12/14/11: Impractical, serial updates, and Private Dicks deadline

Impractical by Megan Derr

Less Than Three Press is pleased to present Impractical by Megan Derr, now available in the Book Market for just $5.99!

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.

Serial updates

Visit the serial fiction page to read the latest serial updates, including:

• Part 1 of One for Sorrow by Sylvia Winters, part of our Something Happened on the Way to Heaven serial anthology. Note that One for Sorrow features an F/F romance.
• Chapter 17 of Saving Liam by Sasha L. Miller.
• Part 1 of Swordwick by Megan Derr, the first story in the Wick series. You can read the first part for free!

Private Dicks deadline is January 4, 2012

The deadline for submissions for Private Dicks, Less Than Three Press’s detective anthology, is January 4, 2012, in just three weeks! 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, The Bestiary. For more details, click here.