Open Submissions—Learn more Featured Ebooks—Visit the Book Market Featured Serials—Read more Coming soon—Learn more

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

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.

Posted in Announcements, Ebooks, Print Books, Site Upgrades | Comments Off

08/24/11: Serial updates and Mohegan: Native Instincts in the Book Market

August 23rd, 2011

Serial Updates

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, a series of short stories revolving around angels, beginning tonight with Sunburnt Country by L.J. LaBarthe. Click here to read the first installment of this series for free!

Check out Part 3 of Megan Derr’s Impractical and Chapter 9 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller as well! You can access all current and past chapters from the serial fiction page.

Important! Due to a snafu in our scheduling, the free download of Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson for subscribers was not available for the full two weeks. If you were subscribed to LT3′s serial fiction in the last two weeks and missed the download, please email us with your log-in name and the formats you’d like and we will send you your free copy directly.

Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson

Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson is now available in the Book Market for $5.99!

1950′s, in a small town in Oklahoma, rich boy Henry is used to getting what he wants, when he wants. But when what he wants is a man from the nearby reservation, a place of which his father strongly disapproves, what he wants proves for once to be difficult. And when that man proves to be a Lycanthrope with a dark past and savage nature, what he wants proves to be almost completely out of reach…

Note this story contains anthro.

 Mohegan cover

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates | 2 Comments »

08/17/11: Serial updates and The Elf, the Cat, and the Human

August 16th, 2011

Serial updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including Part 3 of A Kind of Remedy by Ashley Shaw, part of our Bad Moon Rising series, and Chapter 9 of The Fairy’s Assistant by Sasha L. Miller, part of our Fairy Tale series. For all current and prior updates, click here.

The Elf, the Cat, and the Human by Sasha L. Miller

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present The Elf, the Cat, and the Human by Sasha L. Miller, now available in the Book Market for just $2.99!

The truest form of trouble is a love triangle…

Teric is a cat shifter, too shy to ever admit the growing crush he has on his roommate and best friend, Edric—and too petrified to ever admit to his feelings for the haughty elf Akeid. Then Akeid asks him out, and begins to return his feelings with interest.

Edric has had a crush on Teric for ages, but has never known how to approach his best friend and say it. So he distracts himself at the clubs, hoping someone will be distracting enough. Then Akeid slips in and steals Teric away, and Edric wants badly to strangle the condescending, untrustworthy, far too beautiful elf.

Humans and mongrel cats are beneath him, but a bet is a bet, and Akeid means to win it. Until he loses sight of the bet, all his attention on the pretty cat slipping beneath his skin—and the hissing, spitting, jealous human dogging his every step.

Note: This story features a threesome.

 The Elf, the Cat, and the Human cover

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates | 1 Comment »

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

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.

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates, Site Upgrades | Comments Off

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

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.

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates, Site Upgrades, Submissions | Comments Off

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

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.

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates, Site Upgrades, Submissions | 1 Comment »

07/20/11: Serial updates and a new free read!

July 19th, 2011

Serial updates

Check out the beginning of A Kind of Remedy by Ashley Shaw, part of our Bad Moon Rising series, and Chapter 7 of The Fairy’s Assistant by Sasha L. Miller, part of our fairy tale series! You can access all current serials from the serial fiction page. For prior stories in the Bad Moon Rising series, click here.

New free read: Midsummer Baker by Megan Derr

You can now download an official copy of Midsummer Baker by Megan Derr from the Book Market. Midsummer Baker is a stand-alone short story in the Midsummer series.

A sweet baker with spicy taste…

Marcell lives a quiet life, keeping the treats coming in his aunt’s bakery. He is well known for his manners, his shy demeanor, and his perfect cinnamon rolls. He’s a classic good boy, who has never stepped so much as a toe out of line.

The Withers Boys are the town bad boys—faerie half-brothers whose only talents are their green thumbs and an unmatched ability to cause trouble. When they’re not causing trouble, it’s only because the Sheriff has caught them for the moment.

But things are never what they seem in a small town, and it’s always the quiet ones…This is Book 4 of the Midsummer series, but can be read without reading the prior books.

Warning: This story features incest and a threesome.

Submission deadline approaching: Vixen

The deadline for submissions for Vixen, Less Than Three Press’s femmeslash anthology, is July 31, 2011. 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, Private Dicks: Undercovers. For more details, click here.

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates, Submissions | Comments Off

07/13/11: Serials, Dance with the Devil, and more!

July 12th, 2011

Serial updates

Check out this week’s serial update! We’ve got Part 3 of Case 010: Paragon of Beauty, part of Megan Derr’s Dance in the Dark, Chapter 6 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller, and Chapter 9 of Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson! You can access all current and prior chapters for all of our serial stories from the serial fiction page.

Winners of the Dance with the Devil ebook giveaway!

Congratulations to the three winners of the our Dance with the Devil giveaway! Check your inbox for your copy of Dance with the Devil by Megan Derr!

  • Amber Wheat: Creatures, huh? I really am partial to demons because you never know what you’re going to get with a demon. Sometimes they are truly evil representations of all things bad and sometimes they are just misunderstood citizens of a place that outsiders deem “hell”. Demons come in all different shapes and sizes. In some stories they have grotesque appearances and can be spotted by the hero immediately, sometimes they wear gorgeous skins and take the hero in with a charming appearance, and sometimes they are the normal, everyday people walking down the street. I especially like it when the demon is the hero and the “hero” is actually a manipulative, backstabbing, selfish douche. And the horns, I especially like the horns! I love smartass demons, one in particular comes to mind… Becket! I love Becket, and my heart broke when… well never mind, go read the story, it broke my heart. Becket is a fantastic demon, just enough demonness and just enough smartass, and just enough hopeless romantic! Team Becket for the win!
  • Rylie: I’m going to have to say dragons as my favorite. I haven’t read a book or story yet, either eastern or western, where I disliked the dragons. Being able to fly must be amazing. I do love that Mercedes Lackey had a subspecies called bookwyrms and their hoard was rare books.
  • Ananas: I’d love to run into a shapeshifter. not necessarily a were anything, but I’ve always loved the idea, and how (in general) they are associated with tricksters. at least in my mythologies.

Dance with the Devil now available in the Book Market!

You can now find Dance with the Devil by Megan Derr in the Book Market for just $6.99!

In a world of demons, goblins, witches, sirens, werewolves, vampires, and so much more, it can be difficult to determine who is guilty of what and why. Chris White is a detective who fearlessly investigates this supernatural world, himself a unique product of it. He will take any case brought to him, but has a particular affinity for helping those who inhabit the poor districts of his city. From strange rituals and runaway vampires, to fighting sorcerers and confronting a demon lord, this paranormal detective will face any challenge—even a dance with the devil.

Read an excerpt…

Submission Deadline: Vixen

Submissions for the Less Than Three Press call for submissions Vixen, our femmeslash anthology, will close on July 31, 2011. 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. For more details on our open submissions, see our submissions pages.

Posted in Audience Participation, Contests, Ebooks, Serial Updates, Submissions | Comments Off

07/06/11: Serials, DwtD giveaway, and new, free ebook!

July 5th, 2011

SERIAL UPDATES

Check out this week’s updates, including the conclusion of The Wolf and the Moon by Kayla Bain-Vrba, part of our Bad Moon Rising series. We’ve also got Chapter 6 of The Fairy’s Assistant by Sasha L. Miller, part of our Fairy Tale series. You can access all current and past serial updates from the serial fiction page.

DANCE WITH THE DEVIL GIVEAWAY

Would you like a free copy of Dance with the Devil, coming out July 13th? Less Than Three Press is giving away three free copies of the ebook to random winners. To enter the drawing, tell us what your favorite supernatural creature! Do you pant after werewolves? Long for vampires? Will only a ghost suffice? Is there a particular character from that novel you’ve read fifty times? Step right up and tell us what creature you’d love to bump into in the night!

The Rules:

  • One entry only! You can write a sentence or an essay, but it is all equal to one.
  • Contest is open from now until 8:00 p.m. Eastern time on July 12, 2011.
  • Winners will be chosen randomly.

The free ebook will be emailed to the winners’ inbox, so be sure to specify a valid email when dropping your comment!

NEW EBOOK! A DELICATE GAME BY SASHA L. MILLER

Less Than Three Press is pleased to offer the new ebook A Delicate Game by Sasha L. Miller free of charge! This free ebook is available in PDF, ePUB, and HTML format!

Even masters of the game can meet their match…

Elio and Sestro are beautiful, seductive, and talented—in more ways than anyone knows. They are known for taking lovers back to their room to share for the night—but each lover only enjoys one night with the notorious brothers. Practically no one realizes the true nature of the lovers they choose. It is a game they created, and which they play masterfully.

Until they choose a lover who proves that the best way to win a game is to ignore all the rules…

Warnings: This story features a threesome and incest.

 A Delicate Game by Sasha L. Miller

We’ve also updated our other free ebooks, Lilacs and Seconds by Megan Derr and Darkling Mine by Andra Sashner, with HTML and ePUB formats as well! (Previously, these titles were only available in PDF format.)

Posted in Contests, Ebooks, Serial Updates | 145 Comments »

06/29/11: Serial updates, Fairytales Vol 3, and submission deadlines

June 29th, 2011

Serial updates

Check out this week’s serial updates, including:

  • Part 2 of Case 010: Paragon of Beauty, part of Megan Derr’s Dance in the Dark
  • Chapter 4 and 5 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller
  • Chapter 8 of Mohegan: Native Instincts by India Jackson

You can view all current and previous chapters from the serial fiction page.

New ebook: Fairytales Slashed: Volume 3

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present the latest volume of our fairy tale compilations, Fairytales Slashed: Volume 3.

Fairytales Slashed: Volume 3 cover In this third compilation of fairytales, see what happens when people and places are more than they seem…

Rasnake tells the tale of a man returning home after years away, only to find his home in shambles, his Princess missing, and his brother a stranger. It will take the help of his sworn brother, a battle bonded elf, to regain his blood brother and restore the fractured kingdom… Pretty tells the tale of a young man faced with a marriage he cannot bear to go through with, who runs away from home and finds himself stranded in a forest… He Shall Go to the Ball is the tale of a young man whose best chance at escaping his despicable stepfather is by making the most of the fact he teased relentlessly for his feminine beauty… Greenwood tells the story of a man who lost everything defending the man he loved, and who now spends his days as a mysterious figured in a dark hood, leading a band of thieves… and Moth to the Flame is the tale of a man sent on assignment to a castle where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful prince. But the prince later has no memory of their night together, and the young man determines to deduce the mystery and gain back his prince at any cost.

Submission deadlines: Something Happened on the Way to Heaven and more!

The deadline for submission for our Something Happened on the Way to Heaven anthology is tomorrow, June 30. If you’re interested in submitting a story, but are unsure you’ll be able to complete it or have your final revisions finished by the deadline, simply email us what you have on and include the estimated date by which your story will be completed.

The deadline for submission for our femmeslash anthology, Vixen is July 31, 2011. Submissions are also open for the anthology Private Dicks: Undercovers and we are also currently accepting ebook, fairy tale, and serial novel submissions. For details, including content guidelines, how to submit, and our royalty rates, see our submissions page.

Posted in Ebooks, Serial Updates, Submissions | 1 Comment »

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »