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<\/a>Arc Manor is venture testing a new approach to sf publishing in cooperation with a number of publishers and authors \u2013 including several recognized via the Prometheus Awards.<\/p>\nArc Manor, best known to LFS members as the sf publisher of Prometheus winners Robert Heinlein and L. Neil Smith, is gearing up for Book Bale, its new download-books subscription program, with a special July discount.<\/p>\n
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Quite a few publishers are involved in the program, with the most prominent being Baen Books<\/a> (a frequent publisher of Prometheus nominees, finalists and winners, including the 2022 Best Novel winner Rich Man\u2019s Sky<\/em><\/a> by Wil McCarthy) and Locus<\/em> magazine<\/a>, the monthly sf trade magazine covering the sf publishing field.)<\/p>\n The wide range of authors participating include Hugo, Nebula and Prometheus winners and major New York Times bestselling authors \u2013 such as Orson Scott Card, George R.R. Martin, Lois McMaster Bujold<\/a> and Harry Turtledove <\/a>(Turtledove won the 2008 Prometheus Best Novel award for The Gladiator<\/em>, while Bujold\u2019s novel Falling Free<\/em> was inducted into the Prometheus Hall of Fame in 2014.)<\/p>\n In addition, members will be able to access exclusive interviews and readings.<\/p>\n The first interview is with Lois McMaster Bujold, and is scheduled for a July release.<\/p>\n Additional benefits include interactive discussions with authors; exclusive book readings; online chat sessions with agents, editors, publishers and other industry professionals; and advance review copies of selected new books before they are officially published.<\/p>\n The currently available immediate-download inventory of Book Bale offers more than 650 books, and is growing daily, Arc Manor reports.<\/p>\n Authors managing their own portfolios under the new program include Thomas K. Carpenter, Jeff Carver, David Gerrold, Matt Huges, Scott Overton, Kate Poelle, David B. Savage, Robert J. Sawyer and Anthea Sharp.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How does the new program work?<\/strong><\/p>\n Anyone may sign up through Arc Manor to become a Book Bale member. Members pay a monthly subscription fee of $9.99 and can download books every month for up to $60. All books are listed from $2.99 to $8.99, so that means that a member can download up to 20 books each month.<\/p>\n Such a deal \u2013 especially for avid sf readers.<\/p>\n Currently, and through mid-July, Arc Manor is offering a discount, including a coupon for 25 percent off for the next three months\u2019 subscriptions.<\/p>\n In addition, everyone gets a 14-day risk-free trial membership. (Credit cards will only be charged after the 14 days.)<\/p>\n Use BookBale.club to log in as well after you have registered.<\/p>\n Among the Prometheus-recognized works available: L. Neil Smith\u2019s Blade of P\u2019Na, <\/em>a 2017 Best Novel finalist; and Heinlein\u2019s The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes, <\/em>a 2021 Best Novel nominee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * Read\u00a0\u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an essay in the international magazine\u00a0Quillette<\/em>\u00a0that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf\/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.<\/p>\n *\u00a0Watch <\/strong>videos <\/strong>of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog\u2019s\u00a0Video page.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Libertarian futurists believe that culture matters! We understand that the arts and literature can be vital, and in some ways even more powerful than politics in the long run, by sparking innovation, better ideas, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other\u2019s rights and differences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some are calling it a \u201cNetflix for books.\u201d Arc Manor is venture testing a new approach to sf publishing in cooperation with a number of publishers and authors \u2013 including several recognized via the Prometheus Awards. Arc Manor, best known to LFS members as the sf publisher of Prometheus winners Robert Heinlein and L. Neil … Continue reading Publishers, acclaimed authors joining Arc Manor\u2019s new Book Bale program for discounted books, exclusive interviews, readings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1860],"tags":[1129,2008,2009,2010,2011,29,1071,21,1252],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-robert-heinlein","tag-arc-manor","tag-book-bale","tag-david-gerrold","tag-jeff-carver","tag-kate-poelle","tag-l-neil-smith","tag-lois-mcmaster-bujold","tag-robert-heinlein","tag-robert-j-sawyer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-1yA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>To sign up, visit BookBale.club<\/a> (Note: After the official Book Bale launch date of July 17, the website to visit will be BookBale.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/a>After going through the sign-up process, click on \u201center a promo code\u201d and put in the promo coupon code \u201cpublisherspick\u201d (without the quotation marks.)<\/p>\n<\/a>IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE:
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\n<\/u><\/strong>* Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/strong>For the full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced\u00a0Prometheus Awards page\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>on the LFS website, which now includes convenient links to the full set of published appreciation-reviews of past winners.<\/p>\n<\/a>* Join us<\/strong>! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards,\u00a0join\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans.<\/p>\n