadmen’s Quest…Valynda Moore was born cursed. So when she dies as the result of a spell gone wrong and is trapped in the body of a voodoo doll, she expects nothing else from her messed up life. Until Thorn, leader of the Hellchasers, offers her a chance at redemption and a new life. But nothing has ever gone her way, for the Malachai, the very beast she and her crew of Deadmen have sworn to keep locked away, has risen. And this time he’s taken prisoners. Valynda must keep her wits about her or be denied her salvation and forced to watch as the entire world falls into the hands of absolute evil. It’s a demon-eat-demon world where the stakes have never been higher and either redemption or the ultimate betrayal waits for her at Death’s Door.

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ZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra—as long as the planet is certifiably free of native sentients. So when an outback prospector discovers a species of small, appealing bipeds who might well turn out to be intelligent, language-using beings, it’s a race to stop the corporation from “eliminating the problem,” which is to say, eliminating the Fuzzies—wide-eyed and ridiculously cute small, and furry—who are as much people as we are.

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Grab Bag Sweepstakes

Grab Bag Sweepstakes

Our bookshelves are a little overcrowded right now and we need to make room for new books arriving soon. So, we thought we’d make room by offering up books and more to you! Comment below to enter for a chance to win this prize pack:

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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter. Promotion begins April 25, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. ET. and ends April 30, 2013, 12:00 p.m. ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules go here. Sponsor: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

A Thank You Sweepstakes

We have reached 100, 000 followers on Twitter! We wanted say thank you to all our followers. You all have been great!

We are celebrating by offering a chance to win this collection of some of our recent releases:

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Comment below to enter for your chance to win.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States or D.C. to enter. Promotion begins September 19, 2011 at 10 a.m. ET. and ends September 23, 2011, 12:00 p.m. ET. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Please see full details and official rules go here. Sponsor: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

Author Spotlight: John Scalzi on #TorChat!

Place holder  of - 65This Wednesday, 5/18, at 4 PM Eastern, fans will have a chance to chat with author John Scalzi while he’s on tour for FUZZY NATION!

Tor Books is excited to announce that this month’s #TorChat will feature author John Scalzi! #TorChat is a monthly series of twitter chats, in which guest authors join fans in a lively, informative and entertaining discussion of all that’s hot in genre fiction, 140 characters at a time. The chat will take place on Wednesday, May 18th, from 4 – 5 PM Eastern.

This Wednesday’s #Torchat will be with New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi (@scalzi), who is currently on tour for his brand new novel, FUZZY NATION (May 10, 2011). John will be participating, barring any complications with travel, from his hotel in Salt Lake City. John will be available to answer fan questions and to talk about his new novel and its inspiration (the 1962 Hugo-nominated novel Little Fuzzy), his long running blog, Whatever, and what it’s like to be on tour.

The chat will be introduced and (loosely) moderated by Tor publicist Cassie Ammerman (@leanoir), with giveaways of advance copies of upcoming genre releases from @TorBooks following the 4 PM chat.

Keep an eye on the @TorBooks account, as well as that of the moderator, @leanoir, for updates on the chat’s start time, which is fluid due to the fact that John is on the road.

Our Author guest:

JOHN SCALZI is the author of several SF novels, including the bestselling “Old Man’s War” sequence, comprising Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, and The Last Colony. He is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and he won the Hugo Award for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, a collection of essays from his wildly popular blog Whatever. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

About Tor Books
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books, founded in 1980 and committed (although not limited) to SF and fantasy literature. In 2002, Tor launched Starscape, an imprint dedicated to publishing quality science fiction and fantasy for young readers, including books by critically acclaimed and award winning authors such as Cory Doctorow, Orson Scott Card, and David Lubar. Between an extensive hardcover and trade-softcover line, an Orb backlist program, and a stronghold in mass-market paperback, Tor annually publishes what is arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher. Books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and for the last twenty-three years the company has been named Best Publisher in the Locus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.

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Fan Fiction and Fuzzy Nation

Image Place holder  of - 74By John Scalzi

Last year I announced on my Web site that I had written a novel called Fuzzy Nation, which was a “reboot” of the 1962 Hugo-nominated novel Little Fuzzy, by H. Beam Piper—which is to say that I took some of the characters and situations of the Piper novel and cast them into a new story which has similarities to, but it ultimately quite a bit different from, the original iteration of the story.

When I did that, I had people say to me, “OMG, you know what you just did? You just wrote fan fiction!”

And my response to that is: Yup, I pretty much did.

I don’t assume that anyone who subscribes to a science fiction publisher’s newsletter doesn’t know what fan fiction is, but I also like to cover all bases, so, if you don’t know, “fan fiction” are stories, written in the universes of popular books, movies, television shows, etc, by the fans of those things, not the original creators (or their authorized collaborators). It’s what happens when someone loves something so much they can’t wait for the next official installment and instead write up their own in a grand game of “what if.”

Some creators get annoyed with people who write fan fiction in their universes but I tend to look at it as a positive thing, because it usually means those people really really really love the worlds you’ve created—love them so much, in fact, they’ve made them an important part of their lives. As an artist, that’s a high compliment; as a business person, it means you’ve got a committed audience. Both are good things.

I think to some degree most creators start off as fan fiction writers—when I was a kid I imagined myself whirling around with lightsabers and battling cylons (and sometimes battling cylons with lightsabers—crossing the streams!)—playing those games of “what if” and as a result building up our own imaginations to venture out into meet the characters and adventures we would create on our own.

When I sat down to write Fuzzy Nation, for various I had been a little burned out on the work and business of writing—what I really wanted to do was play “what if” again. And that’s what I did, writing fan fiction in Piper’s universe. When I was writing the novel, I wasn’t planning to sell it or any such thing (all that came later); all I was doing was writing, and enjoying the act of writing, and having fun with a book I had loved by putting my own spin on the adventures within it.

It was fun. And my take on the Fuzzy tale, I think, reflects that: the fun I had in making it, and the fun I had exploring Piper’s work again, as a fan and as a creator in my own right.

So, yes: I wrote fan fiction. And I’ll you what: Fuzzy Nation is better because I did.

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Fuzzy Nation US Book Tour

Placeholder of  -51Announcing John Scalzi’s Fuzzy Nation US Book Tour:

May 10 (Tues), 7:00 PM – Dayton, OH
Books & Co
350 East Stroop Road (NOT the one at The Greene in Beavercreek)
Dayton, OH 45429

May 11 (Wed), 7:00 PM – Cincinnati, OH
Joseph Beth
2692 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208

May 12 (Thurs), 7:00 PM – Columbus, OH
Ohio State Barnes & Noble
1958 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43201

May 13 (Fri), 7:00 PM – Lexington, KY
Joseph Beth
161 Lexington Green Circle
Lexington, KY 40503

May 14 (Sat), 2:00 PM – Los Angeles, CA
Barnes & Noble
10850 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064

May 15 (Sun), 5 PM – San Francisco, CA
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

May 16 (Mon), 7 PM – Portland, OR
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR 97005

May 17 (Tues), 7:30 PM – Seattle, WA
University of Washington Campus, Kane Hall, Room 110
Ticketed event – tickets are free with purchase of Fuzzy Nation from the University Bookstore; otherwise tickets are $5 each. Books and tickets available at Bookstore beginning March May 10.

May 18 (Wed), 6 PM  – Salt Lake City, UT
Sam Weller’s Bookstore
254 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

More information to be found on John Scalzi’s Whatever blog.

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