Closer Than Touch by Tami Veldura

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Closer Than Touch by Tami Veldura, now available in the Book Market for $3.99!

A Zodiac Forces short story. Deia has difficulty keeping partners; no matter how hard they try, they keep winding up dead. Bad enough in a special operations unit, but Deia is a Gemini, meant to work with a partner at a level of intimacy that leaves all his other relationships dull and distant by comparison. Tired of his partners dying, Deia is ready to transfer to Scorpio, where working alone isn’t a problem. When his boss stipulates he’ll only sign off on the transfer if Deia meets a new candidate, Deia reluctantly agrees to try one last time.

Serial updates: Fairy Tale and Bad Moon Rising

Check out this week’s serial updates, including the conclusion of Megan Derr’s The Prince of the Moon, part of our Fairy Tale serial, and Part 4 of Runaway Prince by May Ridge, part of our Bad Moon Rising serial. You can read all current and past chapters from the serial fiction page.

Private Dicks deadline is today!

The deadline for Private Dicks: Undercovers submissions is today, Wednesday, January 4, 2012. If you are interested in submitting a story, but are unsure you will be able to complete it or have your final revisions finished by the end of day today, simply email us what you have on and include the estimated date by which your story will be completed. For details on the submissions guidelines for the Private Dicks anthology, click here.

Meant to Be by Megan Derr

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Book 2 of the Infinitum Government: Meant to Be by Megan Derr for just $5.99!

The Draconis are a race of unexpected power and ability, complicated by their tendency to ‘match’ with other beings. The trial to decide whether or not they should be exterminated is about to begin, and both sides have gathered some of the brightest minds in the galaxy to argue before the Star Assembly of the Infinitum Government. Everything goes awry, however, when word comes down that High Chancellor Pyotr Kavalerov, staunchest supporter of the Draconis’ right to live, has been assassinated…

Free read! Something Sweet by Megan Derr

Less Than Three Press is pleased to offer a sweet, free New Year’s read: Something Sweet by Megan Derr.

It’s just another day at the candy shop for Sherlock: a quiet afternoon spent more on reading his latest fantasy novel than on selling candy. The kind of day he loves, even if the looming New Year’s Eve leaves him feeling nostalgic and a little lonely. But then the last person he ever expected to see walks through the door of his shop, and Sherlock realizes that some things don’t fade with time, but only grow stronger.

Serial updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including:

• Part 2 of Swordwick by Megan Derr, part of the Wick series
• Chapter 18 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller
• Part 2 of One for Sorrow by Sylvia Winters, part of the Something Happened on the Way to Heaven serial anthology

Private Dicks deadline: January 4, 2012

The deadline for submission for our Private Dicks: Undercovers anthology is in just one week on January 4, 2012! If you are close to finishing your story and would like a deadline extension, please email the editor. In your email, please include your estimated date of completion, the estimated final length of your story, and attach what you have completed so far.

for more details, including content guidelines, how to submit, and royalty rates, see the submissions page.

The Christmas Package by Megan Derr

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present The Christmas Package by Megan Derr, now available in the Book Market for just $1.99!

Allen has had enough. His latest job went south, his favorite car has been totaled, people keep wanting his lover dead, and on top of all that he still has not a single damn clue what to get his lover for Christmas—a gift he desperately wants to get right, because otherwise he fears he’ll be spending New Year’s alone.

Then he finds himself forced to take an unusual job on Christmas Eve, and Allen wonders if they’ll even live long enough to exchange gifts…

Buy The Christmas Package by Megan Derr with Zombie Wonderland by Piper Vaughn and get $1.00 off your order! (Discount will appear on the final checkout screen.)

Serial updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including Part 3 of Runaway Prince by May Ridge, part of our Bad Moon Rising serial anthology. We also have Part 6 of The Prince of the Moon by Megan Derr, part of our Fairy Tale serial. Visit the serial fiction page for all current and past serial updates.

Private Dicks deadline fast approaching!

The deadline for submission for the Private Dicks anthology is just two weeks away! Please submit your story or request for a deadline extension by January 4, 2012. For details, including content guidelines, how to submit, and royalty rates, see the submissions page.

Impractical by Megan Derr

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Impractical by Megan Derr, now available in the Book Market for just $5.99!

Terrell believes very strongly in an ordered, practical lifestyle. Nothing good, after all, ever came from following impractical urges and impulses. Nearly finished with school, it is time to focus on the next step in his life—settling down at his estate, Fivecoats, and marrying a suitable spouse to oversee it while he pursues his academic leanings. When his father sends word that he has found the ideal man for Terrell to marry, Terrell can only be pleased—despite the misgivings of his best friend. Marriage, after all, is perfectly practical, and such things as romance highly impractical. Kirian wants nothing to do with practicality. His parents chose to be happy over being practical, and he refuses to settle for less, no matter what everyone around him says. But then he is forced to marry a man who is colder than ice, settle into a marriage that seems to be in all ways practical, but in no way happy. But beneath the surface of his new spouse, Kirian sees something far from icy, something he realizes he wants—but which seems to belong to another man.

Serial updates

Visit the serial fiction page to read the latest serial updates, including:

• Part 1 of One for Sorrow by Sylvia Winters, part of our Something Happened on the Way to Heaven serial anthology. Note that One for Sorrow features an F/F romance.
• Chapter 17 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller.
• Part 1 of Swordwick by Megan Derr, the first story in the Wick series. You can read the first part for free!

Private Dicks deadline is January 4, 2012

The deadline for submissions for Private Dicks, Less Than Three Press’s detective anthology, is January 4, 2012, in just three weeks! If you are currently working on a story for this anthology and are unsure that you’ll finish by the deadline, please contact us; we are happy to grant deadline extensions if necessary.

Less Than Three Press is also accepting general ebook, novels for serialization, and short stories for another anthology, The Bestiary. For more details, click here.