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ATDrake · 02-01-2012, 10:13 PM

Academia, historicals, sleuthy mysteries, and literary fiction, plus a rather nifty looking historical AU fantasy by an established sf/fantasy author. The slushpile is perking up!

John Whitbourn (ISFDB entry) appears to have had a moderately lengthy writing career, with short stories appearing in DAW anthologies and a novel from publisher Orion. He offers an interestingly-looking historical fantasy/horror set in the Napoleonic Era, and involving Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (if you know anything about early computing or standard steampunk, you should know these names) and the Scarlet Pimpernel: Frankenstein's Legions

Tom Robertson's play was performed at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2006 and he now offers the script to: Napoleon vs the Turk

Todd C. Riniolo is a professor of social sciences and has had a non-fiction book published by semi-academic imprint Prometheus, as well as publications in peer-reviewed journals. Accordingly, he offers: Freud, Murder, and Fame: Lessons in Psychology's Fascinating History

Similarly, the Joseph Campbell Foundation offers: Myths to Live By (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

Signet-paperbacked J. Carson Black offers 8 assorted mystery/thriller/suspense, including one of the aforementioned Signet-paperbacked ones from circa 2006: Linkage to pull all of them up.

Aruna Sharan claims to be the pen-name of HarperCollins-published Sharon Maas, whose own blurb says that she used to live in India. She offers a Hindu-mythology-based historical novel: Sons of Gods -- The Mahabharata Retold

James Scott Bell, who appears to have a lot of Writer's Digest "how to write" guides and many paperbacks released by Christian publisher Zondervan offers what looks like a suspense story, from the context of the blurbed praise: No Laughing Matter: A Short Story

Nancy Sweetland (ISFDB entry) offers her 1984 printed fantasy short story, along with three other fantasy/mystery shorts: Linkage to pull them all up.

John August, a screenplay writer for several major films (IMDB entry) offers a creepy short story: Snake People

I doubt there's two people with Catherine Czerkawska's name who write media stuff for a living (IMDB entry, probably). She offers some kind of literary fiction novel set in the 60s and blurbed as "Wuthering Heights meets The Bridges of Madison County". Apparently she also writes plays for BBC Radio, so hopefully this will have decent literary merit: Bird of Passage

Phyllis A. Humphrey once wrote a business-advice book for Wiley back in the day. She now offers an historical novel set on the Titanic: Cold April

Newbie-looking small press Camel which offers Humphrey's book above also offers an interesting-looking art theft mystery/thriller which claims praise in its blurb by several well-established mystery authors for its newbie writer, who herself is a member of the Mystery Writers of America (albeit otherwise unpublished). So possibly you may want to try Cathi Stoler's: Telling Lies

Robert J. Duperre, who has had a couple of anthologized short stories (ISFDB entry) offers 5 free supernatural thriller-ish things: Linkage to pull them up, along with some non-free stuff which stubbornly refuses to be filtered out.

Small-press-published Gordon Ryan offers one of his political/military thrillers, should you have missed the omnibus edition earlier: Uncivil Liberties (A Pug Connor Novel #2)

Midge Raymond's story collection, originally published by Eastern Washington University and picked up for re-publication by a small Washington state press which has a number of litfic authors in its stable, apparently won the 2007 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. She offers one short story from it, involving biologists, penguins, and Antarctica, which was published in The Ontario Review: The Ecstatic Cry.

David Williams' historical drama about the pioneers of the railway age was apparently an Amazon Breakthrough Award Semi-Finalist for 2011. So if you want to give a try to a perhaps promising-looking indie who's been read and judged by more than a handful of people: Mr Stephenson's Regret

While I'm at it, I might as well note that one of the erotica stories offered by Excessica in the previous update is Piers Anthony's: Juliet for those who are curious as to how it would compare to his regular sf/fantasy risquéness.

Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like and it's still free by the time you see it.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Academia, historicals, sleuthy mysteries, and literary fiction, plus a rather nifty looking historical AU fantasy by an established sf/fantasy author. The slushpile is perking up! John Whitbourn (ISFDB entry) appears to have had a moderately lengthy writing career, with short stories appearing in DAW anthologies and a novel from publisher Orion. He offers an interestingly-looking historical fantasy/horror set in the Napoleonic Era, and involving Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace (if you know anything about early computing or standard steampunk, you should know these names) and the Scarlet Pimpernel: Frankenstein's Legions Tom Robertson's play was performed at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2006 and he now offers the script to: Napoleon vs the Turk Todd C. Riniolo is a professor of social sciences and has had a non-fiction book published by semi-academic imprint Prometheus, as well as publications in peer-reviewed journals. Accordingly, he offers: Freud, Murder, and Fame: Lessons in Psychology's Fascinating History Similarly, the Joseph Campbell Foundation offers: Myths to Live By (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) Signet-paperbacked J. Carson Black offers 8 assorted mystery/thriller/suspense, including one of the aforementioned Signet-paperbacked ones from circa 2006: Linkage to pull all of them up. Aruna Sharan claims to be the pen-name of HarperCollins-published Sharon Maas, whose own blurb says that she used to live in India. She offers a Hindu-mythology-based historical novel: Sons of Gods -- The Mahabharata Retold James Scott Bell, who appears to have a lot of Writer's Digest "how to write" guides and many paperbacks released by Christian publisher Zondervan offers what looks like a suspense story, from the context of the blurbed praise: No Laughing Matter: A Short Story Nancy Sweetland (ISFDB entry) offers her 1984 printed fantasy short story, along with three other fantasy/mystery shorts: Linkage to pull them all up. John August, a screenplay writer for several major films (IMDB entry) offers a creepy short story: Snake People I doubt there's two people with Catherine Czerkawska's name who write media stuff for a living (IMDB entry, probably). She offers some kind of literary fiction novel set in the 60s and blurbed as "Wuthering Heights meets The Bridges of Madison County". Apparently she also writes plays for BBC Radio, so hopefully this will have decent literary merit: Bird of Passage Phyllis A. Humphrey once wrote a business-advice book for Wiley back in the day. She now offers an historical novel set on the Titanic: Cold April Newbie-looking small press Camel which offers Humphrey's book above also offers an interesting-looking art theft mystery/thriller which claims praise in its blurb by several well-established mystery authors for its newbie writer, who herself is a member of the Mystery Writers of America (albeit otherwise unpublished). So possibly you may want to try Cathi Stoler's: Telling Lies Robert J. Duperre, who has had a couple of anthologized short stories (ISFDB entry) offers 5 free supernatural thriller-ish things: Linkage to pull them up, along with some non-free stuff which stubbornly refuses to be filtered out. Small-press-published Gordon Ryan offers one of his political/military thrillers, should you have missed the omnibus edition earlier: Uncivil Liberties (A Pug Connor Novel #2) Midge Raymond's story collection, originally published by Eastern Washington University and picked up for re-publication by a small Washington state press which has a number of litfic authors in its stable, apparently won the 2007 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. She offers one short story from it, involving biologists, penguins, and Antarctica, which was published in The Ontario Review: The Ecstatic Cry. David Williams' historical drama about the pioneers of the railway age was apparently an Amazon Breakthrough Award Semi-Finalist for 2011. So if you want to give a try to a perhaps promising-looking indie who's been read and judged by more than a handful of people: Mr Stephenson's Regret While I'm at it, I might as well note that one of the erotica stories offered by Excessica in the previous update is Piers Anthony's: Juliet for those who are curious as to how it would compare to his regular sf/fantasy risquéness. Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like and it's still free by the time you see it. Last edited by ATDrake; 02-02-2012 at 01:00 AM. Reason: The map is not the territory. The genre is not the title. Fixed incorrect name.