Minor updates, mainly of interest to horror/supernatural readers. Not sorted because I want to get some other stuff done before my break ends.
Star Wars/Forgotten Realms tie-in writer Paul S. Kemp (
ISFDB entry) offers the self-explanatory:
Ephemera: Dark Stories from the mind of Paul S. Kemp
Here's a novella from Layton Green if you happened to pick up his novel which Blue Tyson contributed yesterday:
Hemingway's Ghost
Michael Laimo (
ISFDB entry) offers a collection featuring an introduction by horror author Brian Keene:
Dark Ride
Michael McBride (
ISFDB entry) offers a horror novella, if you haven't already guessed from the redundantly redundant title:
Brood XIX: A Novella (Novella Series)
Cathryn Grant says these particular two were originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine:
Reduction In Force - Two Suburban Noir Short Stories
Sydelle Voeller has been published by Harlequin and Bantam. She offers a contemporary romance:
The Fisherman's Daughter and there are several other titles from her publisher Books We Love free, including a mystery/thriller with a blurb recommendation by fellow MR member author Joan Hall Hovey. You will, unfortunately, have to dig through a bunch of Prime-"free" only books which Amazon allows to clutter the $0.00 listing search, but the recommended one is called Trusting Evil.
Linkage to start digging.
Tyrus-published Seth Harwood offers a short story excerpted from his collection:
Fisher Cat (A Long Way from Disney)
Andy Gavin co-founded a game company and worked on the apparently moderately popular Crash Bandicoot. A quick google seems to back him up. He offers a dark fantasy quest novel which starts in 1913 Salem:
The Darkening Dream
The slushpile trawl would be considerably easier and more entertaining if all authors were this upfront in their titles and blurbs, although I suspect this is a fake comedy book actually written by the guy who did the "introduction". Nevertheless, points for polishing up the brazen lies until they sparkle:
I Punched a Shadow in the Face: The Horrendously Awful Poetry of Herman T. Shumway
And for an example of an indie author whom I consider to be Doing It Right, at least as far as filling in his blurb and author bio goes; names and specifies year and provenance of the award he claims for this particular work; limits pre-description praise to a very brief mention so I don't have to keep scrolling to find out what his book is about; author bio states that his non-self-pub credentials are for a particular sports article outlet with a name and year given for his contribution; "publisher" is very helpfully given as "Self-Published through CreateSpace". I'm likely to never bother reading his all-American hero vs those nasty foreign terrorists thriller, but I otherwise approve and will personally give a minor ranking bump with a 1-click for:
The 19th Element, A James Becker Thriller