Shawn Stewart Ruff has made his Lambda-winning debut novel Finlaterfree for 24 hours via Amazon's Kindle. (You do not need to own a Kindle device; you can download free Kindle software to read ebooks on your computer. Click for PC. Click for Mac.) Ruff's much-praised story explores first love between middle school boys from different worlds, black Cliffy and Jewish Noah. Evan Fallenburg strongly recommended Finlater in Thebes' 2009 queer lit poll.
Social juggernaut Justin Luke Zirilli says his novel Gulliver Travels became the #1 self-published gay title on Amazon and has led to a three-book deal. Today is his 30th birthday and to celebrate he's switched the price to $0.00 for today only. My favorite book of the 2011 by an award-winning NYT bestselling author has accrued only 20 reader reviews, so I credit Zirilli for already garnering 64 reviews, 60 of which are five star and 4 are 4 star. The novel follows a frisky, wise-cracking, big-hearted L.A. twink as he flees to Manhattan and tries to make it in the city that never sleeps alone.
Neither book is available via Nook. Print versions are available but aren't free today: Gulliver Travels and Finlater.
Thanks for these links. I've downloaded both novels to my iPad and look forward to reading them soon.
What a great idea. I do agree that free is a good way to give people a taste, after which they'll hopefully be pulled in for more.
Posted by: Arthur Durkee | January 07, 2012 at 03:27 PM