A few late additions now that I've got some time to properly browse:
Aaron Polson, who's been published in small-press print magazines you can see the details of in
his Internet Science Fiction Database entry, offers a free story collection of zombie and ghoul tales:
Dead Lands: 13 Stories
(ETA: Jeanette Cottrell offers her 2005 Five Star-published mystery starring a teacher as amateur sleuth:
At Risk of Being a Fool
James L. Dickerson, who's written print-published celeb biographies of country music stars and movie actors, turns his hand to writing political technothrillers if you want to try:
Last Dance at the Sudden Death Café)
(ETA 2: Previously featured Patty Jansen (
ISFDB entry) offers a collection of her short sf/fantasy stories:
Out of Here
J. Kathleen Cheney (
ISFDB entry) offers a fantasy novella which she says was a Nebula finalist:
Iron Shoes.
These are not KDP, and she offers a few more free via
Amazon and
Smashwords, which may be in the process of pricing catchup, as there are some not free in both venues.)
Hat tip to arcadata for finding and featuring this one on her Randomize ME blog: Kit Ehrman, a current Poisoned Pen Press author, offers one of his PPP-published Steve Cline mysteries, which looks like it's the 1st in the series:
At Risk.
PPP are still holding their
introductory 99 cent 10 early-in-series mystery sale, available DRM-free in a Mobi/ePub bundle when bought directly from them, and they seem to have excellent commitment to customer service. I can recommend without reservation the books written by Beverle Grave Myers, Priscilla Royal, Betty Webb, and Mary Reed & Eric Mayer, all of whom I've now read.
(Okay, not the particular BGM book on offer, but I've read others and I doubt her first book would be a fetid sinkhole of suck from which the sequels miraculously achieved escape velocity.)
If you're interested in Western European royal biographical fiction, arcadata's posted
in her affiliate thread a deal for a biography of
Queen Joan I of Naples, a member of the Anjou clan, written by Nancy Goldstone, who's a fairly good and entertaining biographer whose books I've read before. It's a bit pricier now than it was when I bought it, but at $2.38 CAD (and probably still somewhere near that in USD), it's good value for money if you like these things.
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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I have no idea what I'll do with them …
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Read them and weep*?
* If the stories turn out to be really bad. Or perhaps even if they turn out to be So Bad It's Hilarious.
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Originally Posted by koland
I keep looking for the $6K book on Nuclear power reactors. Alas, they apparently don't need the sales bump (or think no one will check it out of the KLL, possibly?)
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Well, Springer
is a major academic publisher and possibly they'd view every KLL loan as a $6,323.00 sale* lost. But on the other hand, if they were to put in it the KLL, it would make paying for Prime more than worth it.
That $6,200+ you save pays for like, 6 months of the rent on the underground concrete bunker for storing your doomsday machine, and you can get free shipping for your books and DVDs, too!
On the other hand, it may not be worth it for the casual reader. Certainly one of Springer's other offerings,
this charming tale of functional relationships within the (NH4)2SO4 family was judged by reviewers as being something of a disappointment, despite the lower expectations which should go with its lower $5,200 price tag.
But it does qualify for Kindle e-textbook promotions, if you've got the appropriate sort of coupon.
And despite its flaws, it has managed to make it all the way to #71 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Materials Science > Metallurgy.
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That title, incidentally, is the single best argument I have ever seen for being able to turn off Amazon's default no-confirmation 1-click purchasing for Kindle books.
Also for being able to post reviews without making a "Verified Purchase".