One week left for a FREE Cosmic Comedy.

+ huge discounts on other books

Phillip Carter

AJ Pagan IV

, and

John Coon

Jul 24, 2024

Hello.

(your free book is below this preamble. I think it’s a nice preamble, but I won’t be upset if you skip it).

Chapter one, the preambling

This time it’s preambleal

(is that a new word?)

There’s not been a proper Free Fiction Friday for a few weeks because I’ve not had the time to find anything. I reached the end of my yearly Bookfunnel subscription and figured I’d put a month or two into researching competitors before investing again in the subscription.

Because when FFF returns in August, I am having a birthday sci-fi special for myself, and joining two freebie shelf providers.

I’m hoping this means the free fiction will double.

Thanks for your patience.

That said, it doesn’t mean I can’t find or invent my own freebies.

So I have.

Say hello to THE COSMIC COMEDY COLLECTION.

This small collection of five brand new Sci-Fi Comedy stories was a project I wanted to make for a long time. I first discussed a comedic sci-fi collection with a friend at university in 2015, but it took this long to find enough funny authors to put it together. The original title of that project is a secret, but its multiversal theme will return in a 2025 publication.

Come to think of it, a multiversal sci-fi comedy collection was the driving force behind creating Halfplanet Press to begin with, and as many of you now know, I wrote two of my own (WHO BUILT THE HUMANS? (2020) and WHO KILLED THE HUMANS? (2025)) and published them under Halfplanet because I didn’t want to spend the requisite 9 years finding a publisher weird enough to not tell me to remove the comedy poem about alien abductions.

So I built my own publishing company. Hi. You are now reading this in the voice of the publishing company. Weird how it sounds more cheerful than me, isn’t it?

Anyway, is TCCC successful, we’ll do another one. I had some authors on board who had to drop out for human reasons who we hope to bring back next time. And, as my comedy career grows, I’ll have more opportunities to promote these weird little books.

It’s a funny little thing. All five stories are new and exclusive.

My story is about shapeshifting aliens who used outdated memes to communicate (and flirt) with humans. It’s very much inspired by my own experience as a meme page owner.

The other four stories? Well, you’ll find out.

But that’s not all. As I am converting my 2023 Fringe comedy show into an online thing this year, as well as trying to get it shown in Edinburgh. More news on that soon.

For now, here’s the pricing for the July discounts.

The Cosmic Comedy Collection

was ~~$3.99~~, and is now $0 at most retailers.

Who Built The Humans? Special Edition

was ~~$4.99~~, and is now $1 at most retailers.

The Cosmonaut Who Died Twice

was $3.99, and is now $1 at most retailers.

You can use this button here to find all three of them.

My store

This might be the last WBTH discount for a while, so get it while you can.

Bonus feature: I’ve tagged co-writers John Coon and AJ Pagan IV here on this post. If they accept, you’ll be able to click on over to their substacks, too!

Note: Amazon manage their pricing differently to my eBook distributor. TCCC is free on Amazon US at the time of writing, but that can change according to what they want to do with it. The behind-the-scenes explanation of this is that we distribute to amazon from somewhere else, so can’t directly tweak the prices. We have to set price to $0 elsewhere and hope they will price match. So right now it’s $0, go get it!