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ATDrake · 02-06-2012, 10:18 PM

Some very minor updates but a few pleasant additions for horror, fantasy, and historical readers. Thanks also to koland for contributing some nice stuff.

Linda McNabb has multiple paperbacks from HarperCollins New Zealand and Scholastic New Zealand to her credit. She offers a kids/YA fantasy tale about a young wizard, originally paperbacked by Flamingo (Amazon doesn't give any other info): The Seventh Son I'll note that the 1-star review dragging her rating down is from a disgruntled price-complainer.

Elisabeth Waters, editor of the long-running Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthologies, offers a compilation of her own shorts from said anthology series, co-written with Michael Spence: Treasures of Albion II

Kevin G. Summers helpfully informs us outright that his main publication credit is for a couple of named short stories in named Star Trek tie-in anthologies and the ISFDB backs him up. I like this simple upfrontness with no attempted prevarication or inflation, so I hereby link to his short horror take on the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz: A Heart is Judged

ISFDB-ed award-nominee David Niall Wilson contributes to this horror magazine issue: Shock Totem 1: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted

Iain Rob Wright (ISFDB entry)has a couple of very recent stories collected by a newbie small horror press. He offers a short collection and a thriller novel to try: Linkage for the two free and the one stubborn Prime "free" item.

Thomas M. Malafarina (ISFDB entry) has contributed a handful of horror stories to themed anthologies and a magazine or two. He offers: 13 Nasty Endings: A Compilation of Short Stories

Derek Gunn (ISFDB entry) has contributed to some anthologies from Permuted Press. He offers an adventure/quest-thriller to stave off the end of the world from demonic artifacts: The Gatekeeper

Ellora's Cave-published V.J. Devereaux offers what looks like a contemporary romantic suspense involving a restaurant and cooking show and a stalker: Cooking Class

Stephen Stark says some of his litfic stuff has appeared in The New Yorker magazine. He offers his men's fiction novel originally published by Henry Holt & Co in 1994, which has been favourably reviewed by Kirkus before they started selling their reviews to all and sundry: The Second Son

Lyons-published Helen Husher offers a slightly revised version of her 1999 small-press-hardcovered travel book: Off the Leash: Subversive Journeys Around Vermont

David Ross Erickson is an award-winning game designer and was an editor of Wargamer Monthly magazine, according to his blurb. He offers an historical military fiction novel set during the Carthage/Rome conflict (one of them, anyway, and not the one with the elephants, from the looks of it): The War God's Men Here is his book reviewed from a military historical perspective by a wargaming article-writing peer: @ The Wargamer (no relation to Monthly)

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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	Some very minor updates but a few pleasant additions for horror, fantasy, and historical readers. Thanks also to koland for contributing some nice stuff. Linda McNabb has multiple paperbacks from HarperCollins New Zealand and Scholastic New Zealand to her credit. She offers a kids/YA fantasy tale about a young wizard, originally paperbacked by Flamingo (Amazon doesn't give any other info): The Seventh Son I'll note that the 1-star review dragging her rating down is from a disgruntled price-complainer. Elisabeth Waters, editor of the long-running Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthologies, offers a compilation of her own shorts from said anthology series, co-written with Michael Spence: Treasures of Albion II Kevin G. Summers helpfully informs us outright that his main publication credit is for a couple of named short stories in named Star Trek tie-in anthologies and the ISFDB backs him up. I like this simple upfrontness with no attempted prevarication or inflation, so I hereby link to his short horror take on the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz: A Heart is Judged ISFDB-ed award-nominee David Niall Wilson contributes to this horror magazine issue: Shock Totem 1: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted Iain Rob Wright (ISFDB entry)has a couple of very recent stories collected by a newbie small horror press. He offers a short collection and a thriller novel to try: Linkage for the two free and the one stubborn Prime "free" item. Thomas M. Malafarina (ISFDB entry) has contributed a handful of horror stories to themed anthologies and a magazine or two. He offers: 13 Nasty Endings: A Compilation of Short Stories Derek Gunn (ISFDB entry) has contributed to some anthologies from Permuted Press. He offers an adventure/quest-thriller to stave off the end of the world from demonic artifacts: The Gatekeeper Ellora's Cave-published V.J. Devereaux offers what looks like a contemporary romantic suspense involving a restaurant and cooking show and a stalker: Cooking Class Stephen Stark says some of his litfic stuff has appeared in The New Yorker magazine. He offers his men's fiction novel originally published by Henry Holt & Co in 1994, which has been favourably reviewed by Kirkus before they started selling their reviews to all and sundry: The Second Son Lyons-published Helen Husher offers a slightly revised version of her 1999 small-press-hardcovered travel book: Off the Leash: Subversive Journeys Around Vermont David Ross Erickson is an award-winning game designer and was an editor of Wargamer Monthly magazine, according to his blurb. He offers an historical military fiction novel set during the Carthage/Rome conflict (one of them, anyway, and not the one with the elephants, from the looks of it): The War God's Men Here is his book reviewed from a military historical perspective by a wargaming article-writing peer: @ The Wargamer (no relation to Monthly)