Amazon has recently changed its Product Info to no longer display the DRM status of Kindle books. They've also just changed their search listings to no longer display which books are KDP-ed with the "Prime" lending available (at least not to Canadians) yet still insist on showing the listings of the books which are only KDP-lending "free" along with the genuine $0.00 stuff during the filtered search.
Thus I can also no longer easily distinguish the time-limited KDP Select exclusive-or-else-but-up-to-5-days-free-out-of-90-if-you-don't-mind-screwing-your-readers-elsewhere stuff and the price-matched-in-selected-regions-only with free-to-all-via-Smashwords books nor be able to tell which sf/fantasy backlist books are available to all our MR members without having to undergo an apprenticeship process, and not just the select few who have compatible hardware/OSes which will support learning to use the tools.
This is extremely annoying and I encourage you all to complain. Preferably to Amazon CS or at the official Kindle feedback address which sometimes pops up on the screensaver.
Basically mainly romances and short stories and a few continuations of series in the slushpile. And some educational science books for people who are interested in educational science books. Not sorted.
Nebula Award-winner Eric James Stone repeats his short:
The Man Who Moved the Moon
Harlequin-published Patricia Watters offers a romantic suspense with implied cowboy not actually mentioned in the blurb, from the shirtless be-hatted bandanned display of what the Smart Bitches Trashy Books romance reader blog likes to call "man-titty" on the cover:
Justified Deception
ISFDB-ed Aaron Polson contributes to another freebie issue of the e-magazine:
Shock Totem 3: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted
Daniel Pyle is a relative newbie (
ISFDB entry) but he quotes praise in his blurbs from more established ISFDB-ed authors and he offers a compilation of a horror novel and novella:
Mountain Madness
Medallion Press-published Kathy Carmichael (I think we may have gotten her book as a freebie last year) offers a spoof gothic romance comedy novella with matchmaking wizards:
Your Magic Touch
Donna Fasano who writes as Donna Clayton and has been Harlequin-published offers a contemporary romance:
Return of the Runaway Bride
Mainak Dhar, author of Zombiestan, offers:
Vimana: A Science Fiction Thriller He says this has been picked up to be published by Penguin India this year. He also says it's like Star Wars meets Transformers, if that's something you want to read.
As it turns out, Robert Swartwood does have an
ISFDB entry. But he also helpfully provides the names of specific venues in which his works have appeared. He offers the self-explanatory:
The Man on the Bench (Novella): A Tale of Suspense And here is his 10th Annual Chiaroscuro Award-winning short story he offers free to all via Smashwords:
In the Land of the Blind: A Zombie Story
ISFDB-ed David Bain offers a short story:
About the Stars, About the Rain
Previously-featured Michael Haskins offers the 1st in his Mick Murphy Mystery series, if you've been following them. He helpfully tells us he wrote this longhand from Tijuana, Mexico, to just outside Los Angeles:
Revenge
James D. Best offers another in his shopkeeper-turned-cowboy historical western detective adventure series if you've been following it:
Murder at Thumb Butte (A Steve Dancy Tale)
Chris Orcutt helpfully provides not only the names of the venues in which he says he was published, but he also provides the titles of the stories which he says were published, as well as the year and provenance of the award he claims to have received. Unfortunately, he spoils this appearance of professionalism by acting like a flouncy Fanfiction.net author by demanding a certain number of sales before he releases the next book in his series (no moar chapterz unless u R&R plz!1111!), but otherwise his info is pleasantly informative (and Google backs him up on the one thing that I checked) and his blurb is nicely laid out and seems promising, so:
A Real Piece of Work (The Dakota Stevens Mysteries)
Robert Wolff also has a decently-informative what-I've-written-and-where bio which is backed up by his publications by Rodale Press, who do health books. He offers some sort of general/literary fiction novel involving fitness and enlightenment:
Go Tell It On The Mountain: Journeys along the 10 trails of wisdom
Ellora's Cave-published Ann Cory offers a contemporary romance:
Penny Serenade (Tokens of the Heart)
Julie Harris seems to have more published credits in translation than in English, which may be an artifact of her being an Australian author and Amazon's catalogue being skimpy when it comes to the overseas books. But she has had at least one hardcover out from UK publisher Robert Hale and offers a medieval historical adventure/maybe-romance that's not KDP-ed, but playing pricing catchup with Smashwords, so it may also still be free elsewhere:
An Absence of Angels
Sourcebooks-published Lisa Renee Jones offers a few more of her paranormal romances. This is 2nd in her revised Ellora's Cave-published series which once again she assures you has hot super soldiers in it:
Underground Guardians: Healer This one appears to be playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords, so you may also be able to find it elsewhere:
Hot Vampire Seduction (Vampire Wardens 2)
Geralyn Dawson offers her 2003-Pocket small town romance:
My Big Old Texas Heartache (Cedar Dell, Texas)
Marvel/DC Comics illustrator Steve Uy offers another in his graphic novel series:
Jova's Harvest #2 Comic Book
Fellow MR member author Stephen Livingston offers a litfic short story which he helpfully informs us was first published in an anthology which is available from the University of St Andrews Department of English:
Recycling
And just because I feel like it:
Brad Miller claims a lesser title than "Professor Rick", but has apparently been an elementary school teacher and offers "kid-tested experiments" which he says includes explanations to help the kids understand what underlies the basic concepts found in:
Weird Science for Kids: Kitchen Chemistry
Sergey Skudaev offers a tutorial on:
THE EASIEST WAY TO UNDERSTAND CHEMISTRY It's just for the very basics, though, and for more advanced understanding, you'll probably have to turn to:
Raymond P. W. Scott's:
Principles and Practice of Chromatography (Chrom-Ed Book Series) offered as part of the "Reese-Scott Partnership" and a profound bargain on the $80-$300 you'd have to pay for Scott's Wiley/Taylor & Francis/CRC-published textbooks on chromatography. I now wonder what Reese has written, but not enough to go and check.
In the "kids, don't try this at home" category (unless mom & dad have a medical marijuana license or it's flat-out legal where you live):
Growing Cannabis (Marijuana) in Rockwool [illustrated] [high-level formatting] A quick skim of the sample suggests that this is scientifically oriented and nicely informative and since I live in one of those bleak suburban satellite municipalities full of strip malls, car dealerships, and marijuana grow-ops, I've kind of wondered how it was done.
Enjoy, especially if you do have a medfical marijuana license or live where it's legal and decide to try out that last book.