Read a Free E-Book Week

March 6th through the 12th is Read an E-Book Week and, if you’re a citizen of the internet, you’re legally obligated to participate.

Luckily for you, all Jersey Devil Press titles are now available on Smashwords, in what we’re fairly confident is every digital format known to man. And even luckilier for you, Smashwords is an official sponsor of Read an E-Book Week and running a sitewide promotion until the 12th, wherein a significant amount of their titles are heavily discounted and all Jersey Devil Press titles, in particular, are free. Yes, that’s right, FREE!

You can find the Jersey Devil Press page on Smashwords by clicking here. All our books are listed at the bottom and, when you select a title, you’ll see a coupon code next to it that’ll give it to you for free. Or, if you’re feeling lazy, that code is RE100. Just enter it at the checkout.

The promotion’s only on for a week, so be sure to get your free electronic copies of Exponential Apocalypse, Perhaps., and The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology while you can. And then tell your friends, neighbors, and random people on the subway. Because once it’s over, you’re going to have to go back to shelling out a dollar or three for a copy like a chump.

Adam Raised a Ryan Werner

It is our pleasure to present the second installment of Brilliant Disguise: the story “Carbon,” as written by none other than Ryan Werner.

We looked fairly similar. That was my first thought. Our hair was identical in both color and cut. We were the same height, our fingers the same length. It was as if one of us had been photocopied directly from the other. When my wife, Mary, came home I was fixing drinks in the kitchen, and after a brief glance toward Rick on the couch, she asked him how his day had been. When I walked back into the living room, she did a double-take, like a cartoon.

Click here to read the whole thing.

Ryan claims to hate Bruce Springsteen, but that’s physically impossible, so he’s probably lying. In any event, he took a stab at some lyrics from “Adam Raised a Cain” and came up with a pretty spectacular story. And like Ryan said himself, “it has some marital woes and a girl named Mary, so that’s Springsteen enough, right?” And he says he’s not a fan.

Be sure to check out Ryan’s Our Band Could Be Your Lit, where he does this kind of thing on a weekly basis. And feel free to send us your own attempt at spinning fiction out of Springsteen lyrics for future Brilliant Disguise installments.

Valentine’s Stories

May we present, for your Valentine’s Day reading, a bunch of stories:

“Formula Romance,” by Caru Cadoc
“That Was Called Love,” by Chloe Caldwell
“Jenny,” by Jozelle Dyer
“The Pragmatist,” by Hilary Gan
“The Rodeo Clown,” by Annam Manthiram
“Three Dates in Orlando,” by Daniel McDermott
“A Terrifying Moment of Contentment,” by Mike Sweeney
“English Degree,” by Ryan Werner

Some are about love, some about why love is terrible, and some about both. And one is about porn. That’s a kind of love, right?