Dean Wesley Smith has a Dean Wesley Smith Starter Kit Kickstarter project. It has nine books and one short story from different genres, all the first in a series:

  • — The Cold Poker Gang … Kill Game (novel) (mystery/detective)
  • — The Thunder Mountain Series … Thunder Mountain (novel) (time travel historical)
  • — The Seeders Universe … Against Time (novel) (science fiction)
  • — The Poker Boy Series … The Slots of Saturn (novel) (urban fantasy, superhero)
  • — The Bryant Street Series … “Bryant Street” (short story) (Twilight Zone)
  • — A Ghost of a Chance Series … The Poker Chip (novel) (urban fantasy)
  • — The Pakhet Jones Series … Big Eyes (novel) (urban fantasy)
  • — The Marble Grant Series … The First Year (novel) (urban fantasy)
  • — The Mary Jo Assassin Series … Death Takes a Partner (novel) (fantasy thriller)
  • — The Earth Protection League … Life of a Dream (novel) (space opera)

The pledges have awesome writing courses: Writing Mystery series, Writing Space Opera, Writing Historical Fiction, Writing Idea Fiction, and Monetizing Short stories. For readers, the pledges include several DSW series.

3 days left and it has reached the first stretch goal so we get an additional short story.

The Humble Bundle has Attack on Titan Forever: “This colossal collection features all 34 volumes of Hajime Isayama’s acclaimed series, along with No Regrets, Before the Fall, Junior High, and more.”

17 days left

Storybundle has the 2023 World SF Bundle curated by Lavie Tidhar.

For five dollars, the basic bundle has:

  • Unto the Godless What Little Remains by Mário Coelho
  • Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Ion Curtain by Anya Ow
  • Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction by Eugen Bacon and Milton Davis

With 20 dollars, the bundle has six more books:

  • Nova Hellas: Stories from Future Greece edited by Francesca T Barbini and Francesco Verso
  • The Love Machine & Other Contraptions by Nir Yaniv
  • & This is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
  • And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed
  • Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders by Aliette de Bodard
  • HebrewPunk by Lavie Tidhar (StoryBundle Exclusive)

17 days left.