Free (Kindle DRM-free ) Northanger Abbey and Angels by Vera Nazarian [Fantasy] + KDP

[ATDrake]

A few nice things in the KDP Select exclusive or else slushpile thus far. I don't have time to sort through them, much less look further right now, so this is the most significant stuff.

Former Marion Zimmer Bradley protegee and now small-press publisher Vera Nazarian returns with a Jane Austen derivative fantasy which doesn't quite fit into the title field. Fittingly for the 1st day of the new Year of the Dragon, it is actually:

Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons by Vera Nazarian, from her own Norilana Books imprint and illustrated by the author herself.

Free without DRM, probably just for a day or two @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

Description
From the author of Mansfield Park and Mummies...

NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS

Dragons in the skies of Regency England!

Gothic horrors collide with high satire in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen's classic novel.

Young and naive Catherine Morland is constantly surrounded by angels only she alone can see. Leaving her country home for the first time, to embark on a grand adventure that begins in fashionable Bath, our romantic heroine must not only decrypt the mystery of the Udolpho Code but win her true love Henry Tilney.

Meanwhile she is beset by all the Gothic horrors known to Impressionable Young Ladies -- odious demons, Regency balls, elusive ghosts, pleasure excursions, temperature-changing nephilim, secret clues, ogre suitors, and a terrifying ancient Dragon who has very likely hidden a secret treasure hoard somewhere in the depths of Northanger Abbey.

Gentle Reader -- this Delightful Illustrated Edition includes Scholarly Footnotes and Appendices.

This is the rest of what I've had time to look at thus far. If a link is broken, search is your friend. And now I have a bus to catch.

Previously-featured Canadian writer Cheryl Kaye Tardif returns with another Imajin/n-published sfnal murder mystery/suspense thriller, this one set in the Northwest Territories and involving a biomedical conspiracy: The River Her BC-set psychic investigator crime thriller is still free if you missed it earlier: Divine Intervention

Monique Hayward's business advice guide has a foreword by actor Morgan Freeman: Divas Doing Business: What the Guidebooks Don't Tell You About Being a Woman Entrepreneur

Vivian Yang's blurb claims praise from some Hong Kong and Asian-American newspapers & magazines. She has promising-looking period novel set in 1980s Shanghai: Shanghai Girl

Another Penumbra Publishing offering is David Berardelli's noir-ish suspense-looking thriller: Fatal Innocence

Cartoonist Carol Lay has some sort of collection of her popular and enjoyable Story Minute comics (used to be featured on Salon.com): 9 / 11 & W.(TF): A Story Minute Selection (Reformatted)

Previously-featured Kate Silver offers a previously-Kensington-published historical romance: Marrying the Musketeer

Previously-featured Jane Toombs offers the 3rd in some sort of historical saga set in early California which may also be a romance: Golden Chances Book 3 - The Dancer

Previously-featured Simon Kewin offers some sort of fantasy maybe-horror short story: Museum Beetles

Previously-featured Canadian horror writer James Roy Daley contributes to this anthology: Zombie Kong: The Anthology The novella-only version is also free: Zombie Kong

Popular print-to-self-pub success J.A. Konrath teams up with Henry Perez to offer one of his Jack Daniels mystery/thrillers: Floaters short-lived glitch freebie, sorry.

Harlequin-published Carol Grace offers a cowboy romance: Wild Mustang Man

Previously-featured Gordon Ryan offers some of his small-press published historical and thriller novels: 4-book omnibus Gordon Ryan Collection, The Leashes of Dogwood Hollow (included in the omnibus)

Tonia Brown (ISFDB entry offers the self-explanatory: Badass Zombie Road Trip

Samhain-published Canadian writer Jade Buchanan offers an f/f erotic romance short: Taking Chances

Previously-featured Robert E. Keller offers: Fantasy Stories -- Volume III

Previously-featured Doreen Owens Malek offers a contemporary romance: Amanda's Blue Marine

Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like.

[Dr. Drib]

Careful with "Floaters," as it's NOT free.

As always, thanks for the listing.



Don

[koland]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Careful with "Floaters," as it's NOT free.

Don

Appears to be free for UK, but not US.

[ATDrake]

It was free when I got it an hour ago and my receipt confirms. But yeah, probably transitional pricing glitch.

[Stormchild]

Not free in the UK now.

[koland]

Bad link for Jane Toombs. Use this one. Also, Hallow House - Part One is free.

[ATDrake]

Thanks all for pointing out the expired stuff and broken links.

Now that I'm finally back at a real computer, corrected and some minor additions:

Geralyn Dawson offers a small-town Texas set reunion romance originally published by Pocket in 1999: The Kissing Stars

Previously-featured Doranna Durgin offers an originally Baen-published (now yanked from catalogue) Celtic contemporary fantasy bordering on paranormal romance free to all via Smashwords (and hence to price-matching outlets): A Feral Darkness

Previously-featured Amber D. Sistla (ISFDB entry) offers what looks like a novel length fantasy: Obligations of a Cobalt Hue She also makes two of her previously-published short stories available to all via Smashwords.

Adams Media/Tyrus-published Craig McDonald offers the 2nd in his 1930s-50s period amateur sleuth crime novelist Hector Lassiter series, originally small-press published by Bleak House Books. This one's got guest appearances by Ernest Hemingway, Rita Hayworth, Salvador Dali, and a host of other period celebrities and looks fun, according to the Publisher's Weekly review on it: Toros & Torsos

Bram Stoker award-winner Kealan Patrick Burke (ISFDB entry) offers a suspense/maybe-horror short story: The Grief Frequency

Carole Gill (ISFDB entry) offers what looks like a collection of horror shorts (or it may just be one creepy single story): Hush Don't Die

Miette Korda says that her novel was an Amazon Breakthrough Quarter Finalist. I'm not sure exactly how this ranking works out, but if you'd like to try a possibly quality-vetted indie with a mystery/thriller maybe-romantic suspense involving Hungarian Jews and possible Nazis, she offers: Dead Man's Tattoo

China-born London-educated Netherlands resident Julie O'Yang says that her stories and poetry and articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide. I'm not bothering to check, but her historical novel set during the Sino-Japanese War looks interesting, so: Butterfly, A novel (With classic fan-shape illustrations)
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Beijing-born Minnesota-educated Lisa Zhang Wharton says she has published a few short stories in various literary magazines. She offers a 1989-set coming of age novel which looks like it might be interesting: Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square

Some of you may find this useful. The Instructables.com people offer a guidebook on how to make: Office Weapons to enliven your cubicle warfare, complete with 13 projects full of helpful DIY pictures.

If you happened to pick up that kid's picture book with the skateboarding dragon featured earlier and would like to practice your Indonesian, author/artist Scott Gordon with the help of translator Dian Pitaloka offers: Naga Kecil Peliharaanku (My Little Pet Dragon) (Indonesian Edition)

[emellaich]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

... a possibly quality-vetted indie with a mystery/thriller maybe-romantic suspense involving Hungarian Jews and possible Nazis...

Once again, thanks for the work. The descriptions are great, and some (like that above) bring a chuckle.

[Dr. Drib]

"Floaters" is now FREE. Here it is:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BDT780



This one, "Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square", is NOT yet free in the U.S.:

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Kiss-Tian.../dp/B005QBZN6Y


Thanks for the list. My archived items soon reach 1,000 ebooks.


Don

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

"Floaters" is now FREE. Here it is:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BDT780