Free (Smashwords + KDP) Heart of Dog by Doranna Durgin et al. [SF/Fantasy Anthology]

ATDrake · 06-08-2012, 12:33 PM

As with the KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile's ever-increasing size and noise-to-signal ration with its ever-diminishing returns, there's nothing really worthwhile which hasn't already been seen before.

So instead I'm going to feature a far more worthwhile backlist Smashwords title which may actually include Names You Recognize, at least if you read sf/fantasy.

The Heart of Dog by former Baen author Doranna Durgin is a collection of not only her own backlist dog-themed sf/fantasy shorts, but also additional stories from other fairly well-known folks, such as former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and DAW-published Canadian author Tanya Huff whose popular Blood Ties series was made into the short-lived TV show of the same name.

Every single story in this has been previously published in a prior print anthology or magazine (you can see the credentials in the credits), and every author in it has their own fairly substantial ISFDB and sometimes even Wikipedia entry.

This was also originally intended as a charity anthology to fundraise for Durgin's beagle Connery, who had some medical/health issues around the time it was assembled, and the other authors donated their stories to help out.

It's the book of hers which I bought during the Read an Ebook Week sale for around $2.50 CAD or so after currency conversion, because while Durgin had been fairly generous with the ex-Baen freebies and I wanted to buy something from her, unfortunately I just couldn't get into her writing at all, which is disappointing, since I usually like Baen's non-MilSF fantasy-in-the-real-world selections, so this ended up seeming like the best bet since it contains a number of authors I know I like.

Anyway, hopefully you'll find something to enjoy in this collection, which the author/editor is generously making free to all around the world in the DRM-free format of their choice for a limited time @ Smashwords (may also be price-matched in distributing outlets).

Durgin has two new backlist re-releases out recently: Wolf Justice and Touched by Magic. Maybe I'll give them another try if there's a future RAEBW/sale offer. She also has some paranormal romances out from Harlequin.

Description
The Heart of Dog includes Doranna's various backlist dog stories, and that's all it was initially meant to include--until her dog-loving writer friends heard about her need to fund expensive veterinary treatment for her beloved young companion and dog sports partner, ConneryBeagle. In short order, the book filled out with nine more stories, all from wonderful authors.

[Author list consists of: fellow MR member Jeffrey Carver (who has some new shorts free via Smashwords), Julie Czerneda, Tanya Huff, John Mierau, Fiona Patton, Jennifer Roberson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (who offers a rotating free short story every week on her website), & John Zakour (who writes very funny sf detective comedies for DAW.)]

The stories encompass a range of genres and moods--plenty of humor, plenty of sweetness and satisfaction, and above all, a profound understanding of the Heart of Dog.

The actual KDP exclusive-or-else slushpile stuff, which is not free to all in preferred DRM-free format and for an even more limited time:

Harlequin Silhouette-published Sally Berneathy offers a humourous contemporary romantic suspense: Undercover Secrets

Kensington-published Charlie Carillo offers a literary fiction grown-up coming-of-age journey of self-discovery thing: God Plays Favorites

Minor ISFDBed Chris Howard returns with an historically-set Saxon heroic fantasy which the blurb likens to Robert E. Howard's Cormac Mac Art stories: The Wine of Ravens

Valerie Douglas who writes as V.J. Devereaux for Ellora's Cave returns with a mystery/suspense novel (may be romantic): The Last Resort

Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek ruterns with a contemporary YA romance which she says was originally published in 1983 under the title That Certain Boy: Gabrielle's Bully She also offers a repeat.

Ballantine-published M. Ruth Myers returns with a race-against-time stage magician vs terrorist thriller: A Touch of Magic

Another western romance in the multi-author shared universe Bandit Creek series, with this installment by Berkley-published Michelle Beattie: Heart of Mine (Bandit Creek)

Imajin Books return to offer James Hoch's post-apocalyptic hero vs evil thing: James Hoch

Decadent Publishing LLC return to offer a contemporary probably-erotic romance short by Wendy Burke, which is set in Canada: The One He Chose (1 Night Stand Series)

Former Read an Ebook Week participant Xcite Books offers a selection of erotic romance and outright erotica which includes f/m, m/m, f/f, and f/m/m: Linkage for the lot

Backlist repeats by previously title-featured A.A. Attanasio, fellow MR member author Paul Levine, Nicola Thorne, Ken McClure, E.C. Sheedy writing as Carole Dean, Robert W. Walker, Jeremy Shipp, Frank Tuttle, M.J. Rose, Iain Rowan.

Established author repeats by Mary Anna Evans (her Faye Longchamp archaeological mystery series out from Poisoned Pen Press can be picked up for mostly $3 or less per book DRM-free at Books on Board, with the 1st in series, which I read and liked, at just 77 cents), Anthony Bruno, Gerrie Ferris Finger, Carol Buchanan, James Scott Bell, Glen Krisch, Mona Ingram, Mike Dennis, fellow MR member author Scott Nicholson, Janet Miller, Mark Edward Hall. New and repeat small press stuff from Books We Love/BWLPP as usual (including some backlist authors), Imajin Books, Dybbuk Press (including ISFDBed authors & Hugo-nominated Catherynne M. Valente).

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

ETA: Robert Elmer returns with a 2000 Bethany House YA WWII historical Christian fiction novel: Promise Breaker (Promise of Zion)

Synamon · 06-08-2012, 01:53 PM

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere, the second of the poolshark-turned-PI series by Robert Fate is free today: Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues and the first one (Baby Shark) which was free last week is only $1.99 if you missed it, or it should be available as a borrow for Prime members. Some of the books were nominated for an Anthony and have Pub Weekly and Booklist reviews that sound pretty good. He's got a summer release of the 5th in the series planned and seems to be giving away the earlier books on a weekly schedule as a promo using KDP Select.

ATDrake · 06-09-2012, 06:03 AM

Feature still free, thanks to contributors for spotting and sharing more backlist stuff, preliminary updates go here since I'm still awake (though hopefully not for much longer).

Harlequin Superromance-published Bobby Hutchinson offers her humourous memoir of trying to set up an alternative business in Vancouver when the romance sales slow: How Not To Run A B&B

Harlequin-published Leslie Kelly offers a newly-written apparently humorous romance: Bringing Down Sam (Temptation In The City) She's apparently also been offering other newly-written stuff for $2.99 via Smashwords, if you happen to be a fan of hers.

HarperCollins Mischief-published Justine Elyot, who incidentally still has her official multi-store Mischief freebie available offers the self-explanatory: Saxonhurst Secrets - a paranormal menage novel This, apparently, is a kind of porno parody take on the traditional Sleepy English Village with Lurking Secrets™.

Darlene Panzera claims to have won the Debbie Macomber story-writing contest, which turns out to be true and thus will have her novella published in an upcoming anthology by HarperCollins' Avon imprint. For KDP, she offers a romance short story: A Look of Love

And as for author claims of somewhat more dubious provenance, another ex-Oceanview Publishing set of authors are still claiming that their book is being offered by said publisher. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The test will be if this keeps popping up KDP-free like a sprouting of mushrooms every couple of weeks like the other probably-unofficial ones do (Oceanview rarely repeats the real ones, and they're usually good for a month and show up on the official Time-Limited Offers freebie list, and don't seem to have ever gone free in the UK store). Linda Reid & Deborah Shlian's college radio host vs stalker thriller, originally out from Oceanview in 2009 and possibly not still out from them now: Dead Air (Sammy Greene Mysteries)

For what it's worth, we did get a different version of this late last year as a possibly-official freebie perhaps dating from before all the KDP Select stuff started, which is at a different price and properly linked to the paper and audio editions. The "new" version appears to have removed all the text-indents in the paragraphs and the scene spacing that exist in the maybe-official one.

I kind of wonder about bootlegging now, as fake pirate editions would explain a lot about things. Or Oceanview are choosing to distribute a really inferior second version of their product via KDP Select, or the authors have run out of their free days on the other edition and have put up a new one so that they can get more KDP publicity, as some other backlist authors have been noted to do.

(ETA: Mystery solved, and the answer is option #2. At least for some of these, at any rate, Oceanview has apparently been planning 1-day freebie-izations for June via KDP Select.

You'd think they wouldn't need to do it that way because they've already got an official in to the regular Amazon promotional channels to freebie their books at will every month and apparently they're a large enough publisher that they don't need to yank their books from the other stores to do so {or they may just be violating the terms of KDP Select}.

But they really need to work on the quality of what they're offering via KDP versus the regular channels because that formatting discrepancy is just messed up.)

And finally, a book which is not being offered via KDP Select (unless it's freshly about to be yanked from All Romance eBooks where it's apparently one of their recent top sellers), but playing pricing catchup with somewhere. I may not know where this is coming from, but at least I know who's offering it. Total-E-Bound-published Canadian Jade Buchanan returns with an apparently-humourous m/m/m shapeshifter erotic ménage romance which is 2nd in her 5-flames on the ARE heat index series : Duck Fart (Wolf Creek)

Backlist repeats from Ann Tatlock. Established author repeats by James Scott Bell.

Happy reading, if you happen to spot anything you think you might like, especially if you happen to pick all those apparently-humourous romance-related offerings we seem to have gotten in this batch of stuff.

ATDrake · 06-10-2012, 07:31 AM

Preliminary updates for today. This is what I spotted of interest amidst all the multiple repeats (but it is interesting):

The late Arkady Fielder (Wikipedia entry) was a Polish writer and journalist who had several books published in English in the 40s and 50s from small and large houses. This WWII military history/biography of the RAF fighter squadron, complete with the author's own photos to accompany the text, was originally published by Roy in 1943 and reprinted with additional supplements from the author's estate: Squadron 303 (which has its own Wikipedia entry, incidentally; it looks important enough to merit a title feature, but I really don't feel like starting one now; maybe if they repeat it one day when there's nothing else to trump it in the slushpile)

D.H. Eraldi offers a 1999-Berkley historical western revenge drama: Settler's Law

As mentioned, many repeats, mostly multiply repeated from people/presses who've been multiply mentioned before. I think I'll let you test your name recognition skills for the slushpile since it's mostly minor established author stuff.

Except for award-nominated Canadian historian Stephen R. Bown's non-fiction book of collected magazine-published essays on historical explorers, since it's educational and all.

Happy reading, if you happen to enjoy historically-related stuff, because this seems to be a good day for that.

ATDrake · 06-11-2012, 11:02 AM

A quick dip into the slushpile. Several nice new things that I spotted (skipping much, since time crunch and all).

Oxford University Press-published Tim Vicary returns with another installment in his legal thriller series: Bold Counsel (The Trials of Sarah Newby)

Samhain-published Lynne Connolly offers a set of short stories set in her published historical romantic mystery series, the 1st of which was an official freebie earlier this year, and mostly fun to read: Richard and Rose - Short Stories

Harlequin-published Kate Hewitt returns with an anthology of historical romance shorts: Through the Years

Robert Broomall offers his 1993 Fawcett-published historical western: The Lawmen

Macmillan-published Ruth Harris offers a sweeping historical interpersonal drama centred around a love triangle (does not appear to be a dedicated romance): DECADES (20th Century Series, Book #1)

Doug Lamoreux offers a self-pub horror novel that quotes blurb praise from Fangoria magazine: Dracula's Demeter

Backlist repeat by Larry D. Names, offering his Charlie Siringo prospecting mystery.

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

ATDrake · 06-12-2012, 11:58 AM

A quick dip from earlier this morning as I have no time left right now. We have a real treat for sfnal TV fans today.

Those people who wrote TV episodes for one of the newer Twilight Zone series incarnations return with 7 TZ screenplays with additional commentary: Linkage for the lot

Adams Media-published Bill Cameron (we got an official Tyrus imprint freebie from his last year) offers a Dagger Award-nominated hardboiled fairy tale short story: The Princess of Felony Flats

Australian small press Big Sky Publishing returns with two books; a military history/biography and a financial self-help book: Linkage for the lot

Marina Oliver is a much-published midlist UK writer who offers a cozy mystery that originally came out from Severn House in 2004 : A Cut Above the Rest (Dodie Fanshaw Mysteries)
This is not KDP but was recently free last week at Smashwords and now playing pricing catch-up, so may still be free at other venues.

(ETA: DRM-free ePubs for 3 Marina Oliver freebies; above + historical & contemporary romance of which another was previously published by Robert Hale price-matched @ Kobo)

Lots of repeats, but the backlist one I recall seeing is from John Matthews.

06-09-2012, 06:03 AM	#3
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Feature still free, thanks to contributors for spotting and sharing more backlist stuff, preliminary updates go here since I'm still awake (though hopefully not for much longer). Harlequin Superromance-published Bobby Hutchinson offers her humourous memoir of trying to set up an alternative business in Vancouver when the romance sales slow: How Not To Run A B&B Harlequin-published Leslie Kelly offers a newly-written apparently humorous romance: Bringing Down Sam (Temptation In The City) She's apparently also been offering other newly-written stuff for $2.99 via Smashwords, if you happen to be a fan of hers. HarperCollins Mischief-published Justine Elyot, who incidentally still has her official multi-store Mischief freebie available offers the self-explanatory: Saxonhurst Secrets - a paranormal menage novel This, apparently, is a kind of porno parody take on the traditional Sleepy English Village with Lurking Secrets™. Darlene Panzera claims to have won the Debbie Macomber story-writing contest, which turns out to be true and thus will have her novella published in an upcoming anthology by HarperCollins' Avon imprint. For KDP, she offers a romance short story: A Look of Love And as for author claims of somewhat more dubious provenance, another ex-Oceanview Publishing set of authors are still claiming that their book is being offered by said publisher. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The test will be if this keeps popping up KDP-free like a sprouting of mushrooms every couple of weeks like the other probably-unofficial ones do (Oceanview rarely repeats the real ones, and they're usually good for a month and show up on the official Time-Limited Offers freebie list, and don't seem to have ever gone free in the UK store). Linda Reid & Deborah Shlian's college radio host vs stalker thriller, originally out from Oceanview in 2009 and possibly not still out from them now: Dead Air (Sammy Greene Mysteries) For what it's worth, we did get a different version of this late last year as a possibly-official freebie perhaps dating from before all the KDP Select stuff started, which is at a different price and properly linked to the paper and audio editions. The "new" version appears to have removed all the text-indents in the paragraphs and the scene spacing that exist in the maybe-official one. I kind of wonder about bootlegging now, as fake pirate editions would explain a lot about things. Or Oceanview are choosing to distribute a really inferior second version of their product via KDP Select, or the authors have run out of their free days on the other edition and have put up a new one so that they can get more KDP publicity, as some other backlist authors have been noted to do. (ETA: Mystery solved, and the answer is option #2. At least for some of these, at any rate, Oceanview has apparently been planning 1-day freebie-izations for June via KDP Select. You'd think they wouldn't need to do it that way because they've already got an official in to the regular Amazon promotional channels to freebie their books at will every month and apparently they're a large enough publisher that they don't need to yank their books from the other stores to do so {or they may just be violating the terms of KDP Select}. But they really need to work on the quality of what they're offering via KDP versus the regular channels because that formatting discrepancy is just messed up.) And finally, a book which is not being offered via KDP Select (unless it's freshly about to be yanked from All Romance eBooks where it's apparently one of their recent top sellers), but playing pricing catchup with somewhere. I may not know where this is coming from, but at least I know who's offering it. Total-E-Bound-published Canadian Jade Buchanan returns with an apparently-humourous m/m/m shapeshifter erotic ménage romance which is 2nd in her 5-flames on the ARE heat index series : Duck Fart (Wolf Creek) Backlist repeats from Ann Tatlock. Established author repeats by James Scott Bell. Happy reading, if you happen to spot anything you think you might like, especially if you happen to pick all those apparently-humourous romance-related offerings we seem to have gotten in this batch of stuff. Last edited by ATDrake; 06-09-2012 at 06:46 AM.

06-10-2012, 07:31 AM	#4
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Preliminary updates for today. This is what I spotted of interest amidst all the multiple repeats (but it is interesting): The late Arkady Fielder (Wikipedia entry) was a Polish writer and journalist who had several books published in English in the 40s and 50s from small and large houses. This WWII military history/biography of the RAF fighter squadron, complete with the author's own photos to accompany the text, was originally published by Roy in 1943 and reprinted with additional supplements from the author's estate: Squadron 303 (which has its own Wikipedia entry, incidentally; it looks important enough to merit a title feature, but I really don't feel like starting one now; maybe if they repeat it one day when there's nothing else to trump it in the slushpile) D.H. Eraldi offers a 1999-Berkley historical western revenge drama: Settler's Law As mentioned, many repeats, mostly multiply repeated from people/presses who've been multiply mentioned before. I think I'll let you test your name recognition skills for the slushpile since it's mostly minor established author stuff. Except for award-nominated Canadian historian Stephen R. Bown's non-fiction book of collected magazine-published essays on historical explorers, since it's educational and all. Happy reading, if you happen to enjoy historically-related stuff, because this seems to be a good day for that. Last edited by ATDrake; 06-10-2012 at 07:35 AM.

06-12-2012, 11:58 AM	#6
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	A quick dip from earlier this morning as I have no time left right now. We have a real treat for sfnal TV fans today. Those people who wrote TV episodes for one of the newer Twilight Zone series incarnations return with 7 TZ screenplays with additional commentary: Linkage for the lot Adams Media-published Bill Cameron (we got an official Tyrus imprint freebie from his last year) offers a Dagger Award-nominated hardboiled fairy tale short story: The Princess of Felony Flats Australian small press Big Sky Publishing returns with two books; a military history/biography and a financial self-help book: Linkage for the lot Marina Oliver is a much-published midlist UK writer who offers a cozy mystery that originally came out from Severn House in 2004 : A Cut Above the Rest (Dodie Fanshaw Mysteries) This is not KDP but was recently free last week at Smashwords and now playing pricing catch-up, so may still be free at other venues. (ETA: DRM-free ePubs for 3 Marina Oliver freebies; above + historical & contemporary romance of which another was previously published by Robert Hale price-matched @ Kobo) Lots of repeats, but the backlist one I recall seeing is from John Matthews. Last edited by ATDrake; 06-12-2012 at 12:08 PM.

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06-08-2012, 12:33 PM	#1
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free (Smashwords + KDP) Heart of Dog by Doranna Durgin et al. [SF/Fantasy Anthology] As with the KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile's ever-increasing size and noise-to-signal ration with its ever-diminishing returns, there's nothing really worthwhile which hasn't already been seen before. So instead I'm going to feature a far more worthwhile backlist Smashwords title which may actually include Names You Recognize, at least if you read sf/fantasy. The Heart of Dog by former Baen author Doranna Durgin is a collection of not only her own backlist dog-themed sf/fantasy shorts, but also additional stories from other fairly well-known folks, such as former Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and DAW-published Canadian author Tanya Huff whose popular Blood Ties series was made into the short-lived TV show of the same name. Every single story in this has been previously published in a prior print anthology or magazine (you can see the credentials in the credits), and every author in it has their own fairly substantial ISFDB and sometimes even Wikipedia entry. This was also originally intended as a charity anthology to fundraise for Durgin's beagle Connery, who had some medical/health issues around the time it was assembled, and the other authors donated their stories to help out. It's the book of hers which I bought during the Read an Ebook Week sale for around $2.50 CAD or so after currency conversion, because while Durgin had been fairly generous with the ex-Baen freebies and I wanted to buy something from her, unfortunately I just couldn't get into her writing at all, which is disappointing, since I usually like Baen's non-MilSF fantasy-in-the-real-world selections, so this ended up seeming like the best bet since it contains a number of authors I know I like. Anyway, hopefully you'll find something to enjoy in this collection, which the author/editor is generously making free to all around the world in the DRM-free format of their choice for a limited time @ Smashwords (may also be price-matched in distributing outlets). Durgin has two new backlist re-releases out recently: Wolf Justice and Touched by Magic. Maybe I'll give them another try if there's a future RAEBW/sale offer. She also has some paranormal romances out from Harlequin. Description The Heart of Dog includes Doranna's various backlist dog stories, and that's all it was initially meant to include--until her dog-loving writer friends heard about her need to fund expensive veterinary treatment for her beloved young companion and dog sports partner, ConneryBeagle. In short order, the book filled out with nine more stories, all from wonderful authors. [Author list consists of: fellow MR member Jeffrey Carver (who has some new shorts free via Smashwords), Julie Czerneda, Tanya Huff, John Mierau, Fiona Patton, Jennifer Roberson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (who offers a rotating free short story every week on her website), & John Zakour (who writes very funny sf detective comedies for DAW.)] The stories encompass a range of genres and moods--plenty of humor, plenty of sweetness and satisfaction, and above all, a profound understanding of the Heart of Dog. The actual KDP exclusive-or-else slushpile stuff, which is not free to all in preferred DRM-free format and for an even more limited time: Harlequin Silhouette-published Sally Berneathy offers a humourous contemporary romantic suspense: Undercover Secrets Kensington-published Charlie Carillo offers a literary fiction grown-up coming-of-age journey of self-discovery thing: God Plays Favorites Minor ISFDBed Chris Howard returns with an historically-set Saxon heroic fantasy which the blurb likens to Robert E. Howard's Cormac Mac Art stories: The Wine of Ravens Valerie Douglas who writes as V.J. Devereaux for Ellora's Cave returns with a mystery/suspense novel (may be romantic): The Last Resort Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek ruterns with a contemporary YA romance which she says was originally published in 1983 under the title That Certain Boy: Gabrielle's Bully She also offers a repeat. Ballantine-published M. Ruth Myers returns with a race-against-time stage magician vs terrorist thriller: A Touch of Magic Another western romance in the multi-author shared universe Bandit Creek series, with this installment by Berkley-published Michelle Beattie: Heart of Mine (Bandit Creek) Imajin Books return to offer James Hoch's post-apocalyptic hero vs evil thing: James Hoch Decadent Publishing LLC return to offer a contemporary probably-erotic romance short by Wendy Burke, which is set in Canada: The One He Chose (1 Night Stand Series) Former Read an Ebook Week participant Xcite Books offers a selection of erotic romance and outright erotica which includes f/m, m/m, f/f, and f/m/m: Linkage for the lot Backlist repeats by previously title-featured A.A. Attanasio, fellow MR member author Paul Levine, Nicola Thorne, Ken McClure, E.C. Sheedy writing as Carole Dean, Robert W. Walker, Jeremy Shipp, Frank Tuttle, M.J. Rose, Iain Rowan. Established author repeats by Mary Anna Evans (her Faye Longchamp archaeological mystery series out from Poisoned Pen Press can be picked up for mostly $3 or less per book DRM-free at Books on Board, with the 1st in series, which I read and liked, at just 77 cents), Anthony Bruno, Gerrie Ferris Finger, Carol Buchanan, James Scott Bell, Glen Krisch, Mona Ingram, Mike Dennis, fellow MR member author Scott Nicholson, Janet Miller, Mark Edward Hall. New and repeat small press stuff from Books We Love/BWLPP as usual (including some backlist authors), Imajin Books, Dybbuk Press (including ISFDBed authors & Hugo-nominated Catherynne M. Valente). Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like. ETA: Robert Elmer returns with a 2000 Bethany House YA WWII historical Christian fiction novel: Promise Breaker (Promise of Zion) Last edited by ATDrake; 06-08-2012 at 01:35 PM.

06-08-2012, 01:53 PM	#2
Synamon Lunatic Posts: 1,691 Karma: 4386372 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Land of the Loonie Device: Kindle Paperwhite and Keyboard, Kobo Aura, iPad mini, iPod Touch	I'm not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere, the second of the poolshark-turned-PI series by Robert Fate is free today: Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues and the first one (Baby Shark) which was free last week is only $1.99 if you missed it, or it should be available as a borrow for Prime members. Some of the books were nominated for an Anthony and have Pub Weekly and Booklist reviews that sound pretty good. He's got a summer release of the 5th in the series planned and seems to be giving away the earlier books on a weekly schedule as a promo using KDP Select. Last edited by Synamon; 06-08-2012 at 02:04 PM. Reason: changed link to Kindle version instead of paperback

06-11-2012, 11:02 AM	#5
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	A quick dip into the slushpile. Several nice new things that I spotted (skipping much, since time crunch and all). Oxford University Press-published Tim Vicary returns with another installment in his legal thriller series: Bold Counsel (The Trials of Sarah Newby) Samhain-published Lynne Connolly offers a set of short stories set in her published historical romantic mystery series, the 1st of which was an official freebie earlier this year, and mostly fun to read: Richard and Rose - Short Stories Harlequin-published Kate Hewitt returns with an anthology of historical romance shorts: Through the Years Robert Broomall offers his 1993 Fawcett-published historical western: The Lawmen Macmillan-published Ruth Harris offers a sweeping historical interpersonal drama centred around a love triangle (does not appear to be a dedicated romance): DECADES (20th Century Series, Book #1) Doug Lamoreux offers a self-pub horror novel that quotes blurb praise from Fangoria magazine: Dracula's Demeter Backlist repeat by Larry D. Names, offering his Charlie Siringo prospecting mystery. Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like.

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