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
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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.