Showing posts with label book sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book sale. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2016

October is Fairy Tale Studies Month at Wayne State University Press! (aka SALE!)

Ho-ly cow, Batman!*

Wayne State University Press is having a 30% off their entire fairy tale studies series for the whole month of October!
Series in Fairy-Tale StudiesSeries Editor: Donald Haase, Wayne State University
This book series is devoted to works that significantly advance our understanding of the fairy tale as it has taken shape across history and a broad range of media. The series illuminates both the production and reception of the fairy tale as it has appeared in print, film, modern media, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural forms.
If you are interested in fairy tale studies, you know these books are on the pricey side. While they're worth every penny, it does make it difficult for the average worker bee to add volumes to their personal library, so a chunky 30% reduction in price is a little like Christmas-come-early (if you're buying for yourself that is).

Take a look at the awesome variety of titles available:


        
        Examines director Jacques Demy's
use of the fairy tale as a means
to explore issues of gender, sexuality,
and class
.
But wait there's more!

With each book you get these set of free steak knives...

Just kidding.

Wait.

Fairy tales and knives would actually be a great promo!

But there's something better.

The 30% off is extended to:

  • All the Marvels & Tales journals (swoon!)
  • All the Fairy Tale Review collections (double-swoon!)


What a bad time for the Once Upon A Blog kitty to be empty! And what are our chances of finding a winning lottery ticket in the local mall parking lot..? (The last question is directed at our fairy godmother, should she happen to not be too busy this month. Tall order, we know. It is, after all, Halloween month and fairy godmothers get unusually busy the closer it gets to midnight on October 31st.)

Go HERE to start filling your cart and exercising your fairy tale brain muscles - and don't forget to add code FT16 at the checkout!

* We're guessing Batman gets extra mentions during Halloween month and if there are points to be had for doing so, we're in.

Friday, April 17, 2015

"Desperately Ever After" Double Sale Starts TODAY

Starting TODAY, author Laura Kenyon is having a "double ebook sale" on her popular Desperately Ever After novel and its sequel,  Damsels in Distress.

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Evanovich says: “Laura Kenyon makes happily ever after desperately delicious!"
Adds Elizabeth Blackwell, author of While Beauty Slept:
"At times laugh-out-loud funny, and at times very touching, Desperately Ever After is the debut of a real talent.”
If you're not familiar with Laura Kenyon's series, just think:
Sex and the City + Desperate Housewives + Brothers Grimm = Desperately Ever After. 
Book One was named a 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards chick-lit finalist. In October, the e-book skyrocketed to the top of Amazon’s charts, hitting #49 and becoming the #1 Best Seller in each of its three categories: Women’s Humorous Fiction, Women’s Fantasy Fiction, and Paranormal Fantasy.
Laura explained more about what inspired her to write the series on her blog, some of which I thought I'd share, in case these books are new for you. (Excerpted from a two-part post):
Like so many women today, I grew up on Disney movies and fairy tales. 
Then… shocker… I grew up. I got to know the real world. I experienced heartbreak and cursed the very notion of “true love” as a bunch of poison we were all force fed as a generation. I took a second look at the tales I used to love and  wondered how each princess would have really felt in her situation. What would they have said if they had the freedom to do so? If their choices weren’t marriage, poverty or spinsterhood? If they had the luxury of deciding between the story’s chosen hero, someone else, or self-sufficient independence...
You can read more about the issues she explores in the rest of the post HERE, but for now, here's a good little summary. ;)
The sale details for the books, by country, are below:
In the US (Amazon.com -- ebook only):
• The price of Desperately Ever After drops to 99 cents on Friday, April 17, and steadily climbs back up until the sale ends at midnight (PST) April 24. Link: http://amzn.to/1zamP3j
• Damsels in Distress will be 99 cents from April 17 through April 23. Link: http://amzn.to/1DbMjkL

In the UK (Amazon.co.uk -- ebook only)
• Desperately Ever After will be 0.99 GBP from 8 a.m. (GMT) April 17 through April 23. Link: http://amzn.to/1ykox7c
• The price of Damsels in Distress drops to 0.99 GBP at 8 a.m. (GMT) April 17, and steadily climbs back up until the sale ends at midnight April 24. Link: http://amzn.to/1aKc9md
For more about the books, please visit http://laurakenyon.com/the-desperately-ever-after-series or see Laura's many links below:

Website: laurakenyon.com
Twitter: @laura_kenyon
Facebook: laurakenyonwrites
Goodreads: Laura Kenyon