The feature item above is still free, and I did a random check of 5 of the KDP freebies, which were also still free, so I'm going to put this morning's slushpile yield as an update right here rather than make a new post.
Not sorted, since I need to shower/eat/bus, etc. But it's a really short list and there's some nice stuff in it for the horror/romance people:
Previously-featured Harlequin-paperbacked Patricia Watters offers three historical romances:
Her Master's Touch and 2-book omnibus edition :
Wicked Pleasures She also seems to offer a mix of backlist and self-pubs
over at Smashwords, with the former priced at $2.99 and the latter at 99 cents, which seems a very reasonable price distinction. For the lower price point, she gets more royalties if you buy direct from Smashwords (and possibly for the higher one, as well, as IIRC Smashwords' FAQ says something like 75-85% of the selling price).
James Robert Smith (
ISFDB entry) offers the self-explanatory:
The Living End: A Zombie Novel
Mark Edward Hall (
ISFDB entry) offers a short story collection:
Feast of Fear
Peter Giglio (
ISFDB entry) contributes to this anthology:
HELP! WANTED: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
Newbie horror writer Stephen Melling (
ISFDB entry) offers an organized crime thriller which apparently does involve werewolves from one of the comments (not described in the blurb):
Wolfkind
Previously-featured Jane Toombs now offers the 2nd in her early California-set historical saga with maybe romance:
Golden Chances Book 2 - The Interloper
It turns out that Gramercy Park Press is feeding their freebies via KDP and is a tiny press that looks like it started out as a self-pub to print the editor's stuff (but expanded to acquire a few more authors), so:
The Stapleton 2012 Gay Guide to Las Vegas
Raymond Benson has among other things, written some official James Bond media tie-in novels. He offers a 2-novel omnibus of his original work, which claims praise from a member of the rock band Jethro Tull, among others:
The Rock 'n Roll Detective's Greatest Hits - A Spike Berenger Anthology
I've previously included some other novels from newbie small-press Penumbra Publishing. Might as well toss this one in for fairness, since it's probably one of the ones which got them their minor ISFDB entry. :
America's Galactic Foreign Legion - Book 1: Feeling Lucky, which, as you can probably guess, is a MilSF by Walter Knight. Blurb says it's satirical in the tradition of Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Apparently in the future, ATMs will do press-ganging instead of bunches of roving sailors getting you drunk until it's too late to swim to shore.
Chester Burton Brown appears to be Canadian and claim minor Canadian publication credits. I'm not bothering to google, but I'll give his arctic set mystery a try, especially since it's not every day you get to see one with "a legless aboriginal detective whose handicaps are his greatest asset":
Stubborn Town
Australian sf writer and fellow MR member author Simon Haynes (
ISFDB entry) offers a short story in his popular Hal Spacejock series:
Hal Junior: The Secret Signal He also offers the original novel and another tie-in story
free to all via Smashwords