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Originally Posted by koland

Margaret writes mostly historical romance (not my cuppa), self-published, but apparently sells well enough and gets good reviews.

Thanks for the explanation. I know there are regular KDP-freebie getters who are specifically on the lookout for quality historical romances so a promising new vouched-for author is always a good add.

Anyway, feature title is still free and the 13+ eReaderIQ pages of new stuff added since yesterday which I've looked at so far are only giving minor update-type/repeat stuff (at least from my sf/fantasy/historical/sleuthy-mystery point of view) and people have been contributing their own recommended finds, so updates below.

Not sorted, because 13 pages of slush which keeps shifting which books are on what page when I go back and forth through it to check something, but I did move the 7 or so most important for award-winning/nominated/significant new-to-us writer/available to all off Amazon stuff to the top and the more marginal things to the bottom.

Lots of backlist romance and established author self-pub mystery/thrillers. Sf/fantasy/horror mainly shorts-only.

Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated Catherynne M. Valente contributes to this anthology: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

Nina Pierce (she's been published, but I forget by whom and I'm not bothering to look it up again, but I think it was Ellora's or Harlequin/Zebra) offers an romantic suspense murder mystery free to all via Smashwords: Blind Her With Bliss (may have some erotic content)

Popular cartoonist Carol Lay (once a staple of Salon.com which I was sad to see disappear) offers another selection of her Story Minute comics which have appeared in various newspapers: LOVE AND LUNACY: A Story Minute Selection (Reformatted)

Charlson Ong says that this mystery/thriller of his was "Winner of the 2011 Philippine National Book Award" and Google seems to back him up: Blue Angel, White Shadow

Henry Holt-published South African writer Roger Smith, who quotes praise from Elmore Leonard in his bio and says he has won particular German crime awards (his books are available in hardcover translation) offers the an adventure/revenge thriller: Dust Devils

Blair Mastbaum's Hawaii-set gay coming-of-age literary fiction novel was originally published by Alyson (a long-established respected specialty LGBT print house) in 2004: Clay's Way

James Bennett (this appears to be the corresponding ISFDB entry from the selection of J+ Bennetts available, who may all end up being the same one, offers the following short which he says was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. Despite its title, is not one of those self-help things, which is where Amazon ended up filing it (actually, it may have gone under "Religion & Spirituality"): Practical Devil Worship (For All the Family)

Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek says that this book of hers sold 100,000 copies after it was released in 1995. She has a long list of paperbacks which are generally unlinked to her e-books and I'm not going to bother hunting down where it appeared first, but it's a contemporary: Marriage in Name Only She also repeats her 1993-HarperCollins historical romance, for those who missed it earlier: The Highwayman

Harlequin-published Kristan Hoffman offers a general fiction/chick-lit which is not KDP-ed, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords where it is no longer free, so maybe you can also scoop this from your favourite price-matching venue as well: Twenty-Somewhere She says this was originally offered as a web series and is the "Winner of the St. Martin's Press "New Adult" contest".

Talli Roland claims her work was shortlisted for a particular prize and the newbie small-press Prospera which has printed two of her novels does seem to have a small stable of UK-oriented authors/titles. Here is her chick-lit romance novella: Miracle at the Museum of Broken Hearts

There's also a kid's adventure novel out from Suzy Brownlee who has the same publisher: The Littlest Detective in London

Barbara Morgenroth has had children's books printed by Atheneum and Fawcett (and released in French translation by Flammarion, who are one of the semi-major Francophone printers). Here's some kind of suspense-looking YA: Bad Apple

Nebula Award winner Eric James Stone repeats another short story: The Robot Sorcerer

Craig Saunders has an ISFDB entry that credits him for a few short stories that appeared in minor outlets. Here is his start-of-trilogy epic fantasy novel: The Outlaw King (The Line of Kings)

Previously-featured small-pressed Gordon Ryan offers another of his political thrillers, if you missed the earlier omnibus: State of Rebellion (A Pug Connor Novel)

Annette Blair re-offers her 2002-Zebra historical romance: Undeniable Rogue (The Rogues Club, Book One)

Colleen Thompson writing as Gwyneth Atlee offers a 2002-Zebra historical romance/maybe-romantic suspense set during the US Civil War: Innocent Deceptions

Steena Holmes is apparently working on some sort of shared universe setting with Ellora's Cave/Samhain-published authors Jade Buchanan and Vivi Anna (both previously-featured), so here is a volume in their paranormal romantic suspense series: Devil Unknown (Bandit Creek Books)

Scott Nicholson offers several more of his works, if you've been collecting them: This should pull up just the free ones, but Amazon will probably also lump in the "free" with Prime-lending ones, so caveat 1-clicker

Previously-featured Harlequin-published Canadian Vanessa Grant offers an apparently 1999-printed (Amazon is not giving publisher details for the linked copy) contemporary romance: If You Loved Me

Sydney Allan, who writes erotic romance for Ellora's Cave as Tawny Taylor, offers: Deep, Dark and Dangerous: a paranormal romance novella

If you picked up the 2nd issue of this poetry in translation magazine earlier, here's the 1st one free to go with it: 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No.1

Previously-featured horror writer Derek Gunn offers an historical sea-going short version of such: The Island (The HMS Swift Adventures) Who knows, maybe that "Vampirates" comic book had it right.

Bryce Thomas says that both of his books (apparently self-published, as the paper version press name shows results for him alone) are carried by Waterstones in WH Smith in the UK and he has some acclaim as a local Welsh writer based upon local sales, so you may want to give a try to his children's/YA fantasy novels: Linkage for both

Patricia Rosemoor offers her 2001-Harlequin romantic suspense with supernatural elements: Pushed to the Limit (Quid Pro Quo) I bought a not-too-romantic paranormal investigative novel of hers during Carina Press' coupon sale these holidays, and her writing sample seemed decent enough that I was looking at this particular series which she had up on Smashwords for 99 cents during the backlist author consortium holiday sale. So if you like this one, you may want to keep an eye out for discounts on the sequels which are still on Smashwords during Read an E-Book Week, if any are still left by then.

Another general/literary fiction from previously-featured Rosemary Fifield who had a co-op cookbook print-published, if you liked her other novel earlier: Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

We recently got a non-erotic Blush line Ellora's Cave freebie written by Sam Cheever. She offers a paranormal romance involving Valkyries: Soul Warrior

Macmillan/Minotaur-published Nevada Barr offers a short mystery story: Smoke and Murders

Previously-included minor-short-story-award-nominee mostly-self-published Canadian writer of economics and construction articles Alex Carrick has another offering, if you've been collecting them: Ten Tales of Darker Core (Ten Tales Series) This includes some of the award-nominated stories, one of which he says got an honourable mention in the contest.

Previously-featured Gerrie Ferris Finger who's been published by the Minotaur mystery/crime imprint of one of the Big-6 offers an historical mystery/maybe-romance set in the 1920s which looks like one of those "finding out what really happened despite all the locals being unhelpful and conspiring against me" sorts of gothic-type suspenses: Whispering

Edgar/Bram Stoker-nominated Billie Sue Mosiman offers another horror tale: Dark Reality

Fellow MR member author Paul Levine offers another in his Jake Lassiter legal thriller series, this one 1993-Bantam printed: False Dawn

Valerie Douglas who writes as V.J. Devereaux for Ellora's Cave offers a non-erotic-looking contemporary romance: Irish Fling (The Millersburg Quartet)

Barbara Samuel offers her 1999-HarperTorch historical romance: The Black Angel (The St Ives)

Star Wars tie-in writer Kevin J. Anderson contributes to this festive freebie issue of the e-magazine: Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted 2011

Previously-featured Carol Buchanan who wrote some non-fiction history/culture books for Ten Speed Press returns with another historical western with a favourable comment from Publisher's Weekly: God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana

Previously-featured small-pressed Linda S. Prather now offers the prequel to her earlier supernatural/psychic mystery/thriller, which one of the reviewers recommended be read first: Sacred Secrets, A Jacody Ives Mystery (Jacody Ives Mysteries)

ISFDB-ed David Bain offers: House Cleaning: A Messy Ghost Story

If you were ever curious about how 3-D glasses would combine with viewing on a Kindle Fire, here's your chance with Jazan Wild's: 3D CARNIVAL OF SOULS (APP BOOK) (JAZAN WILD'S CARNIVAL OF SOULS) This is narrated by noted horror/comic-book writer Stefan Petrucha, whose ISFDB entry you're perfectly capable of looking up yourself.

Another in the learn-how-to-for-a-relative-pittance series by very-expensive-officially-academic-publisher-released-print-textbook-writer Raymond P.W. Scott: Gas Chromatography (Chrom-Ed Book Series)

Chris Blewitt is totally self-published as far as I can tell. But his short historical suspense story set during the 1920s Prohibition Era in the states has an interview with a PhD from the About.com Chemistry website, so if you were interested in the textbook above, you may also want to check out: The Chemist - Based on a True Story

If you did end up getting that marijuana-growing how-to book, here's something to go with it. It's got real-looking recipes for stuff like "Hare and Chocolate Sauce with Hare Meatballs and Petit Pois Francais with a hint of White Widow" alongside handy tips on how to add cannabis to your food and what it does to your system: The Stoner's Cookbook

ETA: Delilah Marvelle offers a prequel novella to her newly Harlequin-released historical romance series. The blurb suggests that this is straight from the author herself (she mentions extra stuff over at her website) and I can no longer tell what is KDP or "official", so I'm sticking it here for now until I see it pop up anywhere else: Forever Mine (The Rumor Series)