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08/31/11: Serial updates, Always There, and more!

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Serial Updates

Check out this week’s serial updates: Part 4 of A Kind of Remedy by Ashley Shaw, part of our Bad Moon Rising serial and Chapter 10 of The Fairy’s Assistant by Sasha L. Miller, part of our Fairy Tale serial. You can find all current and prior chapters on the serial fiction page.

Always There by Megan Derr

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Always There by Megan Derr, available now in the Book Market for just $6.99!

Always There cover

Tales of knights bound by duty, honor, and each other…

Always There—When the princess they are sworn to protect is kidnapped, two knights are separated in their efforts to save her, and in being part realize what they always had together…

Tournament—A young man attends accepts an offer to attend Tournament in the hopes that by winning it, he will finally gain the affections of the man he has loved his entire life.

Vow Unto Me—two men, divided by tragedy and grief, are ordered to a remote monastery to unravel a mystery, and finally overcome the problems keeping them apart.

LT3 Press will be at Yaoi-con!

Less Than Three Press will have a table in the dealer’s room at Yaoi-con 2011 on October 22-23. We will be selling paperbacks and giving out freebies, so be sure to stop by if you’re attending! We’ll post more details as the con gets closer, so keep an eye out. Y-con logo

Shipping and paperback sales

Due to some crossed wires between our Book Market software and the U.S.P.S. shipping calculator, shipping costs were often calculated to be dramatically higher than they should be for our larger paperbacks or orders with multiple books. As a result, LT3 has changed how we calculate shipping to more accurately reflect actual shipping costs.

  • Small orders (typically 2 thick books or a combination of 3-5 thin books) are charged a flat $5.00 shipping.
  • Large orders (typically more than 2 thick books) are charged a flat $10.50 shipping.
  • Orders for over $40.00 in product (typically large orders) are shipped for free!

As a result of these changes, Less Than Three Press is extending our paperbook sale through Labor Day (September 5 at midnight). All paperbacks are 15% off between now and the end of the day Monday, September 5. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

Note: Contacting the Editor-in-Chief

Less Than Three Press’s Editor-in-Chief and CFO Samantha Derr is currently without power due to the damage caused by Hurricane Irene. If you have questions or are waiting for or expecting something from her, rest assured she will get back to you as soon as possible. The current estimate is that her power will be restored by Friday. If you need a question answered immediately, please email admin@lessthanthreepress.com and another staff member will get back to you as soon as possible.

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08/10/11: Serial updates, Opposite Day by Erica Kealey, and more!

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Serial Updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including Part 2 of Impractical by Megan Derr, Chapter 8 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller, and Chapter 12 of Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson! Click here to access all current and prior chapters of the serial stories.

Serial subscribers, please take a moment to read the special note at the top of Chapter 12 of Mohegan: Native Instincts!

Opposite Day by Erica Kealey

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Opposite Day, a short ebook by Erica Kealey, available for just $1.99!

Davis has it all: the wealth, the connections, the job, the car—and the cheating ex. His long weekend with his lover ruined, tired of his life and the way it always goes wrong, Davis just wants to go home and enjoy a stiff drink. All that changes, however, when a moment of carelessness results in a chance meeting. Brody is everything that Davis is not supposed to want, so far from his tightly-regulated world that spending even thirty seconds with him would be a foolish waste of time. Any other day of the week, Davis wouldn’t waste his time.

But every other day hasn’t worked out so great, and Davis decides that for just one day, maybe he should try something different…

 Opposite Day cover

Coming soon page updated!

Check out the updated Coming Soon page, now updated with the ebook and serial release schedule through the end of 2011! From this page, you can view cover images and read summaries and excerpts for our upcoming stories.

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08/03/11: Serial updates, new ebook formats, and call for submissions!

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Serial Updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including Part 2 of A Kind of Remedy by Ashley Shaw, part of our Bad Moon Rising serial, and Chapter 8 of Sasha L. Miller’s The Fairy’s Assistant, part of our fairy tale serial. Click here to access all current and prior chapters of our serial fiction.

New ebook formats: Mobipocket and Microsoft Lit

Less Than Three Press is pleased to announce we’re creating Mobipocket (.mobi) and Microsoft LIT (.lit) formats for all of our ebooks! This conversion is currently in process and will be completed over the next several weeks, beginning with our latest releases and working backwards through our catalog. Mobipocket and Microsoft LIT formats will be included in the Bundle download option.

If you would like to purchase a Mobipocket or Microsoft LIT version of an ebook for which these formats are not yet available, please leave a comment on this post or email the webmaster with the book you would like converted and we’ll bump it to the top of our conversion queue.

Call for submissions

Less Than Three Press is always on the lookout for general submissions! We accept stories 10,000 words or longer, so if you’ve missed an anthology deadline, you can still submit your story as a general submission! For our content guidelines and other submission details, click here.

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07/27/11: Serials, ebooks, new features, deadlines, and more!

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Serial Updates

Check out this week’s serials! We’ve got the first part of Megan Derr’s Impractical, available without subscription, as well as Chapters 10 and 11 of Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson. Don’t forget to check out Chapter 7 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller as well! You can access all current and previous parts of the LT3 serials here.

Impractical: the cover 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.

Dance in the Dark now in the Book Market!

Dance in the Dark by Megan Derr is now available in the LT3 Book Market for $7.99!

At the age of nine, Johnnie lost everything. A quiet, normal child, his life forever changed when his family was attacked by a blood-crazed vampire, leaving his parents dead and Johnnie an orphan.

Now grown, he is the cold, proud, beautiful—but very human—son of the Dracula Desrosiers, who took him in after the tragedy that befell Johnnie’s parents. Constantly kept apart for being human, Johnnie chooses to bury himself in the two things he most loves—books and mysteries.

When he is summoned by a friend to solve a simple mystery involving a pair of Cinderella slippers, and in putting one mystery to rest Johnnie only succeeds in waking several more…

 Dance in the Dark: The cover

New “Bundle” format and extended downloads

LT3 is making our ebooks easier to read across many platforms! If you prefer to read PDFs on your PC but still want an ePUB for your eReader, you can now buy both at once! The new “bundle” format in the Book Market gives you a zip file that contains one each of the PDF, ePUB, and HTML formats of the ebook you are purchasing. This new option is available at the same price as a single ebook format, so you get all three ebook formats for the price of one.

LT3 will continue to offer the single-format options of the ebooks for those customers who prefer to buy their ebooks in a single format. Additionally, this allows you to continue to download past purchases of your ebooks.

In addition to the “bundle” format, we’ve extended the download days and download attempts; you can now download copies of your ebooks up to 180 days after purchase (approximately six months) and you have up to 8 downloads per ebook!

Note: A Delicate Game version issue

Due to a technical problem, the version of A Delicate Game by Sasha L. Miller that was uploaded on July 6, 2011 was the unedited version. This problem was corrected on July 22; all copies of A Delicate Game downloaded prior to this date were the incorrect. You can download this ebook for free here.

Print Book Sale extended!

The Beach Days Summer Sale of our paperback books has been extended! You can get 15% off all paperbacks ordered between now and August 31, 2011!

Vixen Deadline!

The deadline for Vixen, our call for femmeslash call for submissions, is this Sunday, July 31. 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 July 31 deadline, simply email us what you have on July 31 and include the estimated date by which your story will be completed.

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06/22/11: Serial updates and a new ebook!

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Serial updates

This week, we’ve got Part 3 of The Wolf and the Moon by Kayla Bain-Vrba, part of the Bad Moon Rising serial and Chapter 5 of The Fairy’s Assistant by Sasha L. Miller, part of our Fairy Tale series! You can view all current and previous chapters from the serial fiction page.

Important! Please read the special note at the beginning of Chapter 5 of The Fairy’s Assistant.

Reward Points update

The Reward Points system unfortunately included a glitch that prevented any Reward Points that you earned from actually being set to Earned. This glitch has been corrected; all previously earned Reward Points are now available for redemption. Going forward, all Reward Points are automatically applied to your account within 24 hours of your original purchase. We apologize for the inconvenience and any confusion this error may have caused. If you have any problems redeeming your reward points, please let us know.

The Ambassadors by Sasha L. Miller

Less Than Three Press is pleased to offer the new ebook The Ambassadors by Sasha L. Miller. This ebook is available from the Book Market for just $1.99!

Anike is the royal artist, kept extremely busy by a demanding prince who wants every illustrious moment of his reign recorded in ink and paint. His latest task is recording the visit of the ambassadors from the country of Marana, long closed off from the world and only just newly opened. But when they arrive, and Anike catches his first glimpse of the exotic Maranans, painting is the very last thing on his mind—and all that could go wrong by falling for them the first.

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06/01/11: Serials, sales, rewards, and more!

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Serial updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including Part 3 of Case 009: Beauty in Repose, part of Megan Derr’s Dance in the Dark; Chapter 2 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller; and Chapter 5 of Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson! As always, you can access all current and past chapters from the serial fiction page.

Beach Days Summer Sale!

Less Than Three Press recently reassessed our pricing. As part of this, we reviewed our paperback pricing and discovered some discrepancies. We’ve recalculated our pricing and are pleased to announce that most of our paperbacks have dropped in price! Additionally, to celebrate the summer and the hot, lazy days meant for reading, we’re offering an additional 15% off all paperbacks in our Book Market, including the newly released That Famous Happy End anthology! This sale will run through July 31, 2011, so you can enjoy new paperbooks all summer long!

New! Reward Points in the Book Market

LT3 Press is pleased to announce our new Reward Points program! This program awards points for every dollar you spend in the Book Market. Points can then be redeemed as a discount towards your next purchase. You receive 1 point for each dollar, and each point is worth $0.05. For example, if you buy a $9.99 book, you earn 10 reward points and can use them to get $0.50 off your next order.

Reward points do not expire. You cannot use reward points earned for an order on that order. You can select whether to redeem your reward points at checkout or continue to save them for later. If you have any questions, email the admin.

Private Dicks: Undercovers, an LT3 call for submissions

OPEN TO SUBMISSIONPrivate Dick: Undercovers
The life of a private investigator is boring more often than it is exciting—tracking debtors, tailing cheating spouses, and long hours of surveillance do not add up to a sizzling life of mystery and romance.

But every now and then there comes a case that takes all a good PI has to offer and demands still more. A case that requires not just time and effort, but sliding in to another skin to find that clue or witness that will break the case. How far will a PI go to do his job; how high will he climb, how low will he sink?

Give us your stories of private investigators willing to don any guise to solve the case.

THE DETAILS:

  • Deadline is January 4TH
  • Stories should be approx 10,000-20,000 words in length (a little longer or shorter is fine).
  • Stories must have a happily ever after end.
  • Any genre is acceptable; stories may be contemporary, paranormal, fantasy, sci-fi, etc. There must be a strong element of a private investigator going undercover, but be as creative as you like in executing that theme. We are looking for fun, unique spins on this popular genre.
  • All usual LT3 submission guidelines apply.
  • Payment is $150.00, electronic copies, and two copies of the print book.

Reminder: Angels and Vixen Submissions

Remember! Submissions for the Something Happened on the Way to Heaven close on June 30, 2011 and submissions for Vixen close on July 31, 2011! If you need more time to finish your submissions, email the editor and request a deadline extension.

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03/30/11: Serial updates and site upgrades

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Serial updates

This week, check out part 2 of Megan Derr’s Looking for More, part of the That Famous Happy End serial. We’ve also got Chapter 5 of Moth to the Flame, a twelve huntsmen rewrite by A.R. Jarvis, part of our Fairy Tale serial. You can access all current and past chapters from serial fiction page.

Site upgrades

Please note that our hosting service provider is moving our server this evening. This will entail that our servers be down for 1-3 hours this evening at some point between 11:00 p.m. Eastern time on March 29 and 7:00 a.m. Eastern time on March 30.

Additionally, on Saturday, April 2, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the Book Market will be offline for software updates. We thank you for your patience and apologize for any inconveniences these upgrades may cause.

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Server upgrades for Less Than Three Press

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Server Upgrades

The service provider that provides hosting for Less Than Three Press is completing server maintenance tomorrow evening that will entail our servers being down for 1-3 hours. They can’t tell us exactly when service will be out, but you may be unable to load the site for a period of time between 11:00 p.m. Eastern time on March 29 and 7:00 a.m. Eastern time on March 30.

Because of this server movement, the regularly scheduled update may be put into place earlier (around 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on March 29) or later (at some point on March 30). We thank you for your patience and hope that this upgrade has little to no effect on your access.

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Serial Updates and Various News!

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Serial Updates
This week brings the conclusion of both M.J. Willow’s The Prince, the Thief, and the Shadow Emperor and Mara Ismine’s fairy tale He Shall Go to the Ball. Check out the current and previous parts from the serial fiction page and be sure to tune in two weeks from tonight for the next story in That Famous Happy End anthology and a new fairy tale!

LT3 Press will be at Wincon
Less Than Three Press is pleased to announce that we will be a vendor at this year’s Wincon. We will be selling the following books for $8 each:

  • The Bastard Prince by Megan Derr
  • Living Words by Sasha L. Miller
  • Magic and Mischief by Megan Derr
  • Midsummer Days by Megan Derr
  • The Missing Butterfly by Megan Derr

If you are attending Wincon, stop by and say hello!

LT3 Ebooks available from the Kindle store
You can now purchase LT3′s ebooks from the Amazon Kindle store. Some titles are currently being processed by Amazon, but most titles should be available for your Kindle by the end of the week.

Excerpts now available for every ebook!
LT3 Press now offers a short excerpt for each ebook in our store, giving you a glimpse of each book before you purchase it! To read an excerpt, click the “Read an excerpt” link below the summary on the ebook product page.

Darkling Mine by Andra Sashner
Check out the short ebook Darkling Mine by Andra Sashner, now available for free in our ebook market!

Set to solve the mystery of a recent string of highway robberies, Bjorn is startled when he hears the details of the crimes—as though the very darkness comes to life to attack the nobles trapped within their carriages. It is a description he knows very well indeed, a description that puts the robber far closer to home than he dares let anyone realize…

Read an excerpt

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Credit card processing, serial updates, charity ebook, and more!

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Serial updates
This week we’ve got Part 2 of Rachelle Cochran’s Perfect Angel in our That Famous Happy End serial. We’ve also got a new fairy tale by Mara Ismine, a Beauty and the Beast remake titled Pretty. Check them out from the serial fiction page.

Credit Cards now accepted
LT3 is pleased to announce that we now accept credit cards! You can now use your MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express cards to purchase ebooks and to pay for your serial subscriptions. As part of this upgrade, we’ve implemented the price change outlined in a previous post. Most ebook pricing has increased by $0.50 to $1.00, and the monthly serial subscription has increased by $0.30. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble with purchases using your credit card.

More subscription options!
We now offer two additional payment plans for our serial fiction subscription, giving you three options for subscribing to LT3. You can pay $3.25 once a month, $18.60 every 6 months, or $35.40 once a year.

Gulf Oil Spill Fund
LT3 is donating $2 from every purchase of Dire Straits, a new ebook from Megan Derr, to the Gulf Oil Spill Fund put together by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. To learn more about the Gulf Oil Spill Fund and the Greater New Orleans Foundation, click the image below.

Less than a century ago, the world was a dangerous place. Monsters ran wild, and the only thing more dangerous was the humans attempting to control them. The chaotic lands were eventually tamed by a group of people who came to be known as the Crown, and they formed a government that helped to maintain peace in the untamed lands.

Bannick Poore is one such maintainer of peace, an infamous Priest with guns at his hips and a blood red collar around his throat. He is equal parts mage and gunslinger, and it is his sworn duty to uphold the law and drive back the monsters that still crop up in a land that is still learning to be civilized…

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